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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 8108926" data-attributes="member: 6775477"><p>It's tricky to find the right balance between your orders and your personal desires. In my current campaign there's an NPC with the party they recently discovered has been betraying them the entire time. He has one very specific order (party cannot arrive at location with McGuffin), but freedom to choose how to make it happen. He's based on the backstory of one of the PCs, who used it as the premise for a YA romance story she was writing, so I take no responsibility!</p><p></p><p>He has a history with one of the PCs, whom he seduced and betrayed, leading to her parent's death, and the theft of a holy relic they guarded. However, in an unforeseen twist, he actually fell in love with the PC, so he doesn't want to directly harm her in the process. The originally betrayed PC has been keeping him alive in the hopes that she can get information from him about the stolen relic, but for whatever reason she keeps putting it off. Now he's desperate, because while he loves the PC, he's under a magical curse that will kill him if the party succeeds. He's been sowing discontent among the party and NPCs, and went so far as to set up the death of the ship's navigator to prevent them from being able to return home after retrieving the McGuffin. They've discovered his duplicity and are trying to decide what to do about him in the next session*.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*the last plan discussed was cutting his hands off to prevent him from doing anything, while still being able to speak</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 8108926, member: 6775477"] It's tricky to find the right balance between your orders and your personal desires. In my current campaign there's an NPC with the party they recently discovered has been betraying them the entire time. He has one very specific order (party cannot arrive at location with McGuffin), but freedom to choose how to make it happen. He's based on the backstory of one of the PCs, who used it as the premise for a YA romance story she was writing, so I take no responsibility! He has a history with one of the PCs, whom he seduced and betrayed, leading to her parent's death, and the theft of a holy relic they guarded. However, in an unforeseen twist, he actually fell in love with the PC, so he doesn't want to directly harm her in the process. The originally betrayed PC has been keeping him alive in the hopes that she can get information from him about the stolen relic, but for whatever reason she keeps putting it off. Now he's desperate, because while he loves the PC, he's under a magical curse that will kill him if the party succeeds. He's been sowing discontent among the party and NPCs, and went so far as to set up the death of the ship's navigator to prevent them from being able to return home after retrieving the McGuffin. They've discovered his duplicity and are trying to decide what to do about him in the next session*. *the last plan discussed was cutting his hands off to prevent him from doing anything, while still being able to speak [/QUOTE]
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