MlleRouge
2011-10-10, 12:31 PM
Anyone playing in HARVEST SEASON needs to turn around and head back out of the thread. Thank you.
All righty, so technically this is 3.5, but the mechanics are largely irrelevant. I hope this is the right place; the question itself isn't exactly game related, but the background information very much is.
So this all started back at the beginning of my newest campaign. It’s a great game so far; everyone is heavily immersed and we’ve had some amazing role play, as well as some pretty epic battles with clever baddies and recurring villains. Everyone is enjoying themselves. I’m actually keeping a very detailed campaign journal of it, which I may post here one day if I get the moxie to do so.
The basic plot revolves around Nerull. In the cosmology for my campaign setting, Nerull has typically been his usual flesh-hating self, but I’ve decided to revise it a bit and make him more like Kelemvor. I think a neutral god of death compliments the setting better.
Rather than retconing all the stories about crazy, evil Nerullian death cultists, I’m saying that for the last thousand years or so, Nerull (who is a little bit emo anyhow) has been depressed and letting his advisors/subordinates take care of his position while he takes a bit of a break…Problem is, those advisors are people like Orcus, Falazure, and Vecna. And they haven’t been doing a good job.
Hence the crazy death cultists and Nerull’s terrible reputation.
Well, he feels like a fool now and is about to do some purging. Some asses are going to be kicked, including those of the lesser death deities and the actual Nerullian followers who don’t want to play by the new rules. So that’s what the plot revolves around…a civil war between chaotic evil ‘muaha, flesh is weak, undeath is ideal!’ scythe-swinging cultists and the new sect of calm, reverent Nerullians who respect the god of death for what he actually is…true neutral and highly upset about what has happened while he took his nap.
Now on to the verb part. One of my players in a priest of Pelor and has, through prophetic mojo, figured out the truth. He’s still a bit wary though, since he was raised to think of Nerull as this terrible evil entity. One night, after having a vision, he was feeling a little spooked and looked under his bed before going to sleep.
Then, with a sarcastic smirk, one of the other players broke character and said “You look under your bed…Nerull!”
Everyone laughed and it quickly became a running joke. Any time someone looked under, inside or around something in character, someone would jokingly say “Nerull!”.
Now, about a month later, it’s spread to OOC as well. I got bored at work and printed/laminated some little miniature grim reapers and hid them throughout the house where we play, so people were literally looking in their textbooks, the microwave, etc and finding that they’d been ‘Nerulled’.
Now it’s escalated to a full on prank war. I’ve hung a halloween grim reaper decoration in someone’s closet, one of the girls who comes to watch the game (but isn’t actually a player) dressed her dog up as a grim reaper and had him ‘attack’ (aka lick) one of the players while the game was going on, and one of the others has scrawled ‘Nerull was here’ on the back window of my car.
TL;DR My group has a running joke about finding grim reapers in unexpected places.
So here’s the advice I need, friends: What is the logical next step? I don't need to point out safety, I don't think. We're not a rowdy group, so benevolent ideas only!
But man, I really need to get that guy back after writing on my car :smallbiggrin: In-character applications are welcome as well.
I considered trying to get pizza hut to draw a grim reaper on a pizza box and send it to their house, but I’m not sure if they’ll humor me.
All righty, so technically this is 3.5, but the mechanics are largely irrelevant. I hope this is the right place; the question itself isn't exactly game related, but the background information very much is.
So this all started back at the beginning of my newest campaign. It’s a great game so far; everyone is heavily immersed and we’ve had some amazing role play, as well as some pretty epic battles with clever baddies and recurring villains. Everyone is enjoying themselves. I’m actually keeping a very detailed campaign journal of it, which I may post here one day if I get the moxie to do so.
The basic plot revolves around Nerull. In the cosmology for my campaign setting, Nerull has typically been his usual flesh-hating self, but I’ve decided to revise it a bit and make him more like Kelemvor. I think a neutral god of death compliments the setting better.
Rather than retconing all the stories about crazy, evil Nerullian death cultists, I’m saying that for the last thousand years or so, Nerull (who is a little bit emo anyhow) has been depressed and letting his advisors/subordinates take care of his position while he takes a bit of a break…Problem is, those advisors are people like Orcus, Falazure, and Vecna. And they haven’t been doing a good job.
Hence the crazy death cultists and Nerull’s terrible reputation.
Well, he feels like a fool now and is about to do some purging. Some asses are going to be kicked, including those of the lesser death deities and the actual Nerullian followers who don’t want to play by the new rules. So that’s what the plot revolves around…a civil war between chaotic evil ‘muaha, flesh is weak, undeath is ideal!’ scythe-swinging cultists and the new sect of calm, reverent Nerullians who respect the god of death for what he actually is…true neutral and highly upset about what has happened while he took his nap.
Now on to the verb part. One of my players in a priest of Pelor and has, through prophetic mojo, figured out the truth. He’s still a bit wary though, since he was raised to think of Nerull as this terrible evil entity. One night, after having a vision, he was feeling a little spooked and looked under his bed before going to sleep.
Then, with a sarcastic smirk, one of the other players broke character and said “You look under your bed…Nerull!”
Everyone laughed and it quickly became a running joke. Any time someone looked under, inside or around something in character, someone would jokingly say “Nerull!”.
Now, about a month later, it’s spread to OOC as well. I got bored at work and printed/laminated some little miniature grim reapers and hid them throughout the house where we play, so people were literally looking in their textbooks, the microwave, etc and finding that they’d been ‘Nerulled’.
Now it’s escalated to a full on prank war. I’ve hung a halloween grim reaper decoration in someone’s closet, one of the girls who comes to watch the game (but isn’t actually a player) dressed her dog up as a grim reaper and had him ‘attack’ (aka lick) one of the players while the game was going on, and one of the others has scrawled ‘Nerull was here’ on the back window of my car.
TL;DR My group has a running joke about finding grim reapers in unexpected places.
So here’s the advice I need, friends: What is the logical next step? I don't need to point out safety, I don't think. We're not a rowdy group, so benevolent ideas only!
But man, I really need to get that guy back after writing on my car :smallbiggrin: In-character applications are welcome as well.
I considered trying to get pizza hut to draw a grim reaper on a pizza box and send it to their house, but I’m not sure if they’ll humor me.