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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2970514" data-attributes="member: 7451">I was reminded of this one when I was reading something about sea cucumbers. Long story.You see, I'd decided on a new reoccuring villain for my Planescape game. Echidna, the mother of such creatures of import to the Olympians as Hydra, Chimera, the Nemean Lion, Cerberus, and so forth. My version of her was sort of a tauric succubus/chimera hybrid who had only evaded the gods and classical heroes due to her abilities as a supreme trickster and shapeshifter. Kind of off canon, I know, but I was feeling inspired.She ran into the party in part of a power struggle over the gate town to the Abyss, hoping to use the PCs to empower her own faction (and since they'd earned a bounty on their last trip to that town and had been harassed by bounty hunters throughout the campaign, they were willing to listen to anyone who could get rid of the price on their heads). She was disguised as a male half-fiend (named Holothuroid, which is the scientific classification for sea cucumber. Because they're echinoderms, you see. Don't judge), and Echinda ended up being seduced by a female character in an attempt to win "his" favor. So after the PCs were double-crossed, running for their lives and one was considering fearfully the prospect of being pregnant with a half-fiend (she realized that her one-night stand was a succubus once she woke up with level drain), I expected them to be chomping at the bit to go back and confront "him", whenceforth she'd reveal her true nature, all sorts of interesting complications, tie-in to some greater Olympian-themed plot.Never happened. The PCs never considered the possibility of revenging themselves. They just wanted to stay the hell away from one of the few enemies who ever outsmarted them. Good for them, I guess. Might have to bring her back if there's a sequel game.So what clever plots have you ever concoted only to have been completely ignored by the players?Demiurge out.</blockquote>

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