The Death of Chrysania
Chrysania was a faithful and loyal henchman of the DragonSlayers. Her final adventure with the group was going into a Vampire's lair. The party was not very powerful at the time, and we considered this quite a challenge. At the final confrontation with the vampire, the party was trying to keep it's distance and use spells because we did not have a +2 weapond needed to hit the vampire and we had some issues with party members being charmed and turning against the party. John, who was playing Chrysania at the time thought the best course of action, a desperate move, at best, was to charge the vamp with her +2 shield. As it turned out it was the second best thing we could. She had picked up a ring during the adventure that if was thrown into to lava pool in the room, it would have killed the vampire. Instead, by charging, she fell into a pit covered by an illusionary floor, that was connected to that same lava pool. So the Vampire was killed but our beloved henchman perished in the flames.
It was just one example of how adventures often end diffrent then the players or the DM expected.
