My character died yesterday. What are some awful ways people have lost characters?

The DM and one of the players conspired to get my character killed without giving me any chance to do anything about it. My character was the only one with an actual backstory, in which he was exiled and had a bounty on him from his kingdom because he revealed to the prince (his best friend) that his wife cheated on him on the day of their wedding. The prince took it out on him instead.

So anyway the player didn't like me because he was a bitter person, and the DM was his butt buddy. For like a year and a half I played with these folks, and the player in question bullied 2 other people out of the campaign for no real reason (this guy was a 40 year old teacher by the way, for the sake of characterization. I think he chose teaching so he could lord his power over a bunch of children).

The DM kinda sucked too, always punishing people for engaging with the story instead of just jumping through the hoops he set up. My character got it the worst because, again, I was the only one with an actual backstory that allowed for any plot development.

Anyway it was pretty obvious that they decided to do this together. We were staying in a mansion we rented, and the DM asks what watch order we were planning on - which was suspicious considering that we'd been staying here for like 2 weeks and he hadn't asked that any other time. Conveniently, when it came to the turn of the player to be on watch, a bunch of people from my kingdom teleport directly into my room, cast silence, beat me to death with greatswords, and then disintegrated my body. The player said he stood in the door and watched, and looked me right in the eye IRL while doing it.

Truthfully it was the cringiest scenario I'd ever been in. I finished my philly steak sandwich and then left. Told off the DM and told the player that he's pathetic for living out his power fantasies by bullying people in make-believe pretend time, because he's impotent in his real life. Then I left and didn't come back. From what I'm told, the campaign fell apart a few weeks later.

Coincidentally, I saw the player in a Popeyes by my work like a year later. He pretended he didn't see me, fixated very unnaturally forward even though I know he saw me in his peripheral vision, seeing me... He definitely would've seen me before I noticed him too. I mean, I didn't have anything to say to him anyway but I did find it really pathetic. Should've seen his body language.

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