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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tormyr" data-source="post: 6895749" data-attributes="member: 6776887">I had my first permanent character death last night in 2.5 years of Age of Worms 5e. We started April 2014 using the October 2013 play test rules.The party has destroyed Dragotha's phylactery, and they are now going to destroy Kyuss' general. Exploring the Wormcrawl fissure, they discover they are called by visions to a cavern. As they enter the cavern pitch black cavern, an alarm spell notifies the owner of the massive cavern that there are intruders. He has his minions (large, fast centipedes and gargantuan scorpions) to attack the party while sniping the party with spells from cover.As the battle progresses, the party is doing fairly well (aside from tripping every trap and notifying every enemy that they are there). The kobold bard is the only one who does badly on his saving throws. Halfway through the battle, the first mindkiller scorpion let's off his once a day, 30 foot radius, mind bending blast. The bard failed his saving throw and took a form of short term madness for 1 minute. All his communication came out as gibberish, and he could not cast spells other than hypnotic pattern (no verbal componenet). He drew a quick picture to show another party member the ulgurstata that was hiding around the corner, but it was not understood. In frustration, he flew to the corner so that both the ulgurstata and party could see him and pointed wildly at the ulgurstata while spouting gibberish. He cast hypnotic pattern at the ulgurstata and rejoiced when I rolled a 1 for its saving throw, but his expression turned to dismay and fear as the ulgurstata threw off the effects of the spell with a use of legendary resistance. At that point, the second mindkiller scorpion lets its blast loose, and the bard is again the only one to fail the saving throw. This time his mind retreats into itself for 1 minute. He plumments into the 100 foot gorge that he had been flying above.The party finished off the minions, and the ulgurstata decided it was time to go in and try to eat some adventurers. He cast fly on himself and flew across the gorge and engaged the adventurers. He ate the sorcerer, who used the once a day power of his ring to turn into a lightning bolt and escape. The ulgurstata took some damage and decided it was time to escape. He cast dimension door and teleported to the bottom of the gorge where the bard lay. He ate the kobold and ran away, and the necromantic acid started dissolving the bard's body. The party figured out where the bard should have landed, saw large tracks going away, and carefully followed.Now the party had been using Rory's telepathic bond to stay in communication with each other. When the bard's mind turned in on itself, "on hold" music started playing in the background of the telepathic bond. When the bard was swallowed, the music turned discordant, and after a few rounds the music stopped...</blockquote>

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