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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 453970" data-attributes="member: 5137">Sacrifice Queen For CheckmateThe Demon Queen of Lust has captured the Goddess of Love, and intends to supplant Love. Should She succeed, Love in the world will gradually die, and Lust will become the driving force for procreation (the Fertility Goddess will continue to handle the actual procreative energies themselves). While this may not seem like a major change, think about a world where all marriages are loveless, and sex can never be anything but a brutish, animalistic act.In order to achieve this, however, certain Conditions must be met. The first, that Love be captured and held while the ritual is completed, has so far been met successfully. The second, however, (and in truly mythic fashion) is an immense sacrifice - the Demon Queen must give her own life force into the sacrifice, and be reborn into Love. Regardless, the Demon Queen can not take her own life, and her subjects are even less capable of the act. She needs some adventurers...Feel free to insert any of the horrific possibilities from the rest of the discussion regarding getting to the Demon Queen.The Demon Queen will be in the altar room, with Love upon the altar. She will make a great show of fighting the PCs (and will harshly stop any attempts to remove Love from the altar). However, She will have left herself vulnerable in some fashion, perhaps even leaving a Demon-Goddess-killing weapon lying around the fortress. When She dies, She dies horribly, screaming imprecations and blasphemies (and, specifically, that wonderful blasphemy spell that stuns all good creatures, no save).Then she's gone, and all that's left is to free Love from the altar and get her back to the Celestial Courts.Option 1, Slow: The Demon Queen of Lust has now been re-conceived in Love's womb. Love is unaware of this... and parthenogenesis is not that uncommon among the gods. The Demon Queen's rebirth (gestation of which will occur at a dramatically appropriate time) will kill the mother, thus bringing about that which she desires. A kind GM will either provide hints of what is to come (perhaps mentioning the pregnancy a game or two later) or allow Love to be brought back to life with a sacrifice of similarly epic scope.Option 2, Fast: The Demon Queen has now become Love, and although Love has not yet fully absorbed the impact of that final blasphemy, she will change over the following days, becoming Lust. Changing her back can be another epic quest... and will likely be a much harder battle, since Lust will not be trying to die.</blockquote>

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