Re: [HOE] Coup questions

[Aaron Chusid <aaron@to-the-point.org>]

At 01:15 AM 10/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Aaron Chusid wrote:
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>>Don't know if this counts as spoilers, but it's talking about some
>>potentially behind-the-scenes stuff, so consider yourself warned....
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>>	-A really nice, super friendly young woman who everyone loves; no one's
>>figured out she's Harrowed yet.  Worse, she's mildly radioactive, and has a
>>nasty habit of killing all the crops in any town she vists.   Accidentally,
>>sure, but Famine doesn't care about her motives, really.
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>I have to agree with the previous reply. She isn't Servitor material. 
>Servitors willingly serve the Reckoners. They start out just being an 
>evil person who is doing evil things, but once they do enough evil deeds 
>to become a Servitor, they know it and accept it. How about this: she 
>started out all sweet and nice, but in one town, someone figured out 
>that she was the reason the crops died. Once word spread, she was hunted 
>down and captured. The locals then tried to kill her by throwing her 
>into a radioactive sludge pit outside of town near an old reactor. Since 
>she is harrowed, being submerged in the sludge didn't kill her, but 
>mutated her horribly. She eventually got out, and went back to the town 
>and this time willingly destroyed all the crops, food stores, and the 
>people. Now, she travels the wastes using the Death Mask harrowed power 
>to look normal, and she still acts all sweet and nice, but that is only 
>so she can get into town and destroy all the crops and food stores.
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I based this one on two things; first, I wanted to put the players in a
major bind where they had to decide what to do with someone who was a
genuinely nice person but had to be put down for the good of the town;
second, I've gotten the idea from all my readings that neglect can be
equally as deadly a sin in this world.  Stephanie's problem is that she's
aware, or at least has a fairly good idea, that she's responsible for the
death of the crops; any town she visits starts having problem within a week
or two, and it usually starts in the fields she visited first (Unnatural
Appitite hinderance for fertilized soil).  Once she started figuring out it
was her fault and decided not to leave for good, get herself killed, etc.
she started down the path of the Servator.  Of course, the fact that her
manitou has almost total dominion doesn't help.  [can the actions of a
manitou damn the Harrowed?  Or does it need to be the "mortal" who chose?]

To be fair, right now Servator kind of serves as another name for "the big
bad thing you have to face at the climax of each chapter", which may be too
liberal an interpretation on my part.  I guess she could be a big nasty
thing who grants a coup but isn't necessarily a Servator.


Two other quick things; first, the end of the Unity adventure hints at
future supplements/adventures which will forshadow/explain the Reckoners'
eventual downfall; have they released this yet, or has anyone gathered the
"clues" they mentioned?  I'm still building my collection of books, and
missing some big things I think....

Second, we have the amusing situation in our game right now where our
Harrowed Huckster rolls 4d12+2 against his GREATER Manitou's 3d12+4, and
now has, pretty much, total Dominion with low likelihood of giving it up
any time soon.  Personally, I don't think a greater manitou will stand for
this, and plan to make his life merry hell as best I can.  Any ideas what
such a beast could/would do in this situation?