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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vexed" data-source="post: 1018866" data-attributes="member: 7361">Its not a job, its an adventure...I would have to say one of the most memorable fights occurred when i was dming my players.2 PC(gnome sorcerer/harper scout and elf fighter/rouge/duelist) They are a special team of guards for Waterdeep (equivalent of a swat team; we call the group SORT from the tv show OZ; the premise is they deal with threats to the city that are too much for the regular guards to handle..  The initiation was hillarious, but that is another story...).They had to seek out an escaped prisoner who tried to assassinate one of the masked lords of Waterdeep.  They pursued him for four days across the sword coast and finally came upon a gigantic sentient for lack of better term "Ghost ship" from the nine hells.  Apparently the Assassin was working for a powerful devil.  They boarded the ship (after the "ghost ship" ran over their own ship, killing almost the entire crew).  The ship radiated an anti magic field so they were unable to use spells to escape, or call for help.  They spent two days on the ship, (which was a mix between Amitiville horror and texas chainsaw massacre) dealing with horrible things, trying to keep the surviving crew members alive, not to mention themselves and all while trying to find the assassin hiding somewhere on the ship, who began toying with them by picking off the crew one by one, and actually turning one of the crew against the pcs unknowingly, who almost lead them into certain death.  Finally, after a few days and the beginnings stages of starvation. (yes, the ship had a galley, no you dont want to know what happened to one of the sailors who tried to drink from their stored water barrels).  They came upon a ship.  Everyone thought they were saved, but the ship recognized the death ship for what it was and were desperately trying to escape while the pcs dove off the death ship and tried to board the merchant vessell while being beaten off the side by screaming men yelling to get off! you will curse us all!!!!! So the death ship eventually over takes the merchant vessell while the pcs are trying to fight to stay on the ship that is being destroyed now due to the fact their crew stopped trying to get away to get the PCs off out of fear the death ship was really coming after the PCs.  The Death Ship runs over the merchant vessell.At this point the PCs (or i should say players lol) were visablly distraught, whinning, yelling (picture the guy from Aliens GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!!!!!! WTF are we gonna do now!!!?) The merchant vessel was destroyed.  So, they had to get back on the ghost ship, as the alternative was eventually drowning......... then began fighting the other members of the surviving crew after a paranoid, desperate finger pointing screaming match escalated into a full blown brawl.  The assassin laughing the entire time while he watched from a hidden place above the ship, btw.I felt sorry for them, so gave them a one in twenty chance at salvation and rolled a twenty.  Their fellow "SORT" team members who had been looking for them for the past few days, when they discovered they were unable to reach them via magic, flew out in the equivalent of a gnomish zeppelin, carried them off the ship but not before one of the pcs (the gnome) was turned to stone, by the angry death ship for trying to escape, and the later (the elf) trying to get him on board the zeppelin.  Picture an elf screaming like a woman holding a stone gnome under one arm and a rope in the other while being flown off the deck of a ship by a gnome zeppelin HA HA HA.  But they got back home to Waterdeep.  I did let them know they were the first to escape the "ghost ship", so its out there looking for them.Suffice to say, they refuse to step one foot on a ship : ) LOL.</blockquote>

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