Never trust a dm who is an author.
So in the campaign I’m in weve just gotten to the big boss guy while trying to save one of our 8 diffrent kids who is being potentially used as a vessel for the big bad demon the cult decided to summon.
As we are just about to defeat the speaker( boss) our kid tears the room up and paralyzes us with magic having now been taken over by the demon. We are thrown harshly against the wall and forced to stand and silently watch this 12 year old we saved at the beginning from being transformed earlier pace infront of our line of silenced members.
And with the word of death he points at each one of us. If we weren’t dead ( it took 100hp ) he would stab us till death. The ironic part but equally fitting death for my character, he had stabbed us all to death with a knife I trained him with a year earlier. Our bodies were then trampled upon by the cult followers and the speakers and then sent to the doorstep of our kingdom as a warning.
With that we were dead. Heart broken having lost our child and having to hear of the horror our other children had when they saw us.
We sat through and listened to our own funerals and the start of a war on our homelands caused by our deaths. But just as we thought the campaign was finally over after a year. WHOOSH. A mystical voice of the fea queen called down to our resting bodies.
“ you aren’t finished yet” she said. And with the shatter of our necklaces gifted to us by her we were revived. We learn we had been dead for 5 years. My daughters and sons had became leaders of the rebellion along with our gathered allies.
Let me give a bit of background on our many children.
The first was athen. He was tortured and turned into a Tiefling. We had adopted him. Then became the host of the demon.
The second was kelvira. She was once a princess but was forced to watch her parents be murdered then she was killed herself. But she was then revived. I had adopted her with our soceress.
3rd and 4th was patten and ami. They were “brother and sister”. They had been taken from the orphanage by a witch in disguise with two other children. Those other two were killed. We rescued them from her.
5th was Argus. Argus was my son. He was adopted after escaping with patten and ami and kelvira from the cult. We trained our children well.
6th was a boy called nixus. He was a cursed child. We helped his mother help him escape from prosecution by the local lench king.
7th was Severus. A dragon born we half adopted. He saw his oldest sister die.
8th was while techinically and not technically our bard ( she was 16) to many shit events to name.
With this information it’s easily said ( with the exception of one) they were all orphans before we adopted them and we were their second family.
With our deaths That had been stripped back away from them. They only had eachother then, and for 5 years they lived on their own means. Luckily we were hoarders and I had connections with the thieves guild and the pirate island. So they were safe(ish) for those 5 years. But what was the most painful was reading the letters they had written us while we were dead. It left 3 party members sobbing, one in a emotional delimah, and I sitting broken in the corner.
So let this be a warning.
Never trust a dm who is an amazing author.
It’ll be the best written campaign you’ve ever played and the most painful.