10-08-2014, 02:31 PM
You've heard of the Pantherghast, I'm sure…
One year my camp of six people (mostly elves, and my Ajaunti smith) were hiding in the woods. We'd set up our two tents and somehow managed to survive Friday night. It's Saturday, around 2am, and we'd been fending off attacks from roving golems for the last hour or two, thanks to a flurry of blows and an Elemental blade spell.
We had decided to settle down to sleep, since only the golems seemed to know where we were, and we thought we were pretty safe. Suddenly, the people in the other tent are screaming. The Pantherghast is opening their tent! I hear my campmates frantically trying to wake up the female elf sleeping in their tent, who miscants a hallucinate spell before the Pantherghast drops all three of them with death spells.
Silence. Then the door of my tent opens. The High Elf I'm bunking with grabs his weapon and tries to fend the creature off. I huddle under my sleeping bag and try to stay quiet. The Pantherghast reaches over me and deaths my High-Elf friend easily. I try not to panic. Then, since he can smell no more Elves, the Pantherghast leaves the camp as quietly as he entered.
That's when I bust out the life berry.
… Unfortunately my subsequent tear-blind walk into town to tell everyone the rest my camp has been killed was not as heroic as that moment.
One year my camp of six people (mostly elves, and my Ajaunti smith) were hiding in the woods. We'd set up our two tents and somehow managed to survive Friday night. It's Saturday, around 2am, and we'd been fending off attacks from roving golems for the last hour or two, thanks to a flurry of blows and an Elemental blade spell.
We had decided to settle down to sleep, since only the golems seemed to know where we were, and we thought we were pretty safe. Suddenly, the people in the other tent are screaming. The Pantherghast is opening their tent! I hear my campmates frantically trying to wake up the female elf sleeping in their tent, who miscants a hallucinate spell before the Pantherghast drops all three of them with death spells.
Silence. Then the door of my tent opens. The High Elf I'm bunking with grabs his weapon and tries to fend the creature off. I huddle under my sleeping bag and try to stay quiet. The Pantherghast reaches over me and deaths my High-Elf friend easily. I try not to panic. Then, since he can smell no more Elves, the Pantherghast leaves the camp as quietly as he entered.
That's when I bust out the life berry.
… Unfortunately my subsequent tear-blind walk into town to tell everyone the rest my camp has been killed was not as heroic as that moment.
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A young Wood Fae dressed in green and black. Head Physician of the Hospital.
OOG: Jess
Contact: thefoolscribe@hotmail.com
A young Wood Fae dressed in green and black. Head Physician of the Hospital.
OOG: Jess
Contact: thefoolscribe@hotmail.com