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We just had to rave about this DM encounter. It was just too cool not to share.

So ... there I was death plained and Thomas reads a raise dead scroll... and there I was a ghost, with my corpse lying solid below my floating body.

Thanks to "Dunge Onmaster" it was the most hysterical thing we could have imagined happening to us. For those of you that know us, you'll realize this "discussion" sounds familiar as some version of things you've heard in real life. For those that don't know us, well we hope you find it as entertaining as we did.


Willow and Thomas meet up with some bad guys and....

Willow --> You slip closer to death.
((insert Thomas and Malame (cat) fighting bad guys to the death))
Willow Riverbend: ugh!
Your soul is beeing ripped apart from your body.
((list of lost items...wow I have a lot of stuff))
((Thomas casts raise dead))
Thomas Drakkonn: oh thank ......waht the?
Thomas Drakkonn: Willow....dear?!
Willow Riverbend: whooo....aa...oh... my
Thomas Drakkonn: is that you?
Willow Riverbend: uh.. yes... I believe so.
Thomas Drakkonn: oh.....my.....
Thomas Drakkonn: I....er.....oh my
Thomas Drakkonn: you are...a ghost?
Thomas Drakkonn: *hits own head*
Willow Riverbend: Um....*looks down at body*... I don't know that I can carry any of that ... oh bother... *starts to sound upset*
Thomas Drakkonn: I was sure i read the scroll right
Thomas Drakkonn: oh boy....this is all my fault
Willow Riverbend: I'm definitely not the.... you read a scroll?
Thomas Drakkonn: *starts pacing in circle*
Willow Riverbend: Are you sure it was the right one?
Willow Riverbend: Thomas... you and your fetish with the undead!
Thomas Drakkonn: yes....but i must have read something wrong
Willow Riverbend: YOU undeaded me?
Thomas Drakkonn: er.....I...er....dont know
Willow Riverbend: Of all the .....
Thomas Drakkonn: Its never done this before
Thomas Drakkonn: but dear.....
Willow Riverbend: I knew it.. all this going into the crypts and intrigue with ghosts... and ... well fix it!
Thomas Drakkonn: Im sure there is a way
Dunge Onmaster: +Tell+ Hahaha
Thomas Drakkonn: er....i just have to find it
Willow Riverbend: *points to body* I believe I belong in there.
Willow Riverbend: Put me back.
Thomas Drakkonn: yes dear
Thomas Drakkonn: im thinking dear
Thomas Drakkonn: *thinks hard*
Thomas Drakkonn: Spellcraft Check, Roll 1d20: 16 + Modifier: 47 = Total: 63
Willow Riverbend: Or you can carry all my stuff and explain this this thsi... *points to self* to Noor and Bruno and everyone else.
Thomas Drakkonn: Lore Check, Roll 1d20: 12 + Modifier: 48 = Total: 60
Willow Riverbend: +Tell+ LOL.. you have no idea how funny this is... we always joke about me persuing him after death.
Dunge Onmaster: +Tell+ Hahahah. Glad to...be of service? =P
Willow Riverbend: Thomas.. you remember how I've always told you I'd follow you even after death... well, this time you only have yourself to blame.
Thomas Drakkonn: oh boy
Thomas Drakkonn: *pulls out spellbook* must be something here
Willow Riverbend: Look at me... this greay.. dark.... I *starts to cry at little * I have no toes!!!
Willow Riverbend: I can't bounce on my toes.. I have not toes.
Willow Riverbend: I want toes Thomas.. I want toes.
Thomas Drakkonn: oh dear...please...sont cry...we will fis it
Thomas Drakkonn: okay.....okay...try this
Thomas Drakkonn: uuuuuummmmmmm
Willow Riverbend: We? what's this we? You did this... I ... *sniff*.... I didn't want... is it safe?
Willow Riverbend: are ou sure it's safe?
Thomas Drakkonn: yes...well...it cant hurt
Willow Riverbend: It can't hurt?
Thomas Drakkonn: after all....you are already a ghost
Thomas Drakkonn: oops
Thomas Drakkonn: *examines corpse8
Willow Riverbend: you're the know it all about undead.. are you sure that it can't get worse? I can think of plenty of things that could be worse.
Thomas Drakkonn: hold on
Thomas Drakkonn: try to "enter" yourself
((Willow successfully enters back into body that's been lying on the ground))
Thomas Drakkonn: oh thanks the gods
Thomas Drakkonn: it worked
Willow Riverbend: *starts gathering things together swiftly*... You and your crazy... *grumble*
Thomas Drakkonn: er....im sure it was something that sorceror did
Thomas Drakkonn: he was veeeeeery powerful
Thomas Drakkonn: i just barely saved your body
Thomas Drakkonn: after all....i never read scrolls wrong
Willow Riverbend: You almost killed me for good.
Thomas Drakkonn: it wasnt me!
Willow Riverbend: I still think you read the scroll right and had the wrong one.
Thomas Drakkonn: it was them!
Thomas Drakkonn: i only had one of those
Willow Riverbend: *looks around* them? there is no one else here.
Thomas Drakkonn: so I know it was rright
Thomas Drakkonn: of course not...i killed them
Thomas Drakkonn: biiiiig pwerful mage
Willow Riverbend: Oh.. wait blaming it on those mercenaries... they were using arrows and fighting.. you are NOT blaming this on them.
Thomas Drakkonn: well....not as good as me...but he was tough
Thomas Drakkonn: he had a magic shield up...i couldnt even spell him
Thomas Drakkonn: i had to hit him.....a lot!
Thomas Drakkonn: and malame...she almost died
Thomas Drakkonn: saving your body
Willow Riverbend: Yeah.. and then you read the wrong scroll... *taps foot*
Thomas Drakkonn: i did NOT
Thomas Drakkonn: i only had one raise dead scroll.....and its gone
Thomas Drakkonn: so i had to read the right one
Willow Riverbend: Ah so then you did read it wrong.. got it.
Thomas Drakkonn: he used some weird necromancy on you
Willow Riverbend: You read the scroll wrong and made me a ghost.
Thomas Drakkonn: i NEVER read wrong
Thomas Drakkonn: im a genius
Thomas Drakkonn: aaaaaaaaand i brought you back


