#evil dm

im DMing the final part of a 3 year long campaign and im super excited!!!

As far as your character can tell, there is nothing unnatural about it.

The trap appears to be disarmed.

Do you touch it, or are you just looking?

Who goes first?

From what you can see...

This room does not appear to contain anything.

There's no visible effect.

You don't seem to spot any traps in the immediate vicinity.

As far as you would know...

You feel fine.

Can I see your character sheet a second?

Can you describe in a little more detail how you do that?

What order are you walking in?

It doesn't seem to do anything.

Are you sure about that?

You can certainly try!

How close do you want to get to it?

By the way, where exactly are you all standing?

Before you fall asleep...

Then everyone messages the group chat for a further hour and a half in denial and grief and you just sit there with your evil plans fulfilled.

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There once was a wizard who fell in love with a goddess of life. Not wanting to lose her, he figured out immortality while she sealed away most of her divinity to be closer to him and the mortals she adored. As a consequence she died and left behind a son, who with his divine wisdom ruled the country his parents founded, and an immortal husband who was wholly unprepaired to lose his wife. He didn't stay with his son for long, but left to study in solitude, keeping a protective eye on his surviving family from afar. He attempted to resurrect his wife three times over the next decade, but each time her body drew breath, but her spirit refused to return. He reasoned it would take more, since she wasn't mortal. He could not allowe himself to even concider the possibility that she might simply not be willing to return.

The wizard resolved to study necromancy and divinity in order to revive his wife despite the fact that in her very essence she was against the undead and their descendants ruling their ever flourishing kingdom came down hard on anyone caught in the practise of necromancy. He gathered loose allies to gather resources and to protect his now estranged descendants from afar. These allies resulted in a dark network of nobles and people of power practicing necromancy in secret. One of these nobles decided on his own that the divine blood of the royal family was a hindrance to necromancy and payed to have them assassinated. The plot nearly succeded. The king and queen were killed, but their children survived. Only hours later the entire guild of assassins and the noble who payed for the attack were found dead, with runes carved bone deep into their flesh.

Years later the five year old princess was kidnapped and her sixteen year old brother sent a covert team to retrieve her. The team succeded and for some reason beheaded the noble responsible for the kidnapping and burned down his mansion and took the head with them (I'll let you guess where the party came in) and left the wizard to wonder how he'd send a message to his family's enemies now about how unimpressed he was about the kidnapping of his descendant...

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