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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14130 on: March 15, 2015, 11:07:04 pm »

Aliens attacked the base when I was woefully unprepared. They killed off the A-listers first, then the supporting cast. To save money I'd put all the fancy stuff in the item pool before every mission and had just run an all rookie mission to train some people up, so we met the attack with all the crappy starting gear. Ironically it was the poorly trained base security that made most of the kills, lasted longest, and dealt most of the damage.

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14131 on: March 15, 2015, 11:22:23 pm »

It couldn't have put you next to a creeper. They don't spawn in The Ways Nether. A ghast must've taken a potshot at you.
No. It was definitely a creeper. It was right in front of me, in my face, when the game loaded. Then it exploded.

Probably it wandered into the portal. I guess I hadn't lit the underground in which I built the portal enough to keep baddies away. I found a creeper had somehow spawned in an adjacent underground room with similar lighting earlier, buuuut there was a door separating it from the two rooms with me and the portal. I figured it was just one creeper sealed in one room, nothing to worry about, right? ...It's never just one creeper.
Hm. Never met those conditions on my own. Then again, I hardly use the Nether, and when I do it's in a room plastered with torches inside a mountain or something.

Creepers on my end have a tendency to make the area outside my fortress look like a warzone rather than dealing me actual bodily harm, which is irritating, but not quite as deadly. At least they can't get in my secret underground chicken labor camp.
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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14132 on: March 15, 2015, 11:27:31 pm »

Was exploring a huge ravine with a friend, he ended up falling onto a ledge below because a zombie knocked him off the very narrow pathway. We only had a narrow space to travel. His pickaxe broke, so I "threw" him an extra one...only to press W and fall onto the ledge with him.

A creeper falls down onto the ledge with us...BOOM...he dies, I barely survive the explosion and I fall to my death to the bottom of the ravine


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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14133 on: March 15, 2015, 11:50:50 pm »

Well...
There...
Y'see...
This...

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14134 on: March 15, 2015, 11:56:27 pm »

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14135 on: March 15, 2015, 11:58:31 pm »

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14136 on: March 16, 2015, 12:06:55 am »

Well...
There...
Y'see...
This...

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Err...

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14137 on: March 16, 2015, 12:09:42 am »

I think I know where this is from. I didn't think it was that strange.

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14138 on: March 16, 2015, 12:13:29 am »

Never heard of it. Huh. The internet, man.
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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14139 on: March 16, 2015, 03:10:54 am »

How did I last die?  I got reincarnated as a gnome infant, executed, then reincarnated as a practically immortal destroyer of all things.

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We're woken up the next morning by a recurring boss fight, Lahlm the rage mage lich, shooting lightning at us indiscriminately.  My bard recites a scathing poem about Lahlm's many embarrassing defeats at the party's hands.  Lahlm retorts with more lightning, and also stops our wizard's heart with a spell from the Book of Vile Darkness.

No problem, I thought.  My bard will just run over and cast a healing spell, saving and reviving the wizard (who otherwise will die next turn).  This will definitely ingratiate the wizard to him.   But, no... right before my turn, two more bolts of lightning knock both my characters into bleedout.  The bard at -9, death one turn away.

Here's where roll20 started getting weird.

I needed to roll a 10 or less on a 1d100 to stabilize.  I rolled 100, the first 100/100 roll in a 2-year campaign.  It didn't do anything special, my fresh bard character just died mere hours after being introduced.  My suicidally-adventurous melee ranger was fine, relatively, though still unconscious.

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So the barbearian set about reviving the dead.  First he brought back the wizard with an extremely cursed yet self-recharging scroll of raise dead.  It does something to the resurrected, but it hasn't been used on my characters yet.  It seems to involve a sinister personality change of some kind, though.

