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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7979934" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>The saga has ended - the succubus is no more. All in all good fun was to be had, and I got to try out most of my ideas, so I count this little scenario expansion as a success.</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER]</p><p>Remember, Balenni was scripted to face the heroes in a single encounter (back in level 4) and then die.</p><p></p><p>Instead, she wrote a full session's worth of extra material basically single-handedly!</p><p></p><p>She got to successfully persuade four out of five heroes to accept her offerings (making a deal). She got to mess with their friends and loved ones. She sent in two groups of malign creatures to make life hard on the heroes. She got her hooks deep into one character and nearly made him lose Tanterra the Bouncer (his NPC girlfriend).</p><p></p><p>Then she helped out against Mistress Dusklight's "showstoppers", got to "escort" two defeated agents out of the circus grounds unattended (which meant she sexxed them to death), and then participated in a Big Finale circus performance, where the other heroes manipulated the entire crowd to boo her out of existence!</p><p></p><p>Specifically:</p><p></p><p>She started off by approaching the heroes individually, when they first reached Escadar and immediately raced to the magic shoppes! She successfully offered +1 to attacks to the Fighter (as <strong>Liane</strong> the tattooed mercenary and party-girl), +1 to spell DC to the Cleric (as <strong>Master Albin</strong> the grizzled but handsome old northern warrior), +1d6 to damage to the Barbarian (as <strong>Ian</strong> the sweaty and strong half-Orc smith) and 1 MAP reduction to the Ranger (as <strong>Aline</strong>, the cute halfling knife thrower). Only the Wizard resisted the charms of <strong>Miss Elain</strong> the Gnome Potion Tinkerer (by completely bungling his social interaction... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> )</p><p></p><p>She sowed a rumor <strong>Deanna</strong> the servant girl (and <a href="https://carnivale.fandom.com/wiki/Cootch_Show" target="_blank">cooch show</a> trainee by Mrs Peacock) was about to be fired, causing discontent in the camp. She stole a valued trinket from <strong>Svenja Flamboni</strong> and planted it in the coffer of her sister <strong>Glumja Flamboni</strong>. She made <strong>Mordaine the Magician</strong> wrap <strong>Elizia</strong> (her hated rival) in chains and dropped her in her water tank, accusing her of sleeping her way into the Directors' favor (which actually is true, Elizia likes the company of men and found the small half-Leshy Wizard quite interesting, especially when he cast Enlarge on himself...). She told <strong>Gerban the Carpenter</strong> to walk back to Abberton, then wrote a hateful farewell letter with his signature and had <strong>Carla the Cook</strong> find it.</p><p></p><p>At this time the heroes started to hatch a plan to get rid of the Succubi, after overcoming their initial disappointment their lunch wasn't completely free after all... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> They liked the idea of a non-combat resolution that involves making a story out of her rejection vulnerability. The Ranger recruited her to his circus performance, and promptly fell under her spell (but gained +1 Intimidation and +1d6 damage for the full suit of demonic power).</p><p></p><p>She found a quartet of <strong>Caligni Stalkers</strong> and persuaded them to seek employment at the circus, nearly succeeding in causing a fight (which could easily have killed several bystanders given the Calign death trait). She told <strong>Morchi and Grasni</strong>, a married couple of hardened gamblers (actually undead Bone Croupiers) where to find easy marks (=the circus NPCs), at least until a few heroes triggered a fight and slaughtered them.</p><p></p><p>In her guise as Aline the knife thrower, she talked down <strong>Aives the Crossdressing Tiefling</strong> and his hanger-on <strong>Duke</strong> (I gave each of the three scenario NPCs a wing-man since it would be too easy otherwise; Duke used the stats of a Duskwalker) from sabotaging the animal pens of the circus. When the Ranger chose to help out his friends, asking her to walk them out of the circus by herself (not surprising since he trusted Aline...) she took them out into the woods and... (the GM making a random roll) "wore" them out, leaving only their lifeless husks behind. Bad luck there Aives - no circus for you!</p><p></p><p>The other heroes managed to talk <strong>Ruanna</strong> and her lover-boy <strong>Jared</strong> (a Charming Scoundrel) out of it, even confiscating a bunch of CM tickets. They later made an attempt to recruit her but a natural 1 cut that story short. They charmed <strong>Armand</strong>, Delamar's dwarf bodyguard (and a Hellknight Armiger), but <strong>Delamar</strong> couldn't accept being bested by "country yokels" so they subdued him (using non-lethal attacks) and let Armand run back to CM with his war flail between his legs.</p><p></p><p>Then finally everybody succeeded in their plans to turn the audience against her, and she flopped to the ground, dead from massive amounts of mental damage, reverting to her natural form of the "sexy librarian" Balenni (with wings) to the oohs and aahs of the excited audience <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>The show was a success, Delamar Gianvin's plan to sabotage the performance was stopped (and he himself ended up dead, dumped by the heroes into the quicksand out the swamp, probably to emerge as a new will'o'wisp for future generations of heroes!)