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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eris404" data-source="post: 1926201" data-attributes="member: 5338">Oh, yeah, our group has one betrayal that we still talk about. The worst is that it came from a player who had moved away and then moved back, someone we had missed and welcomed back with open arms. Officially, his character was a fallen paladin looking to redeem himself. That should have been our first warning, except that he likes to play complex characters with detailed backstories. In reality, he was an evil fighter (or blackguard? I wasn't sure) pretending to be a penitent paladin in order to befriend us. Conspiring with the DM, the character was hired by the vampire villain to mislead us and keep an eye on us. He was promised vampire-hood for services.Our second clue: his name was "Saduj." That's "Judas" spelled backwards, in case you're as slow as we were. No, honestly, we didn't get that either.Unfortunately, what made this player's job easier is that there was another player who was very disruptive to our group. The world was slightly low magic and the DM had mentioned that the common folk were superstitious and fearful of wizards. This player chose a wizard character named Matthew and then decided to be completely secretive and unhelpful in every way, in fact so completely paranoid that he never cast a single spell in front of the party. Never mind that another player also chose to play a wizard and cast spells all the time. The common folk respected him, and no one came after him with pitchforks and torches.So much of our energy and attention was focused on the other character, whom we saw as the "Dr. Smith" of our party. A great deal of time was spent convincing him to come along with us, to be helpful or just to explain what he was doing wandering off by himself. Saduj revealed himself during a particularly bad battle. We were trying to sneak back into an occupied walled city to rescue the duke from the vampires. We thought Matthew was going to betray us to the vampires, because he wanted to sneak in by himself (in reality he didn't want us to see cast Invisibility). Saduj helpfully knocked him out and tied him up. Once inside the city walls, we were ambushed. If I remember correctly, Saduj then claimed another character, Seamus the beefy fighter, was being controlled by the vampires and shouted for help. The party was confused and didn't know whether or not to subdue Seamus. He caused a great deal of mayhem before it sunk in that Saduj was not our friend.As players, we were pretty stunned. To this day, we are suspicious of his characters, especially if they seem a little too good.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></blockquote>

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