Re: Ideas for Natha's Curse

From: Sam Elliot <sam.elliot1_at_...>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:01:44 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Antonio Álvarez del Cuvillo <antalvarez1976_at_...> wrote: [stuff about Natha´s curse] ...I would suggest a different curse for each (anti-)hero.
  • One should now be pregnant with a monstrosity themselves.
  • I see one of them used his "power of catharsis" to cure the demon thing. He could have had his own cathartic moment an have realized something terrible about himself, be "cured" of something he thought valuable.
  • The honourable one (Iraizoz), once back in the outside world, discovers he has become known as a slayer of children - some child somewhere was truly slain and he has been blamed.
  • The blue moon cultist should have something to do with the moon in the curse. Perhaps his moony aspect begins to wax and wane and he starts to become a darkness being. All quite fun except that he discovers he is now being stalked by one of those ultra-cool troll vampires which fear the dark (in my mind they are "Kitori" but that´s a tribe...).

Any of that useful?
Sam.

>
>
> > What were the PC's trying to do with their violence? If I were
> >GMing, Natha would oppose that.
> >
> > If for example, if the PC's were trying to grab some magic items,
> >Natha would send a dream to a thief, who would steal the item from
> the PC's.
> >
> > Without knowing more about the context,I cannot offer more
detailed
> >suggestions.
>
> Well, it's a long story. I'll try to explain it with my awful
English.
> Anyway, the story is there in spanish
>
> http://www.itelsys.com/miwiki/glorantha/index.php/Episodio3
>
> Do you remember my questions there about the monstrosity?
>
> http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/HeroQuest-RPG/message/31349
> http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/HeroQuest-RPG/message/31357
>
> A pelandan family is killed. The little son, a strange 10-years-
old,
> androgynous that appears to be silly has disappeared. The
> midwife-witch PC knows the creature is the son/daughter of the
> incestuous relations between two PCs, brother and sister (the
sister
> is the Natha Ordinate); the midwife gave the creature to the
family.
> The Ordinate have had some strange dreams and she is sure that the
son
> is alive, and when she knows about the androgynus, she knows who is
> he. They also suspect that the creature could be the killer.
>
> There are some clues, and the players know that the family is
killed
> by a very big-Beast, probably a Ganesatarus' demon. In full moon,
the
> Ordinate makes a ritual based in a myth called "Natha pursues
Ratakar
> to the Fourth Hell", and finally they face the demon in a cave.
>
> The demon appears to be THE CHILD. It is androgynus, it has a child
> face, and has strange drawings in its scales making the House
Symbol.
>
> The Ordinate tell everybody not to fight but they attack. Anyway,
the
> demon is near to kill her (she hope that her son doesn't attack
her).
> People fight against the Beast, and it is a very hard combat. At
last,
> when it has negative AP, it continues fighting! (similar to
undead).
> They have to completely kill the child or die! (or they could run
away
> but...) The midwife tells everybody it is the lost child of the two
> PCs, and they continue. At last, the mother kill 'her own son'!
> Silence. She is screaming. She has a very hard temper, and she is
very
> protective. She is really, really, really, really, angry. She
stand up
> and cry the curse, powered by the red full moon.
>
> Some player suggest automatic succes and people agree. Well, after
> that, the true child is sleeping a bad dream in the cave. They
don't
> know what is the relation between the child and the demon. So it
was a
> mistake. Anyway they think the curse is alive and I think that's
good
> that the mistake have consequences.
>
> But a bump-down is probably very hard for that, and also we have
> already played two episodes (hum, without violence). A bump-down in
> violent attacks? Hum...
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>