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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thebitdnd" data-source="post: 1483634" data-attributes="member: 12226">This was and still is one of the most memorable epsiodes of the campaign thus far for me.  We had wrapped up our little session around the table with John dead and both Raylin and I (Kellus) incapacitated.  Destan figured the best thing to do at that point was to sort it all out by e-mail.  Since John's player needed to roll up a back-up, it sounded like a good idea.All of this happened via PBEM.  Destan wrote me a little blurb on the Priest coming in and giving me his news that Anar was a traitor.  It didn't wash with me for several reasons.  I had detected no evil, the guy seemed helpful enough, and in the 15 or so years I've played with Destan, it would just like Destan to send me to kill a shining example of goodness under false pretenses.  Perhaps the last was a bit of metagaming, but it did factor into my desire to attempt to disbelieve the man before me.  I wrote Destan back and requested an attempt to disbelieve.  In the same e-mail, I then proceeded to issue my reply to his email thinking 'I'm probably just being paranoid, so I'll answer his post as if things are on the up-and-up.'Destan then e-mailed me back with the picture he posted of the Feratu and said: "This is what Kellus sees.  I assume you want to change your response?"All I remember thinking is "Oh s <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> t!"After that, all I wanted to do was be able to talk myself out of that room alive.  I harbored no heroic thoughts of bringing him down given no armor, weapons, or spells.  As it turns out, we later encounter this guy again (as you may have suspected), and he wasn't all that tough toe-to-toe.  But given that ghastly picture with no real knowledge of the beastie, suffice it to say I was scared even if Kellus, wayward priest of Helm, wasn't.As far as Archbishop Mariadon letting him waltz out of the temple?  I'm still a bit flummoxed about that one...And let me just say that while this little exchange was good, there are a few more in Kellus' future that blow this one away.  Destan is good at evoking stunned looks at the gaming table.  His writing is superb, but his DMing is inspired.  I wish everyone could just once have a DM as creative as he is. (Destan, XP?)  But there are two things I learned long ago with Destan:  1.  Never provide him with a character background he can use to his advantage later.2.  Never provide him with words from your PC's mouth he can turn back around on you later.Unfortunately in Kellus' case, I ignored both those lessons.  But those updates are still quite far away.   :\</blockquote>

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