Day 4: Best thing another player's character has done!
I'm going to continue talking about the campaign from yesterday, and the character of Akemenos. Akemenos, a male, tiefling wizard, had--and continues to have--a hard time in this campaign. The party found two potions and a ceremonial blade in an altar to Lolth. At that time my character, Krusktina, the newly female half-orc/drow hybrid that I mentioned yesterday, showed great interest in all of those items. Akemenos wisely tried to keep them from her. The only other party member present for this exploration was a male, half-elf rogue named Fox. The two dwarf fighters had yet to join the group.As a half-elf Fox immediately distrusted Krusktina, but for whatever reason both he and Akemenos felt that she should accompany them back to the surface rather than leave her behind.
The next morning at camp Krusktina went off to perform a ritual to Lolth while Fox tried to catch some fish. This left Akemenos alone and he decided to investigate the loot...rolls a successful check on the white potion which he learns is a potion of life...rolls a '1' on the black potion and collapses. Krusktina beat Fox back to the campsite. She took all of the items, but poured the black potion down the wizard's throat. <she didn't know what either potion did so we rolled random and black was the choice>. This potion left Akemenos somewhere between life and death. A little bit like the old Weekend at Bernie's movie. When Krusktein went bats and left the party to become an NPC (as detailed in yesterday's post) she took the ceremonial blade and white potion with her. Akemenos was thought dead, so he was buried in the town cemetery, he had to dig his way out of the grave, and in doing so he nearly gave the human undertaker a heart attack. Eventually, the reformed party--including my new character set out to find Krusktina and the white potion which Akemenos knew to be a potion of life.
Krusktina was tracked to an old dwarven mine which had long since been infested with trolls and other beasts. Akemenos eventually found himself in a wizard's study and began to experiment with some of the equipment...rolls a '1'....the DM essentially gave him a mulligan because a fumble with this equipment would cause an explosion that he couldn't survive, so you know....he rolls a '1'...fate of dice and all that...Akemenos is blown to bits and all of the skin and internal organs are burned from his body. Yet, because of the potion he is still in a state between life and death. We took his skull and carried it around for a while trying to find a new body for him. The skull could still talk and cast verbal spells. We were eventually able to get his skull grafted into the body of a slime...and that's where he remains to this day, but he's still holding out hope for an upgraded body soon.
I'm going to continue talking about the campaign from yesterday, and the character of Akemenos. Akemenos, a male, tiefling wizard, had--and continues to have--a hard time in this campaign. The party found two potions and a ceremonial blade in an altar to Lolth. At that time my character, Krusktina, the newly female half-orc/drow hybrid that I mentioned yesterday, showed great interest in all of those items. Akemenos wisely tried to keep them from her. The only other party member present for this exploration was a male, half-elf rogue named Fox. The two dwarf fighters had yet to join the group.As a half-elf Fox immediately distrusted Krusktina, but for whatever reason both he and Akemenos felt that she should accompany them back to the surface rather than leave her behind.
The next morning at camp Krusktina went off to perform a ritual to Lolth while Fox tried to catch some fish. This left Akemenos alone and he decided to investigate the loot...rolls a successful check on the white potion which he learns is a potion of life...rolls a '1' on the black potion and collapses. Krusktina beat Fox back to the campsite. She took all of the items, but poured the black potion down the wizard's throat. <she didn't know what either potion did so we rolled random and black was the choice>. This potion left Akemenos somewhere between life and death. A little bit like the old Weekend at Bernie's movie. When Krusktein went bats and left the party to become an NPC (as detailed in yesterday's post) she took the ceremonial blade and white potion with her. Akemenos was thought dead, so he was buried in the town cemetery, he had to dig his way out of the grave, and in doing so he nearly gave the human undertaker a heart attack. Eventually, the reformed party--including my new character set out to find Krusktina and the white potion which Akemenos knew to be a potion of life.
Krusktina was tracked to an old dwarven mine which had long since been infested with trolls and other beasts. Akemenos eventually found himself in a wizard's study and began to experiment with some of the equipment...rolls a '1'....the DM essentially gave him a mulligan because a fumble with this equipment would cause an explosion that he couldn't survive, so you know....he rolls a '1'...fate of dice and all that...Akemenos is blown to bits and all of the skin and internal organs are burned from his body. Yet, because of the potion he is still in a state between life and death. We took his skull and carried it around for a while trying to find a new body for him. The skull could still talk and cast verbal spells. We were eventually able to get his skull grafted into the body of a slime...and that's where he remains to this day, but he's still holding out hope for an upgraded body soon.
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