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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4765900" data-attributes="member: 29398">I, as the player of the Rod-wielding character, am all too aware of that.3 Wraiths amongst party.  Illusions ain't much use against 'em, so I stand back, point the Rod at one of 'em, and shoot.  Result: fireball (and in all fairness, not for the first time).  I don't think anyone - friend or foe - died from it, but pretty much everyone - possibly even including me, I don't remember - took damage.Wraiths go down a few moments later.  Party's half-dragon comes after me, beats me on initiative, and clubs me to about +2 h.p. before I can react.  Party Monk then knocks me out, again before I can react but knowing from the look in my eye that if I *do* get a chance to act someone *will* die, and says "wait, let's talk".  Half-dragon waits until his next turn, then opens up on me with his breath weapon, finishing me off and taking a few of my better possessions along for the ride; they failed their saves vs. acid.And the stupidest part of all: due to some in-game events I was planning on having her commit a dramatic suicide once back in town - she was too loyal to the party to have done such in mid-adventure - so her days were numbered anyway!She was a loose cannon, but amazingly lucky most of the time; and against long odds had become the senior character - both in terms of length of service and ExP earned - in the party at that time.  She was also the lone spark of chaos in what was then becoming a rather dour, methodical group; there was little objection raised to her death.Still perhaps the best character I've ever had, even with such an ignoble end.That game is still going; I left it a while after this, not over this incident, but to give me time to run my own new campaign.  The half-dragon is still in the party...Lan-"...thus coming full circle to the topic of the thread"-efan</blockquote>

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