Scenes You Have Always Wanted to Have...
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@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.
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@Ghost
I love over reaching and getting smacked down for it. Mad grabs for power where you either end up at the end as king, or a corpse are the best kinds of storylines. It's been a while since I had one of those though... back in the 90's and early 2000's though I'd seen some games get BRUTAL. I ended up iced just for being in the same room as someone's enemy before.Also does the terrible sloppy drunk lapdance count if I was the one doing them as a male character?
As for scenes I'd love to see: Tense mexican stand off... ruined by someone just stumbling into the middle of it. Completely random non-combat character just walks in and starts to pee himself blubbering and shouting and everyone has to figure out how the hell to handle this without getting their own brains blasted.
I'm also always a fan of scenes that can pull together people of differing alignments so to speak, just because I like seeing things go to hell after. One scene we had, some guys staged a kidnapping and botched the hand off. They have the money and the kid and all the police in the city after them. The party is sent in to deal with them. Goodly type characters go in to rescue the kid. Criminal type characters are in because there's now lots of money with only 4 guys guarding it and no one is going to ask any questions if they wind up dead. Shadowy puppeteer characters get involved because the police are going to go on a rampage shaking down their carefully made social networks.
More scenes that can get people with differing goals together are always welcome in my book.
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@Duntada said:
@Ghost
I love over reaching and getting smacked down for it. Mad grabs for power where you either end up at the end as king, or a corpse are the best kinds of storylines. It's been a while since I had one of those though... back in the 90's and early 2000's though I'd seen some games get BRUTAL. I ended up iced just for being in the same room as someone's enemy before.The best one I ever saw when it comes to brutality was one person who died on an older Fading Suns game because they had tea with their friend in the library. Unfortunately for them, their mortal enemy was also in the library, blocked the exits with goons, then forced them into a one sided duel to the death as they pleaded and begged. The thing is that 1) Their friend knew it was a trap 2) Was actually their friend and 3) Was forced into it, yet all of the players involved were cool with things OOC.
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I've always wanted to roll up a necromancer and go into a tavern and do the Thriller dance with a team of zombies behind me.
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@ThugHeaven said:
I've always wanted to roll up a necromancer and go into a tavern and do the Thriller dance with a team of zombies behind me.
/ded
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@ThugHeaven
Necromancer using dark magic to animate the corpses of villagers killed in a disaster to dig out and rescue other villagers... while the paladin watches. Cue two hour long discussion on if this was still evil.
