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Entire party turned on me and murdered me
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I am playing as a character who could be best described as a level 4 highly political dwarf fighter. We started as a party of 4 but all the others died in a dungeon with my character narrowly escaping. They made new characters and two of them died in an other dungeon. We are playing Lost Mine of Phandelver by the way, our DM loves role playing character deaths. The whole party is starting to joke around that I lived through 2 partial TPKs and how I am unkillable. The DM is joking that one day he will kill my character and it's going to be great.

Fast forward 5 sessions, where we find a dragon and the rest of the party swears allegiance to him offering me as a sacrifice. My character runs away and the rest of the party chases me down. The dragon turns on them and they start fighting the dragon. During the fight, my party convinces me that the sacrifice was some sort of "ruse" to beat the dragon. We all fight together and defeat the dragon but one of the new members casts Hold Person on me during the fight. The spell fails and my character doesn't understand what happened, we laugh about it and I assume it was another "ruse".

Fast forward to today, and now my character has the reputation of being the one who runs (in my opinion always to avoid certain death). We encounter two zombies and I explain to the party there is no point in fighting them. The evil paladin threatens me that if I run he will kill me (I don't believe he's serious). I reiterate that there is no point in fighting them then run away, followed by the rest of the party including the paladin, leaving last. They all get to a safe house and I arrive last since I am the slowest character.

I would have never imagined what comes next.

They close the door on me but the zombies have stopped chasing us at this point. We all take rests with my character separated from the party and they are now conspiring to kill me. I do my best not to metagame as my character patiently waits for the party to finish their private conversation. At this point I believe this is either a joke or a "ruse" and walk in the house when they finally let me in.

I get instantly Divine Smited by the paladin, dealing half my HP. We roll initiative and I'm last. Great.

At this point I realize the character I am now attached too is going to die if the DM doesn't step in. I secretly let him know that if they kill my character I will not rejoin the party as a new character.

Rogue's turn, sneak attack on me, deals the rest of my hit points and I am dying. The rest of the party takes turns hitting my dying body until I meet Moradin in the afterlife.

Now I am considering if I want to rejoin this party of homicidal maniacs or wait for them to finish this so I can join the next campaign.

EDIT: I probably should add a bit more context since this got more traction than I anticipated. We are playing online and we are all around 20-25 years old with one player being 16. Every time my character would "run away" was either me being the last alive and kiting the enemy, or telling everyone to tactically retreat but half the party does not listen and dies in one turn, or the time with the dragon where I was convinced I was getting sacrificed. My character is a satire of an American conservative. I roleplay him by imaging what Tucker Carlson would say or do. Examples:

We find an underground mafia of people wearing redcloaks: "Time to get rid of these Redcloak Lives Matter activists outta this town"

We see a goblin down the street: "This is why we should've built a wall on our Southern border, goddamn liberals ruining everything again"

We get invited somewhere and the hosts asks us to drop our weapons: "How dare you tread on my 2nd Amendment rights?"

We did not have a session 0 and none of the players or the DM raised any concerns about my character being annoying. Up until I got murdered I thought it was all just a joke and everyone was enjoying the presence of my character but I guess I'm wrong. Regardless this was the most fun and memorable character I have ever played and the group congratulated me on my character post mortem.

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