<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=332199.msg15912921#msg15912921">Quote from: PhantomPistoleer on 08-07-2021, 20:38:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong><span class="bbc_u">GM Occurrence</span></strong><br/><br/><em>No PC saw this occur, but it happened... again.</em><br/><br/>The wizard stood at the end of the wooden dock staring at the undead armada descending upon Tide Pool.  This was it.  His end would come soon.  Oxenbridge had learned to die many times with dignity.  He pulled his collar forth and turned to face his killer.<br/><br/>It was none other than Khaldrash, formerly of House Nox, deserter and betrayer.<br/><br/> "It seems you're all alone, wizard," the orc spat.<br/><br/> "It seems you are right," Oxenbridge replied.<br/><br/> "Are you prepared to die?" the orc inquired as he closed in on the wizard, wringing the neck of his greataxe.<br/><br/>Twin Oxenbridge didn't know.  Maybe this time, he had done enough.  He thought one last time of Princess Aishah before the orc charged towards him.  Perhaps next time, she would not reject him, he thought.  That was the last thing that went through his mind, so long as you don't count Khaldrash's axe splitting his skull in twain.<br/><br/>And so ended the life of the great wizard, his great barrier falling as he breathed his last breath.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Contemplated adding a bit of backstory to Thomas in light of this but I figured that would be too presumptuous on my part to have Oxenbridge as the one whom taught Thomas the fundamentals.