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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7180552" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50247/Another-13-Shades-of-Darkness?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Another 13 Shades of Darkness</a>Mutants & Masterminds 2eMary Blood, Vampire, Professional Actress, Model, Mysterious Inhuman Creature of the Night, Small-Town Girl, Bad Friend, Parahuman, Lousy Teammate, Wayward Young Vampress With an Unhappy Past, Menace, Kid, Dangerous Criminal, Threat to National Security: The New York Chapter used Mary as bait, knowing that her youth and good looks would make her irresistible to their quarry. They sent her into a private club owned by an ancient Hungarian vampire named Count Zoltan, and used her to lure him to his doom. Mary was bitten during the course of the adventure, so her new friends in the Society prepared to have her killed. She had never trusted them, however, and ran away before they had a chance to pound a stake through her heart. By the time she arrived in the PCs’ campaign city, she could no longer walk by day.Misery, Embodiment of Misery, Ghastly Undead Sorcerer, Unspeakable Nightmarish Abomination, Immortal, God, Wretched Coward, Wizard, Sorcerer, Supernatural Entity, Evil Spirit, Demon, Evil Entity, Apparition, Vile Creature, Undying Creature, Accomplished Sorcerer, Embodiment of Despair Hopelessness and Death, Paranormal Being, Truly Insidious Foe, Human Figure, Ally, Protector, Confidante, Unsavory Creature of Darkness, Titan, Old Enemy: The man who would become the embodiment of Misery (nameless here, as even he has forgotten the details of his mortal life), was born in Ancient Egypt, prior to the birth of the prophet Moses or the rise of the Roman Empire. The man became a physician and an occultist, tending to the needs of the royal families of Egypt and even Pharaoh himself; but he did not do so because he wished to cure the ill and care for the dying, nor did he act out of a desire for glory and wealth; no, the man who would become Misery was terrified of death, horrified of what might come after his life on Earth came to an end, and he sought insight into human mortality only in the hope of preventing his own end. Death terrified him so much that he grew to hate life, for life by nature was finite. He learned an occult ritual that allowed him to steal life from those already sick and dying, but while this temporarily granted him more vigor, it did nothing to preserve or extend his life. Gathering his meager courage, he attempted an arcane ritual to summon a demon from the underworld, an emissary from a World Forbidden to Man. The sinister physician succeeded in the ritual, and called forth a horrific being from some hellish dimension. The wretched man quivered in fear before the thing, but his fear of his own mortality won out, and he offered his soul in exchange for immortality. The evil thing laughed at this, saying the man’s soul was already lost, but that another bargain was possible; if the man would agree to become the embodiment of Misery on Earth he would be granted life everlasting–at a price. He would have to walk the world forever, always in search of scenes where human suffering had occurred on a grand scale. He would extinguish the lives and hopes of those who had survived, feeding his own power as he did so. The alternative was to live out his life as any other mortal, trembling in fear at the thought of death, and expiring in a few short decades. The man had come too far to turn back, and the diabolic bargain was struck; Misery was born. Voracious Legion, Conquest-Wight: Shortly before the cataclysm, M’aal’iss’ha–the Legion’s matriarch-priestess, slut-bride of the Eternal Eater–had a premonition of the impending disaster. She gathered the fiercest, most merciless warriors of the Legion to her side, bidding them to capture as many captives as they could along their journey and bring these unfortunates to her. She especially encouraged the Legionnaires to secure pregnant females and newly-hatched offspring. She then led them into the deep caverns that extended for miles under the surface of H’raath. There they performed an obscene ritual where that culminated in the sacrifice of their captives and their undying pledge to serve S’aar’ah’man beyond the end of their world, beyond death or damnation.M’aal’iss’ha the Vomitous, Crazed Priestess, High Priestess, Slut-Bride, Matriarch-Priestess, Favored Slut-Bride: Shortly before the cataclysm, M’aal’iss’ha–the Legion’s matriarch-priestess, slut-bride of the Eternal Eater–had a premonition of the impending disaster. She gathered the fiercest, most merciless warriors of the Legion to her side, bidding them to capture as many captives as they could along their journey and bring these unfortunates to her. She especially encouraged the Legionnaires to secure pregnant females and newly-hatched offspring. She then led them into the deep caverns that extended for miles under the surface of H’raath. There they performed an obscene ritual where that culminated in the sacrifice of their captives and their undying pledge to serve S’aar’ah’man beyond the end of their world, beyond death or damnation.Longing Dead: Not all the soldiers, scientists, and technicians who succumbed to the unleashed Delirium were lucky enough to die. Some of the stronger-willed ones suffered a far worse fate; unwilling to relinquish the rage they felt at having their lives stolen away from them by the obscene entity that had crept out of the crawlspace between worlds, their hatred prevented their souls from wholly moving on from this plane of existence. Instead some remnant of them remained in their hollowed-out shells, seething with anger over all that had been stripped away from them.Despite the fact that they gnash at their victims with their broken, jagged teeth, they do not consume flesh. Instead they try to grapple their targets and drag them to the ground, where they then try to steal away their essence, causing the poor unfortunates to rapidly weaken and age, while the Longing Dead gain strength. Those who survive this process regain their youth within a few minutes rest (though other injuries they sustained must heal normally) but any who perish join the Longing Dead.Death is not necessarily the end for those whose lives are stolen by the Delirium–those who perish must attempt DC 20 Will save. Any who succeed are reanimated as members of the Longing Dead. The Maiden, Oxana Zed, Angry Ghost: She discovered the whereabouts of Soviet Science City Six and came here alone, looking for occult secrets. In Test Chamber Five, she found out more than she wanted. Now her angry ghost stalks the halls of Soviet Science City Six, something more and less than human.Voracious Legion, Hulking Undead Warrior, Slow-Moving Shambling Reptilian Creature: ?Longing Dead, Pale Elderly Man, Undead Horror, Bloodthirsty Zombie: ?Undead, Unliving: ?Ghastly Undead Sorcerer: ?Cloud of Undead Black Insects: ?Ghost, Phantom, Hapless Gentle Phantom: ?Middle-Eastern Ghoul: ?Vampire, Real Vampire, Nosferatu: ?Count Zoltan, Ancient Hungarian Vampire: ?Vampire Spawn: ?Vampire Spawn, Mary's Brood, Sister of the Bloody Moon: ?Vampire, Supernatural Creature: ?Particularly Vicious Vampire: ?Zombie: ?</blockquote>

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