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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1780482" data-attributes="member: 99">First up, you can find the gallery of other pics <a href="http://ncgameday.dhorizon.org/gallery/ncgd5?page=1" target="_blank">here.</a> Some background laid for the Orcz adventure can be found <a href="http://ncgameday.dhorizon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47" target="_blank">here.</a> The result was this:A party of NPC's, led by a Paladin had stolen away the women and children of the Black Sack Orc tribe with the Paladin intending to "show them the light of Pelor".  The Orcish PC's gave chase.  After the party of Orcs wrung the location from the corpses of a group of Elves, they made their way to Sir Peledor's (the Paladin in question) stronghold, Justkeep.  They battled their way into the courtyard where a temple to Pelor was under construction and it was there that Sir Peledor confronted them directly.Thag (the Wizard's apprentice with a 6 intelligence), charged Sir Peledor's companion, the Halfling Rogue who stood nearby, and struck him mightily with his "staff" (greatclub actually).  In response, Peledor drew his longsword and struck Thag for a significant amount of damage.  I then asked Thag's player to make a Fortitude Save against the poison."POISON??!!", cried the player (and a couple of others at the table as well)."That's the exact same thing that Peledor says," I responded.It turned out that the female Orcs had surmised from the Paladin's preaching that Pelor frowned upon the sorts of vile tactics employed by the Orcs and other humanoids.  So they had concocted a very mild poison from bad wine, rotted food and just a touch of fecal matter and slipped it into his scabbard while he was sermonizing to the Orcish children.  When he attacked with the sword in question, he lost his Paladinhood (and a host of other "holy" benefits that accrued from his keep being sited on a place holy to Pelor).I pretty much stole the whole concept from one of the "Paladin Threads" in the General forum where some of the more militant GM's were saying that even with a complete lack of malice aforethought, a Paladin could lose his virtue.  The concept of him being required to spare the women and children for "re-education" spawned from the same thread.I think the biggest laugh I got was when the Halfling Rogue shouted out (after seeing the black liquid dripping from Peledor's blade), "OH SNAP!!  I did NOT just see THAT!</blockquote>

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