Ingredients for adventure: help me make adventure stew

[Desdichado]

Oh, yes. Said vampire betrays the PCs and hold persons them or something while he continues the ritual.

I don't know exactly what yet, but something along those lines.

 

[Land Outcast]

not bad idea... but wouldn't he prefer more harmless food (this snackpack just brought down a Big T)... Sorry, 'tis just me and my argumental nature .

Should be allright with that course of action.

 

[Rel]

not bad idea... but wouldn't he prefer more harmless food (this snackpack just brought down a Big T)... Sorry, 'tis just me and my argumental nature .

Should be allright with that course of action.

Well if I were hunting for a handy rationalization then I'd say that this guy has just successfully triple-crossed a major fiend. He's drunk with power.

OR

He knows that his foul deed will become apparent to the PC's very soon anyway (they can't help but hear about the destruction of Port Royal even if they don't witness it). He wants to dispose of anybody who might know he had something to do with it. He won't get a better chance than when they're in HIS lair, surrounded by dozens of his Zombie Minions.

BUT

The real reason is that it's more fun this way.

 

[Desdichado]

AND

If the PCs actually succeed in killing the recently embodied fiend, too bad. That doesn't invalidate the fact that he kept up his part of the bargain in embodying him in the first place. And it reduces the risk to him personally (from the fiend at least) of being double crossed in turn.

That's the theme here; the PC's are stuck between two nasty Machiavellian opponents who are both trying to use them as tools against each other.