#like. bron in suggesting it and the rest of us all telling meg to go for it had the CONTEXT of. papaye. the knowledge that

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i. man. it really was just normal guys at the end of it all....

#c:crop #not a single living pc left on the battlemap. even our little psuedo-pcs either dead or unconscious #ash dead. santiago gone. #literally just two soldiers and two healers standing under the guardian at the doors of the cathedral and choosing to trust #that at least one of the arboreans didn't want to see a hundred injured people slaughtered #and it. MAN. #they didn't even have any REASON to THINK it! #like. bron in suggesting it and the rest of us all telling meg to go for it had the CONTEXT of. papaye. the knowledge that #there really WAS something with the crimson knight. but all sofia and enzo knew was that he wasn't killing people while they were down. #rocco had been killed patrizia had blown herself up in a desperate hope that it would help ash had been *decapitated* #and they were out of magic. all they had left was half a guardian of faith and their voices. and. MAN. #and they CRIT....not just a good persuasion roll but a CRIT.... #after EVERYTHING with the dice in uberta. after cannelle critting on cami twice after concentration dropping at the worst moments #after the failed persuasion against the unicorn after all the longspearmen hitting fasach and cannelle hitting all his attacks against ash. #after ALL of that. right at the end. when it's just people and just a desperate plea. *then* we get a natural 20. #it's not a win it's barely ANYTHING we LOST the first two battles we LOST the city we lost FASACH but it's. just one last try. #and then the KNIGHT...MAN!!!! it's. game about people!!!! that whole thing worked because meg makes CHARACTERS #he wasn't just a statblock he's a real character!!! and because he's a real character he had a +8 persuasion and the commanding #presence manuever. two things that maybe would never have been relevant if we'd have just killed him like we tried to #and because of those things he beat the DC by 1. #because this is a game about people and allegiances and motivations and every single character is a Person #and that's reflected in their stats because god DAMN if meg doesn't know how to make characters #i. man. what a way for that all to end. #all of us did everything we could. and it wasn't enough. and then at the end of the day just sofia--just one ordinary healer--saved everyone #who was left to save. #jesus christ. game of all time. #sob so true nicki making a post about this same thing while i was mid this one. nice to be on the same page (crying)