Re: [HoE] Heartless Harrowed

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

Grand Master Nilus of the Dark Angel Chapter wrote:
> 
> I have a Party member who has recently had his heart ripped out(Azteck
> suprise) and Died but came back Harrowed.  Know the Psyker that ripped his
> heart out collects them and keeps them with him.  My question is should I
> penalize him until he gets his heart back and if so how.  I don't have Book
> of the Dead or Cyborgs with me so I can't look but If I recall it doesn't
> mention any rules on this.

Ooooh... this is just so perfect... GREAT opportunity to create a Relic
here.

Ok, first off, if the new harrowed can find any kind of meat, he can
quote-unquote grow back a heart... meat is meat, and harrowed can pretty
much heal from any kind of wound eventually. Lost limbs take a while, as
they have to purchase harrowed powers to do that, but it depends on how
easy you want to be on the player. In fact, if someone got decapitated
but the brain was intact, they could come back as harrowed, and so long
as they figured out how to stuff meat down their throat, they could try
and grow back a body. 

Anyway, on to the heart thing. Make it a relic of some sort... fairly
low-powered at first, but it might gain powers later, if you drag things
out long enough. I'd do something like give it the power to dominate the
former owner... there ought to be a harrowed power or two that allows
you to force other people to do what you want. Naturally, if the
harrowed gets his heart back, he gets the new power. But in the
meanwhile...

Tell your new harrowed he's got a pretty ragged gaping wound in his
chest that likes to bleed a bit when he gets upset or stressed. He might
have a "rough" inclination of where his heart is. Not sure if you want
to give him maybe a permanent wound there, or maybe just give him a 3-5
point yearnin' to get the heart back as part of his harrowed hindrances. 

Is the Syker a PC? If so, have some NPC steal or take the heart from the
Player. You want to make the quest for this thing fairly involved, so
make sure the heart winds up in the hands of someone who can make the
party's life hell for quite a while. Give some new powers to whoever
holds the heart, and make sure you torture the PCs with it a bit, but
whoever has the heart is immune to anything they can do, or easily
escapes every time they corner him.

Heh. You can do so much with this... have some fun.