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Message: <blockquote data-quote="peteyfrogboy" data-source="post: 1086374" data-attributes="member: 5677">Eulogy For A CannibalAh, Gambumbo. He was the first character that was created for the campaign, and the first to go. After hearing his options, his player asked if he could make an evil island cannibal sorcerer. I told him to go for it, even though I've pretty much had my fill of trying to deal with evil characters. I figured that either he would reform or would become the victim of his own wicked ways. As it turned out, the latter was the case. I was certainly not out to get him -- I had half a dozen plots centered on him that went out the window when he died.I've edited out most of his presence in the story hour because it was largely solo and completely tangential to the main plot. Also, the exploits of evil PCs don't make for family friendly story hours. I will give the highlights here for posterity.--- BEWARE: HERE LIE EVIL ACTS ---Gambumbo was a sorcerer, the apprentice of his tribe's wise man. When the foreigners came to their island, the wise man decided that they needed to find out more about them to determine if they were a threat. Following tribal tradition, they captured one of them and consumed his flesh in a special ritual to gain his knowledge. Gambumbo was intrigued by the strange culture and managed to get himself hired onto the ship. The crew were impressed with his knowledge of the Tavian language. On the way back to Freeport he managed to sacrifice two crew members during the wee hours of the night. When he arrived in Freeport his goal was to start a career as a chef. To this end the first thing he did was purchase a set of knives. Naturally, he got cheated on the price. Welcome to Freeport, buddy! He wandered further into the city and get waylaid in an alley by Razzik the half-orc.After the escape he originally intended to get Captain Frick drunk and sacrifice him, but at some point the phrases "That man is not legal tender" and "No, I have gold" led to a bar fight involving magic missiles, trap doors, and lots of awful swim checks. Later on he managed to get his pocket picked anyway.After the events in The Welcoming Committee he landed a job at a struggling restaurant, displacing the owner's brother who only knew how to make pancakes. Within a day he had managed to impress a trio of restaurant critics with his signature dish "Salt Pork With Whiskey". That night he managed to botch a sacrifice in the kitchen. The next day he improved his culinary reputation further. When he went cruising for sacrifices again, he ran across a crazy druid and his pet bear who gave him a sound thrashing and left him naked in an alley wearing a crown of thorns as a message (to whom, I'm not certain). Thus it was that the next day he had only healed back to 2 HP when he got jumped by the barfly he blasted his first night in town. The first hit on him was a crit, which was intended as subdual damage but still ended up dropping him to -9. With no effective healers, he had no chance.And thus endeth our lesson about the perils of being evil.</blockquote>

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