Topic: Stargazer strangled
I recently decided I really liked the look of LotFP and managed to convince a group of friends I sometimes roleplay with to play at my table for a session. We played Tower of the Stargazer.
Being the very most paranoid sort of murderhobos, my adventuring party managed to avoid all combat except behind the gold thread. They also avoided almost every single trap. Then they realised the Wizard might well be freed before he aged to death. After looting everything except the Star Crystal they decided they wanted to hatch a plan.
They gave the Specialist (who has 18 STR and 3 points in sneak attack) a garotte and whilst the others were threatening to steal the crystal she snuck up behind the wizard and started throttling him. Given the +8 bonus to attack against the distracted old man, and the rest of the party jumping in to help once the garotte was around his neck, the wizard didn't really stand a chance- he could do nothing except flail as the bulky girl held him tight and the rest of the party either helped pile in or got ready to smack him with a club if he ever seemed to be about to cast. Within about twenty seconds his flailing ceased but they didn't stop strangling him until a full three minutes had passed, and pierced his heart and head with a rapier after that. Then left the body outside against one of the spikes to be fried.
Is this an okay ending? I feel it is, it was violent and brutal; cunning in its execution. They knew he was mad and a wizard, and so they planned for exactly that, knowing he would need his voice to cast as well as his hands free to gesture. If you have any thoughts, please let me know