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<blockquote data-quote="Bitbrain" data-source="post: 7581131" data-attributes="member: 6863864"><p>A CR-6 Yuan-ti snake-armed Malison. Mechanically, he was nothing special.</p><p>What made the players truly hate him was that he was the head of a religious cult.</p><p></p><p>Not a cult in the fantastical sense, but (according to one of my players anyway) a disturbingly realistic one . . . Leaving aside the fact that Malison had snakes for arms.</p><p></p><p>Malison's cult was less concerned with summoning demons and bringing about the apocalypse, and more with targeting impressionable people to absorb into their ranks, isolating them from the outside world so that the only thing left to Malison's victims was his cult itself.</p><p></p><p>EVERYTHING within his cult revolved around Malison.</p><p>He used opioid substances, sensory deprivation, torture, and emotional manipulation to brainwash his victims into an almost child-like reverence of himself.</p><p>Two of the players were creeped out by just how overjoyed the cultists got simply <em>talking</em> about Malison, and ALL of the players announced that they weren't ending the session until they had Malison's head on a spike once they saw what was inside one of the torture chambers . . .</p><p></p><p>After the players finally killed him, there was no celebration at the table, no excitement. Only relief that they had rescued Malison's victims from his continued exploitation of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bitbrain, post: 7581131, member: 6863864"] A CR-6 Yuan-ti snake-armed Malison. Mechanically, he was nothing special. What made the players truly hate him was that he was the head of a religious cult. Not a cult in the fantastical sense, but (according to one of my players anyway) a disturbingly realistic one . . . Leaving aside the fact that Malison had snakes for arms. Malison's cult was less concerned with summoning demons and bringing about the apocalypse, and more with targeting impressionable people to absorb into their ranks, isolating them from the outside world so that the only thing left to Malison's victims was his cult itself. EVERYTHING within his cult revolved around Malison. He used opioid substances, sensory deprivation, torture, and emotional manipulation to brainwash his victims into an almost child-like reverence of himself. Two of the players were creeped out by just how overjoyed the cultists got simply [I]talking[/I] about Malison, and ALL of the players announced that they weren't ending the session until they had Malison's head on a spike once they saw what was inside one of the torture chambers . . . After the players finally killed him, there was no celebration at the table, no excitement. Only relief that they had rescued Malison's victims from his continued exploitation of them. [/QUOTE]
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