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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eloi" data-source="post: 3926884" data-attributes="member: 27826">An aging blacksmith has three sons, a beautiful daughter, and a young wife who recently became ill.  He knows she was fine in the morning before she started talking to a gypsy, and that the kitten she obtained from the gypsy doesn't seem to want to leave her presence for any reason. He fears that somehow the kitten may be affecting his wife's health.His oldest son, very strong and a talented fighting man, is in service to the local lord. The second son, charismatic and handsome, is accompanying the third son on a business venture, setting him up to obtain the rights to a nearby iron mine.. cheaply, since it was taken over by odd creatures eight years ago. They are headed back to town to post an "Adventurers Wanted" notice. The beautiful daughter is tending his wife, but her condition is slowly worsening.What no one has noticed in a while is that the blacksmith does not apparently have a name; this is one manifestation of a curse which has hung about the blacksmith for over twenty years. The creature that has possessed this new wife, after slaying the old one, is vulnerable to the presence of felines, and is slowly being driven out of the host (while taking quite a toll on her). The kitten is quite smart, but otherwise a normal kitten, and acts as cats do when in the presence of an allergic human.When the creature does eventually emerge from the young wife, and is defeated, the hero who manages the feat will be well rewarded. Soon, though, the hero will discover that people who he has known and traveled with cannot seem to remember his name. Worse, people are calling the oldest son by the hero's name now.The bloodline of the blacksmith has been altered by magic. He has decommissioned about fifty cursed items so far in his career, and the dust that has built up in his smithy has some truly revolting auras left shimmering in it, if someone mystic were inclined to take a peek. Looking deeper into the matter reveals that his children are all especially appealing to the forces of Evil, insofar as they would all be perfect sacrifices. The blacksmith's neighbor, a silversmith, could be coerced into revealing that the blacksmith at one time had three daughters.</blockquote>

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