Last night I raised the bar on rogue embarassment... it was NOT a pretty sight.
The setup: I'm crouched in a room with a meatshield, a healer, and a couple portable lightshows, all of us buried deep in the Sarnak fort in Ill Omen. The meatshield's pulling and we're slicing and dicing and zapping our way through those lizard-bird-things pretty handily.
Now, I'm a furryfoot, and proud of it! But... those Sarnaks are frikkin tall! So, I got my mask on and for the moment I borrow a couple inches from an inkie illusion to be able to stab something besides the backs of their ankles. We're at a lull while the meatshield looks around and I suddenly get that funny feeling... you know the one... where you think your about to look like yourself again?
No big, I'll just recast...
So I goes to reach up to my mask to turn it on again. I'm running out of time cause the puller says he's got three nasties coming in hard and fast... I start checking my blades while fumbling to recast the Illu and suddenly this really weird feeling comes over me... My stomach inverts, the world flips and I find myself standing next to that Druid chick in West Commons. Say what? I had activated my frikkin HAT instead of my MASK!!
Oh I was furious... I swear that I could almost hear my team mates grunting through their epic battle all the way back in Ill Omen... and I was stuck a thousand miles away. The nice thing about being agnostic in situations like this is that you can swear at your pick of dieties without having to worry 'bout taking anyone's name in vain...
So a wizard port and a boat ride and a LOT of running later, I find that my group lived through the fiasco and even welcomed me back with open arms (what can I say? I'm a charmer). They didn't even razz me too much for my mistake (or the guilty red tint to my cheeks). Eh, they're pretty good peoples, even if none of them are rogues or even Halflings...
Moral of the story - I worked hard to dupe that idiot warriors guild and earn my status with the Leatherfoot Raiders. I really like the spiff hat they gave me. But I sure am glad the teleport charge on it is wasted, cause after that misadventure it's settled: Rogues just should not use magic!
