Talanic
2008-08-14, 04:31 AM
As the title says, I have been in an evil campaign. It's a low-magic setting, evil action is highly rewarded, and the DM was straight up about it being fast and loose with the rules. If it's fun and brazen it just might work as long as it's not completely moronic. Players are as follows:
1. Kinta. Female Tiefling wizard. That's me.
2. Fala. Female Aasimar bard.
3. Male Half-troll barbarian who hasn't actually bothered telling us his name. Not kidding--even though he's actually quite a social character. Considering, at least.
4. Zaha. The problem. Male human paladin. Evil variant, thanks to Fax_Celestis.
5. Male Elven monk. His player has only made it to one session and actually has been separated from the party the rest of the time. Bummer.
Lot of explanation up ahead. If you want, cut to the chase by reading only the bold.
So, magic is rare, but my character has learned that she can conjure fire by the drawing of a special rune. So far, she's also been treated as immune to fire, but has only JUST gotten to the point where use of this power is not also a wardrobe malfunction.
I knew that magic would be hard to come by, so I did my best to have other utility. I'm very much the brains of the group, though my character has had to come to grips with the fact that, while smart, she is not the leader. She has the Able Learner feat and ranks in open locks, alchemy, poisonmaking, blacksmithing, and profession: Chef. The last in particular has endeared her to the troll.
Also, none of the races know much about any OTHER races.
Early on, we came to a city that was held in obviously tyrannical rule. While the rest of us started forming a plan, Zaha went ahead and tried to bluff that the civilians we had killed earlier--whose skulls he had taken and polished and replaced some of their canines with bear claws--were actually vampires, and he should be given an audience with the king (who he knows literally nothing about - not even his name or what the name of the city is) to warn him about an assassination attempt.
He winds up being arrested and sentenced to death in the arena. The rest of us (sans monk, who really doesn't factor into the rest of the story and was included only for completeness) bluffed our way in by pretending to be mercenaries.
Zaha got lucky and wound up being given a mission from the king--one that called for someone expendable, as he had managed to make himself look like quite a fool. He also was severely beaten up by this and several other events, and was kicked out of town with most of the group on the night my character discovered her fire powers (by burning down half of the nobles' district...yes, deliberately).
Zaha and Troll decided that the best way to heal him up quickly (he was still level 1 or 2) was a nice hot cup of troll blood. In full view of the peasant who was graciously giving them shelter for the night, Zaha drank a cup of troll blood. (DM called for fort save. Natural 20. He still passed out.)
A lynch mob formed to kill this obvious vampire, and in the resulting chaos, Zaha slipped off into the night to begin the party's mission, ditching everyone else. Fortunately, the king was intrigued by the woman who was immune to fire (and, at the time, burning constantly, consuming anything she touched) and sent me on the same mission, which he had just given to a (in DM's words) "dupe".
So I gather the rest of the party and we start going up the road, with a cart, supplies and a map provided by the king. Zaha has directions there but decides to go a roundabout way.
Due to a lucky spot check, on the way there I did note a battle site, which happened to have been one that he fought at. He has a habit of stealing shirts, so I made an intelligence check to realize that it had been him fighting there. I also noted a rune--but not the rune of fire that I had begun using. This rune, I could not get to function.
So we meet up at the destination and the first thing he does is pickpocket me for specific items that I didn't have when he saw me last (a crystal ball I swiped off the only other real magic user I've encountered). Since I didn't notice that he stole from me, I--having made the checks needed to do so--reveal that I've figured out that the other rune I've seen is his. And whereas I'm fire, he's earth. He then uses the rune to smash a boulder that's in our way, triggering a fight with a bunch of guardian statues.
Compared to the juggernauts of the half-troll and buffed out paladin, my squishy wizard is in for some crap. I wind up unconscious after the fight; the party forges on and goes through another fight, dragging me along with.
After the fight is when it happened. Fala and Kinta were both unconscious. So Zaha decides to steal their shirts. Troll is apathetic about this.
Zaha then decides to cut off one of Kinta's fingers. I still don't know why. However, Troll realizes that his chef is about to get hurt and growls at him.
"Stop that."
"You can't tell me what to do!"
They both go for their weapons. Fight ends with paladin at -2 and stable; bard just woke up shirtless and got her clothing back. Session ended then...but next week's going to be a doozy.
Fala plans to kill Zaha. He took her shirt. He's never been a help to her and she now considers him as having molested her while she was out cold. Her character is definitely fickle and this would be pretty easy.
My character has still not regained consciousness, but should wake up before Zaha does. Fala's player has told me that she plans to ask Kinta to kill him.
Note: The following is evil stuff and may be particularly disturbing.
Kinta will probably respond by carving her fire runes into his flesh and salting the wounds, ensuring that they will scar. The runes only trigger when she sets them on fire; this would provide him with--basically--a killswitch. Fala plans to kill him right off the bat. We don't know what the DM will do but I know him and doubt that he'll consider us unreasonable.
