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<blockquote data-quote="jaded" data-source="post: 855535" data-attributes="member: 1269">I've had a similar moment with one of my characters...I was playing a human NG cleric/sacred exorcist&nbsp; and we were on the trail of this youg sorceress who was raising an undead army as part a mad plot to see her mother (a hanged witch) resurrected.We managed to stop the undead army, but due to the seriously bad judgement of the party while my character was elsewhere (she was always teh party's conscience it seemed), the young sorceress became host to a devilspawn. (The party &quot;accidentally&quot; summoned a devil with whom we'd had past run-ins, but they certainly weren't blameless...)Naturally we followed and tried to to destroy her in a pitched battle on the edge of a canyon. I managed to lure her into a consecrate on the canyon's edge where she experienced a moment of clarity and, tears flowing, begged for blessing. She knelt and recieved the blessing by cutting her hands on my holy blade. Then she kissed my preistess on the cheek and threw herself off the cliff to kill the devilspawn... I could have saved her but I couldn't stop her!!It was a very bittersweet moment. All credit to my DM <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In another, slightly related topic... my best ever &quot;caught up in the moment&quot; -Same preistess was lowered down into a cavern under a dry well with a human NPC rogue... finally got to the bottom and the DM evoked this wonderful suspense about the empty, dry cavern and the wooden object touching my leg... I whispered to the rogue &quot;Ren, it's dark, I can't see!&quot; and the reply came back &quot;err.. neither can I&quot;So muttering &quot;I'm gonna regret this&quot; under my breath I cast a daylight and gradually the cavern lit up to reveal a veritable sea of coffins, all closed and still...Not really emotional, but as a player my heart was pounding and I was actually whispering... it was truly awesome! Reminded me of that scene in aliens where ripley runs blindly into a room, stops and realises she is in a field of eggs...my apologies... just felt like sharing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.. jaded</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jaded, post: 855535, member: 1269"] I've had a similar moment with one of my characters... I was playing a human NG cleric/sacred exorcist and we were on the trail of this youg sorceress who was raising an undead army as part a mad plot to see her mother (a hanged witch) resurrected. We managed to stop the undead army, but due to the seriously bad judgement of the party while my character was elsewhere (she was always teh party's conscience it seemed), the young sorceress became host to a devilspawn. (The party "accidentally" summoned a devil with whom we'd had past run-ins, but they certainly weren't blameless...) Naturally we followed and tried to to destroy her in a pitched battle on the edge of a canyon. I managed to lure her into a consecrate on the canyon's edge where she experienced a moment of clarity and, tears flowing, begged for blessing. She knelt and recieved the blessing by cutting her hands on my holy blade. Then she kissed my preistess on the cheek and threw herself off the cliff to kill the devilspawn... I could have saved her but I couldn't stop her!! It was a very bittersweet moment. All credit to my DM :) In another, slightly related topic... my best ever "caught up in the moment" - Same preistess was lowered down into a cavern under a dry well with a human NPC rogue... finally got to the bottom and the DM evoked this wonderful suspense about the empty, dry cavern and the wooden object touching my leg... I whispered to the rogue "Ren, it's dark, I can't see!" and the reply came back "err.. neither can I" So muttering "I'm gonna regret this" under my breath I cast a [I]daylight[/I] and gradually the cavern lit up to reveal a veritable sea of coffins, all closed and still... Not really emotional, but as a player my heart was pounding and I was actually whispering... it was truly awesome! Reminded me of that scene in aliens where ripley runs blindly into a room, stops and realises she is in a field of eggs... my apologies... just felt like sharing :) .. jaded [/QUOTE]

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