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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6100155" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, I think the way to handle this is to make it something that has happened far off stage and the PC's are dealing not with the issue itself, but with its tragic after math.But if you think that rape is the darkest issue that I brought up in that summary, you really aren't thinking it through.  Many of the vectors aren't even aware that they aren't human.  Some of them have legitimately become the loving spouses of pure strain humans, and are busy breeding wonderful laughing happy children - who may or not be the sort that smile and offer their brains and willing service to the first mindflayer that comes along or who automatically fail saving throws versus a mindflayers mental powers.The really terrible question here is what are you willing to see as a monster.  I think this is such a terrible question that there really ought to be an 'out' here, even if you don't make it immediately obvious it's there if you are looking for one hard enough.  The consequence of inaction is unthinkable.   Ruthlessly killing the hybrids is effective, but probably unthinkable to most good characters - especially if they find even one hybrid that can resist.   For me the out that is hidden in the summary is the PC's gaining control of and repurposing phase 3 of the program.   A sufficiently knowledge PC ought to be able to turn the last phase against the hybrids as a skill challenge, creating a disease that removes their mutations (mild failure on a the skill challenge creates a diseasse that is lethal to them!).  Another possible out is gaining control of the Prototype, possibly by an Epic act of diplomacy that reaches through to his humanity, or worse come to worse by magical means.   More likely, one of his own children is more human than he is (of course, some may also be less, in the sense that humanity itself can often be very inhuman), and can be reached to alter phase 3 provided the PC's can gain control of the main base before it is too late.  An even more ambitious campaign altering 'out' is simply achieving genocide of the mind flayers, rendering the mutations harmless .  But the thing I like about this campaign outline is that it really allows for alignment to play a major role in how the game plays out, including intraparty conflict over the issue of what to do about a very non-standard threat to human existance (at least within a fantasy context).</blockquote>

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