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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tempuswolf" data-source="post: 346220" data-attributes="member: 1712">In my old campaign, one of my players was an archaeologist who found a cache of Egyptian artifacts, spells and talismans.  I expanded on his origins rather perversely.I made him the third incarnation of the high priest of Set, Ankhseti, who every 3000 years or so has a knock down drag out with the high priest of Horus, Rahotep.  I ran him in a solo adventure that revealed to him that his civillian and superhero personas were just camoflage to keep his real identity as Ankhseti hidden from his archnemesis, Rahotep.  The back story was that although the Egyptian pantheon once walked the Earth at the inception of the Egyptian civilization circa 4000 BC, they voluntarily chose exile to a different dimension.  Set greatly resented his banishment and schemed to return.  The second battle between Ankhseti and Rahotep was recorded in Genesis, where they were incarnated as the grand vizier, Amonhotep, and adopted brother, Moseh, of the pharaoh Ramses the Great. After this solo adventure, I upped his power levels, gave him the true names of (ie, unresistable banishment or mind control spells against) the current Sorceror Supreme of earth who was the most likely candidate for Rahotep's current incarnation, a jumper-like character ala Wildcards who was one team member's younger brother, and a rat-b'stard on the police department who never liked the team anyway.  I had his girlfriend, a former Viper agent turned vigilante, reveal her vampiric nature to him (which he always suspected but...see below).   I gave him a list of things to do to bring about Set's apochryphal return.What all this boils down to is I let him play a supervillian-wolf in sheep's clothing for story arc in the campaign.I planned for either eventuallity, Ankhseti wins or the rest of team and Rahotep (whose current incarnation was a slightly deranged fan who had previously showed up at all the team's public appearances) do.  His girlfriend was my plot-device in the hole.  She was actually not a vampire but an impromptu agent for Isis, current leader of the pantheon who wanted neither her brother Set nor her son Horus and their eternal conflict entering Earth's plane.  She was given a blade and instructions on when she must, for the sake of the world, slay "the only man she had ever loved."  Isis took pity on the girl's plight and the blow from the khopesh split the superhero persona from Ankhseti.</blockquote>

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