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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8274158" data-attributes="member: 508">I ran my sons through a Dungeon adventure, &quot;Headless&quot; (written by none other than James Jacobs), which unfortunately ended in a TPK for the two PCs and their NPC druid.&nbsp; But the adventure dealt with an artifact that siphoned the souls of the recently slain straight to Orcus in his realm, Thanatos.&nbsp; So, not wanting to start over with a new campaign and new PCs, we picked it up from there: they woke up at Orcus's feet with no memories of their previous lives and Orcus informed them they had been his trusted lieutenants who had just failed in a plot to overthrow him.&nbsp; He, therefore, had imprisoned these &quot;demons&quot; in their current mortal forms and they would have to work their way back into his good graces.The next three adventures dealt with them doing various missions throughout the Outer Planes for Orcus, until they encountered the father of one of the PCs, who had become a celestial after his own death some years ago.&nbsp; Recognizing his daughter, he called her by her real name (Orcus had reassigned the PCs with names of his own choosing), and hearing her real name restored her memory.&nbsp; She was able to restore the other PC's memories by calling him by his real name, but the NPC druid escaped before she could fall under such a horrible fate.&nbsp; (She therefore remained a loyal follower of Orcus.)So then the two restored PCs spent a fair bit of time undoing all of the harm they'd done while believing themselves to be demons, and my oldest son vowed his PC cleric was going to permanently slay Orcus on his own plane to pay for what he'd done to them.&nbsp; And that vow shaped the entire rest of that campaign, which ended up getting retroactively referred to as the &quot;Orcus campaign.&quot;Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8274158, member: 508"] I ran my sons through a [I]Dungeon[/I] adventure, "Headless" (written by none other than James Jacobs), which unfortunately ended in a TPK for the two PCs and their NPC druid. But the adventure dealt with an artifact that siphoned the souls of the recently slain straight to Orcus in his realm, Thanatos. So, not wanting to start over with a new campaign and new PCs, we picked it up from there: they woke up at Orcus's feet with no memories of their previous lives and Orcus informed them they had been his trusted lieutenants who had just failed in a plot to overthrow him. He, therefore, had imprisoned these "demons" in their current mortal forms and they would have to work their way back into his good graces. The next three adventures dealt with them doing various missions throughout the Outer Planes for Orcus, until they encountered the father of one of the PCs, who had become a celestial after his own death some years ago. Recognizing his daughter, he called her by her real name (Orcus had reassigned the PCs with names of his own choosing), and hearing her real name restored her memory. She was able to restore the other PC's memories by calling him by his real name, but the NPC druid escaped before she could fall under such a horrible fate. (She therefore remained a loyal follower of Orcus.) So then the two restored PCs spent a fair bit of time undoing all of the harm they'd done while believing themselves to be demons, and my oldest son vowed his PC cleric was going to permanently slay Orcus on his own plane to pay for what he'd done to them. And that vow shaped the entire rest of that campaign, which ended up getting retroactively referred to as the "Orcus campaign." Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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