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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Winterfell" data-source="post: 6559654" data-attributes="member: 6789022">About four sessions back a Sorc and my Rogue-self decided to pledge ourselves to King Witchthorn (an Arch Fey) to complete a task (given in secret to us without the knowledge of the other members of the party) he needed in order to gain some protection against a large dragon residing in some nearby woods.  King Witchthorn did as he promised and gave protection later in session allowing our entire group to survive the attack of the dragon and in turn pushing it from the woods.The task ended up being that we had to go retrieve two young pegasi that were currently being held by the Emerald Enclave whereabouts unknown.  The Emerald Enclave is actually looking for our group because the Tiefling Sorc I am pledged with is kind of a pyromaniac (carrying around a Wand of Phantasmal Fireballs she loves to use to keep from setting too many real fires) and has been setting fires throughout the forest during various encounters.  The two of us convinced our party to help with this task.Following various leads to track down the Pegasi, we came across a village that was decimated by a large force of Orcs.  We continued down that trail and saw a large Orc encampment as they prepared to siege the Emerald Enclave compound.  Our party containing (Teifling Sorc / Half-Orc Ranger / Half-Elf Rogue / Human Fighter / Drow Warlock) parked it behind a hill out of site of both parties, when our Half-Orc Ranger piped up that he wanted to go parlay with the Orcs.  There is no way a half-elf, human, and drow would have been viewed favorably by those Orcs so we do what you should never do and...split the party.  Half-Orc and Tiefling wander over the hill and the Half-Orc is able to talk themselves out of being killed straight out, but was being viewed extremely skeptically by the camp.During that time the Elven Emerald Enclave scouting party came across the three of us remaining and I was able to talk them into speaking with their leader (no recognition thanks to previous disguise by the Warlock and myself and the fighter never having been involved with the Enclave fights.  We got into the compound and approached the leader who was partially distracted giving positioning orders to the troops on the wooden palisade walls and gates.  Leader began to grill about why the hell we were near the Orcs...and was looking none-to-happy.While that was occuring, the Orc leader was tired of being talked to and ordered the two party members to provide an "act of faith" to prove their worthiness or die. The Sorc jumped at the chance and ran out to no-mans-land figuring she can lob a phantasmal fireball over the gate and make a good show of things...but a funny thing happened when the player tried doing math on the fly.  Not calculating the distance she wanted correctly, she pulled up too soon, screams and launched the fireball...  **dice is rolled...to the utter shock of both the DM and the players around the table...crit fail of 1...that is no longer a phantasmal fireball but instead a live nuke headed directly for the gate***...the entire gate area explodes with wood, elves, dirt being launched into the air by the blast.  The party members on the inside being pelted by debris of wood and elven body parts.In disbelief the Orcs all turned to her and began chanting "Ghash Mog" (Fire Voice) and use this as their battle cry as the siege then turned into an assault as the horde rushed to the gap.  Without character knowledge, our party was now in a fight for their lives versus each other.Just another fun session.</blockquote>

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