The Adventures of the Knights of Spellforge Keep

[Wee Jas]

Keep in mind Jamison did lose a level. So it's not like the assassin totally failed. Being assassinated a few times would pretty much render Jamison useless.

I agree with what your saying about ressurection totally. I don't think a cleric should just ressurect anyone.

Our party at our level is always going to be on those 'epic quests' and we need all the allies we can get with all the enemies we make!

Dartan doesn't know about clerical divination spells (as he shouldn't! This was the first time something like this came up in our game). As far as he knew Jamison was going to be eaten by the fishies and we would never have found the body to ressurect!

Lets give him a hand for making an interesting night of DnD!

 

[Malhavoc]

D'oh

 

[Thorntangle]

So the question is - Why did the note to Jamison include the fact that someone within the party wanted to kill him? Was this specifically requested by Dartan to put Jamison on edge? Or was this a DM intervention to bring this issue to finality and get Dartan out of the group rather than leave the assassination attempt a vague mystery?

 

[Breakstone]

And who could have sent the note?

 

[Thorntangle]

I'm assuming the note came from the assassin. A ruse to lure him to the docks.

 

[Malachai_rose]

Lol, if the note came from the assasin Dartan must have gone to McDougals House of Discount NPC's Heheh, I gotta remember to put that in my contracts when hiring denziens of evil to kill my friends... "Article 11 Subsection 09 paragrapgh B, Do not reveal PC involvement when attempting to lure target to watery grave". It oughta be a rule or somethin

 

[Celtavian]

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I'd like to know about that note as well. I can't see Dartan sending it, that would be foolish.

Dartan should have talked Jamison into going out to the wharf alone to "make up" for the past. hehe. Then it would have just been the two of them, and that might have been the doom of Jamison at least for a while.

 

[Richards]

I figured I'd better post this now before it gets too much out of date...here's a new song, written from Jamison Crow's point of view, and with apologies in advance to the Ramones for butchering their song "I Wanna Be Sedated."

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"I Was Assassinated"

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours ago
I was assassinated
Gotta admit
Came as a shock
I was assassinated

Just find me at the inn there
And give me a quick note
Hurry hurry hurry, must do just what he wrote
I'll meet him at the wharf's edge
Before the ninth bell-note
Oh no oh ho

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours ago
I was assassinated
Lucky for me
Vek was there when
I was assassinated

Floating over the water
Casting fingers of death
Hurry hurry hurry before I lose my breath
Oops I just failed my Fort save
That's it for me I guess
Oh no oh ho

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours ago
I was assassinated
Gotta admit
My killer's hot
I was assassinated

The guys come to my rescue
And blast that killer chick
Hurry hurry hurry get to my body quick
If sharks eat all my remains
Raise dead will be some trick
Oh no oh ho

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours ago
I was assassinated
It didn't last
Vek brought me back
Now I'm just fascinated

We found out it was Dartan
Who hatched that nasty plan
Hurry hurry hurry and make that traitor scram
But even more upsetting
That hot chick was a man!
Oh no! OH NO!!!

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Johnathan
Self-Appointed, Unofficial Bard to the Knights of Spellforge Keep Campaign

 

[Wee Jas]

Encore encore!

 

[Dr Midnight]

Excellent!! I think that's the best one yet.

The simple truth of the assassin's betrayal is that honestly, it was the only way I could think up to lure Jamison away from the group. Very rarely do people go off on their own and do things. If they do... it's probably because his or her player wasn't there that week.

I found it really tough to plot a murder when all those stoopid clerical spells cover just about each contingency. Dumping the body in with the sharks was about the best thing I could think up. I really think if that'd happened, Vek would have had much less chance of success.