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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1076770" data-attributes="member: 259">Personally, I'd turn this into a continuing plot hook:March 2002: While still stationed in Turkey, Nadine has a bizarre and traumatic supernatural experience (it's a horror game). Six weeks later, she threatens a superior officer and is given a Bad Conduct Discharge.Thing is, Nadine was convinced that the superior officer was Something Evil -- a cultist summoning demons?  A doppelganger-like monstrosity?  A vampire?  whatever.  And she was determined to Rid the World of its evil, no matter the cost to herself.She was caught laying stolen dynamite around the officer's house at midnight, thrown in jail.  She was facing the rest of her life in military prison on attempted murder charges; if they brought in terrorism charges, she might be facing the death penalty.And then, with neither warning nor explanation, they released her.  She was driven by two exceptionally plain-faced soldiers to her parents' house -- to this day, she can't remember what they looked like, or if they said anything to her.When she walked in the front door, the phone rang.  The officer she'd been trying to kill was on the other end; he explained that she would receive a medical discharge from the army, and that she shouldn't contest it, and that she shouldn't come within a mile of him if she knew what was good for her.  And eventually, he continued, she'd hear from him again.The next morning, a courier delivered the paperwork reporting that she'd suffered a psychotic episode at the base related to previously undiagnosed schizophrenia, and offering her a medical discharge.  Her parents seemed fully informed about this, told her the military had called them a week ago to inquire about her psychological history and to tell them she was having a psychotic episode.  Everything seemed in order, and she's been putting her life back together ever since.Something along those lines, anyway -- make the dishonorable or medical discharge something anamolous, something that shouldn't have happened.  Make it unclear just how much of the event really happened, and how much she imagined.  And give the DM some juicy toys to play with.Daniel</blockquote>

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