Possessed!
Overview:
In this encounter a friend of the parties has been possessed by an evil entity. Their friend begin attacking the village/city they are in. The party has to choose between engaging their friend to draw the attacks away from them, most likely resulting in their death or letting their friend wreak havoc on the innocent.
Initial Description:
You arrive in the city center to see your friend eyes pulsing with a sick red energy. He’s breathing fire on the town hall. People have scattered. His eyes have turned towards the Inn which is crowded with people in fear. The words of your adversary echo in your head, either my curse will burn it’s way out or will consume its host. You know how to remove his curse, but your friend will have ample time to burn down the village, in the meantime. What do you do?
Enemies:
NPCs:
Civilians - Commoner stat block
Objectives:
Main:
Save your Friend or Save the Village
Stop as many civilian deaths as possible
Map:
Overview:
The Party can be anywhere you would like them to. The friend should be standing near the burning building looking toward another. You can copy the map to edit it how you want here at Inkarnate.
Special Mechanics:
Burn the Curse Out - As stated before your PCs are aware of the curse. They know a ritual to get the curse out, but the friend has to not be engaged in combat otherwise the curses power takes hold. However each round they are not in combat is another round they are burning buildings or attacking the Innocent.
Burn the Curse Up - The PCs can gain the PCs attention and take the blunt of the damage their friend is doing. However as they fight the curse will take a stronger and stronger hold until it burns their friend up, consuming their body and soul.
The Ritual - In order to cast the ritual it requires a 6 “charges. A single caster needs to cast the spell by acquiring the correct number of charges. The gain charges by spending a turn making an Arcana check. When they make a check a 15-19 grants 1 charge, a 20-24 grants 2 charges, a 25+ grants 3 charges. If anyone attacks the possessed friend charges are reset.
Extras:
Easy Re-skins - Instead of a magical curse it could be a virus, or if you wanted to make it sci-fi based it could be a computer virus in an android or cyborg friend.
Inspirations, Shoutouts, and Thanks - Inkarnate, online map making software, has a great battle map making feature that we will be using for our maps. It’s intuitive and a lot of fun to use.
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