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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glamdring" data-source="post: 373566" data-attributes="member: 4835">I'd say the most recent example of evil I've used is found in the lower lair of the Blood Elder (a male human vampire wizard/blood magus/cleric of Loviater).  In one of his lower sanctums he keeps a long hall of rusted, bloody chains hanging from the ceiling, each one ending in a wicked hook (like Hellraiser, I suppose).  This ghastly hall's floor is sloped to allow blood to trickle down from tortured, maimed, and flayed victims hanging from these chains to pour down and collect in a massive blood pool used by the Elder.  There are several smaller cells branching away from this main hall, and these individual cells are where the serious torture takes place.In one of these cells there is a nude human female strung up in the air and spread eagle, the awful hooks snagged through her hands and feet, with another two yanking her up by the flesh of her ruined back.  Her eyes have been gouged out, and her once long blonde hair has been ripped out of her scalp.  She is kept conscious by her kyton torturers, and the wounds, slashes, lacerations, and burns riddling her body hardly allow anyone to recognize her as anything resembling a human female.  She is insane with pain.  She cannot see, or communicate in any fashion other than by her mindless moaning and wailing.This woman was once the consort of a powerful conjurer, Madrasker, of the Arcane Brotherhood of Luskan.  When he found out she was being wildly and sexually unfaithful to him, his rage was controlled, to a point.  Madraskar summoned the services of the kytons in order to teach this frolicking harlot a lesson she would absolutely never forget, a lesson that would result in her untimate demise by the most horrendous means available to those of the Nine Hells.  The kytons truly delight in their near-genius means of unconventional torture.  Her torment has been going on for well over a year, and Madraskar makes it a point to drop by her bloody cell of chains once a month to insure her punishment continues painfully uninterrupted.Should my PCs attempt to free this woman (I haven't given her a name, since the PCs will not have any means to learn it), they could heal her wounds, but it would take powerful magic to return her sanity to her.  Even so, should this happen, Madraskar will surely teleport to the scene within a few short rounds, draped in defensive magic, a wand in each hand, ready to add to the chains any bothersome pests who would would think to end the torture of a woman who so richly deserves it.  The PCs will, of course, have to contend with the Blood Elder himself, who considers Madraskar a tolerable ally at best.This is typically as evil as I get with my games.  With my current vampire campaign, I've already turned two PCs into vampires, and I don't plan on stopping there.  I can be a meanie behind my DM screen.  I think I'll drag out my Blood Elder angle for as long as I can.</blockquote>

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