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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tinner" data-source="post: 2207672" data-attributes="member: 19667">I ran a long-running Shadowrun campaign that was full o these moments.To this day, it is always the standard I measure all gaming against.One of te best sequeces was in dealing with a power hungry unchkin. I decided to teach him a lesson IC and OOC.He was always looking for more power, so when I offered him a bargain with a free spirit, he took the deal no questions asked.Things were fine for a time, as his new "sensei" gave him plenty of new power to play with. Then he began experiencing missing time. Tis progressed until the day he woke up to find himself tied to a bed.He managed to call a chummer to come release him, and then the two of them discovered that there was a teenage elf handcuffed in his closet - and he had no memory of how she got there.He still didn't make the connection between his new spirit fiend inhabiting his body, and these strange events.Things came to a head when his PC was taken over by the spirit and he got to watch elplessly as his body did some horrible things to a young girl from a church choir. Things that culminated with him (direcly because of his choice of grasping after power) crucifying the girl on he steeple of a local church.I had the PLAYER literally on the floor, writhing in the fetal position as he came to the realization that all his selfish acts and constant striving for wealth and power had led to his becoming a monster.But the real satisfaction was in seeing him try to fight back, and succeed. With the help of his friends, he waged a constant battle for control of his body.His ultimate redemption came when during the final game of the 10 year old campaign the team was confronted with a portal that could only be sealed with several unique magic items.When one of the items was destroyed with fighting eveil spirits, the magi on the team realized that the only other thing that could seal the portal was lifeforce. Freely sacrificed souls. Two of them to be precise. I expected the team to try to find som willing sacrifices, or maybe even see the PC's try to offer a portion of each of their Karma/lifeforce to come up with enough lifeforce to seal the portal.Then, our formerly power hungry munchkin steps forward, ad tells the rest of the team to leave. Clearly he reasoned, he's the only one on the team with TWO souls to sacrifice, and as such he would pay the prce and save them all.It was roleplayed so well, and so intensely, that even though this wasn't my original plan, I decided that this was too good a story to pass up.The other PC's watched as the munckin willingly offered up his sol and his "sensei's" soul to seal off the portal. I gave the PC the best death scene I could offer, and made sure to let the other PC's see his pure and redeemed soul finally free of taint before his lifelight winked out.It was the perfect end to that campaign.</blockquote>

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