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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 5134705" data-attributes="member: 4682">I forget the immediate preceding events, but I was DMing a party through a Greyhawk campaign. When the party came upon a ruined bell tower with bones strewn around the base, as the party came up to the door one of the party's PC warriors grabbed a skull from the ground.The player then, while in character began to recount in extreme detail the events that led to the death of the particular former skull's "owner". The story recounted how the person was once a lowly tower guard who grew up in an orphanage of St. Cuthbert. He worked hard, was a faithful believer, and enjoyed putting forth a good days effort. The skull's owner had been begun having trouble with his commanding officers, getting the worst duty regularly and almost never for a good reason beyond dislike from the superior. The player went on for a good 15 minutes describing the details of this one dead person so thoroughly we were all enthralled. We had NEVER seen this player invest so much time role playing, it was totally captivating watching him go on!Then one day, as the player wrapped it up, he described that the skull's owner had learned he was getting flack from his superior because another fellow soldier was jealous for some unremembered reason and was undermining him by telling falsehoods to the commanding officer, the two were on duty at the top of the bell tower (where the PCs were outside of), the two fought, the skull's owner had his head cracked against the massive bell, and was killed. The fellow soldier tossed the corpse over the wall to the ground below.The player then just paused and said nothing. . .We all sat saying nothing waiting for him to say more about this skull, when he had nothing more to say, one of the other players said something to the effect, "How do you know that's what happened to this guy?"With a straight face he replied, "I knew his head rang a bell."We roared in laughter. It was hard to get back to serious gaming for a while that day.</blockquote>

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