One shot 3.5: Rappunzel, Black Knights, and death.

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One shot 3.5: Rappunzel, Black Knights, and death.

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I just lost hardcore.

http://www.thetangledweb.net/forums/pro ... ?cid=33726

That's the character I used (Cleric 6). I was joined by a Human Fighter, and a Halfling Fighter/Rogue that was a pregen character a person used.

I'll just go over the major points. I don't want to write down every single detail, but I need to tell someone at least the highlights.

Get teleported into a world where you can only get out by activating a gate that needs two tokens. A book, and a lock of hair. The boot is probably in the haunted woods, and the hair is probably with the princess in the tower in the other direction. We are told all this by the locals. Everyone else who tried to get the tokens has died, of course.

We travel to the tower, and see some people on the road on our way. We get there, and the knight challanges us. At this point, we have a ladder, so we all just run past the knight to the tower with the ladder. The knight doesn't pursue us, he just rides out to about 60ft away and waits.

The tower has 2 assassin vines. Fuck. They do a number, killing the halfling and human. I start unloading with Spiritual Weapon spells and eventually they go down. I'm uninjured at this point, but the mounted knight with spirited charge is about to charge me. Forgetting the exact rules on spiritual weapon, I direct all 5 of them to go after him as a free action and then throw up an Obscuring Mist to hide in. He charges into the mist and we play cat and mouse with me buffing myself and him trying to catch me. The whole time he keeps getting hit by spiritual weapons too.

Eventually the knight goes down and I'm buffed up but basically out of spells. I go up the ladder to get the princess's hair and the insides of the top level are strewn with bones and things. Panicking I try to Turn Undead the princess, but it doesn't work. She moves in to kiss me, grappling me. You guessed it, Succubus time. I roll a 2 on my will save 3 times in a row, and then I make it on the 4th save. Escaping the grapple, I jump right out the window and run off.

Suffering under 4 negative levels and trying to just make it home to the village, I begin to wander through the forest until I find a spot to rest a moment. A hand reaches out for my shoulder and it's two NPCs from before. They go to escort me home, but two ogres show up while we're oh-so-close to the camp. They kill the girl, the guy goes berzek and stabs them wildly. I keep healing the guy with what I can and then shooting my bow. After 5 missed arrow shots, I manage to hit and take the second ogre down. The halfling dead, we stagger into the camp, but there are no 7th level clerics to remove the negative levels.

2 failed saves later, I'm a quite defeated level 4 Cleric with too much magical gear.

Quite the evening.

For the record, that's 1 Ftr4 optimized for mounted charges (CR4), 2 assassin vines (Cr3x2 = EL5), and a Succubus (CR7). If anything, this module is an example of how you need to properly pace yourself, and not run past a foe into more foes.
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