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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3327700" data-attributes="member: 1656">Now, how about the other direction?Hugo the Magnificent, Archmage Extraordinaire, has devoted his entire life to the service of others.  With his natural affinity for magic, he could have ruled the world... but instead, he turned his talents to ensuring peace and prosperity for the common folk of the kingdom.  He is wracked with assorted pains and ailments - the results of sacrificing his own life energies on numerous occasions when protecting the kingdom from Dark Forces - but he'd do it again in an instant, because With Great Power Comes etc etc.Then one day he's having a quiet drink in a tavern, and he overhears a conversation at the next table - a man has lost his entire savings in a card game, playing beyond his means in an effort to impress his mistress.  "What'll you tell your wife?" someone else asks.  "I won't," the man says.  "I'll go see old Hugo - spin him some line about needing money to cure some orphans of a horrible disease, or something.  He's supposed to be a pushover, from what I hear."Hugo reviews his life, and realises that people take him for granted.  He's sacrificed everything for them, and they look on him as a piggy-bank.  Well, no more!  He took a scroll off that mad warlock last year - it's safely sealed in the vault in his tower, but he can use it to suck the life energy out of the entire population of the city to rejuvenate himself.  And then he can go about grabbing the power that should always have been his, and the hell with anyone who stands in his way!On his way to the tower, he passes a paladin who happens to be Detecting Evil at the time.  Does he ping?-Hyp.</blockquote>

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