What is the tale of your character's/group's most daring escape?
I wish I had a good story to tell here
>Too long for one post
The city was secretly being controlled by Drow in disguise, and after enough meddling, they put the town guard on us. We didn't know the extent of the plot yet, so submitting to the authorities seemed fair but we ended up imprisoned, and eventually carted off to a torture room behind the governor's meeting hall. Eventually it looked like our goose was cooked when we were all separated by magical or non-magical and manacled to the walls, and a lackey came to kill us though they misunderstood that my character could cast spells since he was a Paladin first and foremost, so threw him in with the martial characters. After a good couple spells the lackey was downed and we managed to get the key, and wait for another person to come and down them as well, after which we freed the magic characters. With just the equipment of the two downed people we tried to leave the back rooms because we didn't know where we were and emerged in the meeting hall, and had to engage in a boss fight with the governor. It was close but we managed to down him and realized he was a Drow and the plot started to become clear so we killed him.
>>43787572
The problem was the place was heavily guarded despite no one knowing what had happened, so for like 6 hours while setting up our plan of escape and trying to piece together what was what, we magically assumed the form of the governor when need be to carry out the business he would have in that time before the big moment of making our escape with his body. We got pretty far with some of us doing the old "Disguised as guards escorting a prisoner" trick, and the others trying wackier means (two small characters on each others shoulders and a good disguise roll, another character going invisible and incrementally moving a barrel with the governor's body), but eventually we got caught and had to make our mad dash escape through the halls and up to the top floors to avoid the atrium and front doors to the estate where tons of guards were clustering. Eventually we smashed a window and sent a grapple hook over the wall and across a waterway (unluckily we ended up on the side of the estate with a canal adjacent) to the next building. While making our way across we got caught again and the alarm went up. We wouldn't have been able to safely get across in time so in desperation we cut the line and all fell into the canal to be washed away to relative safety.
We managed to get away, but had to figure out after that, who we could think of trusting vs who might be a Drow, and how to get the governor's body to them as proof of the plot. And of course, all this while being extremely "wanted and dangerous" by the whole city.
>>43787319
Blowing up a secret base at the South Pole for Mr Johnson.
Reinforcements (and some angry Snow Spirits we pissed off) are coming in from almost all directions, very steep slope the other side.
We've set a bomb, and we don't want to have to fight through them.
The Mage quickly runs off and creates us makeshift snowboards through magically shaping metal, all of us having put at least 3 ranks in the Athletics group, so we're all proficient.
And that's how we engaged in a snowboard-chase away from an exploding Manatech research facility, firing fully automatic weaponry and blasts of magical fire at a living avalanche.
>>43787319
Rebellion-era Star Wars game.
We happened to be on Coruscant and had broken a Jedi out of imprisonment there, but the authorities impounded our ship because the up-until-then infallible astromech slicer we had with us failed miserably on his rolls for the fake transponder codes.
So we're stuck somewhere in a ventilation duct in the basement of the Imperial Palace (thankfully Palpatine was supposedly offworld at the time), coming up with various harebrained schemes to steal a ship and escape on it. Until somebody had the smart idea to go poking around further along said duct while we argued the merits of hiding in a garbage scow versus taking some jobs in the underworld, forging new IDs and just leaving "legitimately" (the original reason we were hiding in the duct was because there was a shitton of security on it and the astromech had managed to get us through and close it behind us). Lo and behold, it was connected to a hidden hangar containing the Sith Infiltrator used by Darth Maul (which had apparently been brought back to Coruscant and stored away by Palpatine in case he needed it again in the future).
Let's just say that we went straight to the top of the Emperor's shit list. Graduated from an Inquisitor chasing us (he met a messy end) all the way to Emperor's Hand in the space of two sessions, and we never dared step out of the Outer Rim into an even moderately-held Imperial system for the rest of that campaign.
>>43787319
Exalted.
Fired ourselves out of the main cannon of one of those Directional Titan things as its primary core overloaded.
Since it was in/above a shadowland at night, the blast scoured the Underworld down to molten bedrock in all directions.
We went a very long way and thanked our exaltations for perfect defence charms.
>Be Kobold Bushwhacker named "Bang-Bang"
>Rest of Party was captured by bbeg's mooks.
>Was too sneaky-like to be seen.
>Tail them to party's cell.
>Pull out shotgun.
>Wait til only one guard remains to guard.
>Sneak attack guard by knocking his knuts with my gun's butt.
>Nat 20, confirmed crit, percentile rolled 98
>DM tears as I neutralize the guard, coup-de-gras silently.
> Push the body to the cage door, then get to work rigging traps: spent 150k gp on gunpowder for their payload.
> Fires a single shot to alert the guards.
>The guards fail to detect the traps.
>Big explosion dwarfing those in a Michael Bay Movie.
>Everyone escapes out the new hole where the eastern keep used to stand.
>>43787604
Hell yeah, motherfucker.
>>43787670
That sounds great.
>get imprisoned by lord of the land
>sneak/break out of cells through teamwork
>recover gear
>half of party goes through sewers
>other half decide to attack the lord
>sewer party gets out without any real fanfare
>murder party brutally murders the lord and his wife comes to pay them to leave
>all but one accept the proposition of getting some money and then being free to go
>the guy not willing to leave tries to claim the land
>rest of party eventually convinces him to leave the lord's wife to grieve in peace
>same guy later tries to kill himself out in the woods but fucks up and survives only to be nursed back to good health by party healer
Dresden Files game. The group was delivering the goods from a mission Mab had given the Winter Night and she was less than pleased with the quality of the delivery, so she set some hungry predatory fae on them. The idea was she wasn't actually pissed enough to kill them, she just wanted it to be a lesson and a challenge, so I had prepared this chase scene through the Palace of the Queen of Air and Darkness.
My players, however, figured that a chase through a giant palace that changes at the whim of its owner, filled with asshole faeries, was pretty much the last thing they wanted to do. So they decided to cross over to the mortal world from the Nevernever, blindly, right there and then from the Winter Knight's personal chambers, by brute force.
So I gave them a big target number to hit, since it made sense the veil would be really tough there, and let them hash out the roll out of character while I spent some ten minutes pretending I wasn't screaming internally and pulling a place for them to come out in out of my ass.
I ended up dumping them in an old abandoned planning room from the Cold War in the Moscow Kremlin, turning the session from "escape sequence through the halls of Arctis Tor" to "sneak your American asses out of an off-bounds section of the Kremlin without causing an international incident and then get back home".
On the bright side, Mab was pleased with their quick thinking and sheer balls. And probably reinforced the veil after that.
>>43789957
Reminds me of the time the rogue killed the queen on the wedding night and took her place in the marriage bed of the new king.
Definitely the funniest use of /ss/ I've seen.
>>43787319
That Image is amazing.
quick some of how we got there
>kidnapping princess after blowing up a parking deck for distraction and dividing by 0 get to her then kill her body guard
>she warns us about cancer we think she is sick we take her from her tube thing the city shield drop
>cancer dragons are wrecking everything everyone is running for guns and airships
>we ran to the nearest airship it was not too hard since shooting at us with there princess would be a bad idea
> we a leaving but the mother fucking dragon spot us good thing they can talk and there are 2 bards on the ship
>me and my friend we get a 50 something to get the dragon to go away and fuck with people not in a air ship with big guns and it works
>killing many people we help some what before hand
>>43790849
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