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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8246593" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>One that my younger son still remembers well is when I ran a campaign for him and his older brother. They got involved in an attempt to permanently kill Orcus on his home plane, and I played a "long game" of seeing how far I could get my oldest son's PC, a cleric of the "Uber-God" (he'd decided most of the good gods were all just separate factions of the same deity), to travel down the path of evil. In his desire to be the man who personally slew Orcus for good, I got him to: join forces with an information devil; imprison a valkyrie inside the body of my younger son's sorceress PC, to be sent into a kamikaze run against Orcus when the time came; amass and lead an army of devils; help capture an innocent paladin to be transformed into a vampiric servant of Orcus specifically because it would temporarily weaken the Demon Lord; send the calcified body of Cthulhu crashing into Orcus's realm of Thanatos (with the PCs and the devil army along for the ride); and finally betray his sorceress companion so he could slay Orcus. (He found out only at the last moment that the artifact-level <em>fiendslayer spear</em> he'd brought to slay Orcus first needed to be "charged up" by the blood of an innocent, so he stabbed it through the sorceress's body and from there directly into Orcus's heart.)</p><p></p><p>End result: Orcus was permanently slain, but the backwash of evil channeled through the spear corrupted the sorceress, converting her instantly into the new Demon Queen of the Undead. The cleric of the Uber-God didn't last very long after that.</p><p></p><p>My younger son still rankles at the betrayal to this day.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8246593, member: 508"] One that my younger son still remembers well is when I ran a campaign for him and his older brother. They got involved in an attempt to permanently kill Orcus on his home plane, and I played a "long game" of seeing how far I could get my oldest son's PC, a cleric of the "Uber-God" (he'd decided most of the good gods were all just separate factions of the same deity), to travel down the path of evil. In his desire to be the man who personally slew Orcus for good, I got him to: join forces with an information devil; imprison a valkyrie inside the body of my younger son's sorceress PC, to be sent into a kamikaze run against Orcus when the time came; amass and lead an army of devils; help capture an innocent paladin to be transformed into a vampiric servant of Orcus specifically because it would temporarily weaken the Demon Lord; send the calcified body of Cthulhu crashing into Orcus's realm of Thanatos (with the PCs and the devil army along for the ride); and finally betray his sorceress companion so he could slay Orcus. (He found out only at the last moment that the artifact-level [I]fiendslayer spear[/I] he'd brought to slay Orcus first needed to be "charged up" by the blood of an innocent, so he stabbed it through the sorceress's body and from there directly into Orcus's heart.) End result: Orcus was permanently slain, but the backwash of evil channeled through the spear corrupted the sorceress, converting her instantly into the new Demon Queen of the Undead. The cleric of the Uber-God didn't last very long after that. My younger son still rankles at the betrayal to this day. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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