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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9538355" data-attributes="member: 7025508">So I don't have an issue with the amnesia thing itself and I've done similar (more about it later,) but if the goal is just to get the players to shrug and leave the faction alone this is both too heavy-handed and more importantly unlikely to work. Like at least I would see this is a setup of a cool mystery to be explored. What happened to us? How can we overcome this memory-wiping faction?In my game I had this secret mindflayer coven, that worked under a cover of a sanatorium. So before the characters knew anything of this, one character decided to visit the place alone for some relaxation and treatments. And what actually happened is that he saw a mindflayer draining another guest, but the mindflayers used modify memory on him, to see it as just a healer administering a treatment to the client, and that is what I described to the player. Later they had disturbing dreams, as the suppressed memory haunted them. At some point the players started to suspect something might be wrong with the character and sought a high priestess to cast greater restoration on him. At that point the memory alteration unravelled and I described to the player what the character had actually experienced. I think this was a rather cool reveal, but importantly it was just a setup for the confrontation with the mindflayers. The trickery was not the end of this story, rather the beginning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 9538355, member: 7025508"] So I don't have an issue with the amnesia thing itself and I've done similar (more about it later,) but if the goal is just to get the players to shrug and leave the faction alone this is both too heavy-handed and more importantly unlikely to work. Like at least I would see this is a setup of a cool mystery to be explored. What happened to us? How can we overcome this memory-wiping faction? In my game I had this secret mindflayer coven, that worked under a cover of a sanatorium. So before the characters knew anything of this, one character decided to visit the place alone for some relaxation and treatments. And what actually happened is that he saw a mindflayer draining another guest, but the mindflayers used modify memory on him, to see it as just a healer administering a treatment to the client, and that is what I described to the player. Later they had disturbing dreams, as the suppressed memory haunted them. At some point the players started to suspect something might be wrong with the character and sought a high priestess to cast greater restoration on him. At that point the memory alteration unravelled and I described to the player what the character had actually experienced. I think this was a rather cool reveal, but importantly it was just a setup for the confrontation with the mindflayers. The trickery was not the end of this story, rather the beginning. [/QUOTE]

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