</p><p></p><p>The only drawback of finally killing off Balenni - and stopping their circus community from disintegrating - was that they lost all their demonic upgrades, which stung the Ranger the most. At least he got to reconcile with his girlfriend, who had threatened to leave the circus when he was repeatedly unable to resist the charms of Aline.</p><p></p><p>And hey, they leveled up!</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7979934, member: 12731"] The saga has ended - the succubus is no more. All in all good fun was to be had, and I got to try out most of my ideas, so I count this little scenario expansion as a success. [SPOILER] Remember, Balenni was scripted to face the heroes in a single encounter (back in level 4) and then die. Instead, she wrote a full session's worth of extra material basically single-handedly! She got to successfully persuade four out of five heroes to accept her offerings (making a deal). She got to mess with their friends and loved ones. She sent in two groups of malign creatures to make life hard on the heroes. She got her hooks deep into one character and nearly made him lose Tanterra the Bouncer (his NPC girlfriend). Then she helped out against Mistress Dusklight's "showstoppers", got to "escort" two defeated agents out of the circus grounds unattended (which meant she sexxed them to death), and then participated in a Big Finale circus performance, where the other heroes manipulated the entire crowd to boo her out of existence! Specifically: She started off by approaching the heroes individually, when they first reached Escadar and immediately raced to the magic shoppes! She successfully offered +1 to attacks to the Fighter (as [B]Liane[/B] the tattooed mercenary and party-girl), +1 to spell DC to the Cleric (as [B]Master Albin[/B] the grizzled but handsome old northern warrior), +1d6 to damage to the Barbarian (as [B]Ian[/B] the sweaty and strong half-Orc smith) and 1 MAP reduction to the Ranger (as [B]Aline[/B], the cute halfling knife thrower). Only the Wizard resisted the charms of [B]Miss Elain[/B] the Gnome Potion Tinkerer (by completely bungling his social interaction... ;) ) She sowed a rumor [B]Deanna[/B] the servant girl (and [URL='https://carnivale.fandom.com/wiki/Cootch_Show']cooch show[/URL] trainee by Mrs Peacock) was about to be fired, causing discontent in the camp. She stole a valued trinket from [B]Svenja Flamboni[/B] and planted it in the coffer of her sister [B]Glumja Flamboni[/B]. She made [B]Mordaine the Magician[/B] wrap [B]Elizia[/B] (her hated rival) in chains and dropped her in her water tank, accusing her of sleeping her way into the Directors' favor (which actually is true, Elizia likes the company of men and found the small half-Leshy Wizard quite interesting, especially when he cast Enlarge on himself...). She told [B]Gerban the Carpenter[/B] to walk back to Abberton, then wrote a hateful farewell letter with his signature and had [B]Carla the Cook[/B] find it. At this time the heroes started to hatch a plan to get rid of the Succubi, after overcoming their initial disappointment their lunch wasn't completely free after all... ;) They liked the idea of a non-combat resolution that involves making a story out of her rejection vulnerability. The Ranger recruited her to his circus performance, and promptly fell under her spell (but gained +1 Intimidation and +1d6 damage for the full suit of demonic power). She found a quartet of [B]Caligni Stalkers[/B] and persuaded them to seek employment at the circus, nearly succeeding in causing a fight (which could easily have killed several bystanders given the Calign death trait). She told [B]Morchi and Grasni[/B], a married couple of hardened gamblers (actually undead Bone Croupiers) where to find easy marks (=the circus NPCs), at least until a few heroes triggered a fight and slaughtered them. In her guise as Aline the knife thrower, she talked down [B]Aives the Crossdressing Tiefling[/B] and his hanger-on [B]Duke[/B] (I gave each of the three scenario NPCs a wing-man since it would be too easy otherwise; Duke used the stats of a Duskwalker) from sabotaging the animal pens of the circus. When the Ranger chose to help out his friends, asking her to walk them out of the circus by herself (not surprising since he trusted Aline...) she took them out into the woods and... (the GM making a random roll) "wore" them out, leaving only their lifeless husks behind. Bad luck there Aives - no circus for you! The other heroes managed to talk [B]Ruanna[/B] and her lover-boy [B]Jared[/B] (a Charming Scoundrel) out of it, even confiscating a bunch of CM tickets. They later made an attempt to recruit her but a natural 1 cut that story short. They charmed [B]Armand[/B], Delamar's dwarf bodyguard (and a Hellknight Armiger), but [B]Delamar[/B] couldn't accept being bested by "country yokels" so they subdued him (using non-lethal attacks) and let Armand run back to CM with his war flail between his legs. Then finally everybody succeeded in their plans to turn the audience against her, and she flopped to the ground, dead from massive amounts of mental damage, reverting to her natural form of the "sexy librarian" Balenni (with wings) to the oohs and aahs of the excited audience :) The show was a success, Delamar Gianvin's plan to sabotage the performance was stopped (and he himself ended up dead, dumped by the heroes into the quicksand out the swamp, probably to emerge as a new will'o'wisp for future generations of heroes!) The only drawback of finally killing off Balenni - and stopping their circus community from disintegrating - was that they lost all their demonic upgrades, which stung the Ranger the most. At least he got to reconcile with his girlfriend, who had threatened to leave the circus when he was repeatedly unable to resist the charms of Aline. And hey, they leveled up! [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]
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