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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shipratstew" data-source="post: 5666027" data-attributes="member: 6677958">I have few times my players have asked "what the hell?" But my favorite time was when they cobalt pieced together what one of my NPCs was.Long story short time. The group was a bunch of neutral to evil types with one lone honor bound LG fighter. They come to a town that is under attack by some demons and they squash "forget the towns folks, let's loot." This worked for me as they started to go house by house looting and fighting unfilled they come to the local watchhouse/jail. When they enter they find a man who won't stop grinning and is just staring out the bars. Now this was just a toss away NPC who I thought they were gonna leave to the demons but the party's evil cleric takes notice of home and insists that the group free him. At this point I asked for perception checks and everyone fails but I still give then a hint, "while his eyes are on you, you feel like you can't cast spells." Despite this they bring the guy with them.Fast forward 6 months of real time and almost 20 sessions and over this time they have seen all of their magical equipment lose its magic. Multiple people on the team have seen this guy's skin moving as if something is crawling underneath it. All this time and me dropping mad hints and still no connection drawn to this creepy and by this time proven murderer they have following them around.In the end the party's fighter gets fed up with losing his items and he confronts the smiling man. Rolling 4 nat 20's for one attack the fighter kills the man and rips off what he correctly thought was a mask revealing the small beholder that had been grafted onto a humqn body. As a side note the fighter got all new and better gear soon afterwards.</blockquote>

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