The Fall of Summer - Permadeath Journal
Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:23 pm
This is the story of the rise and fall of Summer.
I had a crazy thought today of "What if..?"
What if I made a character in Blackstone that had one life <Period>.
That means death is permanent, a play-through where "mors vincit omnia!"
To complicate things (or to expedite an early demise), I would follow a few simple rules:
No multi-classing.
No Power-builder pre-planning or guides
.. and no twinking or help from my other characters! Yea.. that will be hard, but I'll resist the temptation.
At character creation, I thought long and hard. I guessed either Cleric or Druid as my best chances.
Since Summons are actually useful on this server, I rolled up a Druid for the Animal Companion to fight for me along with a Summoned Creature.
After all, if things go south hopefully I can sacrifice one or both, while I'm running all the way back to the Keep!
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
— Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general
I introduce to you "Summer"
Summer 1 Day Old - Happy Birthday Girl! Live long and prosper
Journal has a new entry - Clean out the Kobolds. Hmm, from a RP prospective, I'm not sure how a druid would feel about that, but since staying level 1 and never leaving the keep sounds boring, off I go to wipe out the poor Kobolds.
Turns out I didn't have to kill the Kobolds. I stumbled upon Smaug and IJZ; they killed the Kobolds while I stood back and shouted "To Arms! To Battle!"
Also, Thank you Smaug and IJZ for walking me through our Quest to help the Farmer with his Undead problems.
Lost my Party to a Server Reset, but an Honorable mention to Velho and Arqueiro for assisting me on my journal resolving a few quests.
Soloed some content after each had to leave, and thus the 1st day of Summer ends... with no death (but one really close one in the Cemetery).
Summer will rise and shine another day
Although I did have a thought. What if I "died", and a Cleric was in the party and rezzed me.. would that be cheating death?
I had a crazy thought today of "What if..?"
What if I made a character in Blackstone that had one life <Period>.
That means death is permanent, a play-through where "mors vincit omnia!"
To complicate things (or to expedite an early demise), I would follow a few simple rules:
No multi-classing.
No Power-builder pre-planning or guides
.. and no twinking or help from my other characters! Yea.. that will be hard, but I'll resist the temptation.
At character creation, I thought long and hard. I guessed either Cleric or Druid as my best chances.
Since Summons are actually useful on this server, I rolled up a Druid for the Animal Companion to fight for me along with a Summoned Creature.
After all, if things go south hopefully I can sacrifice one or both, while I'm running all the way back to the Keep!
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
— Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general
I introduce to you "Summer"
Summer 1 Day Old - Happy Birthday Girl! Live long and prosper
Journal has a new entry - Clean out the Kobolds. Hmm, from a RP prospective, I'm not sure how a druid would feel about that, but since staying level 1 and never leaving the keep sounds boring, off I go to wipe out the poor Kobolds.
Turns out I didn't have to kill the Kobolds. I stumbled upon Smaug and IJZ; they killed the Kobolds while I stood back and shouted "To Arms! To Battle!"
Also, Thank you Smaug and IJZ for walking me through our Quest to help the Farmer with his Undead problems.
Lost my Party to a Server Reset, but an Honorable mention to Velho and Arqueiro for assisting me on my journal resolving a few quests.
Soloed some content after each had to leave, and thus the 1st day of Summer ends... with no death (but one really close one in the Cemetery).
Summer will rise and shine another day
Although I did have a thought. What if I "died", and a Cleric was in the party and rezzed me.. would that be cheating death?