Near-Death Experiences

[Volke]

Ever had a near-death experience?
My most recent one was when I was RPing practicing archery in a tavern, and I emoted one flying by an elf. When I was foraging later on, he came and chopped me down to 10 health within 5 seconds. I ran my ass off, and made it into the town just in time.

EDIT:

Now that it's after the big endeavour, I figure out that he's "His Sanctuary" or some shit.

[Marauder Moe]

I had a character with go to -6 from 2 beetle bites as a Byn runner, then go on to live another RL year and a half (not in the Byn, though).

Actually, having near-death experiences seems to be a common thing for my characters.  All but my first have all come extremely close to death early in their careers.  I even had two characters both nearly die from flash powder bombs (you'd think I would learn after the first time  :roll: ).

[WarriorPoet]

Please don't post current IC events or details on the boards.

That said, archery practice in crowded public places is never a good idea. Especially with insane hardasses around that don't like 'near misses' at all.

How do you think Asst. Manager Doug at Chile's would take to you breaking out a crossbow IRL and firing off a few rounds at the Budweiser sign?

-WP

[Olaf]

Does cleaning the Byn latrine every Nekrete count?

[Barzalene]

Does cleaning the Byn latrine every Nekrete count?

Yes.

[Cuusardo]

One of my previous PCs came pretty close to dying in an RPT that was one of the most awesome I've ever been in.

A previous PC had a whole different brush with death while out on an RPT, that was nothing to do with her dying.  Woo!  That was a pretty fun one too.

And then there was the undead songbird that my first PC ran into.  I wish I would have sent in kudos to the IMM who did that.

I really wish I could share the details of both of the first two, because they were soooooooooo awesome.  Unfortunately, you'll just have to experience them for yourself.  (And I know that other people will.)

[LoD]

We were on a mercenary contract into the Red Desert with a client, digging something up, when a raider walks in with 3-4 half-giants in tow.

It was about 6 humans vs. 4 half-giants + raider, so it was a pretty scary situation.  After trying to trick the giants into disagreeing with the raider, everything fell apart and things started to get smashed.  At the end, most of us were pretty banged up and I was down to about 12 health from holding off about three of the giants as long as I could.

That was the lowest the character ever got until his death many years later.

-LoD

[LauraMars]

Gith raiders, tarantulas, beetles, mekillots...all the scary monster npcs have juuuust about killed me at one point or another.  Lowest I ever got was an assassin of mine. I dropped link during the middle of a fight and crossed my fingers.  Came back up, my enemy was dead at my feet, and I was down to 3 health.

But I've never died to any of that stuff.  Here's what I've died to:

Crim Code
Other Pcs

[Nao]

Plenty.

Attacking the only PC I ever attacked, falls, falls with nasty things in it and the like.

My current PC doesn't seem to die, ever.

[Delirium]

My current PC doesn't seem to die, ever.

Careful.. that's exactly how you jinx yourself.

[Dakkon Black]

I had this elf that was dorking around the salt flats, a freaking mek came and bit him.

I won't give numbers, but... mek's have big mouths. And I think that if I had rp'd the situation honestly, I'd have to have rp'd him as now being elf feet, and elf hands, and nothing else.  

Then I had this elf that was subdued by a soldier, and a templar gave him a nice little axe chop. From full health to 1 health in one swipe. But then again, that's what happens when you can't move at all. Heh.

I rpe'd him out for the rest of it as being somehow alive, even though his head was hanging off his neck by just a tiny bit of flesh.

[Boggis]

I was, uh, somewhere bad and something bad happened to me in the bad place. I went down to -11hp but somehow survived and pulled back (even though my objective changed and showed the room number I died in). He later died because I didn't read a room desc carefully enough when badly injured and there was to be no miracle escape this time.

[Majikal]

I'd say the most insane near death experience I had was with my current character. Unfortunately nobody was around to go 'omgwtf!'.. but I fought something alot bigger than me and it hurt real bad. I flee, only to run into a pair of the things I just ran from. So I flee again after getting knocked to 40 or so stun. I flee off a cliff.. yay, land on a big nasty with somewhere around 7stun and 20hp. I managed to escape the fourth big nasty with the other two in tow. Good stuff.. definately the most action packed battle I've had in awhile.

