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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4922851" data-attributes="member: 13855">My player out! Spoilers!Thanks everyone! Okay, here's what elements I've decided on, but let me know if you have refinements:It's a medium-long birth (6 hour variety) with twins. (The demi-goddess of good fortune prophesized that the parents wouldn't die until they had three kids, although said demi-goddess is flighty, unreliable and does not have fate in her portfolio.)Odd glyph-like birth mark is a go. Terrible storm is a go. The midwife is the elven druid that my player hates, as she stole her man back at first level. Will they bring her in or trust to the knowledge cleric? Will they be able to find the druid in the storm?Knowledge cleric beliefs: to speed labor, walk up and down the stairs (false); lying flat on a table makes labor harder, so the mother should squat or recline at an angle (true); pain control techniques (true); and the mother needs to eat the placenta to shore up her health after labor (animals do this to aid the uterus and to foster milk-production; some in China, the Pacific Islands and the West do the same.)Breech birth with C-section by cleric or druid is a go. Wife crushing husband's hand is a go. Blaming husband and luck goddess for getting her into this is a go at 4 hour mark.A fainter has been scheduled. Specifically, the father, in trying to get the mother to "breathe", demonstrates and hyperventilates.The hubby will indeed offer Ray as a possible name, 'cause it's like a spell-type. Now, will it be accepted?Oh, if the mother had etherealness, she'd totally use that. Boilling water by prestidigitation is a go. The noise, odors, and fluids of birth attract the attention of a quasit, the very first antagonist of the campaign. In the very first adventure of the campaign, the player defeated a wizard, but never investigated the hole in front of his idol depicting hezrou demon Frogroth. In that pit was the REAL bbeg, which was a quasit. (The quasit recruited the wizard and was the one with the connection to the demon.) So, the quasit, left in this tiny farming village, recruits the only person left to free Frogroth... the wife's much-disliked wizard mentor!So, after the birth, the quasit steals one of the babies for sacrifice, because the stars are right. The PC and the husband should be able to guess where a tiny demon might take the baby, which leads them to the climactic battle at the site of the player's first climactic battle. And mummy stays behind to guard the other twin with a readied magic missile.</blockquote>

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