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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 230499" data-attributes="member: 259">One day, as he's playing his harp, alone, he realizes that someone is watching him.  There's a small, beautiful man sitting on the garden wall, just watching.  When he finishes his song, the man is gone.But over the next several days, he catches a glimpse of the man at odd moments.  And finally, one time when he's playing on the harp, he hears the man's voice, right behind him."I know what you're going through.  And I can help."The man disappears.Next time he appears, he explains a little more:  he knows how to heal the character, but it's a long process, and the healer will confront truths he doesn't like during the healing.  Then everything goes red and fiery, and the character sees the shadowdrake stalking through the academy, killing.  A brief flash, and then it's back to reality.As the days go on, the beautiful man appears again and again, speaking mysteriously to the character, quietly.  The character may realize that no one else can see or hear this man.In truth, the beautiful man is a demon himself.  He realizes how powerful the healer is and wants to corrupt him, wants to convince him that what he did was right, was justified.  But in order to do that, he'll desensitize him to the violence of the drake's slaughter, show him scenes of the evil wizard murdering his friends, remind him of how he had no other choice.Eventually, he'll show the healer a similar scene happening somewhere else, and offer him the ability to help.  How will he help?By answering the summons of another wizard.  If he accepts, his transformation will be irreversible:  he'll be well on the path to demonhood himself.Something like this might ofer the character a couple of good ways out of depression:1) He can choose to destroy his conscience (and guilt) by becoming a demon;2) He can refute the demon and admit that what he did was terrible, but that life goes on (and maybe find some other way to save peopel when the demon shows him the similar situation); or3) he can be driven completely mad by the demon's visions and constant whisperings and kill himself.It sounds like a fun scene to me, if y'all both want to run with it.  Good luck!Daniel</blockquote>

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