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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mwnrnc" data-source="post: 5112677" data-attributes="member: 88107">Thank you so much for the help, I've incorporate many of these ideas into my campaign.  Since you were such a big help in the big picture, I thought maybe you'd have some suggestions for something a little more specific.The "theme" of this chapter of my campaign is lust and excess.  My PC's are in possession of a scroll made of human skin with various icons and figures written in blood on it.  They are taking this scroll to Brother Willem of the isolated Thornmoor Monastery for translation.  This monastery will also be the site of the region's first ecumenical council in the weeks to come and, in a egalitarian spirit, nuns from a mission in the nearby "city of vice" will be allowed to participate.  Unfortunately, Brother Caiaphas believes that women are innately sinful and decides to punish those who advocated their inclusion as guilty of lust.  He thus releases a demon (modified succubus) bound beneath the monastery who proceeds to kill several monks and generally corrupt the place.  Her presence amplifies the repressed desire for pleasure in the monks, as well as their predilection for inflicting pain, both on others and themselves, as punishment and sacrifice.  An inquisitor with a small retinue will also arrive at the monastery a day or so after the PCs.  I want the PCs to be investigated by the Inquisitor to establish him for later use.  I also want the PCs to investigate the murders of the monks and be struck by the growing suspicion that something is terribly wrong, which gets worse.  The culmination of the chapter will be the PCs fighting through a disturbing, corrupt monastery to battle the succubus.  Problems: 1- One of my PCs is a devil worshiper, although standard divination magic does not work in my campaign 2- The inquisitor is neither corrupt, nor a fool, so how to explain him missing the devil worshiper and a growing demonic taint.  I'd also rather he not die. 3- I don't want Brother Willem to be corrupt, as he is a former inquisitor, though is now hopelessly senile 4- I want the demon to have time to really corrupt the monks (so i can create macabre art encounters), but if the monks are that corrupt, i must explain how they escape the notice of their un-corrupt fellows, the PCs, and an inquisitor, or why the corrupt monks do not simply kill the interlopers when they become troublesome5 - I toyed with the idea of having a small town near the monastery that would house a cult worshiping the demon, but was again faced with the problem of secrecy vs. impact.Sorry for the length, but I wanted to be as descriptive of my situation as possible.  Thank you again for your help so far.  Any ideas for what I can do here?</blockquote>

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