I have started this thread for players to share their experiences where the Dms have tweaked a particular quest you were on or added a special touch / possessed NPC to your surroundings.

I know a related this in another thread but wanted to add it here - Last night in the bat quest the creature at the end did not attack but instead wanted to explain it's story and why it was there and asked to be left alone - Took myself and the other character completley by suprise and we had a blast for 5 minutes - was such a refreshing change.

In the end we killed it anyway - had our evil tweaked a couple of points and gained a small XP bonus and claimed our reward from the guard - but it is touches like that, that really make the difference - I don't know how the DM was but hope you are on more often when the Aussies are out and about.

Cheers Nestek.

We found a cave under Mary's that led to a tunnel with 3 Wererats, but i'm not sure whether the DM was there after making the tunnel for us. Still, vey cool, and i went on a DM quest the night before last. Thank you DMs!

Anytime Howland is in a quest with the Chosen, be prepared to learn what bastard tactics are, always fun to see what nasty tricks they pull out when he's at the wheel.

But my favorite DM posession.....was with the Golden Doubloons, we had 9 people and wanted to do goblin fortress, so Howland said ok he'd let us do it, but it would be rough, so we agreed. We fought tooth and nail every inch of the way to just GET to the fortress because two DM's were posessing some "goblin skirmishers" who were level 8 or so rogues with a vast supply of traps, invis potions, speed potions, curing potions, laughing gas, caltrops, choking powder, and just about every other dastardly gadget you can imagine. But mostly laughing gas. That sucked with our almost entirely fighter or fighter/rogue team. It was great fun, and I think we lowered the average level of the server by 1 with the amount of dieing that went on, hehe.

Was my favorite experience in a DM posession/quest.

I like it when oozes come up to me and leave Mandarin little presents. Then dissolve half his face off when he goes to reach for them before wandering off.

HAH, that sounds hilarious.

I love it when extra traps upon traps appear for my character who has rogue levels but no real rogue skills...:P

A while ago Dal, Gabs, Dell, Stark and some others attempted to deal with the Red Smiles for the Tigereyes. We didn't even get inside the clubhouse due to Metro possessing one of the thugs and beginning to inquire why we were there and what bad had they done to deserve death.

It led to some interesting moral debate with both the Smiles and the Tigereyes, which ended up in so many party members leaving that the quest had to be abandoned eventually. It was great to see all of the party members relate to the difficult situation at hand according to what they thought was good and right (or whether they cared about such ideals at all...), particularly since two of us were paladins and one was a reckless, bloodthirsty barbarian that had great difficulty holding herself back during the debate :)

Without this intervention we'd probably just have hacked through the quest and collected our reward. Thumbs up to Metro.

I like it when you call on certain interplaner entities and they come to represent you in a bogus trial!

It's nice when you have a Maur that doesn't rip the heck out of you in a middle of a certain monster dungeon and actually whoops the arses of many of its inhabitants.

The two quests I've been were with Howland. Both times someone (me the second time and someone else the first time) opened their big mouth in an OOC way and Howland made us pay for it!

The first time, the goal of the quest was to get a gnome artifact. As soon as I grab (was a rogue so I went invis to do so) someone chimes in OOC: "//cue the building to collapse, Indy lol"

Only seconds later, Howland rains Meteor Shower after Meteor Shower down on us then types "Howland: --the room shakes and begins to crumble--"

The second time was another journey into more gnomish cities and I say in IC: "Be carefu. If they have advanced machines like this, you can bet they have traps". Well up to that point we didn't see any. But after I made that comment we had so many traps that I filled my inventory from recovering them - and that was only 1/4 of the way in to the quest!

So for the record, the DM's respond and take good ideas from all of us, but be careful what you wish for!

DMs here all have such a great sense of irony, humour and generousity. Not just with goodies, but with attention and detail.

I mean, for goodness sake, on my first or second day in this server, Quadra examined the painting hanging in the Rock Bottom and wound up with the +1 drow half-plate she still wears to this day. Even when a halfling got it first! It wouldn't fit, and I was the only elf type around. ^_^ I'm just lucky no one has ever tried to apprehend me when I wear a helm, for looking Drowy.

When the server was fairly new I came here for a few days... I was playing a half orc named rupert.

