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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 3952801" data-attributes="member: 41485">I created a brand-new, fresh halfling fighter, level 1. We traveled to some arctic wasteland, and knew of an ogre mage in the area. Long story short, the group decided to crazily bother the ogre mage, who summarily captured us all, and took our stuff.We had a scroll of recall that would allow us all to be teleported back home, but it required us all to be holding hands to work. So, I offered to stay as the ogre mage's slave if he let everyone else go with their stuff. Once everyone else had their stuff--or at least the scroll, we could all hold hands and disappear. Everyone liked the plan, and the ogre mage was suitably impressed to let it happen (we were all too weak for him to care, really). Except that everyone decided to hold hands first, and then approach me. The ogre mage wised up to that instantly, grabbed me, and ran off, sealing the cavern with a wall of ice behind him. That's when it got interesting. My first level halfling fighter was unarmed and unarmored. As the ogre mage took me deeper into his caverns, I bit him. Hard. I watched him grab for some magic thing on his belt, and grabbed a scroll of his as I ran and hid. We played cat and mouse for a while, as I ran around looking for a way out while the ogre mage started smashing stuff. I eventually found a large chimney that he used as a back entrance to his carverns, and climbed out.......to a featureless arctic landscape. Flat, white, with nowhere to hide. The ogre mage, following, climbed out of the chimney, grabbed me, and dangled me over his mouth, ready to eat me. That's when I jammed that scroll of his down his throat. He started choking, and let me go. So here I was, next to this ogre mage wanting to kill me, and he was choking and standing right next to his chimney. So I push. I bash him as hard as my little halfling body will let me. Unfortunately, as you can guess, halflings don't beat ogre mages in many pushing matches, and this time was no different. Eventually, the ogre mage cleared his throat.The rest of the party found my body, cleft in twain, next to a badly chewed scroll. But they all remembered what courage was.</blockquote>

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