Re: [HOE] I killed only once...

[Lister2500@aol.com]

I've actually had quite a few deaths in my campaign, but none of them upset the players too badly.

Bill the Templar - Got knocked into a pool of radioactive muck and sort of... disintegrated.

Johnny - Got shot in the head by a servitor of Pestilence. To Johnny's credit, he did more damage to the servitor than anyone else in the posse, and without him, they'd probably have all been killed.

Silas - Criminally powerful Banshee syker. His player wanted him to die, so I arranged for what I thought was a pretty good death: He detonated a small pile of bowling ball tac-nukes in the middle of a Cult o' Doom camp. Of course, he was in the middle of the camp, too.

Leviticus T. Johnson - This guy was virtually unkillable for the first year and a half of the campaign. Then he accidentally drove off a mesa down in Purgatory, and wound up boiling alive while trying to swim to safety. He got up Harrowed, though, and adventured for a while longer before a thunder spawn bit off his head.

Dexter - A cyborg who was EMPed by his doomsayer buddy who had been taken over by a particularly powerful and skilled syker. This syker was also Dexter's arch-enemy, so that was kind of depressing. But, thankfully, the posse managed to bring Dexter back to un-life. The story behind that is a bit too involved to get into here.

Hannibal the Lector - Incinerated by a succubus who was impersonating his wife.

Little bit o' spoiler space...




Geminis - Our resident over-powered Templar. He had Evanor (I should not have let him keep that), five or so greater rewards, and was on his way to the sixth when I ran the Boise Horror. During the attack on the airship, Geminis charged into the midst of five automatons and split the nearest one's head down the middle in one blow. The ensuing explosion(s) blasted him charred corpse out the back of the ship and to the ground some fifty feet below. He did not survive.