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<blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 5832684" data-attributes="member: 98008"><p>As far as making her feel real and dangerous, I suggest that the PCs defeating her has made her desperate, she makes a terribly pact that she really should not have made.</p><p></p><p>If you can humanize her at all, you can turn her into a tragic figure, controlled and tormented by the spirit/whatever she has made a pact with. The PCs have little hope of defeating her while she is empowered by this 'patron'. They need to find a way of weakening the bonds and maybe even helping her break the contract/bond. This is also a good way of alluding towards a BBEG in the next tier.</p><p></p><p>P.S. The PCs could even be present when she makes this pact. They could be kicking her butt, then she cheats and sells her soul for the power to defeat her. Now she is now enslaved but undefeatable. </p><p>Maybe she regrets the decision though, if the PCs can later find her soul and help her get it back, it would break the contract and she would become killable again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Unwise, post: 5832684, member: 98008"] As far as making her feel real and dangerous, I suggest that the PCs defeating her has made her desperate, she makes a terribly pact that she really should not have made. If you can humanize her at all, you can turn her into a tragic figure, controlled and tormented by the spirit/whatever she has made a pact with. The PCs have little hope of defeating her while she is empowered by this 'patron'. They need to find a way of weakening the bonds and maybe even helping her break the contract/bond. This is also a good way of alluding towards a BBEG in the next tier. P.S. The PCs could even be present when she makes this pact. They could be kicking her butt, then she cheats and sells her soul for the power to defeat her. Now she is now enslaved but undefeatable. Maybe she regrets the decision though, if the PCs can later find her soul and help her get it back, it would break the contract and she would become killable again. [/QUOTE]
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