TL;DR: Verrry risky assassination of a king surrounded by magical alarms and well trained guards. I murdered him with a
death attack that critI play a shady as hell assassin in my friend's Pathfinder game. (Tiefling, Oracle 2/Ninja 3/Assassin 2) I tend to leave the party during downtime to murder people.
One of the people I had to murder in the last game was this elven ruler, who ran the country like Salinist Russia, where dissenters to the king "vanish." It became like this because I accidentally killed the dragon who first ruled the country(bled out while I fought this invading dragon) and then I was contracted by the current to kill previous that took the dragon's place.
This king was paranoid. The castle was lined with magical alarms and scrying eyes that acted as security cameras. The king is surrounded by 4 wizards and 3 fighters, bound to his life via these magical collars. Basically, if the king dies, they all die. The servants are also bound by the magical collars, but they're allowed to remove them as they leave. I got this information from a thri-kreen who worked for the assassination group I was a part of. He helped me plan my way in.
My character is armed to the teeth with various ways of teleportation. A pair of boots that can teleport, a pair of bracers that can use dimension door, and a ring that brings him back to this castle, but also gives him greater invisibility.
My plan was to get a scroll of antimagic field and teleport to the vault of the castle, which is directly under the throne room. I was going to light fire to the castle, to make the servants leave and minimize the amount of innocents I may inadvertently kill. Then, I was going to move up to the throne room, while the king hopefully remained up there, and commit a spot of murder.
I was unable to use the scroll, unfortunately, however the thri-kreen
was able to. I bid farewell to him and teleported to the vault. It was empty and I was only unnoticed because of the antimagic shell around me. There were 3 exits, a trapdoor above me and two doors on either side. This room was made of stone, but the outside halls were made of wood. Magically enchanted, however, and very difficult to light. In my nervousness for this mission, I forgot to bring tools that can easily light fires. I also couldn't attempt to light the walls on fire, as the halls had servants and guards walking around, performing their duties. I ended up using a normal flint and steel on a normal torch and hid the flame under a helmet I found within the vault. I waited a few minutes and, sure enough, the castle caught fire and the servants started leaving. Now I had to act fast as the king may be leaving.
Using the power of Ki, I was able to scale the walls up to the trapdoor to the throne room. I listened at the door to make sure they were still there and I was fortunate. The king's guard were discussing the fire. They were not worried about it and assumed a guard had left their torch lit.
I activated the invisibility on my ring and entered the room as quietly as possible. I went in unseen.
Then I watched the king. I examined his every movement as I crept closer and closer. I was shaking. This was do or die. I couldn't fuck this up.
I blinked onto him, brandishing my wicked sickle, and in a gorey display, stabbed him directly in the heart. His death was confirmed. There was no way he could survive that.
I realized that though he was dead, his guard was still alive and panicking. My antimagic field had actually disrupted the collars, so no innocents were killed. I quickly used my boots and got out of there. My reward was another enchantment on my ring, giving any weapon I hold in my hand the keen effect.+
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