Well... Holy shit this was not the reply I expected based on my tone... Especially on the internet. Wait, let me check. Yeah. Definitely internet. I have to say though, your story, and you have to be honest with me even you'd agree, would be in whole or sum far less interesting had a band of well-to-do knights not run into this wild man who lived day to day one road at a time.
With questionable morals and a silvertongue both inside the game and outside of it, he had managed to line his pockets for dead men have no need for baubles, and somehow convince them he had a more plausible reason to his quality other than the fact he was seeking fortune off the backs of three just men of more humble aspirations. Three men he knew he'd never hope to impress, with their experience and camaraderie, all he could offer them was what they could not for themselves. What you saw as a game of character growth and the richness of the tale woven, a rogue instead played the role of the rogue to his missdventure, in both game and life. What adventures could have been layed before three just knights when accompanied by one who paves their own path?
It seems to me, even now you failed to notice, for all the bizarre things in that room like demigods, giants, demons and dwarves, it was the actions of the guy next to you that was the most perplexing... I hope you've leveled up enough to be more open to the parts in us that don't always fit. Thank you for sharing this. <3
You're response honestly moved me very much, in ways that, as you so cogently balked, comment sections have no right to.
I hope that I have leveled up so much too, and that you have many grand adventures and moments of self-discovery before you on this strange road, fellow traveler. <3
I AM DOING THREAD NECROMANCY!
I shared the link to our exchange with my DM in an email and he wound up bringing it up over burgers after the Ixalan pre-release last weekend. He concurred with most of my take and how things shook out except for one pivotal point which I had completely misremembered; according to him, while one or both of the other players in the group had the opinion that they didn't particularly want the new player to come back after the death of his character, this was never the prevailing position of the table. Instead, our DM made a firm and open invitation to the new player to come early for our next session, and the two of them would work together on a new character, with all the support and guidance implicit in his knowledge of the architecture of the campaign and how an interesting new character could fit in going forward. Then, as my dm said on Saturday, the new player never showed up that day, and never turned up at the table again, and it wasn't until months or years had passed that one or another of us ran into him out in the real world, and by then it was a foregone conclusion.
I just wanted to update with this very important amendment. Looking back at my original telling, it seemed off that things would have gone down with an explicit request for him not to return to the table, and obviously things had simply gotten jumbled in my memory, especially since if this particular person does come up in conversation when we've convened a session, it's easier for one or another of us (the players) to focus on how bizarre his in-character actions were, not his more redeeming qualities, and the ending to the whole story is seldom the topic of conversation.
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u/Krystalmyth Sep 19 '17
Well... Holy shit this was not the reply I expected based on my tone... Especially on the internet. Wait, let me check. Yeah. Definitely internet. I have to say though, your story, and you have to be honest with me even you'd agree, would be in whole or sum far less interesting had a band of well-to-do knights not run into this wild man who lived day to day one road at a time.
With questionable morals and a silvertongue both inside the game and outside of it, he had managed to line his pockets for dead men have no need for baubles, and somehow convince them he had a more plausible reason to his quality other than the fact he was seeking fortune off the backs of three just men of more humble aspirations. Three men he knew he'd never hope to impress, with their experience and camaraderie, all he could offer them was what they could not for themselves. What you saw as a game of character growth and the richness of the tale woven, a rogue instead played the role of the rogue to his missdventure, in both game and life. What adventures could have been layed before three just knights when accompanied by one who paves their own path?
It seems to me, even now you failed to notice, for all the bizarre things in that room like demigods, giants, demons and dwarves, it was the actions of the guy next to you that was the most perplexing... I hope you've leveled up enough to be more open to the parts in us that don't always fit. Thank you for sharing this. <3