Then for the bard, he pulled out one of the greatest scrolls ever made: the "discount" reincarnation scrolls we bought in Elysium.  Products of some twisted Fae genius, they use an amazing table with four separate rolls.
My boisterous world-traveller elf came back as a 9-year-old gnome baby restricted to only fight in overalls and a nailbat.  And 9 gnome years is about 2 human years, so she (yes, gender changed) could only crawl.

The party wizard, under some unexplained compulsion probably tied to the cursed scroll which brought him back, coup-de-graced her.

We had one reincarnation scroll left.  At this point I was kinda hinting that it was fine, I'd just continue play as my sword-dancing ranger.  Well, apparently Roll20 sure as hell heard me. 

The barbearian critfailed reading the scroll, unleashing the energies on himself.  Except he wasn't dead so that did nothing, but he couldn't use the scroll again for 24 hours (I'm pretty sure the scroll should have expended there, but we houserule some things).  The wizard rolled a 2, also failing to cast the spell.  My ranger eagerly took the scroll, stared at it a little, then laughed and handed it back.  Being mute, and absolutely untrained in the use of magic items.

Then the lich took the scroll, mimed an exasperated sigh, and single-handedly doomed the world.

You see, there's a 5% chance of the first roll sending you to a special table of outsiders and special races.  Then, there's a 5% chance of "Tarrasque, INT drops to 1, attacks party".  Yeah, that's what finally happened.

Roll20 did everything in its power to keep me from playing that bard.  I'm honestly honored, and I hope this means I've finally built a melee character who'll be allowed to live.
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Though that's not necessarily true.  It's technically possible to kill a tarrasque.  And a certain dual-wielding ranger is gleeful at the prospect of one day felling her former companion, now the most famous of magical beasts.

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14140 on: March 16, 2015, 12:07:23 pm »

I ended up waiting for the defenders to disperse then sneaking around the back of the base. The fighters started coming back once I got there, but my ship was so much faster than any of theirs that I completed the mission and made my escape without any of them getting in range.
In my current game, I went and got a bigger ship first so that I could take out the fighters.
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It surprised me when I took hull damage from that fight, but I had managed to capture one of the fighters, a Buster I think. I noticed it still had a pack of mass driver ammo still on board. Hmm, that explains the hull damage. That Buster later died en route to the Omicron Lyrae shipyard. Stupid Xenon Qs.

Edit: And now a new death. Randomly exploded while following the target of an escort mission. I can only assume the autopilot crashed into something and the timewarp caused the damage to be registered after the actual event.

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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14141 on: March 16, 2015, 12:16:08 pm »

Yah, the Autopilot is notorious for killing your ships (it has to do with collision geometry, there was a rather ambitious attempt to rectify the issues but I don't now if anything came out of it), never timewarp while autopiloting near anything.
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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14142 on: March 16, 2015, 12:24:28 pm »

I once read about a guy back in X3:Reunion who had modified Centaurs to give them 2 GJ shields. Later, he was sitting in the same sector as his main complex when suddenly, BANG! The complex is at half shields and several million credits worth of Centaur is now space dust.

At another point, he had modified Centaurs to give them M5 like speeds and manoeuvring. He then went to Xenon 101, told the AP to attack all enemies, put on SETA and went on a rampage. He killed most of the Xenon in there before he flew straight into the largest asteroid in the sector.
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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14143 on: March 16, 2015, 02:22:03 pm »

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Your games are much more interesting than mine. The best I did was to play as an evil necromancer priest in a campaign where the main villain is also a necromancer. I decided that my goal was to take his place and achieve world domination by killing and then raising everyone, including the population of a dragon infested continent. The GM was a jerk thought so he kept trying to kill my minions with increasingly powerful monsters, only to see me raise them and become even more powerful. He also prevented our summoner from summoning anything for some reason.
We're going to get a new GM soon since the last one decided to quit so hopefully things will get better.
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Re: How did you last die?
« Reply #14144 on: March 16, 2015, 03:38:51 pm »

Got shot by a deathsquad soldier when trying to run away in Liberal Crime Squad.
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