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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 364341" data-attributes="member: 4720">I guess you want to stick specifically to corrupting them through love, right?&nbsp; That's how they get in, via love, but then they twist it until it's something horrible.Fostering mistrust between married couples, with the ultimate goal of driving one of them to kill the other (or the person they've been duped into believing had cuckolded them) out of jealousy.&nbsp; Convincing a man that the only way to bring his slightly wayward son around was through beatings, beatings which have gotten EXTREMELY severe and now come with only the slightest provocation.Feeding the depression and desperation of a poor, single mother until she's convinced that it's the right thing to drown her own child rather than let it live under the conditions they have.They would probably also encourage things like incest.&nbsp; Maybe a pair of succubi (or a succubus and an incubus) working together: one whispering in a man's ear and the other whispering in his sister's, trying to break the taboo from both ends and net a pair of souls.&nbsp; Alternatively, you could approach it as the scrying device shows a couple finishing off what appears to be normal consensual intercourse, but once the PCs see them both clearly, it's obvious that they are brother and sister (or at least very closely related).&nbsp; A succubus would be saying in one of their minds, &quot;There now, did that feel wrong to you?&quot; or something to that effect.Depending on the strictness of the moral code of your universe, you could also have them encouraging bestiality, voyeurism, or any other such behavior that would damn a soul on your world.I'd avoid crystal screens, as it seems anachronistic.&nbsp; Maybe a variety of crystals (both crystal balls and faceted crystals) from little ones that the PCs can't see from their vantage point, all the way up to 6 foot globes and crystals as tall as a ogre.&nbsp; That way, you can have an enormous room, filled with devices, but the PCs can only see the really large crystals nearby.&nbsp; They can see maybe 5 or 6 scenes, but there are clearly hundreds of others going on, right there, that they can't see.&nbsp; That ought to give your cleric absolute fits.&nbsp; Plus, I think a scattering of crystals of all shapes and sizes fits the Abyss better than orderly rows of crystals or screens.&nbsp; &quot;Switchboard of the damned.&nbsp; How may I direct your call?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 364341, member: 4720"] I guess you want to stick specifically to corrupting them through love, right? That's how they get in, via love, but then they twist it until it's something horrible. Fostering mistrust between married couples, with the ultimate goal of driving one of them to kill the other (or the person they've been duped into believing had cuckolded them) out of jealousy. Convincing a man that the only way to bring his slightly wayward son around was through beatings, beatings which have gotten EXTREMELY severe and now come with only the slightest provocation. Feeding the depression and desperation of a poor, single mother until she's convinced that it's the right thing to drown her own child rather than let it live under the conditions they have. They would probably also encourage things like incest. Maybe a pair of succubi (or a succubus and an incubus) working together: one whispering in a man's ear and the other whispering in his sister's, trying to break the taboo from both ends and net a pair of souls. Alternatively, you could approach it as the scrying device shows a couple finishing off what appears to be normal consensual intercourse, but once the PCs see them both clearly, it's obvious that they are brother and sister (or at least very closely related). A succubus would be saying in one of their minds, "There now, did [B]that[/B] feel [i]wrong[/i] to you?" or something to that effect. Depending on the strictness of the moral code of your universe, you could also have them encouraging bestiality, voyeurism, or any other such behavior that would damn a soul on your world. I'd avoid crystal screens, as it seems anachronistic. Maybe a variety of crystals (both crystal balls and faceted crystals) from little ones that the PCs can't see from their vantage point, all the way up to 6 foot globes and crystals as tall as a ogre. That way, you can have an enormous room, filled with devices, but the PCs can only see the really large crystals nearby. They can see maybe 5 or 6 scenes, but there are clearly [i]hundreds[/i] of others going on, right there, that they can't see. That ought to give your cleric absolute fits. Plus, I think a scattering of crystals of all shapes and sizes fits the Abyss better than orderly rows of crystals or screens. "Switchboard of the damned. How may I direct your call?" [/QUOTE]

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