You stand on the bowl as you struggle to pull yourself up. On top of the window sil, a large spider rushes your face. In a fear response, you land in the bowl and fall back against the stall door, causing 10 points of damage and lowering your charisma for 5 turns until the water dries off.
Pulling yourself up to the window, you look out into a dingy, dirty alley. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. Piles of trash, a clang of a metal can falling, the scurrying of small, dark creatures. Unremarkable. Perhaps, TOO unremarkable?
Your guilt stops you from going through with it, especially because of the neighbor’s dog which you dogsit occasionally. Who else buys it those fancy treats? (actually 5 more people in the building, but you don’t know that)
You hear a conversation outside the door, do you listen in?
The cat you hid away in your bag gets startled and scratches you. Why haven’t you learned not to do that yet? You got scratched last month doing the same thing.
You put the cat back in the bag and take it with you.
I poke my head out the window
You stand on the bowl as you struggle to pull yourself up. On top of the window sil, a large spider rushes your face. In a fear response, you land in the bowl and fall back against the stall door, causing 10 points of damage and lowering your charisma for 5 turns until the water dries off.
Why are both DM responses to this so insanely punishing?
I mean, since you asked…
Pulling yourself up to the window, you look out into a dingy, dirty alley. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. Piles of trash, a clang of a metal can falling, the scurrying of small, dark creatures. Unremarkable. Perhaps, TOO unremarkable?
DMs kinda have to pull a lot of punches in reality 😉 sometimes we like to let loose on the internet
Hey, I didn’t say you got infected, you don’t know if it might be vials until you ask
I’m not the one who got infected, I was a bystander in the thread.
… That you know of
I’ve been through far too much recently. I decided to end it all. I kill myself.
Your guilt stops you from going through with it, especially because of the neighbor’s dog which you dogsit occasionally. Who else buys it those fancy treats? (actually 5 more people in the building, but you don’t know that)
You hear a conversation outside the door, do you listen in?
I listen in
They start screaming very loudly. You stagger away from the door and it’s gonna take a minute to hear normally again.
You brought a bag earlier. Look in it?
I stick my face in the bag
The cat you hid away in your bag gets startled and scratches you. Why haven’t you learned not to do that yet? You got scratched last month doing the same thing.
You put the cat back in the bag and take it with you.
Leave right away or tend to the wounds?
The bag was empty. But it successfully distracts you from the fact that the floor is now lava. You die, no save.
:(