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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 1849960" data-attributes="member: 4"><p><a href="http://webpages.charter.net/ericnoah/noahrpg/log.htm" target="_blank">http://webpages.charter.net/ericnoah/noahrpg/log.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>This was my first planescape campaign. The overplot involved a rash of kidnappings around the multiverse -- including one PC's wife (PC's name was Thibor Ferenc). And another PC was an amnesiac escapee of these same kidnappers whose past slowly started to reveal itself over the course of the campaign. Here's the big bad girl's "I'm revealing my plan before I kill you" speech -- the names aren't important, but just before this encounter she'd managed to sway one of the PCs to her side (he turned evil as the result of a curse he'd received earlier) and had had conversations with the others about betraying the amnesiac, Exista Existencia:</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Shemeshka speaks, and all viewers become silent:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> "The time has come! Witness! All that I have told you shall come to pass!"</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Then to the PCs, "There are choices to be made now, dear friends. One of you has already made his choice. For another other, now is the moment of choosing. A third will have his mind changed shortly. Only one of you has no choice in the matter."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> "Doctor Ferenc," she says, gazing stonily at Thibor, "your heart's desire is known to me. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In fact, she's in this room. Behold!" And with a dramatic gesture, she points to the now visible </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Anasthasia [Thibor's long-missing wife] -- in bizarre Lady of Pain get-up. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> "Yes, Thibor, run to her!" Anasthasia is completely unable to respond to any stimulus. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"No doubt you wonder how she comes to be here, where she has been these long years, and ... </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">what I want in return for her safety.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> "Anasthasia -- or is it Mrs. Doctor Ferenc? -- has been part of a grand experiment, one conducted by ... well, names aren't important. What is important is that she, as well as a few select other women from all over the multiverse, have been transformed from the pathetic mortals they were into the puppets they are now. Oh, yes, she's a puppet." With a gesture, she causes Anasthasia's arm to rise, then lower. "But she's not just a puppet, you see. She's more of a fool-proof disguise. She's been conditioned to let any yugoloth climb inside her mind and drive her around like she were a carriage. And the best part -- no way to detect the ruse. No magic can determine her intentions, read her thoughts, gauge her tendency toward good or evil. When one of us climbs inside her, she's a yugoloth in all respects -- but no one knows!" She laughs heartily.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> “Even better -- I can manipulate her across the planes. Any where I am, anywhere she is, I can just jump in her skin and walk around doing as I please. Imagine an army of these women, a few stationed on each of the outer planes, completely undetectable. Exciting, isn’t it?</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> "But why only women?" she asks rhetorically if queried. "There's an even bigger scheme </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">at work. Even I don't know the whole story. Something about infusing these women with so </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">many evil experiences that they become the essence of evil itself. Something about then pitting </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">these women against each other in a grand battle royale. Something about the champion being </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">used to eventually replace the Lady of Pain with someone a little more ... shall we say, amenable to Yugoloth interests. Sounds crazy to me," she adds, "but I'm willing to try anything for a millenium or two!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> “So, Thibor, you know now what we have planned for her. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If I get what I want from you, I’ll arrange to release her to you. She’ll be as she was -- oh, a few year older, but none the worse for wear. All you have to do is ... stay out of it. Take her now, and leave.”</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> “Exista, dear, the look on your face is priceless! I can tell you finally know where you’ve been the past few years. You are the only one of dozens of women who managed to escape us. You are, to put it bluntly, a security leak. If the celestials were to get hold of you, they’d probe and study you until they learned the secret of creating these mortal disguises -- or until you died. Simply put, I can’t afford to have you leave this room alive.”</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> “Zephyr, the time has come. You know what I expect of you -- Exista must die. I’ve offered you a fee you can’t refuse!”</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> “Kultiras, all that I have promised you awaits. Your allies await your commands.” [This is the betrayer.]