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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5812702" data-attributes="member: 1210">My favorite roleplaying moment ever:Sooo we had a female elven ranger, Egypt, and a human male priest of Nerull, Carrion. The two were in love.In my campaign, Nerull's whole attitude about everything was pretty much "DIE". One consequence of this was that his priests (this was 2e, and I hardly ever even used generic clerics) were not allowed to accept healing. The idea of helping things live was pretty anathema to them. (Said priest could harm but not heal.)Anyhow, the pcs defeated an epic bad guy and were brought to an assemblage of the gods, where each was given his or her heart's desire. When it came time for Egypt to ask them for her boon, she asked for Carrion's child.Now, if helping things live is a horrible offense to Nerull, creating new life is even moreso. So the pcs spent a couple sessions doing downtime, vacations, etc., and Egypt and Carrion went away to an isolated tropical island for a vacation/honeymoon.As they did, one morning Carrion said, "Egypt, I love you," and then attacked her with his scythe, trying to kill her. She didn't know what was going on; she fought defensively instead of all-out, taking serious wounds, until finally he cast his scythe down, spread his arms and cried, "Kill me!"Egypt (and her player, and everyone else except for Carrion's player and myself, based on questions he'd asked me about Nerull's theology after the boon-granting session) was baffled. But when she demanded to know what was going on, he explained that she had to kill him, or else he would have to kill her- and their child. So she did.It was an amazing, emotional, kick-ass exchange. I didn't know what he was going to do in advance, only that he was conflicted. When she wouldn't really fight back and he threw down his scythe, demanding that she kill him, the look on Egypt's player's face was awesome. All the players were rapt, even though only the two of them were the only ones in the scene, and I don't think anyone else (myself included) said a word for about twenty minutes while it played out.So awesome.</blockquote>

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