I know that I tend to be too easygoing with people. Have I tolerated enough already?
1. Kinta. Female Tiefling wizard. That's me.
2. Fala. Female Aasimar bard.
3. Male Half-troll barbarian who hasn't actually bothered telling us his name. Not kidding--even though he's actually quite a social character. Considering, at least.
4. Zaha. The problem. Male human paladin. Evil variant, thanks to Fax_Celestis.
5. Male Elven monk. His player has only made it to one session and actually has been separated from the party the rest of the time. Bummer.
Lot of explanation up ahead. If you want, cut to the chase by reading only the bold.
So, magic is rare, but my character has learned that she can conjure fire by the drawing of a special rune. So far, she's also been treated as immune to fire, but has only JUST gotten to the point where use of this power is not also a wardrobe malfunction.
I knew that magic would be hard to come by, so I did my best to have other utility. I'm very much the brains of the group, though my character has had to come to grips with the fact that, while smart, she is not the leader. She has the Able Learner feat and ranks in open locks, alchemy, poisonmaking, blacksmithing, and profession: Chef. The last in particular has endeared her to the troll.
Also, none of the races know much about any OTHER races.
Early on, we came to a city that was held in obviously tyrannical rule. While the rest of us started forming a plan, Zaha went ahead and tried to bluff that the civilians we had killed earlier--whose skulls he had taken and polished and replaced some of their canines with bear claws--were actually vampires, and he should be given an audience with the king (who he knows literally nothing about - not even his name or what the name of the city is) to warn him about an assassination attempt.
He winds up being arrested and sentenced to death in the arena. The rest of us (sans monk, who really doesn't factor into the rest of the story and was included only for completeness) bluffed our way in by pretending to be mercenaries.
Zaha got lucky and wound up being given a mission from the king--one that called for someone expendable, as he had managed to make himself look like quite a fool. He also was severely beaten up by this and several other events, and was kicked out of town with most of the group on the night my character discovered her fire powers (by burning down half of the nobles' district...yes, deliberately).
Zaha and Troll decided that the best way to heal him up quickly (he was still level 1 or 2) was a nice hot cup of troll blood. In full view of the peasant who was graciously giving them shelter for the night, Zaha drank a cup of troll blood. (DM called for fort save. Natural 20. He still passed out.)
A lynch mob formed to kill this obvious vampire, and in the resulting chaos, Zaha slipped off into the night to begin the party's mission, ditching everyone else. Fortunately, the king was intrigued by the woman who was immune to fire (and, at the time, burning constantly, consuming anything she touched) and sent me on the same mission, which he had just given to a (in DM's words) "dupe".
So I gather the rest of the party and we start going up the road, with a cart, supplies and a map provided by the king. Zaha has directions there but decides to go a roundabout way.
Due to a lucky spot check, on the way there I did note a battle site, which happened to have been one that he fought at. He has a habit of stealing shirts, so I made an intelligence check to realize that it had been him fighting there. I also noted a rune--but not the rune of fire that I had begun using. This rune, I could not get to function.
So we meet up at the destination and the first thing he does is pickpocket me for specific items that I didn't have when he saw me last (a crystal ball I swiped off the only other real magic user I've encountered). Since I didn't notice that he stole from me, I--having made the checks needed to do so--reveal that I've figured out that the other rune I've seen is his. And whereas I'm fire, he's earth. He then uses the rune to smash a boulder that's in our way, triggering a fight with a bunch of guardian statues.
Compared to the juggernauts of the half-troll and buffed out paladin, my squishy wizard is in for some crap. I wind up unconscious after the fight; the party forges on and goes through another fight, dragging me along with.
After the fight is when it happened. Fala and Kinta were both unconscious. So Zaha decides to steal their shirts. Troll is apathetic about this.
Zaha then decides to cut off one of Kinta's fingers. I still don't know why. However, Troll realizes that his chef is about to get hurt and growls at him.
"Stop that."
"You can't tell me what to do!"
They both go for their weapons. Fight ends with paladin at -2 and stable; bard just woke up shirtless and got her clothing back. Session ended then...but next week's going to be a doozy.
Fala plans to kill Zaha. He took her shirt. He's never been a help to her and she now considers him as having molested her while she was out cold. Her character is definitely fickle and this would be pretty easy.
My character has still not regained consciousness, but should wake up before Zaha does. Fala's player has told me that she plans to ask Kinta to kill him.
Note: The following is evil stuff and may be particularly disturbing.
Kinta will probably respond by carving her fire runes into his flesh and salting the wounds, ensuring that they will scar. The runes only trigger when she sets them on fire; this would provide him with--basically--a killswitch. Fala plans to kill him right off the bat. We don't know what the DM will do but I know him and doubt that he'll consider us unreasonable.
I know that I tend to be too easygoing with people. Have I tolerated enough already?