30 Day Challenge - Day 10

Craziest thing that happened that you saw?

So many funny, silly, over the top and awesome things have I seen. I think I will have to give this one to my friend Tom Kroupa. In a long running DragonQuest campaign Tom was playing Sarvik, a member of the College of Black Magics (Witch to you and me). Our party was on a mission to find an artifact, The Cloak of Command, that was believed to be capable of turning the tide of battle for our beleaguered home kingdom that was beset by a ruthless and stronger neighboring despot. We were beginning to get somewhat desperate in our quest has we had already been in search of the cloak for several months and were currently deep in the enemy kingdoms holdings.

We finally found our objective in a ruined temple deep in a swamp guarded by an insane, and insanely powerful, priest. The fight with the priest was long and difficult and nearly cost us several party members. While the party was catching its breath and healing our severely wounded comrades, Sarvik grabbed the cloak and put it on. The members of the party still on their feet reached for their weapons and ordered Sarvik to take of the cloak. That's when Sarvik showed us the power of the cloak. He ordered us to surrender. Compelled by the artifact level enchantment we threw our weapons at his feet and surrendered.

We quickly and loudly pointed out to him that our surrender wasn't getting him out of the swamp. 

Sarvik drew the cloak around himself and ordered us to "Serve me for the rest of your lives".  

Then Sarvik and the rest of us learned about the drawbacks of this particular artifact. A wearer of the cloak was allowed one and only one command. The party began to make gleeful plans for the horrible things we were going to do to Sarvik once we freed our selves from the magically induced surrender. 

That was when Tom played the card that turned the whole situation into crazy and awesome. He had learned a spell that had a very low chance of success, less than 10% cast chance in the current situation, and a better than 50/50 chance of backfiring and going horribly wrong for him. Knowing that he had nothing left to lose since he had squandered his one use of the cloak, Sarvik cast the spell. Tom rolled an 01 on percentile dice (a critical success in DragonQuest) and great shadowy bat wings unfurled from his back and he flew away from us at great speed never to be seen again.

Ordinarily, we would have taken Tom out back and hit him a few times for being a douchebag; but his exit was so awesome and the series of events were such an emotional rollercoaster that we had to congratulate him for his epic moment.