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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delgar" data-source="post: 910894" data-attributes="member: 3195">The most Rat Bastardly thing I've done as a GM is as follows:I was running a campaign where the players had unknowingly uncovered a plot where this very cold, calculating mage was trying to piece together an artifact. Basically it was a race to find pieces before he could and defend the pieces they had found against his minions. He was one of the first villians they had faced and he had escaped.Now the wizard, had killed innocents, slaughtered an entire town and was always one step ahead of them. They kept hearing rumors of this black robed man, where ever he went death seemed to follow. He would stop at nothing to recover the pieces of this artifact.Now the players had recovered a map from one of his lackeys revealing the possible locations of the pieces and they could also link the artifact back to a specific family. Anyway to make a long story short they had contacted the lord of this town where one of the pieces was rumored to be. Apparently it was an heirloom of the family. The party had a pleasent dinner with the lord and his daughter and warned him of the black robed mage and his lackeys and about how he would stop at nothing to recover this item. The lord of course confident in his abilties said he had already been contacted and that he would be able to handle it.One of my players became quite smitten with the daughter of the lord and she too had developed a fondness for him. They had a little Romeo and Juliet style love affair. The player then snuck onto the manor ground, proclaimed his lover for her and gave her a golden mirror (an object he had found earlier). The father found out and forbid his daughter to settle for such a commoner (he was a dashing swashbuckler sailor type).The daughter fearing for her fathers life snuck out of the house and found the group at their inn and told them that she new where the gem was and how they could get there. That it was a family heirloom and that it was hidden in the family crypt. She wanted them to take it, to protect her father. The swashbuckler alread falling in love with the daughter of course readily agreed and gave her his earing as a token of their love. Now for the Rat Bastard part: The players snuck into the crypt and stole the object. Which in turn was stolen from them. The father, through magical means found out they had stolen the gem and had an arrest warrant set out for the party. The daughter could not believe that the swashbuckler had betrayed her and her family. The party had to get out of dodge.The swashbuckler, snuck back into the manner grounds to try and swoon his love back to explain. But she couldn't believe that he could betray her so and she droped the mirror in the courtyard as she didn't want to have anything to do with him and the mirror shattered just like her love for him. He picked up every piece of the mirror as a reminder of their shattered love and vowed one day to mend them both.Of course every now and then the Black robed mage would show up to taunt the party, always wearing the earring that the swashbuckler had given him.Ahh thinking about that campaign always makes me smile. I wish I had finished writing my story hour up about it.Anyway, I hope you all enjoy!!Delgar</blockquote>

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