Flirting with Death
context: We were running a “theater of the mind” campaign in Sigil with a party of Unearthed Arcana classes consisting of a Smoke Para-Genasi Mystic (me), a Half-Elf Raven Queen Warlock, a Human War Cleric (the odd one out) and a Gnome Artificer. At one point my character finds himself making a wrong turn into the Shadowfell due to faulty directions (specifically the Raven Queen’s thrown room of all places, determined by a D100).
Raven Queen: Mystic…Order of Immortal. You shouldn’t be here. Did the Lady of Pain send you on official business smokey?
Me, not realizing who she is but feeling honest regardless: Well maybe I just dislike undead that much. It’s almost as bad as my inability to die.
RQ: *laughs* It’s been so very long since I last laughed. Perhaps I’ll let you spend the night after all.
Me: Well, who am I to turn down an offer from the prettiest lady I’ve ever seen?
RQ: Hmmm….keep it up and I might blush for the first time in tens of thousands of years. But don’t you worry, you’ll be wanting to go back home soon enough.
Me, still not getting it: I already feel home.
DM: give me a constitution saving throw.
Me, out of character: why?
DM: You’ll see.
Me, out of character: 19…add modifier…
DM: I’ll just say it, she kisses you, and suddenly through the kiss she sends one little tidbit into your mind that reveals who she is. Congratulations, you just got smooched by the Raven Queen and lived.
Me: I kiss her back.
DM decides to cut to the rest of the party, and suddenly the Warlock starts hearing a voice in her head. The Voice of her patron saying one simple phrase that leaves the Warlock red faced for days.
RQ: I think I’ll borrow your smokey sexy friend for a few while.
Warlock: (out loud) I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.
Cleric: Know what?
Warlock: You won’t believe me, just have [Mystic] show you.
Cleric: On second thought I think I’m better off not knowing either.
After all that time, my character eventually does get let back into Sigil, but not without being covered in hickies and peck marks.
Me, out of character: My character just has the biggest, dumbest grin on his face, like he’s got something he really wants to tell the party.
Cleric to the Warlock, upon spotting me: Oh.
Me: I can tell you how it wen-
Cleric, Warlock and Artificer simultaneously while the DM is shaking his head: No. Just no.