[elvenchipmunk]

I've definitely had a few. I think the lowest I've ever gone was 1 hp, though I can't remember when that was so for all we know it be a scam!

In the past while, though, I've gone down to a few hp with at least one character due to large shelled creatures living somewhere north of the sea of silt.

Someday soon, though, I will be able to control their minds, and with that, the world that we call Zalanthas. No joke!

[spawnloser]

I fled from a gith off the Shield Wall once.  I passed my climb check, but unfortunately, so did the gith.  He proceeds to start kicking my ass while we're both hanging from the side of a cliff.  :shock:  I figure, well, may as well, so I climb down.  The gith chases me down the cliff.  I pass my climb check, he doesn't.  That was funny.

[Kronibas]

once... i had a non invisible character come face to face with
the queen alien






yep.  you'd better believe it.

[mansa]

I ate something once.  I almost died.

[corona]

I see a little death in everything.  :twisted:

[Hymwen]

Strolling through the 'rinth once, a particular NPC saw fit to jump me, receiving four attacks in the first round because of weird code, three of which hit me on the head and the fourth on the body. I fled with 1/8th of my health after one second of combat. I've seen less deadly braxats.

[Twilight]

I was doing something incredibly cool and got hit twice by something.  This took me from max stun, which was really, really high, to unconcious with about 100 less hps than I was used to seeing.  However, due to an odd quirk of fate, my character became concious two seconds later and got the hell out of there.  That was easily the fastest I have ever regained conciousness with a character, ever.

[Vessol]

Was out in a certain place doing certain things. Raider attacked me and left me for dead. Came back to and RPed it out, crawling literly back to Allanak, when he got attacked by another raider, left for dead. Struggled back almost to Allanak, before he got lost in a sandstorm and died of thirst.

[Angela Christine]

I was once in an infinite loop of near deathiness for over 8 hours:  I had a half-giant encounter a place that generated creatures with paralyzing poison.  :shock:  The creature attacked, I got paralyzed, and lay on the ground for a while.  I recover from the poison, so the creatures attack again.  Sometimes I'd get paralyzed and sometimes I'd get knocked to negative hps, either way they'd stop attacking until I recovered.  Every few minutes another of the creatures would be spawned and move into the room with me, by the end there were over 100 of them.  After a few hours I started to suffer dehydration and starvation, which didn't help matters.  Since giants have high HPs and good regeneration, she kept surviving and recovering, only to be attacked again before she could stand and flee.  

Sure, after the first couple hours I probably should have quit and died, but I have a terrible time giving up on a character that way.  And there was the faint hope that someone would come along and distract the creatures, luring them into another room and making it possible for my poor, stupid half-giant to get away.  


I have no idea how long the near death state could have continued, hunger and thirst were becoming a real problem.  But then the game crashed while she was at negative HP, and when I logged back in my PC was dead.

[moab]

I ate something once.  I almost died.

There is _nothing_ like eating something and almost dying.

[marko]

That brings back memories of surviving poison... with 1 hp.

Ahh.. the good old days.

[ThirdEye]

Lived from -6hp.

[askaran]

once i attacked someone out in the wilderness because their kank attacked me. and my health was low because of the kank but i wasnt paying attention. well the person hit me once on my HAND! and i dropped to negative hp but then i recovered and the person was cooking me cakes.

oh and another time i was riding along to allanak with my first EVER! dwarf character and my dumbass ate a piece of meat not noticing rotten was in its ldesc. I vomited my way to the gaj and recovered. Then to die from a gith a few room away from the main gates.

And ANOTHER! time was my second merchant character. He was out in the desert mining when all of the sudden a magicker comes up sets him on fire dehydrates him and rp's stealing my kank and takin non burnt items from me. I then managed to regain conciousness jump on my kank and ride into allanak emoting having smoke trail off of me and screaming
"FECKIN MAGICKERS ATTACKIN OUTSIDE THA CITY!" till i got to the stable. He later died after walking around the bazaar selling things and getting attacked by a rinther who wanted my mount.

ok i swear im done.

