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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 420584" data-attributes="member: 3649">Long ago, our group was going into the Against the Giants  series. (Yes, this was the same group mentioned in the ober 'embarrasing' thread, wherein my PC was crushed almost to death by an oiled-up cave bear). We plow through the hill giant steading as if it was not there. Then we get to the frost giants. We carve, dessicate and rampage through them like they are tissue paper. Then... then we get to the fire giant lair. We storm in like madmen, a tactic that has worked so well in the past. We get our butts handed to us, and retreat. We try again. We get our butts roasted, toasted, shaked and baked and then  handed to us. We retreat. By now we've lost a small army of henchmen and are not too keen on the idea of going back to the duke and putting our heads on the block. Stealth is tried. My main assassin PC uses a wish from his sword to get a map of the place. We get a map of the first level, but that's enough to find the treasure chamber and those long corridors where the previous butt-handing had been dished out. Hey... there is a point where the outer wall and a room are about 10' from each other. My magic user secondary character disintergrates that portion and we're in. We sneeeeaaaak down the passages, through the bedrooms, and finally wind up in the treasure chamber with the giants none the wiser. So we won't be disturbed, someone ices up the corridor between us and the throne room with a wall of ice from a wand, and the looting begins. And the infighting. And the bickering. I concentrate on stuffing as much stuff that detects as magical into my bag of holding. Then... there is a strange feeling around my ankles. I look down and see I'm standing in several inches of water. We forgot we were in the middle of volcano and that the wall of ice would melt quickly. Fire giants also know that water isn't suppossed to cascade down into the throne room, so they've come to investigate about the time I feel the water. The king, all his most powerful henchmen and everyone else that can squeeze in there traps us in the treasure chamber. Infighting begins, blame is thrown, and then the druid claps a necklace of strangulation around the throat of the main magic-user, who is the party leader and the most powerful person in the party. Knowing his death is unavoidable, he final-strikes his Staff of Power over the druid's head. The two most powerful members of the party, dead within seconds, and not from the giants whom we are still fighting. I and I alone manage to get out and wish most of them back alive and safe in our base far to the south. Whew. How stupid and embarassing.</blockquote>

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