We were doing a quest and a child NPC in the area, died.

We put him into a bag and brought him to gobbler.

We sold the orphan corpse to gobbler.

He had to hit the feet a few times with a laddel to keep the corpse in the pot.

Naga I like it when you call on certain interplaner entities and they come to represent you in a bogus trial!

Thats happened here too? ;)

That trial wasn't bogus Vesa! [slaps you around with a trout]

Pfffft says you. Kossuth disagrees!

djspectre The two quests I've been were with Howland. Both times someone (me the second time and someone else the first time) opened their big mouth in an OOC way and Howland made us pay for it!

On another quest for the Hold, someone made a joke OOC about Howland exploiting our low intelligence to lure PCs over traps. As soon as the fight was over one of the party drops dead immediately for no apparent reason and Howland says, "Now that would be exploiting the mechanics."

My favourite DM thing was a modified Orog Fortress, that was awsome the whole way! It was also very emotionally cruel to one of my chars!

Efu_Darkness2 My favourite DM thing was a modified Orog Fortress, that was awsome the whole way! It was also very emotionally cruel to one of my chars!

That spice was terrific. It definitely got my heart rate up for a while.

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djspectre The two quests I've been were with Howland. Both times someone (me the second time and someone else the first time) opened their big mouth in an OOC way and Howland made us pay for it!

On another quest for the Hold, someone made a joke OOC about Howland exploiting our low intelligence to lure PCs over traps. As soon as the fight was over one of the party drops dead immediately for no apparent reason and Howland says, "Now that would be exploiting the mechanics."

I begged him to do that XD

DMs can't touch Figgy

Pfft...bet you that beserker that turned up at the arena could of. :o

Gaeseric showing up for a fistfight with Mandarin. He Pwned.

Good stuff, and then he tied in politics after he won. Good show, and realistic.

Is Gaeseric an NPC? I thought he was a player... :oops:

My second day in efu I was playing Chris Tain (monk version)

I walked up to dholt's caharacter and he persuaded me to come with him to "sparr". I agreed and we went over by the dark lake. Then he threw some bags at me that sent a gas in the air and he said he was experimenting. He then tried to get through the gas to attack me...I wasn't effected and everything he tried to attack he ended up being affected by the gas(yea for +8 everything)

After the gas failed he just attacked me and beat me to submision. Then he procceeded to rip out Chris Tain's right eye giving it as a tribute to Shar. Chris Tain laughed and said he was suffering for Ilmater. As it procceeded Ilmater started talking to Chris Tain. There was only one explanation. Metro. I have never forgotten that and it was great because it was only my second on the server and I was already talking to a god. Oh yeah and Ilmater too. XD

(my spelling sux)

Howland through in a dreat little diversion in the Mauseleum yesterday.

I was playing a new Elven Cleric of Corellon (Canarlus) and he and a lady Elven Fighter Mercedes)had just cleaned out the mauseleum.

We were on our way back when a vengeful Spirit appeared and told Mercedes to back off and that Canarlus was hers - The spirit backed it up casting fear on Mercedes and then pledged her love to Canarlus and reminded him of a pactthey had signed and asked he to discard his mortal form and join her.

This was fabulous - the spirit and Mercedes were going at it hammer and tong and then the Sprit went nuts and it was on - we came through it a bit drained but it was a blast - such a great twist and very flattering that Canarlus' attraction to the opposite sex reaches beyond the grave.

Well done Howland - please keep them coming.

Well, this was without doubt the sweetest DM tweak I've ever seen. My char was involved in some very cool PvP, which had me shaking in my chair. The lead up was equally as good, with some excellent RP shown by all those involved. My char died, same fashion he always does: wouldnt back down from a fight he knew he was probably going to lose.

I thought this was a very fitting end, so I was about to retire him when the DMs summoned a gate in the fugue....which led to my char's own castle in the Hells! For his lifetime service to Bane, he was granted a castle with all the slaves he could flay, cigars he could smoke and food and wine he could consume for eternity.

Simply awesome.

That is way cool!!!

I would also love to hear more about the PvP some time.

Cheers

Wow, I want a castle :(

I think if our wonderfull DMs did things like that... where characters actually recieved the deserved after life rewards(if ever so briefly) people would be alot more willing to "lose" more often.

