Can love be powerful enough to overcome an undead's urge to kill? Perhaps with the intervention of Valerias it could...
In the near future I plan to have the rogue Petja return to his home in Specularum. (I play solo adventures with each player in my group every 4-5 levels. Gives them a chance to do stuff on their own, such as setting up secret connections etc. :D )
There I plan to spring a little romance on Petja, while he tries to take over more power in the guild or establish a trading company. My players' are usually up for a little romance in the game, so I don't expect there to be any problems getting Petja to "take the bait". Then... I kill her !
I'll give Petja some time to mourn and get on with his life and then I'll re-introduce his lost love as a vampire or nosferatu. She isn't controlled by another vampire. Her love is so strong that even in undeath she loves Petja and wants to be with him...
I expect that at first Petja will be both afraid and horrified. She is far more powerful than he is and she could easily charm him, drain him and that would be the end of it. But she wants him to love her despite her being a bloodsucking undead. She does not want to control him. She wants his love.
At first, she will try to convince him that undead isn't that bad. "Come on, give it a try and we can be together". When he (most likely) rejects her, she will be furious and threaten him, maybe even imprison him to change his mind. Then... she'll cry and ask for his forgiveness and set him free.
After that, she will do whatever she can in her own twisted way to win his affections. She'll be a most bizare ally, showing up when things are turning ugly and saving her love's hide. She'll become a tragic, lovesick element in the adventurous saga that is Petja's life, her sweetness and innocense ever struggling with the undead beast within her...
Anyway, just had to get that idea out of my head :D
:-) Jesper
Can love be powerful enough to overcome an undead's urge to kill? Perhaps with the intervention of Valerias it could...
Hey, it worked on Buffy. (I'm a Spike fan.
Originally posted by Cthulhudrew
Hey, it worked on Buffy. (I'm a Spike fan.
I know; beg, steal, borrow from the classics - anything to get a good campaign going. However, I was more inspired by Lady Tatyana Gorevitch-Wozlany and Sire Claude d'Ambreville :D
I am thinking that maybe the girl - let's call her Yasmine for now - is a cleric or at least a follower of Valerias. For a while she becomes Petja's companion on adventures and at some point they get seperated. She falls and nearly gets herself killed. Slowly dying, she cries and thinks of her beloved Petja, when she is visited by someone or something. I'm not sure whether it is a power of entrophy or a being like the nosferatu Lord Sulescu (I am still working out the details). She is offered a chance to "live" again and be with her lover. Unknowingly, she accepts. But her new state of undeath is not enough to make her thoroughly evil.
:-) Jesper
Mentioning Tatyana and Claude reminds me that my old party's rogue/illusionist sort of owes Valerias big-time (though the PC isn't fully aware of that yet). Anyhow, getting the two nosferatu together and out from under Morphail's influence would've been a great quest for Valerias to assign. Especially since the PC was also looking for a way to cure a vampiric henchman. It's too bad we aren't playing any more, all this could have come together quite nicely...