Truly bloody
Monday, 17 May 2010 15:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
claidheamhmorD&D last week was fun (well, for me, at least, as DM). A 5-month long plotline came to culmination, with an NPC the group had rescued from angry villagers turning out to be a cleric/sorcerer with a secret. She was really a creature who desired to summon her deity, the Wolf God, bodily to the world, by using energy she got from possessing people.
Essentially, it was most of the second season of True Blood's "MaryAnn" plotline blatantly ripped off, complete with an attractive "woman" who controls others (and their eyes go black), with claws and massively wounded victims, and with a final scene consisting of possessed characters and villagers, and a sacrifice. Some of the confounding factors: the woman, Ny'essi, was a creature that was not evil, but neutral, being supremely focused on her own goals and not having any particular malice to humans (whom she regarded as convenient tools and pets); this threw the "Detect Evil" users off a bit. She was also a sorcerer with a specialty in deception and illusion; indeed, the final showdown featured a illusion of herself, with her using Alter Self to disguise herself as a possessed villager. And to confuse the group when she was travelling with them (in the early days while still asserting her possession over them), she put blood on their hands on occasion at night in order to confuse them when dead people were found with terrible wounds.
Fun times...
Essentially, it was most of the second season of True Blood's "MaryAnn" plotline blatantly ripped off, complete with an attractive "woman" who controls others (and their eyes go black), with claws and massively wounded victims, and with a final scene consisting of possessed characters and villagers, and a sacrifice. Some of the confounding factors: the woman, Ny'essi, was a creature that was not evil, but neutral, being supremely focused on her own goals and not having any particular malice to humans (whom she regarded as convenient tools and pets); this threw the "Detect Evil" users off a bit. She was also a sorcerer with a specialty in deception and illusion; indeed, the final showdown featured a illusion of herself, with her using Alter Self to disguise herself as a possessed villager. And to confuse the group when she was travelling with them (in the early days while still asserting her possession over them), she put blood on their hands on occasion at night in order to confuse them when dead people were found with terrible wounds.
Fun times...