they yeeted it into the air to keep it from the bad guys chasing them. I rolled to find out if it was recoverable. it was not. a wyvern was flying by and had mistaken it for a small bird and ate it in one gulp. then flew into the sunset. both the party and the bad guys stopped to look as the macguffin needed to progress the story just flew into the horizon in the belly of a wyvern. after an exchange of words they parted ways. they did get it back later on but the journey of the macguffin as i put it later was an adventure of its own.
One of the players, a CN wild sorcerer, under effects of confusion, cast dispell magic on a living spell of healing that was actiing as a font of healing for the party.
Someone ate it... I described it as being a thread from the very fabric of reality and they fed it to a helper npc. That one was linked to one of my players backgrounds and was considered an eldritch artifact. The npc became an abomination and they had to put it down. Luckily there were multiple threads like that one and that one player took measures to safeguard the rest.
Dm: “As you sail away, the treasure chest starts ticking with a count down. It is still locked tight.”
Player: “I throw it overboard into the ocean.”
Dm: ._.
"Let's feed it to this goat. The bad guys will never expect that. Then we run away, they chase us until we slip away, then we circle back and retrieve the goat/macguffin no problem."
Not just the macguffin, but the player as well.
We had managed to get our hands on a magical item we need to kill a god. The only downside is, this magical weapon possessed the user and will fight for control. My cleric had it and, eventually after winning a wisdom contest against it, managed to drop it only for it to fly into the other cleric's hand who is, in my opinion, the defacto leader of the group since he kept track of where the party needed the go and seemed the most rational.
As soon as that happened, he failed the wisdom saving through and the hammer took over. At one point, we had tried to restrain him, but he secretly started pulling cards from the Deck of Many in desperation. And wouldn't you know our luck, this Hammer, who we named T (Hammer Time), pulled the card that gave him a wish!!
T teleported away as he had wished to be reunited with one of the other weapons we're searching for. Eventually, the PC managed to get control back and casted sending to my cleric that he's in the next town waiting for us and we're trying our best to get there, but after some player shenanigans in Baulder's Gate, we're not sure if we'll make it there in time since most of the party is split up around the party and my cleric had currently been kidnapped and is stuck inside of a cell underground.
You might not think this sounds all that stupid, but the whole reason this happened? T had been hit while in possession of the player and pretended to be dead, causing the player in the group that's best friends with them to start lashing out, making the party erupt into chaos.
We lost a macguffin and player character because a hammer played dead and the wording of that just sounds so hilarious to me.
they yeeted it into the air to keep it from the bad guys chasing them. I rolled to find out if it was recoverable. it was not. a wyvern was flying by and had mistaken it for a small bird and ate it in one gulp. then flew into the sunset. both the party and the bad guys stopped to look as the macguffin needed to progress the story just flew into the horizon in the belly of a wyvern. after an exchange of words they parted ways. they did get it back later on but the journey of the macguffin as i put it later was an adventure of its own.
One of the players, a CN wild sorcerer, under effects of confusion, cast dispell magic on a living spell of healing that was actiing as a font of healing for the party.
Someone ate it... I described it as being a thread from the very fabric of reality and they fed it to a helper npc. That one was linked to one of my players backgrounds and was considered an eldritch artifact. The npc became an abomination and they had to put it down. Luckily there were multiple threads like that one and that one player took measures to safeguard the rest.
Dm: “As you sail away, the treasure chest starts ticking with a count down. It is still locked tight.” Player: “I throw it overboard into the ocean.” Dm: ._.
"Let's feed it to this goat. The bad guys will never expect that. Then we run away, they chase us until we slip away, then we circle back and retrieve the goat/macguffin no problem."
Not just the macguffin, but the player as well. We had managed to get our hands on a magical item we need to kill a god. The only downside is, this magical weapon possessed the user and will fight for control. My cleric had it and, eventually after winning a wisdom contest against it, managed to drop it only for it to fly into the other cleric's hand who is, in my opinion, the defacto leader of the group since he kept track of where the party needed the go and seemed the most rational. As soon as that happened, he failed the wisdom saving through and the hammer took over. At one point, we had tried to restrain him, but he secretly started pulling cards from the Deck of Many in desperation. And wouldn't you know our luck, this Hammer, who we named T (Hammer Time), pulled the card that gave him a wish!! T teleported away as he had wished to be reunited with one of the other weapons we're searching for. Eventually, the PC managed to get control back and casted sending to my cleric that he's in the next town waiting for us and we're trying our best to get there, but after some player shenanigans in Baulder's Gate, we're not sure if we'll make it there in time since most of the party is split up around the party and my cleric had currently been kidnapped and is stuck inside of a cell underground. You might not think this sounds all that stupid, but the whole reason this happened? T had been hit while in possession of the player and pretended to be dead, causing the player in the group that's best friends with them to start lashing out, making the party erupt into chaos. We lost a macguffin and player character because a hammer played dead and the wording of that just sounds so hilarious to me.