I agree. Eo died twice in one day, unfortunately just before DM intervention both times. I let her get res'd the first time, but twice in the same day was a bit much, especially having cheated certain death another time in the past (see the screen shot section for a peek).

Related to that, there's a certain synchronicity in her death and where it happened. It was a fitting ending.

Getting back in topic (of a sort), I understand the DM's are busy running the quest, so I certainly don't expect special treatment for a lone character sitting in the Fugue Plane or City of Judgment. It would have been nice though.... :wink:

Regardless, kudos to the DMs and the incredible job they do on this server.

I actually think the DMs do that quite a bit -- or, rather, as much as they can.

An example: My last character lured a certain PC to a certain place, and attempted conversion, explaining quite simply that refusal would mean death. Despite knowing that his character would die and be full-looted, with next to zero chance of survival, the other character stayed true to his deity to the bitter end, and eventually got killed.

The player told me that his character got to party in the Fugue with Drow virgins, though, so I assume he was doing something right. ;)

Nevertheless, I third (fourth?) this trend of giving characters that are going to be perma-killed some small semblance of recognition in the Fugue. It's good to know that someone up there thought your portrayal of religion XYZ was good enough that it deserved a pat in the back. I also think it stimulates PCs that witness those endings to strive to act more (for, or against) with religion in their minds. In summation, it seems to make religion an undeniable part of the world, without having to drop God loot all over the place, give every religious PC his own godly vision, or make a plot with every God in the book in it.

- Kiaring

DMs are a fan of giving afterlife parties to great characters that died in PvP or other plot-related stuff.

The most amusing by far was Edgin Butler partying out with a million Eilistraeean naked drow. I hope someone has screenshots of that.

We may not always have time to run these, but if your long-term character is being retired you should feel free to send a DM message indicating that he's praying to his/her deity to be taken away to the true afterlife.

Too late :(

I just enjoyed the attention of getting to launch Chosen warriors out of catapults at giant earth elementals coated in alchemist fire.

That rocked.

Howland The most amusing by far was Edgin Butler partying out with a million Eilistraeean naked drow. I hope someone has screenshots of that.

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Yeah thanks there. You killed off my character's (Menelanna's) boyfriend! Ask her friends she was depressed for quite sometime!

Well I should also say what my favorite DM intervention was. It was went I was using Calia, priestess of SUne and accolyte to the House of Light. Calia, Eo, and Chell went to do Hoar temple. In the final battle Eo was killed (that was the last time anyone ever saw her :cry: ). Chell and Calia went down but were not in the fuage yet. Then out of no where one of the DM's pops in as a Divine Advenger and saving mine and Chell's lives! Too bad Chell killed himself not even an hour later. :cry:

But it still was pretty awsome to be SAVED by a DM and have them trying to kill me! Thanks to you guys doing that Calia has not died once yet. And I plan to keep it that way!

Yeah thanks there. You killed off my character's (Menelanna's) boyfriend! Ask her friends she was depressed for quite sometime!

No, I just threw the party. But the circumstances should be found out in-game.

Went on a great DM quest the other day out in the badlands - there were just three of us and the trek out there and back was interesting enough.

This is the first evil aligned quest I had ever particiapted in and it was fascinating to see it from the other perspective.

To rescue the crypt of an intelligent Mummy from a maurading band of Paladins was a hoot. They wouldn't listen to the fact that it was private proporty and respectful requests to leave instead they attacked us and after a battle through a numbr of chambers eded up in a fierce fight where the Mummy was helping us out.

Was weird to see peopel casting inflict spells to cure undead battling beside us.

It was a lot of fun - well done to all involved.

I had a blast last night, thanks to Ladocicea. A core group of Spellguard with some help from concerned citizens ( :P ) went out investigate an infestation of gnolls in the mines.

Little did they know there was the biggest beasty I've ever seen in NWN apart from dragons sitting in there waiting for us. The blasted thing chased us all over the place through the tunnels, trying to eat us and the gnolls that had lost control of it, until there was a massive melee at the end with huge numbers of gnolls, the beasty itself (it was a Gargantuan Chained Pet Deep Lizard for those that might recognise it :wink: ) and us all hammering away at each other.

