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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1361825" data-attributes="member: 13098">I'm not entirely sure you need to do anything to the character.  Have the villian prepare everything that he is going to do to the Druid.  Slowly and methodically.  Take many of the suggestions here and have the Dark Druid go on acquisition trips.  Have the Dark Druid leave for a few days, then return with a big bear that he tells the PC has been infested with a Rot Grub.  The Dark Druid plans on using them on the PC, but he needs to wait for the grubs to reproduce first.  After all, he is going to put them in the PC, let them eat around for a while and then Cure Disease.  Then, he will observe how much pain the PC can take.  And while the grubs are eating the bear, he is going to go get something else.  So, the Druid gets to watch the bear suffer.  When the Dark Druid returns, he might have a new component for his torture ready.  A few shopping trips and he is slowly populating his lair with all the nasty stuff he will be sending the Druids way.  The threat of torture and the lengths the Dark Druid is willing to go to might be enough to leave a memorable impression.  But, for added fun, maybe the Dark Druid is keeping notes somewhere.  Stuff like "Subject is responding well to isolation and pain from the Rot Grubs.  Today he agreed with the basic premise that Humans are a threat to the natural order."  "Subject has memorized the three principles on how to eliminate the threat Humans present.  A few more days and he will be ready to be 'saved' by his former companions."  You know, stuff like that.  Let the party wonder if he is to be trusted any longer.I do like the werewolf idea.  Except, have an ally of the Dark Druid come into the lair, change shape and do a little biting, and chewing, and gnawing on the PC.  The PC knows that he might be infected with Lycanthropy.  Have the Dark Druid gleefully tell him how many days left until the full moon.  When the other PC's finally save him, how much time will be left?  It is curable, but it is a threat.</blockquote>

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