@Quibbler said:
@Coin said:
I love these. One of my favorite characters on The Reach (and his whole family) was secretly a dreaded cultist. His closest-thing-to-a-girlfriend and one of his best friends were both Ferals (which on TR were basically the world's response to Things That Must Not Be). He literally spent most of his time with the enemy. He loved them. He really did. He cherished them, loved them, slept with them, helped them, rescued them, was rescued by them, and in general acted and behaved like you would expect a nice guy with a bit of a violent streak but clear delineations regarding who he was violent to and with would.
But behind that facade, he was a baby-killing, infant-eating, human-sacrificing, Outer Thing-worshipping cultist.
I never got to play it out...
But I really, really wanted to eventually have it come out and have his friends--his loved ones outside his family--turn on him. Because he betrayed them. He constantly and consistently betrayed their existence and entire reason for being. And they should have wanted him dead, buried, gone.
But he was a Sin-Eater and they are notoriously difficult to put down and I would ahve loved to roleplay that--to roleplay the heinous, brutal shake up of that revelation and the subsequent small war that would have errupted, because believe me: he loved them--but he would have murdered them for his Lord in a heart beat...
... or would he?
And that would have been the best part!
The sad thing about this was how often my secretly horrible sociopath PC who was friends with him was bid to 'find out where the cultists were hiding'. RIGHT THERE, kiddo. Your hobbyjob has you working for them.
And she hated cultists and the idea of following a demon or other critter voluntarily and she was the type of girl who'd nod, take in the information, coldly divorce herself from pesky things like 'feelings', make a plan to kill her buddy, and then act when she was confident she could win without him ever seeing it coming.
WE COULD HAVE DANCED.
That's not the worst part. The worst part is not only did all of that go down, but your PC also made out and was neighbors with my aforementioned horribly evil girlfriend-drugging Possessed...
... I think you just have a soft spot for me. Admit it.