D&D

[cellio]

Exciting game tonight. One of the players basically forced everyone into a fight that we were not ready for, and some of us objected vocally. We got thoroughly whumped. No one died, but the party is now split, an enemy who probably didn't know about us before is now motivated to hunt us down, and we didn't even do enough damage to make said enemy care. Oh joy.

At least I'm in the group with the druid (our healer), and I take some small satisfaction in knowing that the instigating character is probably in for some more whumping...

The detailed description will have to wait until after Shabbat, but since I know that some of our (my and the GM's) shared friends have been watching this develop in his journal, I thought I'd go ahead and post one player's brief perspective.

Comments

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

It's very interesting that you said 'We got thoroughly whumped', and I said 'marginal PC victory'.

Semantics

[sethcohen.livejournal.com]

Apparently her glass is half-empty. Any way you look at it, both of you are correct...for varying values of correct. :)

I've enjoyed reading about the conflict and the obsession. Now I'm looking forward to the full writeup.

[cellio]

State before fight: Garrett had dagger of doom; we knew about Garrett; Garrett didn't know abut us.

State after battle: Garrett knows about us; Garrett is perfectly healthy; Prolix has dagger with Garrett in hot pursuit; party is split; Turok (who was almost killed) is stranded for the day with Prolix; if Garrett level-drains Prolix (which he'll do if he's smart) strike "for the day" from previous clause; Turok failed his save against domination and his protection from evil just wore off. Oh, and once he's done with Turok and Prolix, Garrett knows to come to Cardior for the rest of us.

All tolled, I don't count temporary possession of the dagger as marginal victory. We did not one single bit of permanent good in this fight.

[mrpeck.livejournal.com]

I thought the different descriptions were interesting as well. I'm thinking that it was a marginal victory of that battle but it might well turn out to make us lose the war.

[cellio]

It's all about the war in my opinion. That's what we're here to win, if we can.

(And the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. :-) )

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I agree...this is really bad. Garrett has gone from not knowing about us to hating us.

And I have no idea how we are going to kill them...sigh.

But, chances are there will be a way.

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

You did get some new information about Melisande.

Vampiric fast healing makes it very hard to have Garrett less than perfectly healthy, unfortunately.

I'm not quite sure how Garrett knows to come to Cardior for the rest of you, though. Perhaps I overlooked some of the dialog--I could certainly imagine that I did so.

I'll meet you halfway, though--you did a lot better than I was expecting, and much worse than you wuld have liked. :-/

[cellio]

You did get some new information about Melisande.

True. The big nasty vampire has a lesser vampiric sidekick who can cast Wall of Force. Not all information brings joy. :-)

Vampiric fast healing makes it very hard to have Garrett less than perfectly healthy, unfortunately.

Yup. I had a small hope that perhaps damage from a holy weapon might not heal, or heal as quickly, but even if that were the case we didn't do that much. I hit him once, and it sounded like Charlos hit him once.

(And damn, Charlos did not escape with us.)

I'm not quite sure how Garrett knows to come to Cardior for the rest of you, though. Perhaps I overlooked some of the dialog--I could certainly imagine that I did so.

Well, he saw Charlos with us, and he knows where he last saw him. We obviously know about the connection between the dagger and the land. He may get the chance to interrogate Prolix and Turok.

And, I'm not confident that we didn't say "Cardior" when negotiating our escape with each other, though it's possible that Garrett didn't hear and the name wasn't significant enough to Melisande for her to remember later. Dunno.

I'll meet you halfway, though--you did a lot better than I was expecting, and much worse than you wuld have liked. :-/

That's fair. :-)