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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Foundry of Decay" data-source="post: 2031623" data-attributes="member: 846">Goblin abuseWe've had several bizarre moments of maniacal fits of laughter.The most recent was when the party were heading through a dingy lower level place of a massive tower city (More or less my take on Sharn), carefully avoiding striking/rioting orc foundry workers.They came across a 'warforged' (more like a protocol droid) being chased by orc workers.  The whirring warforged fled into an abandonned house, followed by orcs, and the party decided to help him.Well, they made short work of those orcs, save one who fled back to gather more orcs to help.  The party rested with the nervous warforged thanking them profusely.  However before they could rest long, the second patrol of orcs showed up, meaner, greener, and angrier.Well to be a bit more brief, it started with the door being blocked by the mage's firewall.  The orcs get the bright idea to sneak around the outside of the building to a window, and enter there.  The first orc trots around the corner quite merrily, out of site of his comrades.When he got to the window, he was inconvenienced by the multiple arrows, bolts, magic missiles and thrown soul-knives of the ranged attackers in the party.  Nearly every roll on the ranged attacks were criticals, and each of the fighter types had three attacks at this time.The orc's comrades hear a brief girlish scream, followed by what sounded like a rain of soft-headed babies and watermellons, and then silence.  One orc looked around the corner to find the smoldering lower half of the orc kneeling before the window.Well, naturally this angred the other orcs, and two more made their way towards that window while the others tried to bypass the wall of fire at the now open doorway.The first orc to the window was destroyed by 14 various missiles, making the one following him whimper and think about what he was doing.  He decided to charge and leap through the window while the party reloaded and recharged.Well, a great bellow went forth from the charging orc, and indeed he made it to the window, and stuck his head through, hands gripping the sill in hopes to launch himself into the room in a heroic way that would be sung by his people for generations.It would have been heroic if his head wasn't lopped off by the Fighter PC standing next to the window with his sword drawn (The player rolled a 'death-crit'.  Two 20's in a row and a confirming hit that instantly kills thugs in my campaign).Well, we were all laughing and aching at this point, since there were three utterly destroyed orcs kneeling, laying, and half stuck through that one window.However the tale doesn't end there.The other two orcs trying to get through the wall of fire spell could hear the multiple screams followed by the meaty sounds of pulping from around the corner, and the orcish leader decided enough was enough.  He circled the corner, and stalled after seeing the slaughter.Well, he was a bit smarter, and decided to crawl over to the window, hoping to bypass it to get to another window nearby (and not covered by the group inside).  He carefully started to crawl 'neath the window of dangly orc corpses when an urge hit him....One of those urges you get when you see a button marked 'do not touch!' but you know you have to push it anyway.The orc leader, decided to take a quick peek inside, and a sudden *WALL* of missile fire blasted through him, annihilating him.  This in turn caused the last orc (which was the only one to survive BOTH assaults on this house) to wet himself and go quite mad.We had to have been laughing for at least 10 minutes without breathing.  The house to this day is thought by the orcs to be haunted by the great god of destruction, and many gifts and sacrifices are left by that lonely window with the bones of their powerful comrades still pinned there by various arrows and bolts.The gibbering mad orc was made a prophet, seeing that he was the only one that the house-of-hurt didn't disintigrate, and he's started a cult dedicated to death by arcitecture.</blockquote>

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