I'm still kicking myself I didn't get any screen shots, but I was too busy running and fighting to remember that at the time. I was on a roller coaster and hanging on for dear life!

Top effort, Ladocicea!

^_^ All I want when my time is up is an elvish False in a cute beret wandering around the city.

Wanted to tell of another great piece of spice

Myself and a friend were doing Zhurkwood when the zombies in there began speaking and mutterinig

"Food must eat" "Brains"

And other such comments - added a really eerie atmosphere to the quest and mad eit so much fun - it was suddenly personal and these nasties were out to get you personally.

Well done to the DM involved!!

I've got to admit, the spit-in-the-face with Jenith has been great - refusing to let the Kelemvoran even die, bound forever. An evil little twist there from Howland

I remember two tweaks that happened about 2 weeks ago, both brilliant.

One was a dm taking control of a goblin rogue in the Brewrey quest. He snuck up, sneak-attacked the party wizard dropping him to negatives. I then went up, healed him up, then chased the goblin, who, upon seeing Kaddaz run at him, screamed "Eeeek" and fled, a little thing but funny none-the-less

Another happened in the gnoll baracade. The first gnoll elite we encountered held off our two meat-sheilds, then Rissi goes up and sneak atatckeds him, he stops, looks and Rissi and screams "get the little one!" Good Stuff

one of my best moments was when Aeo went out on a drow hunt, she found a Beholder lair and then a city of Mind Flayers, one of the beasties got her, took her to the flayer and then watched it eat her. the end of a good char but was fun none the less.

The goblin bomber quest a few nights ago was a good laugh especialy seeing as how we almost burned down a quater of lower doing it.

Back when Vifur wasn't band Me(Manus) and Vifur used to do the hobgoblins job almost everyday one day theyr'e was an interesting incident in the last room with Hrunk

When we burst in Hrunk screamed out to a goblin as i beat Hrunk up "Get the spelly Grabnob" The goblin named Grabnob ran after Vifur and was shouting "Grabnob Grab you!" I killed Hrunk and started chasing the Goblin who was squealing and shouting "Argh armour cheats! he cheats! why Armour try to grab grabnob?'

it was very funny to watch but i never did find out who the dm controlling the Hobgoblins was....and it was a shame to have to kill an interestingly named goblin...poor grabnob.

The hob also had an interesting twist with me. I happened to be playing with a bunch of new players and there was a gypsy in one of the storerooms. She came running at us screaming for help her from the goblins but for whatever reason someone in our party attacked her and she took off.

I knocked down my own teammate to get her to stop and took off after the gypsy but she ran out of the warehouse and was nowhere to be found.

Nothing very interesting, but it was still an unexpected twist.

I really want to thank NuclearCatastrophe for the historical prelude for Eowung he ran yesterday. A lot of effort was put into something meant just for me and a few others that knew my char, and I really, really appreciated it.

I took some screenies of what I could, so expect to see them soon.

Circumstances stopped us from seeing it through to completion, which was a shame considering the work that did go into it, but it was really well done, a nice touch.

Thanks NC! :D

I was playing one of the characters that was able to join Ommadawns historical prelude for Eowung and it was really well done from the roleplay of the old man prior right through to the ending scene where unfortunately the server crashed.

Well done NC!!

I haven't experienced many DM interventions during my time, but my favourite was definately when I was doing the goblin fortress, like, a week after finding this server. Some goblins wanted to escape with the treasure. They had a hostage.

Being an oh-so-witty evil necromancer, my character of course had to question the worth of the child over the treasure and my comrades ended up offering my character in exchange for the child and the treasure. :D

Heh!!

Reminds me once with Shauna doing the Gnolls we were on the way out when we heard a scream and a Gnoll Elite had a hostage - a little girl - we had to give up all our gold and weapons or hwe would kill the girl.

A monk in the party snuck up and tried to stun him and missed and he slew the giirl - we killed the gnoll and there was some good RP of taking the girl to the Hold to be raised but she didn't want to come back.

The new statues in the OOC newbie area!

Wanted to just say I appreciate the subtle changes the DMs are making to a number of the different areas in teh Underdark.

Yesterday a few of us fought our way through a couple of batches of trolls to get to the Peaceful Caverns and were delighted with the changes there.

