Re: [DL] Fishing for ideas - Spoilers

["Glenn Connot" <glennconnot@hotmail.com>]

The last one, Army o' Darkness style.  Or maybe Evil Dead 2 style, with the 
arm working against him and forcing him to cut it off.

That would be fun.

Glenn
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>From: Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com>
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>Subject: [DL] Fishing for ideas - Spoilers
>Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:36:57 -0800 (PST)
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>In the latest adveture I almost killed a party member
>... but got soft .. sigh.  He was being attacked by
>what could be best described as a plague werewolf.  In
>reality it was a member of the Dupont family (from
>Black circle, and one of the non-weretypes), who was
>wearing a medallion that changed the owner into a
>disease spreading version of their inner beast.  The
>player was a huckster who drew a straight while
>casting Soul Blast, getting 11 wounds to the creatures
>gut.  I chipped it all.  Unfortunately for him, a
>black joker was drawn as part of the straight, and his
>left arm became possessed (and immediately tossed his
>focus cards into the air for an improptu game of 52
>card pickup).  The monster then clawed at him, and he
>accepted the severe wound to the possessed arm (he
>only had 1 chip left at this point, he had started the
>battle with 10) and failed his vigor check for
>disease.  Yes, I know werewolves only spread by bite
>... this was a special case.  I spared him since the
>character the werewolf was really trying to kill
>(enemy) started shooting at him, so the werewolf
>changed targets.  One last thing, the combat was
>effectively over a gateway to the Hunting Grounds (the
>posse had interrupted a ritual to summon big nasties).
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>Anyway, back to the Huckster who has an infected,
>possessed arm.  What to do with him?
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>He has already said he wouldn't mind becoming a
>werewolf, but I'm not sure I want to go that angle, as
>I already have a werecat in the posse.  I thought
>maybe turning him into a werewolf once, but then he
>returns to normal after that.
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>According to the rules the arm is only possessed for
>11 hours.  I had told him this (in retrospect I should
>have withheld this info).  Should I lie, and change it
>to be permanently possessed?  I was hoping his arm
>would be torn off and come back undead, but he didn't
>want to end up fighting it every week.
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>I thought it would be cute if every full moon his arm
>gets repossessed, or turns into a werewolf arm and
>attacks him.  Personally I'm presently leaning for ...
>next full moon his arm turns into a werewolf arm
>(which he controls), and then permanently remains as
>such.  It would take half damage except from silver,
>it wouldn't be able to hold silver, it would have
>claws, and it would probably be a die type stronger
>than the rest of him, but that's it.
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>Or I could pull an Army of Darkness and at next full
>moon, have a werewolf version of himself tear off of
>his body.
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>What fiendish ideas can other people come up with?  Or
>what do you think of hte above ideas?
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>-MW
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