In the C&C game we play every week, my wife gets to roleplay herself as a halfling assassin-illusionist with a leaning toward being somewhat like a gypsy, so mostly no combat spells. We've been at this inn that happens to have a carnival running outside it, which attracts all kinds of people -- the inn, itself, is more like a brothel for the wealthy, and was targeted by a band of would-be thieves to capture the nobles and ransom them off for huge cash. We discovered that plot quite by accident when a "friend" of my gnome was murdered and then we rooted it out. Anyway, that's just basic background... the leader of this group is an elf that is continually invisible, so we'd never seen him, and also protected by a "non-detection" spell so things like locate creature or locate object (since we had found a trinket of his) were worthless. He had also hired a band of mercenaries (around 40 of them) and was using some inside guys who worked at the inn to assist with the take-down (all highly trained monks, at least 7th level). So... after much painstaking investigation, we tracked down the second-in-command, a guy who had single-backhandedly beat the living crap out of our party knight and also assisted in capturing the fighter-cleric we had... so, it was down to the human bard-rogue (who is 3rd level), and the two midgets: my wife's halfling [5th level,] and my gnome druid-wizard (and his animal brigade [my PC is also 5th level.]) Using my raven familiar, we scouted the location and ascertained that it would be possible to get him in a killing box, if we worked it just right... so the bard and halfling went out to sneak up, and I stayed back so I could bum rush with Growler (my grizzly) if needed. The bard failed miserably at his moving silently, and was called into the camp where the monk was sitting, idly waiting -- he was so confident he had everything under control that he became distracted allowing the halfling to easily sneak up behind him, staying in the woods. However, she did not have any weapons... but, she did have a sack of marbles, so she pulled out one, and attacked -- death attack, that is. She rolled, hit, and mister badass monk, with his Constitution Prime, rolled a 1... and died. I ran in and forced a goodberry down his throat to keep him alive so we could question him.
The next day, we disguise the bard as the monk and have him hopefully get encountered by this elf leader guy who has been pissing us off for so long, and figure we should send the halfling in as well, as a mock prisoner, all wrapped in sylvan rope and the like which we had previously obtained when these munches tried to kidnap my gnome (they failed miserably.) My character is using Poe (the raven) to watch and ensure that everything is OK, without being too close but still able to run in (seeing as he has a giant frog and a grizzly bear as companions, he is very easy to spot, even in the woods) -- when the halfling, who had disguised a casting of see invisibility suddenly unties herself and leaps onto this "thing." She rolled a natural twenty, and grabbed him real well, preventing him from just running away. The Castle Keeper calls for initiative at that point, the halfling having acted in the surprise round... when my wife rolls a freaking 10 and I get a 9... mister bad guy gets a 2. She whips out cause blindness which works, making today the worst day in this guy's soon-to-be-over life. He is then swarmed with flesh-eating beetles when a summon swarm strikes up from me. He tries to cast a spell, fails the concentration check, and is then given a coup-de-grace the next round.
I had never been prouder of my wife in a game session than this one -- she really kicked that elf guy's butt.
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