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[soulfireblue]

The most recent session of Secret Life is so fascinating to me, because there's so much emphasis on this idea of heroes and villains in a series that's so full of murder. Like, everyone's doing it! What makes one person a villain for doing it and another a hero? Is it the cycle of violence, that the person in the wrong is whoever committed the crime first? Is murder excused when it's done for the sake of a task? Or for the sake of an ally rather than for yourself?

Scar: "So I'm just the villain of the red lives, the people who can kill me, the people who I was trying to kiss up to with the creeper farm. This is... secret keepers, why do you have it out for me?"

Gem: "All right, wow! I thought I'd have a lot more enemies, but actually I seem to be a bit of a hero on the server! Everyone likes me! Everyone has good things to say!"

Bdubs: "Want me to kill Scar? Okay, great, wonderful, that's going to be my mission for today! I'm going to be the hero of the server today!"

Gem and Scar both had tasks that involved hurting others on the server. So what's the difference? Everyone excuses Gem because it was just her task, but Scar's villainy was a task too. Do the others know that? Do they care? If Bdubs killed Scar, the narrative goes that he would be the hero of the server defeating the great evil villain. Task successful, I suppose.

[gaberoothekangaroo]

so me and my friends are playing the curse of strahd campaign. for those not up on dnd, we’re basically fighting dracula in his own little pocket dimension where he’s kept an entire region of three cities and a bunch of people hostage for....generations?

enter us idiots. a split personality warforged (robot) paladin on the hunt for evil things, a tabaxi (cat person) druid who discovered her dead sister isnt dead but potentially helping strahd, a wood elf monk (who started as a wizard but thats just a fever dream now) who spends most of the time crooning to the wine barrel we borrowed, an apologetic cowardly lion-esque human barbarian that accidentally took the wild magic path, and recent addition a goblin ranger that hoards any and all weapons he can find in his fanny pack bag of holding. we had a black dragonborn rogue that played like a ranger, but we lost her mid campaign cause she had baby #2 at home in real life. we had a tiefling for like 1-2 sessions but lost her cause in real life things.

last night we walked into the ruined paladin fort. the warforged open not just one but four doors into the same room crammed full of spiders (which our dm kept reading the same passage as if it were a new room, to all of our delight ahaha). we also strolled into the chapel to find statues? that turned out to be three kneeling revenant paladins of the silver dragon. oops.

big oops. the barbarian, when he rages he has some random magical effect happen, magically grew vines and flowers and grass all over the floor around himself. this understandably made him angrier because hes spouted out other, more helpful magic before. he has successfully become enraged again in the past in order to try to trigger something else magical to happen--more often than not to the detriment of his party around him.

bigger oops. after a couple of hits by the revenants and two rounds of combat of throwing two handaxes from a distance before rage and swinging twice with a longsword enraged, he was at 9/52 hp.

biggest oops. surrounded by two revenants, he decided it would be best to leave their combat range and run back a bit to try to get angry again with a different magical effect. he knew he wasnt going to survive getting hit again. backing up, the first revenant missed with both swings of its sword. the second revenant struck with an opportunity attack which brought him to 0 hp. bleeding out on the floor. the second revenant took his turn--per initiative order--and proceeded to slaughter the barbarian bleeding out all over the flowers and vines growing from the rubble.

the party watched the dad figure get murdered before their eyes.

the warforged took the human, stormed out of the ruined fort, threw him on the back of their magical steed named jack, and raced off to the nearest town to go beg the priest for help.

now, to be fair, our dm typically pulls his punches and will have enemy characters move away once we go down but we had a friend playing some of the enemy characters last night and he took the initiative to kill. also since our dm has been pulling his punches, we havent faced nearly as many threats as we should have nor have the enemies been using all of their features against us. as our tabaxi put it last night, hes been having us play a hard campaign on easy mode lol

its not all bad. theres 2 potential paths the warforged has at trying to bring me back. if neither of those work, i get to play a new character. which should in all fairness be a cleric because we have someone go unconscious at least once a session. no one has heals. the druid forgets and is generally shapechanged into a giant creature doing lots of damage and our paladin only has like two opportunities to cast a spell and needs to keep those for doing radiant damage--which is the only damage type that really does any damage against all these evil vampiric creatures

so im sad that my barbarian may have bit the dust struggling to cope with the magic he thinks the fortune teller cursed him with, but i may get the chance to play someone else