barsoomcore
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Oh, I HATE it when that happens! And then she rewinds it, you know, to the bit where... em...Byrons_Ghost said:Old SNL tapes with Billy Crystal?
When you find out your the incestuous spawn of Iuz and his mother
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barsoomcore
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More on topic, one of my players came up with the usual "From an aristocratic background, family wiped out by dirty dogs, now the only remaining son vows vengeance" character backgrounds.
So he had his dad down for executed on trumped-charges and I asked, "What about your mom?" He says, "Oh, well, she hasn't been seen since."
Okay, so I think about that. I think about why someone would go to all the trouble to fake evidence, rig a trial etc, to put someone away. And make Mom disappear.
So I decided (without telling him) that his mother's family were the holders of a terrible curse: the eldest member of the family is in fact a foul lycanthrope, a vicious were-leopard of incredible ferocity, who is traditionally kept in a pen in the dungeon of her family's castle.
Mom gets taken away by the baddies who done in his father just because they're baddies and tormenting aristocratic ladies is what they do. Unfortunately for them, while they're holding her her family gets wiped out in a war back in her homeland. She's suddenly the eldest surviving family member, turns into super-were-leopard and kills all her guards, escapes and runs back to her family castle where she grew up.
All this is unbeknowst to our hero, who shows a remarkable lack of interest in the whereabouts of his mother. I drop hints here and there that there's more going on with his background but no follow-up is forthcoming. Fine. Mom gets home and begins laying waste to the countryside until some folks find out the story and manage to pen her up. A message gets sent to the PC telling him his mother is found and unwell. He does not go to see her.
Hey, she's a starving were-leopard. Nobody's about to let her out of her cell, now that they know what she is. So she dies.
Guess who the next in line is?
Suddenly, without warning, the PC turned into a big cat.
Hee hee hee....
So he had his dad down for executed on trumped-charges and I asked, "What about your mom?" He says, "Oh, well, she hasn't been seen since."
Okay, so I think about that. I think about why someone would go to all the trouble to fake evidence, rig a trial etc, to put someone away. And make Mom disappear.
So I decided (without telling him) that his mother's family were the holders of a terrible curse: the eldest member of the family is in fact a foul lycanthrope, a vicious were-leopard of incredible ferocity, who is traditionally kept in a pen in the dungeon of her family's castle.
Mom gets taken away by the baddies who done in his father just because they're baddies and tormenting aristocratic ladies is what they do. Unfortunately for them, while they're holding her her family gets wiped out in a war back in her homeland. She's suddenly the eldest surviving family member, turns into super-were-leopard and kills all her guards, escapes and runs back to her family castle where she grew up.
All this is unbeknowst to our hero, who shows a remarkable lack of interest in the whereabouts of his mother. I drop hints here and there that there's more going on with his background but no follow-up is forthcoming. Fine. Mom gets home and begins laying waste to the countryside until some folks find out the story and manage to pen her up. A message gets sent to the PC telling him his mother is found and unwell. He does not go to see her.
Hey, she's a starving were-leopard. Nobody's about to let her out of her cell, now that they know what she is. So she dies.
Guess who the next in line is?
Suddenly, without warning, the PC turned into a big cat.
Hee hee hee....
Viktyr Gehrig
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It's one thing when your DM ignores the plot hooks you give him...
It's another thing entirely when you ignore your own.
It's another thing entirely when you ignore your own.
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
Barsoomcore, that's just great.
I had a PC who wanted to be the son of nobility, who had run away from his responsibilities for a life of freedom. His elven mother had died of a wasting sickness, and he was estranged from his human father. Over time, the two slowly came to find a middle ground, and the PC began to reap some of the benefits of being a noble.
Then the group went plane hopping.
In the LE gatetown of Ribcage, the group managed to mightily thwart - but not kill - an erinyes. She decided to take revenge. So she had a diviner find where the PC was from, went there, and used her powerful charm power to make the PC's widowed father fall madly in love with her. By the time that the PCs got back from the outer planes, she was already married to the PC's father and had turned the PC's room into a nursery.
The group thought that she was a nasty, manipulative woman until other hints began surfacing, like people she'd gamble with and make sign IOUs. Turns out that she was collecting souls from innocents as she went along. When the PCs finally confronted her at a grand ball and learned that she was a devil, she explained to them how things lay:
1. If they killed her, they would only kill her mortal body, and she would return to hell with the contracts for the 20-odd souls she had signed for while here - including the PC's father.
2. She could teleport without error. If the PCs attacked her, she would teleport immediately to a public place and reveal herself to be a fiend. She advised them to check the laws; consorting with a fiend is punishable by death and conscription of all material goods.
So please, she said, go ahead and try to kill me. If you try and fail, I will reveal your father to be a traitor; the King will hang him and you and your siblings will lose your titles, your honor and your inheritance. If you succeed, you guarantee that you have damned two dozen innocent people here to hell. So she advised him to get used to having a loving new stepmother, and headed off to dance with the PC's father.
I had a PC who wanted to be the son of nobility, who had run away from his responsibilities for a life of freedom. His elven mother had died of a wasting sickness, and he was estranged from his human father. Over time, the two slowly came to find a middle ground, and the PC began to reap some of the benefits of being a noble.
Then the group went plane hopping.
In the LE gatetown of Ribcage, the group managed to mightily thwart - but not kill - an erinyes. She decided to take revenge. So she had a diviner find where the PC was from, went there, and used her powerful charm power to make the PC's widowed father fall madly in love with her. By the time that the PCs got back from the outer planes, she was already married to the PC's father and had turned the PC's room into a nursery.
The group thought that she was a nasty, manipulative woman until other hints began surfacing, like people she'd gamble with and make sign IOUs. Turns out that she was collecting souls from innocents as she went along. When the PCs finally confronted her at a grand ball and learned that she was a devil, she explained to them how things lay:
1. If they killed her, they would only kill her mortal body, and she would return to hell with the contracts for the 20-odd souls she had signed for while here - including the PC's father.
2. She could teleport without error. If the PCs attacked her, she would teleport immediately to a public place and reveal herself to be a fiend. She advised them to check the laws; consorting with a fiend is punishable by death and conscription of all material goods.
So please, she said, go ahead and try to kill me. If you try and fail, I will reveal your father to be a traitor; the King will hang him and you and your siblings will lose your titles, your honor and your inheritance. If you succeed, you guarantee that you have damned two dozen innocent people here to hell. So she advised him to get used to having a loving new stepmother, and headed off to dance with the PC's father.
barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
Piratecat, I bow.
*bows*
That's putting the VILE in EVIL.
*bows*
That's putting the VILE in EVIL.
Dareoon Dalandrove
First Post
I remember that from the stroy hour. That is one of those damned if you do damned of you don't. It's much worse that the baby sheilds.
blackshirt5
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I bow down to you, P-kitty. You are what I should learn to be as a DM.
Hey RakeRon, about your widowed mother...
Hey RakeRon, about your widowed mother...
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