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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 4056642" data-attributes="member: 17691">I have a few of these:I keep track of PC piety IMC based on their actions. At one point, in a Forgotten Realms campaign, a PC half-elf druid's piety started to dip below what was necessary to maintain her full druidic spellcasting ability. Consequently I began withholding her highest levels spells when she'd pray for them in the mornings. Then I got this idea; what if another god were to grant her spells in keeping with its doctrine to make up the difference?Suddenly, day after day, the druid prays for spells and begins getting really nasty necromantic cleric spells in her highest level slots; stuff she didn't ask for – spells that pervert the natural processes of life and death. I figure, being a druid, she'll realize they're nasty and refuse to use them. Eventually her piety will go back up and she'll regain her usual druidic powers. I guessed wrong. The player was intrigued by these new powers and usually avoided using them; except when the s*** hit the fan and they became crucial to save the party's bacon.Fast forward a bit. The druid's new necromantic powers have continued to increase while supplanting her dwindling druidic powers. She's begun having creepy dreams in which she receives portents from her unknown evil god patron. Following a fight against the BBEG lich (in which a favored NPC died to cast imprisonment on it) the PCs are chasing down the retreating mist of his three vampire lackeys they'd likewise just defeated. Two of the vampires have been longtime thorns in the party's side and they're desperate to follow them and finish them off once and for all. Unbeknown to them however, the vampires have an escape plan; they came with a zombie wyvern with their three coffins strapped to its underbelly and a juju zombie rider/pilot to ferry them back to safety if necessary. Only the druid PC, who is able to wild shape, can take to the air as the wyvern lifts off and begins flying away into the night... over a lake of running water.The druid PC takes the form of a bat and gives chase as the others remain behind and watch. Everything is riding on her actions now, but she's just come out of a major battle and has few resources or hit points left as she lands on the wyvern's back and resumes her normal shape. That was her last wild-shape for the day and she's stuck there with no way to fly away again. There's little she can do injure the wyvern or juju zombie (who has a crossbow and has begun shooting at her). Then her evil god (me) begins a conversation with the PC by whispering seductively into her mind:Evil God: "You hate these undead don't you?"Druid player: "Damnit! Yes!"Evil God: "You want to destroy them don't you?"Druid player: *grinds her teeth* "Yeah."Evil God: "Then call out my name and I'll give you power over them."Druid player: *grumbles and screws up her face with anger*Evil God: "It's what you want... and I can give it to you..."Druid player: *looks ready to spit*Evil God: "Call my name and you can send this wyvern crashing into the waters below..."Druid player yells: "I turn you foul undead in the name of Sylvanus and Chauntea!"But the druid's nature gods don't have any power over the undead and so ignore the PC's desperate supplication. Nothing happens.Druid player: "Damnit"Evil God: *chuckles* "They can't help you. But I can..."The druid player then attempt to do like Ash in Army of Darkness and tries to mumble the evil god's name quietly and incoherently. Nothing happens.Evil God: *laughs perversely* "Sorry. I couldn't quite make that out. What was that?"The druid player looks absolutely livid as she screws up her face and yells out: "G** DAMN YOU!!! FINE!!! IN THE NAME OF IYACHTU XVIM I COMMAND YOU TO CRASH INTO THE WATER!!!"I ended up laughing maniacally as I described the wyvern diving downwards the lake and disintegrating as it collided with the water's surface. The bad guys all died but the PC is knocked out and is barely saved by the PCs who rush into the water after her. But it's too late; she's lost her druidic powers and become a full cleric of the god of Hatred and Strife; whom she hates! <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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