Farastu
2013-08-04, 02:56 PM
So I've been running a Ravenloft game. I really wanted to make it sufficiently horrific and personal, so I think I've managed that. Here's one of the noteworthy "series of events" that has transpired.
One of the players manages to get cue de graced in his sleep by the big bad (what leads up to this happening is itself a long story). I could just leave him dead, but there's more interesting things that can happen. So the big bad raised him as an undead minion. The group decided to allow the player-turned-undead back into their group (I expected more harsh reactions than I got, but I think most of these players aren't used to other PCs being used against them).
The player proceeded to have his character manipulate the entire group to unwittingly do the bidding of the very enemy they were trying to hunt down. This leads to a number of very bad things happening, most of it though, involves them trying to start a revolution in Falkovnia, which seems noble enough: start getting the oppressed non-humans to take action against their oppressors. The big bad wants this to happen too though, for he hopes that he can use it as an opportunity to seize power for himself.
Eventually the big bad decides for various reasons the group has outlived their usefulness and commands the undead PC to kill them.
While they are exploring underground ruins, undead guy manages to make a deal with a Yugoloth (demonic being) which is bound there, whom proceeds to aid him in murdering the rest of the group.
Yugoloth gets a hold of one PC and starts torturing him, PC eventually gets free just long enough to commit suicide (mainly because of him realizing that he is quite likely after this to get used the blood ritual which the Yugoloth speaks of).
Undead PC beats another character to a bloody pulp, finishing him off, and finally offers his own follower up as a blood sacrifice in order to complete a ritual (which the demonic entity guides him through completing).
Eventually a series of events led to resurrection being an option, and the undead character having his mind freed from the big bad, but not without all the survivors being horribly scarred (with one going insane for example).
Fortunately most of the players seem to have thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course they still have to deal with the big bad whom manipulated them, and the mess they have helped create.
One of the players manages to get cue de graced in his sleep by the big bad (what leads up to this happening is itself a long story). I could just leave him dead, but there's more interesting things that can happen. So the big bad raised him as an undead minion. The group decided to allow the player-turned-undead back into their group (I expected more harsh reactions than I got, but I think most of these players aren't used to other PCs being used against them).
The player proceeded to have his character manipulate the entire group to unwittingly do the bidding of the very enemy they were trying to hunt down. This leads to a number of very bad things happening, most of it though, involves them trying to start a revolution in Falkovnia, which seems noble enough: start getting the oppressed non-humans to take action against their oppressors. The big bad wants this to happen too though, for he hopes that he can use it as an opportunity to seize power for himself.
Eventually the big bad decides for various reasons the group has outlived their usefulness and commands the undead PC to kill them.
While they are exploring underground ruins, undead guy manages to make a deal with a Yugoloth (demonic being) which is bound there, whom proceeds to aid him in murdering the rest of the group.
Yugoloth gets a hold of one PC and starts torturing him, PC eventually gets free just long enough to commit suicide (mainly because of him realizing that he is quite likely after this to get used the blood ritual which the Yugoloth speaks of).
Undead PC beats another character to a bloody pulp, finishing him off, and finally offers his own follower up as a blood sacrifice in order to complete a ritual (which the demonic entity guides him through completing).
Eventually a series of events led to resurrection being an option, and the undead character having his mind freed from the big bad, but not without all the survivors being horribly scarred (with one going insane for example).
Fortunately most of the players seem to have thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course they still have to deal with the big bad whom manipulated them, and the mess they have helped create.