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<blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 3084295" data-attributes="member: 17012">I recently did something fairly stupid that could easily have ended in a TPK.Our party was hired to find some children who had gone missing from the city.&nbsp; During the course of our investigations, we had discovered that the kidnappers took the children to their base deep underneath the city, where they were sold into slavery.The party navigated through the upper levels of the dungeon, where we found nothing but traps and hostile enemies.&nbsp; Shortly after reaching the lower level of the dungeon where the slavers lived, we opened a door and were asked by the guards inside, &quot;who are you?&quot;Everyone is stunned, except for me.&nbsp; My character (a drow swashbuckler) steps forward and tries to Bluff the guards into thinking that we are there to buy slaves.&nbsp; He has an average Charisma and two ranks in Bluff, but I roll surprisingly well and the guards buy it.We are taken through the remainder of the complex, mark the locations of all the pit traps which the guards deactivate for us along the way, and go straight to the boss' room where the auction is being held.Up for auction at this point is one of the missing children.&nbsp; My character manages to win the bid for the child, much to the chagrin of the rival bidder.My character approaches the auctioneer with the bag of money, and manages to make an untrained Slight of Hand check to palm a dagger in the other.&nbsp; The idea was to stab the auctioneer in the throat when he reached for the money.The auctioneer was wearing full plate armor, complete with a visored helmet.The next session started with us stripped of our possessions and in the slave pens.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aeric, post: 3084295, member: 17012"] I recently did something fairly stupid that could easily have ended in a TPK. Our party was hired to find some children who had gone missing from the city. During the course of our investigations, we had discovered that the kidnappers took the children to their base deep underneath the city, where they were sold into slavery. The party navigated through the upper levels of the dungeon, where we found nothing but traps and hostile enemies. Shortly after reaching the lower level of the dungeon where the slavers lived, we opened a door and were asked by the guards inside, "who are you?" Everyone is stunned, except for me. My character (a drow swashbuckler) steps forward and tries to Bluff the guards into thinking that we are there to buy slaves. He has an average Charisma and two ranks in Bluff, but I roll surprisingly well and the guards buy it. We are taken through the remainder of the complex, mark the locations of all the pit traps which the guards deactivate for us along the way, and go straight to the boss' room where the auction is being held. Up for auction at this point is one of the missing children. My character manages to win the bid for the child, much to the chagrin of the rival bidder. My character approaches the auctioneer with the bag of money, and manages to make an untrained Slight of Hand check to palm a dagger in the other. The idea was to stab the auctioneer in the throat when he reached for the money. The auctioneer was wearing full plate armor, complete with a visored helmet. The next session started with us stripped of our possessions and in the slave pens. :uhoh: [/QUOTE]

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