32 The Fall's Gonna Kill You

Dec 8, 861

Foreword
    Not a TPK, as party-members survived.    
    
Session Report
    Neiroun's Player had recruited Elowen's Player to the campaign. For his first session they figured they'd try for something nice-and-easy. To their mind, a ruined tower perched atop a 500' mesa in the Jungle fit the bill. So with henches & hirelings off they set for the Jungle.
    
    The adventurers tied themselves together in pairs, intending to scale the cliff face with the help of a large number of iron spikes (the lowest of which would be retrieved by the last climber and passed back up to the lead climber). Sam, Texas Red, and Chance (a dog) were left behind to tend the horses. Half-way up the cliff pten pteranodons attacked.
    
    As the party began to scramble back down the scarp, Brazos Bill was killed by a pteranodon, and so his lifeless body fell. The rope jerked tied to his climbing partner jerked taut, and Alabammy Sammy followed him to the jungle floor. Hewlett was the next to be killed, but his partner Wells was able to wrap their rope around a protruding spike. There they both hung, an archer and a corpse. Wells determined to sell his life dearly. Shooting arrow after arrow at the sky lizards. And if he survived, who can say? Jason and Sweet Sweet Josephine, also took the express route to the base of the cliff.
    178' above the ground. 78' above the nearest ledge, the only pteranodon not scrapping over the corpse of Hewlett, or those on the ground, killed Elowen, the elf. Neiroun, pulled screaming from the mesa, shared his fate.
    
Afterword
    Everyone should have cut their buddy-ropes when the pteranodons attacked. Simple as.

Dramatis Personæ
Neiroun Merryview, Dwarven Veteran-Footpad, Level 1-2, Dec 8th 861, Plummeted from a Cliff-face
Elowen, Elven Veteran-Rogue, Level 1, Dec 8th 861, Gored by a Pteranodon
Jason, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 8th 861, Plummeted from a Cliff-face
Alabammy Sammy, Human Shortbowman, Level 0, Dec 8th 861, Plummeted from a Cliff-face
Hewlett, Human Shortbowman, Level 0, Dec 8th 861, Gored by a Pteranodon
Brazos Bill, Human Shortbowman, Level 0, Dec 8th 861, Gored by a Pteranodon
Sweet Sweet Josephine, Human Shortbowman, Level 0, Dec 8th 861, Gored by a Pteranodon

Sam Cosmos, Human Prestidigitator Henchman
Texas Red, Human Light Footman
Chance, A Dog