Post by gavmeister on Dec 2, 2016 10:54:11 GMT
The players have been asked to pick a harrowing event from their past or make up their own. The suggestions were:
1 A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people
spared your life, and you don’t know why.
2 You were born under a dark star. You can feel it
watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it
beckons you in the dead of night.
3 An apparition that has haunted your family for
generations now haunts you. You don’t know what it
wants, and it won’t leave you alone.
4 Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts.
You dabbled once and felt something horrible clutch
at your soul, whereupon you fled in terror.
5 A monster took your sibling one cold, dark night, and you
were unable to stop it.
6 You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You
are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.
7 A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but
the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your
mind with evil thoughts.
8 You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for
a sane mind. You burned the book, but its words and
images are burned into your psyche.
9 A fiend possessed you as a child. You were locked
away but escaped. The fiend is still inside you, but
now you try to keep it locked away.
10 You did terrible things to avenge the murder of
someone you loved. You became a monster, and it
haunts your waking dreams.
Mike suggested: 'Had a normal childhood with a loving family, seemingly unlike everyone else'
Steve added: '...Until I awoke one morning surrounded by their headless bloody corpses arranged around my bed'
Mike wasn't sure: "But that was how I'd left them the night before"
1 A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people
spared your life, and you don’t know why.
2 You were born under a dark star. You can feel it
watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it
beckons you in the dead of night.
3 An apparition that has haunted your family for
generations now haunts you. You don’t know what it
wants, and it won’t leave you alone.
4 Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts.
You dabbled once and felt something horrible clutch
at your soul, whereupon you fled in terror.
5 A monster took your sibling one cold, dark night, and you
were unable to stop it.
6 You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You
are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.
7 A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but
the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your
mind with evil thoughts.
8 You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for
a sane mind. You burned the book, but its words and
images are burned into your psyche.
9 A fiend possessed you as a child. You were locked
away but escaped. The fiend is still inside you, but
now you try to keep it locked away.
10 You did terrible things to avenge the murder of
someone you loved. You became a monster, and it
haunts your waking dreams.
Mike suggested: 'Had a normal childhood with a loving family, seemingly unlike everyone else'
Steve added: '...Until I awoke one morning surrounded by their headless bloody corpses arranged around my bed'
Mike wasn't sure: "But that was how I'd left them the night before"