[HOE] Servitor

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I used book servitors and my own creations..

My personal favorite servitorish idea was Gideon. 

He wasn't a servitor, he was just about to become one

Gideon was a heavily armed (Gave him a juiced up plasma pistol), drugged up 
(Doubled all the drug bonuses and gave them to him) Psycho preacher.  Who 
would go into a town and preach his own brand of fire and brimstone kill 'em 
all because God can't wait to begin sorting... Bible thumping. And if they 
fell in line and became religious fanatics, great.  If not, he would 
pronounce biblical vengeance upon the town, then leave.  And soon after he 
would come back with some sort of mass weapon (poison the water, overturn a 
tanker full of toxic gas into the air, something on those lines) and kill 
every man woman and child in town.  

So, Pestilence, well, peastilence REALLY liked this.  So pestilence began 
investing Gideon with powers on his path to servitor-dom.  First there was 
additional wound negation with fate chips (whites negated two wounds rather 
than one, reds three instead of two).  Then infinite ammo on the pistol, AV 3 
for his armored duster and hat (which seemed to always protect his head, no 
matter the angle of the shot).   These gave him the ability to go into any 
town, preach, and get out if their reception was less than friendly.

Then Pestilence gave Gideon a retinue.  Gideon didn't know these things were 
specifically for him.  All Gideon knew is that there were swarms of man-sized 
winged scorpion tailed mutant bugs in the mountains who ate spook juice.  And 
he found out that if he could cause a large enough spook juice spill in an 
area, the bugs would fly in, eat it, and kill anything in their way.  And 
Gideon also seemed to have very little trouble scrounging up the tanker of 
spook juice (his raids on road gangs were successful, the tankers he found 
were full, etc.).  

HERE is where the party comes in.  I had the party enter the scene as Gideon 
goes into their town.  He comes in, preaches, a fight may ensue, he runs 
(gets on his bike and leaves).  In my case, it was particularly nasty since 
he used the plasma pistol to collapse the hotel the party was in at the time. 
 The building collapsed, when the party dug themselves out, Gideon was gone.  

Have the party find a town which has already been hit by Gideon.  Get the 
bugs to attack the party, make them tougher and more of them than the party 
to handle.  Just to let

Then, the party finds out that their town is important.  This is the one that 
puts Gideon over the top.  If he kills this one, he has enough evil under his 
belt to go to full servitor-hood.  

And that's Bad.  If you think fighting a guy with increased wound regen from 
fate chips sucks..... try taking him on when there is only one thing in the 
world that will stop him.   And you have no idea what that will be when it 
happens.  

So, the climax is set.  Gideon is coming to town in his tanker truck and the 
party has to stop him.  They know he's approaching servitor hood.  And they 
have to stop him.  

    ANd the fun bit.  Pestilence has his finger in this.  Pestilence is doing 
little things to make sure Gideon delivers his cargo.  If they blow a hole in 
the tanker.... it scabs over.  If they follow it in a car, the dust it kicks 
up becomes corrossive.  If they climb on it, it begins to ooze slime and 
become slippery.  If they blow a tire, a ghostly insect leg comes out and 
replaces it.  So they need something pretty major to stop it (they need to 
face the danger, and keep trying until they either kill the driver or 
overturn the truck.  My party just rammed the truck at 70 mph in their car, 
just to see if pestilence has THAT much gumption.... he didn't).  

I liked this idea, it wasn't about defeating a servitor, it was about 
preventing one.