kippurbird | Meme and D&D

Who on LJ do you ship me with? Bonus points for outlining the ridiculous AU fic that you would write about us.

(You can ship me with someone we both know. Or someone you know but I don't. Or someone I know and you know of only through their username. WHATEVER. This is not exactly a deep and meaningful meme.)

Hell. Who/what would you ship me with?

Played D&D over the weekend. Had a magnificent almost TPK.

We're trying to get into this three room dungeon to retrieve the crown of sorrows. It's a 4th ed Ebberron campaign. There are two bard PCs, one Avenger PC, a Fighter PC and a Swordmage PC (me), two Warforged sort of PCs Rangers and some fighter NPCs on our side. We decided that our strategy was going to be take out the Big Bad Boss in each room first because he would buff up his undead minions. Solid enough strategy.

We go into the room and low and behold are very quickly 'shut down' by a wraith that puts us in the dazed condition. That is we can only take one action per turn. It has an aura of three squares and does automatic five points of damage at the start of everyone's turn. So in addition to fighting off other people's damage we take ongoing five damage no matter what. And we can only take on action so we can't move and hit or if we do hit we can't move out of the aura and it's just messy. We were stuck. Locked.

Me: We need to kill the wraith!

Others: Gee, that wraith is doing a lot of damage, let's kill this other guy!

Me: ARRGH. *headdesk*

So, we almost die because we can't get out of the aura safely. I manage to get out by teleporting (swordmage power) but I can't get near the wraith without getting caught again so I'm fighting off another one of the npcs and can't get help because they're all stuck.

Finally they got the idea to kill the wraith and barely did so ... after trying to kill other things that were apparently more important that the thing giving them automatic five damage every round.

One room down. Two rooms to go.