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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1936310" data-attributes="member: 63">As a player, the highlight was our Halloween Call of Cthulhu game, where we faced an ancient Aztec evil that had been unleashed in a desolate Mexican town.  We called it 'El Diablo.'  There was a whole stack of characters available, so after one died the next could show up, and we'd keep playing until sunrise, or until the game had been resolved.  I was one of two players who came so close to lasting the whole night.  But sadly I was shot at the last moment by the Mexican priest who had been possessed by El Diablo when we accidentally killed the body he had previously been trapped in.  Very appropriate death, I thought.As a DM, it was actually very early in the year.  One villain had spanned two campaigns, and the party desperately wanted to defeat him.  One of the PCs (a human) was going to marry his beautiful Elvish daughter, the sorceress Shalosha.  Even Shalosha admitted that her father was going to ruin the world if he could conquer it.  So many other stronger villains had fallen, battling against each other, but Shaaladel, the Shining Emperor, was the most cunning, and in the aftermath of all these wars, he stood ready to sieze control of the world.  The battles had been fast and intense, with every side having access to powerful teleportation magic, but now teleportation had been disrupted, so that anyone teleporting would briefly pass through the plane of fire, taking serious damage unless they had the proper magical protection.  Shaaladel's armies were all in place.  All that stood in his way were the PCs, perhaps the only people powerful enough to threaten him.Though he tried to make them his allies, he made the critical mistake of letting his bigotry of non-Elves get in the way of him conquering the world.  Unconvinced by his offer of friendship, Rantle, the PC who was to wed Shaaladel's daughter Shalosha, decided to make a bid for power himself, planning to rule with generosity and peace.  Shaaladel got word of this, and tried to trap the PCs in a psychic nightmare.  They escaped, but Shalosha was captured, and they teleported in to save her.  A grand fight took place between Shaaladel with his elite bodyguards, and the PCs, who were injured from having to teleport through the flames.  In the fray, the party barbarian grappled Shaaladel and was slowly crushing him to death while the rest of the group faced off against his bodyguards.  The party was winning despite the greater odds, but Shalosha saw that her father was about to die.  Even though he had betrayed her and tried to kill her, she still loved him, and could not let him be killed.  Unthinking, she did the only thing she could to try to save him:  hoping to free him from the murderous barbarian, she leapt forward, grabbed her father, and teleported to safety.Fires flared across them, and when they emerged from the teleport, Shalosha collapsed, weeping, holding the incinerated corpse of her father.And, I swear it wasn't intentional, but the name "Shalosha" was supposed to mean 'bright one,' or 'shining light.'  Which is just about the same as what the name Electra means.</blockquote>

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