[Bebop]

Ever had a near-death experience?
My most recent one was when I was RPing practicing archery in a tavern, and I emoted one flying by an elf. When I was foraging later on, he came and chopped me down to 10 health within 5 seconds. I ran my ass off, and made it into the town just in time.

EDIT:

Now that it's after the big endeavour, I figure out that he's "His Sanctuary" or some shit.

Wait... you were "practicing archery" in a tavern? o.O

[ale six]

I once had a PC, who in the span of an IC day:

Got bruised up by gith,
Got whipped by a silt-horror,
Got chased by a mage,
Got bandaged up in Luir's,
and then got spanked down to 2 hp by a carru immediately after.

It was fun giving her all the scars. I played her as bedridden for an RL week.

[Malken]

Got bandaged up in Luir's,

::cringes::

There's nothing deadlier than being bandaged by a n00b, tho....

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

This one's going to take some backstory, but it was still pretty classic.
So, I have a newbie Whiran, who ends up living with a sorcerer-guy in the ruins of Someplace atop a cliff. Eventually, another newbie elementalist comes along, and we're all just a big, happy, magicky family. One day, though, my newbie elementalist friend decides he needs to leave Someplace, and since the sorceror-guy is away, it's up to me to escort him down the cliff.
We reach the bottom of the cliff, and everything's good. No visible magick on us, my friend has everything he needs, and we were just saying good bye when suddenly two raider-types ride in. We eye each other suspiciously for a moment, then suddenly one of the guys hops off his mount and begins hacking my buddy up!
So, my Whiran and the other elementalist start running around frantically, doing all we can defend ourselves from these beefed-up raider types with our newbie magicks. I cast a spell that allows us to get up the cliff and back to the safety of Someplace, but since I'm a newb, it craps out halfway up, leaving me and my buddy clinging to the edge of this cliff.
But at least we're off the ground, and therefore safe, right? Wrong! Suddenly, the raiders start flinging throwing knives at us. It was rather funny, something like,  "a black-hilted throwing knife flies in from below!" followed by, "a black-hilted throwing knife plummets to the ground below," rinse and repeat.
It's about this time when I sort of chuckle to myself and think, "Haha! You mere mortals did not expect me to take the Hunter subclass, did you? Engarde!" So my newbie Whiran pulls out his bow and quiver, and starts sending down an arrow for each throwing knife they send up! I managed to clip one of the raider-guys in the shoulder, something I'm still proud of to this day.
But, obviously, we can't keep this up for long. My friend is turned into a pincushion, and soon his corpse drops to the ground. While the raiders are busy raping/stripping/eating him, I make good my escape, hauling my bleeding, broken, exhausted ass up the rest of the cliff-face and limping my way back to Someplace.
I know I'm not safe, though. It's possible that those raider-guys climbed after me, or worse yet, that they went and taddled to some templar, and now I've got a whole squadron of militia after my poor 0-day Whiran! So I decide to barricade myself in Someplace as best as I can (which is not very well at all), and avoid going out for as long as possible.
This plan seems great for all of an hour or so, until I suddenly realize that I'm very hungry, and very thirsty. Someplace is actually rather desolate, so I start rummaging through my sorcerer-mentor's belongings, hoping that he has some food or water lying around. Thankfully, I come across some fruit, and begin stuffing my face.
Except, oh no! The fruit is poisonous!
So here I am, trapped in Someplace, wounded, dying of poison, wracked by hunger and thirst, and possibly about to have raiders or templars or soldiers or Krath knows what pounding at the gates.
And, yes, I survived long enough to yell at the sorcerer-guy for keeping posioned fruit around. I mean, honestly. Poisoned fruit!?
Man, I love that character. He died a week later to a similiar "from bad to worse" incident. I'd love to tell that story, too, but unfortunately it involves some details about Whiran magick I'm not at liberty to talk about.

[V1agraKank]

I like this thread.

Seriously.

As far as my own character's near death experiences, I sometimes run into those.

One thing I've realized is that the more of those that I have...the more exciting my characters are.  My more boring and conseravite characters...the ones that have played things safe -- I don't usually enjoy these so much.

But my spice smoking elf who borrowed a bunch of money from people and spent it all on alcohol?  That dude was awesome.