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Message: <blockquote data-quote="demiurge1138" data-source="post: 2114018" data-attributes="member: 7451">You know, I was about to start a thread much like this.The one NPC who inspired the most hatred in my games was probably Locke. The party first met Locke when a TPK made me do a forced reset. The cleric of the previous party was wearing a circlet of blasting in the shape of a golden tiara, and Locke met with the party when they were making preparations to storm the mansion that claimed the last party's life and take the bounty of the necromancer who lived there. Locke, a tall, nattily dressed human man with ginger hair and a broad smile, explained that he was a dealer in gems and art. He told them that he was trying to contact the dead cleric to arrange a sale, and would pay handsomely for the tiara if they would return it to him. They braved the mansion, got the necro's head for the bounty, and returned to find Locke and bring him the tiara. The paladin in the new party had found in the mansion an amulet that could cast true seeing 1/day, and when he detected evil on Locke right after the exchange, he used it to satisfy his curiousity.At which point, I the DM grabbed my right wrist in my left hand and rotated my right hand (the effect actually works in long sleeves). The right hand then rotated the left, and I described to them the tiger-headed humanoid with backwards facing hands that just took the tiara.Everyone's jaws dropped. Explicatives were shouted, in and out of game. The paladin drew his sword, and Locke the rakshasa teleported away.From that point on, everywhere they went, they found traces of Locke's "art trade" everywhere they went. The illithid that kidnapped one of the halfing rogues was carrying shipments of rubies engraved with a cursive L and a tiger's paw. The same symbol appeared on the collars of the displacer beasts that they fought off when defending a museum of magical artifacts (almost all replicas...) from kuo-toa trying to steal a cloak that served as a companion piece to the tiara (the tiara and cloak were dedicated to a mysterious demigod known as the King in Yellow...). They were assaulted by Locke's minions when they were trying to track down the kuo-toa theives, and found ample evidence in their stronghold that Locke provided them with materials and goods.They hated him. And the best thing? He's still at large. If I ever return to that campaign world (it was an alternate universe Greyhawk), Locke will come back with it.Demiurge out.</blockquote>

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