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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 326916" data-attributes="member: 1025">I can't quite remember how it worked. I know I ran Cadrienne after the Academy through the "we are arrested and locked up in our own King's dungeons" bit, up until the battle with the dopplegangers,and I don't rememeber Dylrath being there in the dungeons. But right after that she retired, and then I was Dylrath For good. Or ill, depending on how you see things. As promised, here is some of the out of game chatter for those of you who really like the behind the scenes peek. This stuff occurred after Piratecat Buried us in the sand and before we got out. We had 2 weeks to think about it. For those who don't like this sort of stuff, the story part begins next post.]The Buried up to the Neck incident had us all worried. Really worried for the very first (but not the last) time in Piratecat's campaign. We used to call him our "warm fuzzy DM" to distinguish him from the "nasty sharp pointy" kind (like Bandeeto.)So we scrambled to make use of the two weeks between the cliffhanger and our impending demise next session. Sito Rotavele: If anyone else has seen the movie Blackbeard, you know how awful this death can be. Let's try to avoid it. First, let's list our assets. What can YOU do buried up to your neck in sand?Claris can cast two command spells, and if we can't think of one word that means "forgive the death of your sister and free us immediately," I'll just sleep him.Tomtom: I can shift to shadow form, but I don't want to do it while the guy is conscious and nearby. If he's a mage, I'll still be vulnerable to lightning bolts and the like.Sialia: 1.  Squirm, barely. 2) itch, see item 1. 3) note that this is a particularly boring way to die and that nobody is going to get to see me do it. 4) bite the villain's toes if he comes close enough. 5) wait for the party to do something clever and then capitalize on it. 6) blow bubbles if it takes them very long. 7) wonder whether Calphas would answer a god call from a new convert. 8) wonder whether Glimmer's deity would answer a god call from a new convert, even though he couldn't think of her name just at the moment. 9) wonder whether Bahamat would answer . . . .you get the idea . . Piratecat specified that Dylrath has no items whatsoever. So we've got a naked 14 year old, who's confused because the last thing he knew, he was getting some action from a total babe, and now it appears she's taken advantage of him in a most unusual way. Also, everyone else seems to be here, he's not sure why, but he's laying odds they're going to be upset with him.Sagiro: If I can Disbelieve . .  and get out of my sand trap, a minute is more than I'll need to clock our (hopefully sleeping) nemesis with a Suddenly Appearing Divine Brick (tm).  . . I'd rather not try this while he's awake and armed. . . .you should probably not sleep him until you see that I'm getting free, and once I'm on ground level you should all shout at me to remind me what's going on. It's possible that in order to disbelieve in our predicament, I'll have to disbelieve in our captor as well.Kidcthulhu: O.K. Here's what Nolin can do for us.1) Grovel.2) Sing a song of woe to turn the villain's hard heart3) Screech. For those of you who have heard it before, you will know the screech I'm talking about. It will freeze him in place for a moment, delaying his init and generally giving him a headache.4) Did I mention groveling?Sito: Please do not deafen him before Claris has a word with him.--------------------------Sito:Top Ten Deus Ex Machina Ways to Get Out of This:10. Nolin moves our captor to pity us with a tender song.9. Claris reveals that she is in fact a juvenile Steel Dragon.8. Rex comes by, looking for a halfling he buried in the garden7. Sherida makes a god call (Is this a good thing?) [note: Sherida was Alix's slave and a demon worshipper]6. Dylrath finds the party in the shower and realizes that it was all a bad dream.5. The island isn't uninhabited . . . we're saved by a fat man with a skipper's cap and a skinny man in a red shirt and white pants who were shipwrecked here.4. Frostblossom freezes the whole ocean. [Frostblossom was a very small fey who occasionally showed up to talk to us and could freeze the surface of wineglasses and beer mugs]3. Alix's father, returned to his senses, retrieves us in the ship he uses to mine clouds. (who knew?) [Alix's father had been swindled into a cloud-mining scheme and lost much of the family fortune, and, much to Alix's chagrin, not by Alix.]2. Golden Bricks fall from the sky, holding back the tide until Velendo says "I don't believe you're doing this!"1. The sun goes out. At least we don't drown.-----------Note from Sialia to Piratecat Hmm, as I recall one of the notes on the Ambassadopple's papers was "11/2 Clith and Peggus: Good Gift"Lessee . . .today is just about 11/2 by my reckoning.  . . .Now let me see, is there anything around here that looks giftwrapped?Response from Piratecat: Yes. You.-------------Note from Sialia to Piratecat (creatively adapted for brevity):"Actually, I'm kind of impressed. You did come up with something Alix can't buy or burn his way out of. (Although, truth, I'm still kind of hoping to see him try and wind up fusing himself into a solid block of glass.)----------------Note from Sialia to Piratecat, referring to TMoSaT: . . .I wonder if Arcade could Fabricate this Stick here into a shovel . . . ?-------------------------------note from Sialia to the party:Any votes for calling Kevin's bluff? Would he really drown all of us? How many rounds before he starts sweating, too? naah . . .me neither.--------------------note from Sialia to Piratecat:you brute.I'm not telling you nothin'------------------</blockquote>

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