kemmotar
2008-01-24, 12:08 PM
Taking this idea from all the "best of.." threads, this is another one. What have your or your PCs done to completely ruin the campaign, fail the quest and leave a trail of destruction? Well this is a short story of a group me friends and I had brought together...An LG goliath monk tripper(me), a frenzied berserker barbarian(think leap atttack, power attack, power lunge) and a LG cleric with a tower shield...
Our first quest was from an elder Wyrm blue dragon that blackmailed us into getting a book from a cave with the very convincing argument of: do it or i kill you...When we finally emerged from the cave with the book the blue dragon comes to claim it. Surprisingly a silightly younger, silver dragon appears and also claims the book under the: give it to me or I kill you...tough choice...either way somebody tried to kill us...Well the blue dragon attacked the silver and we waited around...Then the berserker attacked the blue dragon(killing it) and cleaved the silver dragon...killing that too....several hours and lost of dragon scales later we arrive at the nearby town to find an evil temple had risen from the ground...
Another time, we arrived at a town a vampire was terorrising. After our first confrontation(missing both the berserker and the assassin that came in later) me and the cleric try to take him down which ends up with me carrying the unconscious cleric and running like the wind...next we returned the town's people were all dead and burried...bitten by the vampire...so we start to chase him....several days of chase later we all reach his tower and we manage to slay him(only barely survived)...Upon our heroic return to the village, having slain the monster we find it overrun with the vampire spawn villagers...(villages destroyed count:1)
Thus we left not heeding this "coincidence" and moved on to a village close to our headquarters where we learned of two quests...One a village up north had ceased all communication and another village to the south that their mayor had gone missing. The northern village hadn't communicated in a very long time...nevertheless we ignored it ,it was overrun by another scourge of undead...(villages destroyed count:2)
Having left for the southern village we knew nothing of the northern ofc...we arrive to learn the mayor had gone missing and we track him down to an abandoned temple...we fought many trials until we reach the last room where we fight a yakfolk that posessed our frenzied berserker...not fun...anywyay....we injured the yakfolk and all interested parties barely escaped with their lives...we return the mayor, they hold a "show" at the arena(it was more of a small town than a village but anyway...). The berserker requested to particiate in the fight and even though it was to be done without any arms or armor he just killed the guards, the competitors....and some of the spectators...thus we fled the town...
The next day the village was overrun by a village of yakfolk that wanted to spread it's influence...the one we fought was just a scout...
(villages destroyed count:3)
And all this in maybe 4-5 sessions...not very good odds for wanna be heroes...we were actually trying to save the villages and we have a 3 out of 4 villages visited destroyed...
Our first quest was from an elder Wyrm blue dragon that blackmailed us into getting a book from a cave with the very convincing argument of: do it or i kill you...When we finally emerged from the cave with the book the blue dragon comes to claim it. Surprisingly a silightly younger, silver dragon appears and also claims the book under the: give it to me or I kill you...tough choice...either way somebody tried to kill us...Well the blue dragon attacked the silver and we waited around...Then the berserker attacked the blue dragon(killing it) and cleaved the silver dragon...killing that too....several hours and lost of dragon scales later we arrive at the nearby town to find an evil temple had risen from the ground...
Another time, we arrived at a town a vampire was terorrising. After our first confrontation(missing both the berserker and the assassin that came in later) me and the cleric try to take him down which ends up with me carrying the unconscious cleric and running like the wind...next we returned the town's people were all dead and burried...bitten by the vampire...so we start to chase him....several days of chase later we all reach his tower and we manage to slay him(only barely survived)...Upon our heroic return to the village, having slain the monster we find it overrun with the vampire spawn villagers...(villages destroyed count:1)
Thus we left not heeding this "coincidence" and moved on to a village close to our headquarters where we learned of two quests...One a village up north had ceased all communication and another village to the south that their mayor had gone missing. The northern village hadn't communicated in a very long time...nevertheless we ignored it ,it was overrun by another scourge of undead...(villages destroyed count:2)
Having left for the southern village we knew nothing of the northern ofc...we arrive to learn the mayor had gone missing and we track him down to an abandoned temple...we fought many trials until we reach the last room where we fight a yakfolk that posessed our frenzied berserker...not fun...anywyay....we injured the yakfolk and all interested parties barely escaped with their lives...we return the mayor, they hold a "show" at the arena(it was more of a small town than a village but anyway...). The berserker requested to particiate in the fight and even though it was to be done without any arms or armor he just killed the guards, the competitors....and some of the spectators...thus we fled the town...
The next day the village was overrun by a village of yakfolk that wanted to spread it's influence...the one we fought was just a scout...
(villages destroyed count:3)
And all this in maybe 4-5 sessions...not very good odds for wanna be heroes...we were actually trying to save the villages and we have a 3 out of 4 villages visited destroyed...