Continuing the Blog d100 series using the d4 Caltrops table! The gauntlet was laid down by Buster over on 19 Sided Die and I will continue to go through it when I need a filler post!
Rolled 60: A time the players surprised you or ruined your plans.
This is a fun one for me, it means another story time post!
I played for years with a dude who was constantly throwing me off or catching me off guard. He did this thing where he could almost see the connection to the most distant pieces of the puzzle in his plans. The catch was that he could only do this with his own plans. He couldn't see through the plot or plans of the foes.
Guy was usually playing an evil character but was somehow lovable about it. He would tell everyone long before the first session, "I'm going to betray all of you at some point". Then when it happened everyone always just kinda shrugged and laughed like "oh man, you really got us! we even knew it was coming! haha!". It was interesting, he had a unique ability to turn on the whole party and not even a single person would flinch when it happened. He telegraphed it, telling people not to trust his character and doing shady things in the open where other characters could see him and catch wind of his inevitable betrayal.
I ran a game using a combination of Heroes Unlimited and Ninjas and Super Spies. The goal of this game was to break into this facility extract important information for a group of people who hired them. The party was playing a group of basically bottom of the barrel contractors for this kind of job. Two people played something called "dedicated martial artists" These are characters who are extremely skilled fighters with borderline mystic martial arts abilities but fresh off the boat and no ideas of the modern world. One person played a Hardware character who was both a weapons expert and an electrical genius. This guy... He played something called a worldly martial artist. He was meant to be the guide to the dedicated martial artists in the world... he roped them into this contract and was paying them pennies on the dollar for the job. It was discussed and everyone found it to be funny and fine.
During their raid of this building they fought against some cyborgs and some strangely skilled martial artists for being on corporate payroll. Along the way they defeated a man with a sword that contained a demon. This guy took the sword and made minor deals along the way to the goal in order to gain some power.
After a battle with an honest to god supervillain who was way above the pay grade of the party, and somehow coming up with a way to defeat him but not put him down, This guy has his character die. The sword offered him a second chance, a new life, at a cost. Dude didn't even hear it's deal and said, "nah, death is fine" before throwing the sword away and letting go of life. It really shocked me, I thought for sure he would take the deal and become a new villain in the setting. He was always playing such evil characters who were so quick to turn against the party.
Goes to show, you can play with someone for decades and they will still surprise you on occasion.
As always with the blog d100 series, if you follow along and make your own entries please comment below and I'll link you at the end of the article. It seems this time there are no new places to send you but I'll keep an eye out!
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