- Orin got a scorpion tail through the chest
- Whoodelf the halfling died from the scorpions
- Knutsachson is no more. The noble line of Knutsach is dead…
- Brak Odo was killed by a skeleton with a gem in its forehead.
- So was Cronuk
- … and Jiiib
- Steelf the dwarf died when the gem skelly reanimated the first time (mission not accomplished)
- Jaggo died to his deceased zombie wife Ethel, by strangulation, a practice the two had enjoyed consensually in life
- Vinrin the Halfling was strangled by Ethel the Zombie, non-consensually
- Borgo dies to a disembodied zombie hand he took with him while running from the rest of the zombie
- Darmek dies to a giant scorpion
- Ushlynk died to the same one
- Becca falls to a skeleton archer on the way to the barrowmaze
- Asa dies to a skeleton archer and leaves Rex bereft
- Cami died to a pit trap with spikes and yellow mold
- Deira dies to the skeleton archer
- Xanrion and another member of our crew both die to a cursed book
- Megumi died to yellow mold.
- Merrythane almost but not quite avoids dying to the same book
- Sidney died to a horde of skeletons
- Khezzean died to the same horde
- Ovarf died to a water weird
- Salazar the gravedigger is consumed by a grey ooze
- Sylas got et by the wizard of ooze
- Elec got elected from the island by the ooze
- Selfa died to a giant rat.
- Gravelgnasher almost died to a giant scorpion.
- Faolain fell to the rat horde. It’s all so Whong, who did too.
- Druidly was almost killed by bandits, but was saved by two golden tickets.
- Gemma fell to 5 skeletons because she was alone. The party recovered her body, and Bancroft held a funeral service.
- Hannah fell to a skeleton’s arrow, and drowned before El Viz could rescue her.
- El Viz died to the skeleton’s next arrow.
- Squinch followed them faithfully into the afterlife.
- Kethry died to four giant toads. She will rest in peace, even though Wiz was careful not to catch her in his spell effect.
- Druidly’s dog, Mike, was killed by a giant scorpion.
- Jaenelle drowns, crying out with her dying breath, “I have 33 gold in my purse… glugglugglug”
- Ibri fell from a rope and dies. Her final words are “Please sell my hats to the highest bidder… don’t take less than 20gp.”
- Theowyn was swallowed by a giant snake.
- Fu falls to a skeleton, dropping her torch.
- Indivian dies, all alone in the dark.
- Ali dies by giant centipede. Her last words were “There’s some kind of corpse in the rubble…” She fucked around and found out.
- Itchi is ambushed by two centipedes who woke from their slumber and dies.
- Bruzra is ambushed by the same two centipedes a moment later and dies. She learned not to take naps in the dungeon.
- Tohru fell to a blow from a stone statue. Her duck survived.
- Mira falls to a sapphire skeleton, targeted for holding a torch.
- Lessa falls to a sapphire skeleton, alone in the dark.
- Druidly is eaten by a pack of mimics.
- Luxsley got stoned.
- Mirumi joined a rock band.
- Wyz, Alandor, and Perch died to an infernal book.
- Vorn, Cade and Roderick died to carnivorous horseflies and robed skeletons.
- Pippin, Thrain, and Caleb fell to lizard-man statues.
- Riyou squeezed through a wall of rubble, fell into a pit, and was poisoned to death by giant scorpions. Her body lies somewhere the rest of the party cannot reach.
- Pippin, Thrain, and Caleb fell to a gray ooze. Again. It turns out they had been dead since the statue room; nobody noticed, including them. This time it took.
- Vrak the Scarred was finally paid in full – the gray ooze settled the company’s whole debt to him at once, by eating him. He died owed nothing, holding the light, reaching for a gem still stuck in the wall.
- Morrigan went under a zombie’s fists the same night, which was an insult – she crossed every pit in the maze with a torch in her teeth and deserved a better monster. With both of them gone, the leftover Monday company was retired.
Shadowmaze -- Death Toll
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