Tsadka Catspaw, you say? The tiefling thief-turned-shushu guardian? Why is she a halfling all of a sudden? Why is the dagger a hammer now?(Previous Pictures of Tsadka: Tsadka Catspaw, Tiefling Thief Well, see, last session didn't go so well. We had just defeated a powerful warlock/necromancer who had been reanimating dead monkeys and apes and turning them loose on the elven villages scattered throughout the jungle--which were already struggling on account of the post-Armageddon Forgotten Realms setting we're in. Several of got knocked out, Tsadka lost control, Tahera (our sorceress) was polymorphed into a caterpillar for the most of the fight... good times. We won that one.Well, fast forward to the next night. See, our Bard, Verna, has a spell to conjure a magical hut. Very cozy, and better yet, well camouflaged. Well, thanks to Shu's peculiar resistance to magic, Tsadka can't enter said hut; she was sleeping out in the rain, trying to stay warm and seriously questioning her decision to hire on to the group and subsequently pilfer the dagger from them. After she finally drifted off to sleep, she woke up hog-tied, with a pair of demons standing over her. They questioned her about the whereabouts of the party, she started screaming profanity, they kicked her in the face-- whoops, I seem to have lost control of Shu!! ("Accidentally". Total accident. Promise, I was gonna talk my way out of this one. Definitely.)The party heard the ruckus and awoke, and came out to try and lend support (and also avoid being thrashed by the loose Shushu). As it turns out, these two are a pair of demon assassins who have occasionally appeared to wreak absolute havoc on the party. Last time they encountered them was aboard the airship that takes them where they need to go, the Golden Spark. That one ended in the deaths of Aust, the paladin; Kaym, the rogue; and Bar Bar, the barbarian-- the sorceress and bard together barely managed to drive them away at the last minute.Well, they had a third demon in tow this time. One of them triple-crit (and basically disintegrated) Rogar, the cleric, who was still quite fresh to the party, so our healer was down. They then charmed the bard (our big support and side heals) and the rogue (our biggest damage dealer), which also gave them an AC bonus.At the end of it all, Tsadka, Verna, Rogar, and Bar Bar were dead. Tahera missed the session (and might have made a difference, too). Kaym managed to break the charm (after knocking me out for the demons to finish off), and was the last one standing, as Aust was unconscious. Luckily, he had the presence of mind to take the scroll of mass teleportation off Verna's body and teleport everyone and the bodies back to the Golden Spark (thankfully, since I was dead, Shu was on my person but inactive, allowing my body to be transported back. I still need to roll for whether or not he was transported back with me; we ended the session there and the DM intends to talk with me when he has time later).The group at the beginning of the fight was as follows: Aust the Tiefling Paladin, Kaym the Tiefling Rogue, Tsadka the Tiefling Guardian (The rogue and paladin were resurrected as tieflings... One's a curiosity, two's a conspiracy, three's a curse; we should have known something terrible would happen eventually), Rogar the Dwarf Cleric, Verna the Halfling Bard, Tahera the Wood Elf Sorceress, and Bar Bar the Halfing Barbarian.The group is now as follows: Aust the Tiefling Paladin, Kaym the Tiefling Rogue, Tsadka the Halfling guardian, Rogar the High Elf Cleric, Verna the Halfing Bard (lucky roll), Tahera the Wood Elf Sorceress, and Bar Bar the Human Barbarian.I was the only one to be genuinely pissed about my result, and was also the only one who could have gotten away with fudging their reincarnation roll, since I'm the only one who Skypes in... but it wouldn't have felt right to lie to my DM, so now I'm just going to make Tsadka the angriest, most unfriendly halfling you'll ever meet. She is now obsessed with finding a way to preserve and restore her old body and return her spirit to it-- she's also had about enough with not being paid, because that was her initial motivation to join the group (ignoring the fact that she stole Shu from them and has pretty much brought all this misery on herself... she refuses to take responsibility for that).If I roll well enough to hang on to Shu, I intend to re-equip him. The surge of power that hits her just before she loses control is such a rush, like a drug at this point, even though each time she has to be knocked unconscious in order to regain control of herself. She was building quite a collection of scars before dying. And though she's never committed to anything in her life, she's determined to master him and become too powerful to ever be fucked with again.And Shu is a maul in this picture because that's the first weapon I mastered with him and it has the biggest damage output possible: 2d6 bludgeoning + 1d6 fire + 4.