Once again... thank you for the opportunity to have fun!!


Willow and Thomas

Heh. *raises his hand looking guilty* I was at my fiancé's house, so didn't have access to "Jaeger". Glad you two had fun with that! (I know I did watching Willow's ghost berate Thomas! Hahah. Even in death he won't escape her.)

As a quick explanation, though, (so that I don't steal credit where it isn't due), the death system on Arkaz turns you into a ghost. When Thomas read the scroll, though, Willow was still in "limbo" so-to-speak before she was transferred to the Temp Death Area (at this point you can use the raise dead and resurrection scrolls to bring someone back, not before). So when he used the scroll, nothing happened. I didn't want his scroll to go to waste, so I resurrected you myself. And then you two had at it all on your own. If anything, I should be raving you two for giving me a good laugh.

Hahaha! Classic Willow and Thomas! That is awesome!

That script was so much fun to implement. Terry tested the script with Star and Sonja quite a bit and it all seemed to be perfect. In ghost form you ..... well that is FOIG. There was one little bug, fixed now, that gave me a good laugh. When Star used her turn dead abliity, it turned living too. Made for a real good time in the crypts when the party she was with ran off in terror.

glad you guys had fun.. this happens everytime you die so when.. Not if... you die again.. same thing

i wish i could been there ...

KL

ROFLMAO!

Jenai was faced with the same dillema. Only we didnt have any scrolls so she floated out as a ghostie. Lost and alone in Arkaz she had to find her way back and return to her Paladin husband hoping he would not slay her on the spot.

"Corwin why am I a ghostie? I can not be a ghostie. I hate Ghosties! "*cries* " Fix me!" *Jenai throws a tantrum*

The player knew the death system all ready. Jenai had no clue and was terrified. It was great fun to Rp. Any who knows Jenai Knows mostly she is very brave. However becoming something she hates most was realy fun to rp.

Glad it's been entertaining for folks!! Thank you for the FYI that it's the game mechanic or next time if there is no DM around, I'd likely be in a panic *laugh*.

Thomas and I also wanted to take the time to give a bit THANK YOU to the DMs and the world createors of Arkaz.

My hubby and I have been very impressed with the variety of NPC characters we have met and challanged. It's been wonderful watching as sometimes the "bad guys" mulitply but sometimes there can be less and they are just tougher.

The details of the environment our characters live in and the just plain fun and relaxing atmosphere knowing anything can happen at any time. It amaze me how often I jump at my keyboard when some NPC starts talking to me.

I (Willow) don't develop code but interact with developers every day at my job as a support person for the software they write. I know it's not easy and am more than aware of the amount of time and patience and testing and coding and testing and coding and testing...etc, it can take.

The fact that there has been such a variety of characters, creatures, events, items, ......overwhelms and amazes us. Their work is greatly appreciated!!!

Willow and Thomas