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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3326343" data-attributes="member: 2205">Ah!  Cool!  Now there's some darn-tootin' good plot nuggets in there!Yeah--that's my thought.  The Emporer is merely the last of a secret group many aeons ago that brokered this fiendish bargain.  Naturally, they decided that their heroic efforts in freeing enslaved humanity would be seen with a bit more jaundiced eye if it were known that they had actually engineered the revolution with fiendish agents and that after all of that original cabal had died and gone to Hell, so to speak, that a regular tithe of souls was built into the contract.  In other words, to some extent, they had sold future generations of humanity down the river to free them at that time.  Traded one form of enslavement for another, worse one, actually.Only since the Emperor had found the secret of prolonging his life indefinately, the worst conditions of the bargain never came to pass, much to the fiends' chagrin.  I really like the idea that---as evil and unlikeble as a ruler as the Emperor is---the PC's pretty much have to end up protecting and supporting him because the alternative is much worse.  In a sense, he's conquered the world (or at least a portion of it) to save it from an even worse fate.Quite right.  That's where I need the most help.  Demonic Soul-sucking Plot Device has some merit.  Perhaps trying to rescue and restore some of the entrapped souls of the Emperor's former collegues who brokered the fiendish deal in the first place?  I'm not sure.  Still trying to imagine other potential missions the PC's could be sent on.</blockquote>

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