</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So there's the skeleton of a potential overplot for you -- special children being kidnapped so they can be used as "living disguises" by fiends to more easily infiltrate mortal society and wreak havoc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 1849960, member: 4"] [url="http://webpages.charter.net/ericnoah/noahrpg/log.htm"]http://webpages.charter.net/ericnoah/noahrpg/log.htm[/url] This was my first planescape campaign. The overplot involved a rash of kidnappings around the multiverse -- including one PC's wife (PC's name was Thibor Ferenc). And another PC was an amnesiac escapee of these same kidnappers whose past slowly started to reveal itself over the course of the campaign. Here's the big bad girl's "I'm revealing my plan before I kill you" speech -- the names aren't important, but just before this encounter she'd managed to sway one of the PCs to her side (he turned evil as the result of a curse he'd received earlier) and had had conversations with the others about betraying the amnesiac, Exista Existencia: [font=Times New Roman]Shemeshka speaks, and all viewers become silent:[/font] [font=Times New Roman] "The time has come! Witness! All that I have told you shall come to pass!"[/font] [font=Times New Roman] Then to the PCs, "There are choices to be made now, dear friends. One of you has already made his choice. For another other, now is the moment of choosing. A third will have his mind changed shortly. Only one of you has no choice in the matter."[/font] [font=Times New Roman] "Doctor Ferenc," she says, gazing stonily at Thibor, "your heart's desire is known to me. [/font][font=Times New Roman]In fact, she's in this room. Behold!" And with a dramatic gesture, she points to the now visible [/font][font=Times New Roman]Anasthasia [Thibor's long-missing wife] -- in bizarre Lady of Pain get-up. [/font] [font=Times New Roman] "Yes, Thibor, run to her!" Anasthasia is completely unable to respond to any stimulus. [/font][font=Times New Roman]"No doubt you wonder how she comes to be here, where she has been these long years, and ... [/font][font=Times New Roman]what I want in return for her safety.[/font] [font=Times New Roman] "Anasthasia -- or is it Mrs. Doctor Ferenc? -- has been part of a grand experiment, one conducted by ... well, names aren't important. What is important is that she, as well as a few select other women from all over the multiverse, have been transformed from the pathetic mortals they were into the puppets they are now. Oh, yes, she's a puppet." With a gesture, she causes Anasthasia's arm to rise, then lower. "But she's not just a puppet, you see. She's more of a fool-proof disguise. She's been conditioned to let any yugoloth climb inside her mind and drive her around like she were a carriage. And the best part -- no way to detect the ruse. No magic can determine her intentions, read her thoughts, gauge her tendency toward good or evil. When one of us climbs inside her, she's a yugoloth in all respects -- but no one knows!" She laughs heartily.[/font] [font=Times New Roman] “Even better -- I can manipulate her across the planes. Any where I am, anywhere she is, I can just jump in her skin and walk around doing as I please. Imagine an army of these women, a few stationed on each of the outer planes, completely undetectable. Exciting, isn’t it?[/font] [font=Times New Roman] "But why only women?" she asks rhetorically if queried. "There's an even bigger scheme [/font][font=Times New Roman]at work. Even I don't know the whole story. Something about infusing these women with so [/font][font=Times New Roman]many evil experiences that they become the essence of evil itself. Something about then pitting [/font][font=Times New Roman]these women against each other in a grand battle royale. Something about the champion being [/font][font=Times New Roman]used to eventually replace the Lady of Pain with someone a little more ... shall we say, amenable to Yugoloth interests. Sounds crazy to me," she adds, "but I'm willing to try anything for a millenium or two![/font] [font=Times New Roman] “So, Thibor, you know now what we have planned for her. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If I get what I want from you, I’ll arrange to release her to you. She’ll be as she was -- oh, a few year older, but none the worse for wear. All you have to do is ... stay out of it. Take her now, and leave.”[/font] [font=Times New Roman] “Exista, dear, the look on your face is priceless! I can tell you finally know where you’ve been the past few years. You are the only one of dozens of women who managed to escape us. You are, to put it bluntly, a security leak. If the celestials were to get hold of you, they’d probe and study you until they learned the secret of creating these mortal disguises -- or until you died. Simply put, I can’t afford to have you leave this room alive.”[/font] [font=Times New Roman] “Zephyr, the time has come. You know what I expect of you -- Exista must die. I’ve offered you a fee you can’t refuse!”[/font] [font=Times New Roman] “Kultiras, all that I have promised you awaits. Your allies await your commands.” [This is the betrayer.][/font] So there's the skeleton of a potential overplot for you -- special children being kidnapped so they can be used as "living disguises" by fiends to more easily infiltrate mortal society and wreak havoc. [/QUOTE]
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