I won't spoil - it go out there and find out for yourselves 8)

The new internal look of the Ibrandul temple in lower is also a blast!

Loving being able to live and RP with other slaves (providing they're their) as a present slave :D

I had a great rp experience yesturday where I and a few others went to do the portal quest. It was pretty normal until we got ambushed from both sides in a two way room XD. I almost died and had to hide behind a pillar with 1HP hehe. Then we continued through and and killed a few trogs in this room where a giant bulette statue was. I was like "OMG!" then I realised it was a statue...for about two minutes...then it came alive XD.

One of the greatest experience I have had in a while, EfU Dms FTW! :P

this would be a cool DM thingie MALAR SHOWING UP IN SANCTUARY AND SLAUGHTERS ALL THE ELVES but leaves the humans alone we worship him (hehehehe) or they finally change the trap layout for bilibies trap house that is so old my charctors can walk through through it blind!

Really enjoyed a spiced up Temple of Hoar quest the other day.

Makes a huge differnce when you suddenly realised you are surrounded by very nasty traps and there is an uber zombie named Barry that just woudln't die!!!

The final fight with the Dark Figure was epic with my cleric in near apolexy trying to keep everyone on their feet.

Very nicely done.

Oh and somethign I got smacked around for, rightly so - if your on a DM quest don't go wandering off by yourself - as reminded the DM can only be in one place at a time. I am greatful my character was warned rather than somehting a lot more nasty happening.

Yep, Just like to thanks Ladocicea for an excellent Hoar Temple quest; It was great!! I'm glad I saved all those potions for that rainy day ;) . It could have gone from 'good' to 'extremly bad' in a few seconds when the dark figure started to critical knock-down our warriors dropping them to 20hp in one shot one after another. ;)

Challenging but sooo much better!!

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that drunk bastard trying to steal our loot at the crone >_<

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my quick trip to the fugue plane who was quickly denied due to the circonstances ;).

The zombie barry was a nice touch I beleive one of the ghoul lords was called Fred or somthing like that as well

There was another time yesterday during the hooked horror quest were I found myself carrying two bodies out the door, only to be stoped by a black avatar offering to raise them both and slay the hooks in our door. Very nice scene, though I think Bodoc was ready to be sick when he saw this thing take out the hooks, we didn't even see the fight due to a darkness spell, but we could bodies being tossed about the place.

was walking to the rock bottom the other day when the ground started shaking, while waiting for something big and wonderful (or terrible) to come forth. Three spikes poped out of the ground and out spawned to my amusement a dire rat, it was quickly slain but was funny to watch

a bit late i know i actualy had forgotten about this thread...

any way bout a week ago was doing chosen with a group and rather than getting into the chosen den we found a chosen standing behind locked doors wanting to talk, most of the party started attacking the door trying to bring it down then the chosen ran off into another room and we were assulted by magic from 4 casters on either side behind also locked doors. we went to run only to find the entrance had been caved in. a fight broke out just before the chosen came back askign to speak again we listened but he wanted our gnomish companion. every one had a jump at that and we found a path throughthe rubble escaping but not far enough the gnome was killed and his body draged along with us. the chosen came after us demanding to get the gnomes body which we sold for coin and our own lives

great fun which leads to more RP i must say again great fun

I wish to thank whoever just spiced up the Bowels of the Machine. Just about the most exciting time I've had on this server this far!

Not a 'tweak', per se.

But nevertheless, big thanks to the DM crew, particularly Thrawn and Metro, for running the whole 'Civil War' plot. It rocked.

Wanted to thank the dms responsible for the Revolution in the Lowers. Server wide events are a nightmare to manage and most servers would shy away from even attempting such remodellings, leaving the status quo intact. Even enjoyed the event more because the struggle seemed more law vs chaos, as opposed to the cliché eternal battle between good and evil.

Yup, gotta say i loved that, caused some very sweet RP in the aftermath between a Watch, a Tiger, a young Halfling, and an old Halfling. And it leaves Lower free for just about anything.

Aye, I must give props for the whole revulution thing. It's -great- that the DMs give PCs the chance to actually have influence on the server. It's greatly rewarding when you feel you have done something to affect everyone elses characters, with your own.