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<blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2225073" data-attributes="member: 7451">It was the second session of an Eberron game I had started on campus, and none of the players were that experienced. The two elven rogues in the party were working their way through Sharn, looking for likely targets to rob. They spot a very wealthy looking woman and start to sneak up on her when one of them collides with a small child. The kid is panicking, out of breath, and babbling about the Crazy Thorn Man, which is really tall and has thorns all over its body, and turns little kids into bushes and eats them. Niether of them believe the kid, but they use him as a distraction with the rich woman to pick her purse. Nobody thinks more of it.Later that session, the same two rogues are trying to sneak onto a hobgoblin ship heading for Darguun. They manage to talk their way past the guards and are slinking around the hold. They've explored all of the rooms except one... and when the door creaks open and the everburning torch gets shined in, all they see is a random pile of debris. They turn around to head back, when they hear the click, click of long claws on wood... and standing in front of them, tasting the air with a long barbed tongue, is a tall humanoid with skin like bark and hair like thorns. &quot;This one... this one is too old, her sap to sour,&quot; it hisses. &quot;But this one! She is still ripe. Her sap is sweet...&quot; And the Crazy Thorn Man attacked.All of the players were completely freaked out. Shudders passed around the game table. One of my players (not one who was actually attacked by it, mind you) had a nightmare that the Crazy Thorn Man was coming to get her.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="demiurge1138, post: 2225073, member: 7451"] It was the second session of an Eberron game I had started on campus, and none of the players were that experienced. The two elven rogues in the party were working their way through Sharn, looking for likely targets to rob. They spot a very wealthy looking woman and start to sneak up on her when one of them collides with a small child. The kid is panicking, out of breath, and babbling about the Crazy Thorn Man, which is really tall and has thorns all over its body, and turns little kids into bushes and eats them. Niether of them believe the kid, but they use him as a distraction with the rich woman to pick her purse. Nobody thinks more of it. Later that session, the same two rogues are trying to sneak onto a hobgoblin ship heading for Darguun. They manage to talk their way past the guards and are slinking around the hold. They've explored all of the rooms except one... and when the door creaks open and the everburning torch gets shined in, all they see is a random pile of debris. They turn around to head back, when they hear the click, click of long claws on wood... and standing in front of them, tasting the air with a long barbed tongue, is a tall humanoid with skin like bark and hair like thorns. "This one... this one is too old, her sap to sour," it hisses. "But this one! She is still ripe. Her sap is sweet..." And the Crazy Thorn Man attacked. All of the players were completely freaked out. Shudders passed around the game table. One of my players (not one who was actually attacked by it, mind you) had a nightmare that the Crazy Thorn Man was coming to get her. Demiurge out. [/QUOTE]

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