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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 356962" data-attributes="member: 903">Cobbe is Dead, Long Live Cobbe![DM Note:  These are a series of Emails that the player of Cobbe and I exchanged the week after his character died to the Treant.  He suggested he would like to role-play his death.  I had never done that before but I think it worked out really well.  The question was whether Cobbe would want to come back when Joy (presumably) tried to raise him.  I started to change all the pronouns to put it into third person but didn't like the way it sounded.  I still think it is really cool, though, so I will post the exchange as is, but in several pieces.  BTW, Clarice is Cobbe's wife.][From DM]The battle rages around you, the corrupted Treant towering over you ahead while you know it’s awakened ally comes from your rear.  Darkness has hampered your ability to finish the enemy and you worry about the success of the others.  Suddenly, the double blow comes from behind you and all goes black…  You awaken to the smell of flowers.  Opening your eyes, you see that you are sitting on a garden bench.  Unknown but beautiful plants surround you with paths winding between fruit-laden trees.  The sound of flowing water creates an undercurrent of peace and serenity.“Walk with me,” the quiet voice speaks, and it is familiar.  Looking up, you see Clarice as she looked when you first met her.  Her eyes are calm and she wears a flowing blue gown.You walk quietly with her through the garden, coming suddenly upon a small waterfall leading to a pool before joining the nearby stream.  Looking into the gently moving water, you see that a scene emerges behind the water’s reflection.An enormous tree towers over you.  As broad as a house, it rises and spreads out creating a canopy above you, dwarfing the fully-grown trees surrounding it.  Though you can guess the beauty of this place when it was healthy, the great tree exudes corruption.  It’s branches twist in a way that seems unnatural, and its bark seems diseased.  Pulling away, you see the entirety of the Heart Oak, as surely this must be.Focusing on the tree, you suddenly realize that the surrounding forest is gone.  The tree remains but now you are in a different place.  A vast strange plain extends in all directions.  Beasts move on the horizon, but now the great tree stands alone.  Still, it looks wrong somehow, though it obviously belongs here just as much as it did in the Tolnan woods.“All it would take is one leaf or twig for Joy to transport my Champions to that place.”Abruptly, you are falling away from the tree.  Its enormity seems diminished as you see that the ground surrounding it is subtly curved.  As your perspective grows, you see that the Heart Oak sits on an unimaginably huge cylinder.  Then you see the other branchings from the monstrous structure.  It must be a tree limb!  As you fall away, you see that the Heart Oak is only a tiny part of a much mightier tree, bigger perhaps than the entire world.  Looking down, you see misty shapes that might be still larger branches in an even larger creature of wood.“Here, I am able to show you a few things more plainly than I can when you are part of the world,” the image of Clarice says gently.</blockquote>

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