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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 1671383" data-attributes="member: 1164">For a TPK I let my players keep thier XP totals for the next character, and I pay for the photocopies.They don't seem to realize when things are over thier heads and that not all challenges are overcome by hitting it really hard. Last time i thought for sure the 1d4+2 gargantuan voices crying to it's Father from 30 feet above the stone circle would have tipped someone off. Two players, ranger-barb and fighter, went off into the woods, they were avoiding the other PCs for a few reasons, [casters resting, rogue building guild].  A few days prior, the group had seen the gargantuan clusters of indentations 'big around as barrels and filled with slime of indeterminate colour' heading all the way up into the hills. The keenest eared players had also heard an unpleasant voice from up in the hills. from time to time. Since the other players were willing to 'burn they day' and they were not, they followed the trail of tainted and unnatural flora those tracks left behind. they questioned their sanity when they heard the chanting coming from the hilltops. They had to run from a psudonatural treant[who another group of PCs 'defeated' by burning down a forest it was in.] and a tainted orchard flinging bloated and exploding fruit. They were creeped out by the corrupted & dying ankeg [which the put out of its misery with arrow fire.] They were concerned by the crushed and drained out husks of  large animals near the high hill's summit. They were not sure just what was going on at the stone circle. I honestly though the players at one point along this little expedition would have doubled back to town and grabbed the other PCs for advice and input[other PCs had a lot of good skills VERY pertinent to situation at hand]. instead they tried firing arrows at where they guessed it, whatever IT was, might be.The arrows drew the attention of the Invisible / half-psudonatural kraken-like creature, which until that moment had been quite wrapped up in the long duration ritual. That two person party ended.</blockquote>

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