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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 4900981" data-attributes="member: 1225">The adventure is Monte Cook's "Queen of Lies", wherein our heroes deal with a drow outpost made up of a three bridge-connected towers and some outbuildings. The PCs are working their way down one of the towers, having entered from the top; I think they'd raided the place a couple of times before, and by now know that they can't let any alarm get out, or they're liable to get massacred. So, they fight some drow & kill them all. IIRC, on the previous incursion, the alarm got tripped when a drow stationed inside the stairwell snuck off to sound the alarm. Whatever the reason was, the wizard decides to be safe, and chucks a cloudkill down the the stairwell -- they know most of the drow are relatively low-level, and the spell is SR: No. All the players (& characters too) hear the wizard make the announcement, in and out of character. The group then finishes a quick search of that level, grabs some obvious loot, etc. A few minutes of game time and a few minutes of actual time pass.They then move on. As they reach the lower levels, I describe the lingering odor of bitter almonds, the twisted, choked bodies of drow & bugbears scattered about, a couple on the stairs, and even more scattered around the base of the stairs, all with bloody foam around the mouth, etc. Just routine flavor text, while I mark down the XP for all the kills. Meanwhile, the players of the dervish and the arcane archer are looking at one another in wonder, awe, and excitement -- "What happened here? Who killed all these drow? It looks like they choked, or were poisoned!" They are baffled.I and the other two players do doubletakes, look at each other, and bust up laughing. Archer and dervish: "Huh? What's so fun- Oh. Cloudkill." <facepalms></blockquote>

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