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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1283308" data-attributes="member: 3649">In our most recent campaign, a mix of Call of Cthulhu, d20 Modern and the Shadow Chasers mini-game, I had perhaps one of the funniest character deaths I've ever gone through. We're investigating mysterious goings-on in a resort village outside Las Vegas. Xane (my character) goes to watch the door of the strange woman we ran into at the casinos. He waits and then sees one of the men whom he assumes is working for the mob come up to her door and draw a mark on it with his finger; a blood-red line of light follows his mark and quickly fades.  Now, Xane has seen this before: anyone who can do that is a member of this evil cult and Xane absolutely hates cultists. So he takes his magically silenced pistol and opens up on the guy. The Pistol is a pretty remarkable peice of work; highly magical, the recipient of most of the cash Xane's either stolen or 'found' in the two years of game time previous to this. Until this time, nothing that has been shot by The Pistol has gotten up again.  The 'mob guy' looks annoyed as his flesh-covering reforms itself after the critical hits from The Pistol, and looks at Xane.  Xane pushes his companion aside and bolts down the hallway and takes the stairs four at a time, sprinting for the HumVee outside. The serpent-man Thing follows Xane, now having cast off it's human flesh-bag outer coating to reveal the true horror within. Everyone else goes mad when this horror slithers down the stairs and catches Xane as he's trying to get the door unlocked. Foot-long fangs peirce his body five or six times and his flesh begins to just drop off his bones as the poison takes effect. The rest of the party flees in random directions.  Now by this time, myself and everyone else is just howling with laughter. But then it gets better.  Xane, through some arcane manipulations, had a quasi-familiar, this lizard-like thing that no-one liked or trusted. It's back sleeping in the other car with John the bodyguard, who is waiting for our signal to move in and take off with the Mysterious Woman. Well, all he hears over the radio is screaming and laughing and the kinds of sounds you normally only hear at the site of a gas main explosion or something, so he's becoming quite concerned. Not concerned enough to drive over and see what's happening, though; he's learned from painful experience that sounds like that mean Another Hip Pin for John.  So Xane's consciousness wakes up in the familiar, through the telepathic link they shared. Xane, unfamiliar with the lizard body, wobbles out from under the various gun cases and ammo boxes in the back, crawls up the back seat and whispers 'Joooohhnnn heeellp meeee' in John's ear as John is sitting there listening to screams and cackling and gunfire over the radio.  This doesn't do much for John's mental state and he snaps as the lizard breathes in his ear and talks, which it's never done before. He grabs the lizard and tosses it out the window, onto the blazing hot asphalt. Then he guns the engine, and backs up the truck.  Xane/lizard, momentarily stunned and still disoriented from the body change, tries to get all four legs under him at once as he sees the truck stop.. and then accelerate rapidly towards him. Lizard limbs whirl and spin as the lizard-thing tries to make it to the dubious safety of the ditch but to no avail; fat hard run-flat tires crunch over his body, then the truck backs up and runs over it again. Then John rolls a nat 20 on his Drive to gun the truck on top of Xane's lizard-body and spin the tires over the now-flat lizard, rendering it into a peice of red mulch about four feet long, baking in the Nevada noon-day summer sun. By now most of us are on the floor. I was crying with laughter as John's player describes his utter panic and mimics grinding the gears.  Best death scene ever. <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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