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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 920823" data-attributes="member: 2209">A double!OK this one was in a campaign where I took over my roomates low level heroic greek campaign and brought them to Ravenloft.A new PC made up a thief fence type of character and for his starting equipment he wanted something valuable to sell so I gave him a scroll of cure disease and told him he acquired it cheap and could expect to sell it for a high price in one of the cities that he had contacts in if he got the chance in game. It was his only magic item.The party does a mad doctor scene where a damsel is captured and medical things are done to her in an attempt to revive the doctor's long maintained comatose wife.After a cool combat with the doctor (I particularly remember the thief picking up a jar with a pickled brain and hurling it at the doctor) they defeat him and go to rescue the damsel.The cleric is only 4th level and only has normal cure spells, but from examining her the biological manipulations that have been done to her are disease like and will require more than that.The thief starts cursing and then volunteers his only valuable item to the party cleric to use on her.I remind the good Hephaestus cleric who has a high spellcraft and religion knowledge that divine magic items from other gods taps into the other gods power and can be used but is considered a minor sin depending upon how antithetical the different gods are. This can result in loss of spell access, require atonement, and he even remembers a story of Ares smiting dead a follower who dared use an Athenian scroll. I also remind him that nobody they have met so far has even heard of Hephaestus, let alone know where a temple or high level cleric of him are.Being a true hero, he says OK and takes the scroll and casts the spell.So I give him the following text of the spell to read:"Oh mighty Hastur, I invoke your name of power to banish the evil humors that plague this body, Hastur, Hastur, Hastur!."The cleric's PC had never played or read Cthulhu, the thief's had. He stared at me and the cleric and just said "Oh my god"I rolled a bunch of percentile dice each time he read the name but they never came out low enough.As the cleric cast it, he felt a dread power course through him and a touch of pure evil upon his soul and everyone present felt a chill, intense uneasiness, and a little nausea.The spell worked, but the cleric could not cast any cleric spells above second level after that until he quested and met and trained under a minion his god had sent to help him.So the thief voluntarily gave up his only magic item, the cleric voluntarily transgressed against his god, and they invoked a dark power in ravenloft.But they did save the girl!You could say I was not such a RB because I didn't have Hastur show up himself. But I did let the dice decide and played it so that the casting established a connection for him. They never did investigate where the thief got the scroll, which was too bad.</blockquote>

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