Re: Dying Earth: In the Ruined City

In article <1147377616.546177.246270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
justisaur@xxxxxxxxx says...

And then the priestes drew her knife, yelled "Nox, blood of the Sun-
worshippers for you! Kill them!" and attacked Abdiel as the villagers
(not really all of them, but many) attacked the rest of the PCs.

My players would never fall for it. They are way too paranoid. Of
course that's my fault ;)

I must say, I was a bit surprised at how easily they went along. Perhaps
they were lulled by the fact that the family of women didn't, in fact,
turn out to be ghouls...

In the end the priestess tried to run away but they ended up killin' her
dead, an outcome I wasn't to happy with (expected though it was).

Have her come back as a ghoul - or something.

Not out of the question...

Especially if they didn't dispose of the body properly.

We'll see; we stopped right about when they killed her.

My players learned long ago you
*have* to dispose of the bodies properly.

I'm not sure I want to encourage even further paranoia and utterly
efficient tying up of loose ends, on a metagame level.

In game, perhaps even more so: cold efficient callousness of the "take
no prisoners, let no-one escape, systematically destroy bodies" isn't
really something that should be a hallmark of the savior figures I would
eventually like them to become.

Even if you do, there's no
guarantee something won't happen to bring them back. You could do it
with the 'undead are demons inhabiting the bodies of the once living'
schtick so she comes back to life but isn't the same. Or to really
throw a twist in, she's reanimated by the power of the coffin, and is
now a force for good, but of course the PCs have a bit of a...
misunderstanding about it.

Again, not out of the question.

Next time, I'm planning to use Thea's cat to help the PCs find what was
taken: the wizard had performed the ritual to summon a cat familiar and
still hasn't gotten one, so the cat could prove to be it. The main
downside is that after losing her entire family, Thea will be losing the
friggin' cat too. Any idea how too pull this off without just having
Thea say "cat likes you, Lucas, here, have him", since that sounds a bit
strained?

Yes. It's a female cat, and it has kittens. Of course if the PCs keep
the kid around no need to get rid of it.

Maybe they are 'immaculate conception' kittens, and have a little
celestial in them from being around the coffin.

Interesting. If I could drop a hint that the cat hasn't had the chance
to hang around any toms lately, perhaps that could be their first clue
that something freaky is going on with the coffin...


--
Jasin Zujovic
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