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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6699513" data-attributes="member: 5834">If you were a real bastard and your player's background allowed it, you could have some of the PC elf's relatives captured along with him. They basically kept the family alive to torture them and make the members of the family watch. It's something I would do  if the PC gave me the rope. I'd have to make sure not to press it too far or get too vivid because role-playing situations of that nature require a very mature player that doesn't mind role-playing that type of scenario. It's a hard scenario to get into because imagining that situation and the relationships is enough to cause real anger and unhappiness. If the player can handle that type of role-playing, they in essence become the fantasy equivalent of The Punisher. Though after that I wouldn't expect them to ever spare drow. You could justify an elf being kept for this particularly cruel form of torture. Or you could say the slavers know a drow mage that is doing experiments on surface dwelling elves. The drow mage is developing bioweapons for use against surface elves to wipe them out. He is paying well for surface dwelling elves to use in the experiment. Or you could sell to a military school or house that likes to use surface dwelling elves for training their troops. Perhaps they like to have surface dwelling elves fight their soldiers so the soldiers learn the fighting techniques of surface dwelling elves including how to deal with their archery skills.Or the classic Most Dangerous Game scenario where a drow underdark hunter/merchant buys surface elves for professional hunts paid for by rich and bored drow looking for an extraordinary hunt. Nothing pleases them more than hunting down one of their surface dwelling cousins to torture and kill. Then perhaps mounting the dead elf head on their wall. He prefers to buy relatively weak elves, so that is clients don't have real problems during the hunt. Or if you want a truly sick, twisted reason (well, more so than the previous two), you could have the slavers know a drow artist that enjoys using elves as part of a live performance art show where he uses them as the centerpiece. Painting with their blood. Using their skin as a canvas for drawing on while they are alive as he audience watches him draw on their skin until they die. Perhaps he flays them alive and then makes items with surface elf skin. Or just a general show on torture.There are so many possibilities while the drow might keep a few surface elves alive to do things with, things only drow might find entertaining or useful.</blockquote>

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