[ryaldin]

OOOooohhh yeah. The spider cave gave me some serious chafing action the first time I ventured in there. Those Sword spiders ripped me to itty bitty pieces, and after maybe 45 seconds, the only person left in my party was jaheira, with 15 hp left, poisoned, and sorely outnumberd. This was not my worst beating though. That actually came at the hands of my own players.

My party and I were cleaning the coastline, heading up by an abandoned lighthouse, saving small children from wargs, and typical heroic quests like that. I wandered a little higher on the coast, and stumbled into some sirens. This being the first time I'd seen a siren, I wasn't too worried about it...until she disappeared. So there I am, standing there, and all of a sudden, TWO sirens cast dire charm on my main character. Now, you have to understand the party I'm traveling with. I'm a level three fighter, your basic monster tank. My stats were
18/00
18
18
3
6
19
And i had two proficiencies in bow and large sword. I had purchased the composite long bow +1, and had the bracers of archery equipped, so my thaco with my bow was like ten or eleven tops. The other people in my party were Khalid, Jaheira, Imoen, Minsc and Dynaheir. Back to the story. My character was dire charmed, and he turns around. "Ryaldin attacks Imoen. Critical Hit. Imoen damage taken - 18. Imoen - death" So I killed my thief in one shot, and proceeded to go after minsc. Minsc was still really low in levels and i had actually only picked him up after the nashkel mines and a bit of exploring, so he was a level two with twenty hp. I killed him in four shots. Meanwhile, Dynaheir jaheira and khalid have killed one of the sirens, and are working on the other, but since i see my party being ripped apart by yours truly, i decide to minimize the damage (i like to play things out and resurrect characters at temples instead of reloading, IF i can) by moving the remaining party members away from Ryaldin. Didn't work. He saw dynaheir after he killed minsc, and let fly he did. Another one hit wonder, and i'm down to two party members, a psycho maniac leader who shoots everything in sight. Thankfully i still had an entangle left in jaheira's spell slots. "this'll do the trick" i thought to myself. Khalid is in front of Jaheira, and Jaheira starts casting the spell. Twang. "Ryaldin - Critical hit. Khalid - Damage taken 20. Khalid - death." So jaheira is almost finished casting the spell...come on...cast it...hurry......Twang. Yup. Spell failure. By then i knew i was screwed, since i had just handed my a$$ to myself. i gave up.