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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forrester" data-source="post: 705977" data-attributes="member: 1279">You might think so, but not really - chatting with the damn philosopher/sorcerer is much more trying on the nerves <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.I remember that during my first month of interpreting Dark Creeper, I was only able to translate about 60% of it. I'm a master at this point, of course. But for those of you new to it, let me provide a quick overview of the story she's telling: The party (Ive the kobold wizard, Hedkarakk the orcish Barbarian/Ranger/Fighter, Thar the goblin cleric, Ugluck the orcish psychic warrior, and, of course, Krikara the dark creeper) was sneaking around some hills in the wilderness. They had caused a great deal of trouble in the area as of late, and the elves had formed large patrols to hunt them down. As elves are both smart and cheaty, they were making sure that the patrols were large enough that they could take care of a group of the party's level without overwhelming difficulty. (A more polite DM would have made the patrols equal or weaker than the party, of course, but at this point in the campaign the elves would have been moronic to do that, and I'm a big fan of realism.) So anyway, the party is wandering and hears some elves encamped, though they're not sure how many there are. They all creep creep creep up on the elves. The elves were smart, though, and put down Alarm spells; the spells triggered, and the elves were ready. As the party pops their heads up, expecting a surprise round, they find a bunch o' elves shooting at them with readied actions and spells! There was no big weapon damage but a Sleep spell did go off; Hedkarakk saved, but Ugluck failed. On their initiatives, Thar went invisible, Ive hid, Krikara hid, and Hedkarakk . . . well, he had a choice: wake up Ugluck and stand and fight and probably die, taking a bunch of elves with him, or run like a kobold. Hedkarakk ran. And Ugluck was killed next round. Here's the rub: earlier in the campaign, the party had left a couple of dead lackeys behind after an ambush. The elves, being cheaty, grabbed the bodies, cast Speak with Dead on them, and learned where the party's secondary allies were living. One week later, there were 60 dead orcs!Well obviously, I don't have to tell you how many problems could be caused if the elves cast that spell on a dead party member. And Krikara knew that as well. So in the bushes, she and Ive conspired . . . and a couple rounds after the Ugluck fell and was CDG'd, his head BURST into flame! Ive cast a Flaming Sphere on Ugluck's head, making sure it wouldn't be communicating ever again. Krikara's version is cooler, of course <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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