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medicinemane · 2 years ago

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I was thinking of a character of mine, who is a very powerful shapeshifter, who has a particular affinity for doing stuff with their blood

Anytime someone stabs them they basically unleash hellish blood tendrils and spikes and whatever

The funny part of course being that they literally could do that at any time, it's not like they have to wait to be stabbed, it's just more dramatic and fun to have a "you done fucked up" clause when you get stabbed

#they're actually more or less unkillable because they took the time to study with disembodied demons in the abyss #so they aren't really tethered to their body anymore; and the shapeshifting lets them heal up faster #so like absolute worse case scenario they could slink off to some fast time shadow for a few centuries to regrow their body #they'd really more have to be contained somehow #they're actually what you might call the big bad of the campaign I'd like to run some day #...except for the fact that their plan is actually legit a good plan; that it doesn't involve killing a bunch of people or anything #it's basically to be like 'that's check and mate; with this new power I crown myself ruler of everything'#'and as my first order I say stop being bitches and play nice; and as my second order I say I'm peacing out leave me alone'#and legit part of why I want to play the campaign is to see what the players will do #they could totally join him; they could try to stop him #there's two other major factions that would be courting them as champions #hopefully no one who reads this remembers if for whatever reason you end up playing in this campaign #but the ending is more or less determined; he succeeds in his plan #but it's the lead up to that; and what they do after he fucks off that I'm interested in #you might think a campaign where the ending is known is pointless; but to me... well one they won't know that #and two kind of the point of the campaign is that everything they do matters in many ways more than the end #like this character's mo is collecting people who are nominally insignificant because he thinks they're useful #like in many ways his own core philosophy is that everything they do before he succeeds matters; that they have an impact #even if maybe not on this one event happening; they impact everything else they do #and even with that; does he succeed peacefully; or with a bloody siege to take the keep he needs to execute his plan?#anyway... he's the guy who Sabe decided to play second fiddle to #where Sabe was like you know forget all my egomaniacal plans I'd had when I was a big fish in a small pond #now that I see the actual nature of reality I realize that strong as I am; I'm not worth any more than the most useless nobody #we're both just as valuable and I'd rather go around fixing infinite small problems in infinite realities than rule #so I'll throw in as the fixer for this guy since he's saying the same stuff that I'm realizing #of course... there's kind of a canon to how this all went down; this campaign would kind of be an AU in a lot of ways #but... yeah... just thoughts since this is one of my core characters #though true to his role in the campaign where he fucks off; while Sabe is always doing stuff this to this day #this character is like 'I hang out in my library'; like he has a goal in life and then fucks off #like in the campaign he's gonna supreme fuck off in a way I think is pretty cool; fuck off to a new meta layer basically

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