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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ramien Meltides" data-source="post: 1884402" data-attributes="member: 1475">My most memorable roleplaying moment requires a bit of backstory. Earlier, our party had adventured through the possessed tower of Am’Zagga, a former home to a lawful order of knights that had been invaded and corrupted by demonic beings. While inside the tower, our party could only find one place to rest, a holy shrine guarded by an extremely powerful fiery spirit (I always assumed it to be some form of Genie – clearly not an Efreet, especially since the spirit was friendly). Once we turned over the now-cleansed tower to the order of knights, they said we could name our reward. My character’s immediate response was “For my reward, you can free the Guardian spirit. He has served you well and has earned the right to choose his own destiny.” (Sometimes, I really love playing chaotic good rogue types who cherish personal freedoms!) The knights agreed, and the spirit later visited me and swore that if I ever needed his help, I could break the ring that he gave me (A small ring made up of golden chain links). Since the ring also gave me the ability to cast protection from chaos three times a day, I figured I would never willingly destroy the item. (Being a chaotic person, casting protection from chaos on yourself feels a little…creepy, but the benefits are difficult to ignore!)At any rate, the campaign progressed, and soon we found ourselves at the Silver Towers of Arva, where we had to activate an ancient magical device in order to open a gate to a dead elven city and restore life to the wasteland. Of course, the BBEG of the campaign setting, the Targolid Empire, had no desire to see old enemies gain power again – a massive force of Ettin Barbarians, Targolid sorcerers (lizardmen-like psions), and Legion Warriors (tainted human Fighters) assembled to stop the party in our tracks. Thus began the Battle of the Silver Towers, a massive combat where most of the party was struggling just to keep the tower’s narrow staircase and roof clear of enemies so that one of us could get the machinery going. At one point, it looked like we were about to be overrun, so my character (same name as my handle here) snapped the ring and called out “Guardian of the Tower! Remember your Vow!” The DM grinned evilly and began to describe some serious law-fiery-spirit wrath as this HUGE flaming critter with a massive fiery sword began to exact bloody vengeance on the Targolid battalion. Eventually, the spirit was overwhelmed, but he took out the majority of the forces arrayed against us before he was destroyed. He considered his life a small price to pay for several blessed months of freedom. To finish up, the machinery worked and our party escaped through the gate to the dead elven city just as the Targolid’s “final solution” psionic blasts obliterated everything on the Silver Tower. Our party had successfully fought off and defeated an entire Targolid Empire batallion, and we held our heads very high afterwards, thank you very much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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