Greatest Failure
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King Dobby and I were talking about this last night for a great length. We always hear about the great successes that each PC has because they are the stories that have progressed the server to what is has become. But what I want to hear is the greatest failures that you've had, the plot you tried to take over the city, or the time you tried to poison each and every one of us.
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I have soooo many to choose from. Lady Katelyn Obarstal, is likely my greatest failure to date. I was soooo close to gaining Immersea for my own, but I chickened out, and in some ways crushed the concept also, by siding with the Pirates of Immersea. It was never the same after that.
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Trying to intimidate an Orcan Warlord, ended up proposing to him instead.
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An old tiefling of mine who had great ambitions to brutally murder Darmos, but ended up permadead, with his soul bound for the eternal bloodwars… Never sign off on a bad deal!
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Rook didn't think the Drow warparty would notice him smashing the wizards head and leaving if he went fast enough. And that's the last anyone heard of him.
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My Fey'ri and my Tiefling, Soris, are likely my greatest failures.
Though my Fey'ri caused the opening of the Demon Gate in the Ruins and Soris ,made everyone turn on the MG I still find them to be my failures. -
The entire playerbase forgot to train their newbs properly and the DMs weren't very active in the dead-period of the MG. Which no players wanted to do outside of trying to have a character concept bodyguard assassinate the ONLY active novice. So yeah, Clar Banda enjoyed being handed some item that some newbie put into the storage.
So that basically caused the DMs to count him as influential enough, so I couldn't get a better concept for it when they were actually doing things. While people might have enjoyed interactions it was pretty unpleasant having to watch hundreds of quest trains and DM events go by while I did errands for a project that was basically boring as shit that other people got credit, some attention, and coin for.
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Not getting Weaponmaster with Retainer Whaynen. It was due OOC problems (could not play because of immense back pains), but my guy with a wooden sword was soooo close of being the first and only PrC I've ever EiG:d.
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Jon Greenstone, maskarn, tried to do a long con to scam the city for gold. My best concept so far, came to nothing ultimately because i roleplayed being afraid of a lycan and spilled the beans. Once one person knows a secret it is no longer a secret…
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I suppose it could be added to the list, that one of my characters failed to stop Clar Banda from becoming a deity. Kind of a big no no.
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Aelirenn Alenuath, was an Elven Warrior who joined an Elf Faction called the Vestavakhar while trying to start up a Paladin faction. Faction leader+friends suddenly quit, and Aelireen suddenly found herself as Chief (Aredhel) of the Elves. Grew the Vestavakhar, having over 20 odd elves in the faction. Fought the Slime Cult repeatedly, had deals with the PC Mayor Kresswell of the Hullack Kingdom, Dame Melina Addams of the Red Hart and acted as the intelligence arm of the Red Hart, feeding them information on going ons.
Was the first to reveal that members of the Sheriffs were active Slime Cult members. Started the Lighthouse paladin faction, which had upwards of 8 PCs involved while still faction leader of Vestavakhar. Sent elves to support the retrieval of the Staff of Ilmater. Made a deal with the Red Hart for a faction base + control of an area in return for backing them up at the Battle of Castle Crag.
Slime Cult wipes out Red Hart, Vestavakhar and Lighthouse in a single battle. Red Hart reneges on promises, claims that no deal was made, since the RH PCs involved all died. RH never makes good on any of their promises, despite three new generations of RH.
Came so close to a faction base and EiG ownership of land.
All PC followers wiped out in a single battle. -
Szass Zoon, Red Wizard and first ever app character.
Started off with a 5k Thayan loan, thought it would idea to go to Ruli the NPC dwarf merchant, buy a load of gear and try and sell it on.
Obviously nobody bought anything (why the hell would they) so I had a load of crap I couldn't shift and no gold to do anything with.
Ended up leading an undead attack on the East Gate (no idea why) with dwarven necromancer partner NEKROS DARKFLAME - but was spied on the whole time by another Red Wizard, who sold me out and got me executed for the trouble.
Shambles.
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@cadiz_stoker:
Jon Greenstone, maskarn, tried to do a long con to scam the city for gold. My best concept so far, came to nothing ultimately because i roleplayed being afraid of a lycan and spilled the beans. Once one person knows a secret it is no longer a secret…
This was so cool too!
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Came so close to a faction base and EiG ownership of land.
All PC followers wiped out in a single battle.The single battle had a massive long build up and multiple sides did loads of things to lay the groundwork of the battle. The pvp element of it was in the end not the only influence on the outcome. This was one of the most amazing battles the servers had. I think Kresswell was the only guy that 'won' in the end.
So awesome.
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In the same battle Thune mentioned :
Summoned a giant mole with an urdlenite priest. Said mole then proceeded to eat at least a quarter of our own forces….
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Had a literal Grodd goblin army at my command, a dracolich ally, a black dragon underling, an actual castle and a second army of undead knights, purple dragons, giants and beholders, not to mention support (financial, supplies, manpower and otherwise) from the Zhentarim (with our own personal beholder rep), Greencastle, Whoever Hessu's blackguard orc worked for and the Astard family.
Told to wait every time I asked to move or secure my draco-liches bones. Then they got stolen randomly.
TS+KD Spammed from Invis by a week old PC that I never heard of before or after.
We bad.
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Came so close to a faction base and EiG ownership of land.
All PC followers wiped out in a single battle.The single battle had a massive long build up and multiple sides did loads of things to lay the groundwork of the battle. The pvp element of it was in the end not the only influence on the outcome. This was one of the most amazing battles the servers had. I think Kresswell was the only guy that 'won' in the end.
So awesome.
Good PCs can hate him all they want, but Xzavien stealing the staff from the good aligned army that was being wiped out was the only reason we didn't get control of the it and destroy Arabel (seriously) the following weeks.
Another point about that battle is the defenses of team good weren't bad, they just didn't work out. The Netherese golem CoG supplied almost solo-killed Navalayara but was deployed at a weird place and we just avoided it in the end.
Also all of the high level and strongest PCs were hiding inside of the keep and weren't participating in the real battle. By the time we got to them, we had killed almost the entire army and picking off a couple high levels was not a problem still fully buffed and now in full charge. Another problem was that a good chunk of team good had sent their forces to the woods to protect the back entrance of the castle, but I don't think anything except some gnolls and undead went that way, if anything.
Had verk, that high level knight girl, and three or four more high levels stayed inside of the keep to fight alongside Chalvier and the Arch War Wizard, we would have been overwhelmed pretty easily I think.
Or of the adamantine golem had been deployed inside of the walls of the caslte where he couldn't be avoided, or at the front line where he could have killed off most of our army before they crossed the harder to navigate terrain.
As far as the PCs go, Szlam actually died to the War Wizard, Crey and Murji would have been easy to kill if they were ever cornered. Jack would be a little more difficult, but without sneaks he was a 12 str halfling. Zrukk was the only real force to be reckoned with that wasn't an NPC. With full buffs, he was pretty much walking death–except to the golem which pretty easily kicked his ass.
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That event was exceptional, entire server engaged in a climatic confrontation spearheaded and engineered by PCs, with so many different angles, plots and feuds coming to fruition with lasting and tangible impacts on the server. Total adrenaline rush. Great event, kudos to all involved, especially the Slime Cult. That was, terrifyingly, over two years ago now. Time flies!
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One of the biggest things about the Red Hart was that they had no real military experience. They were wannabes who were held back by honor and rules, yet had to command and fight a military action.
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Greatest failure was trying to get promoted in the Militia by fighting Maw in the sewers. (He's in the Tyche Challenge if you didn't know who that is). I had my throat cut by a sickle and eaten by a werespider. Good times.