Im running OOTA and long story short one of my players just managed to pocket the gem containing Fraz-Urb'luu without anybody else knowing. I mean this is hilarious but. What the hell can I do now? I guess I just let this play out?
Have Fraz whisper stuff into his ear and generally be very corrupting and creepy :)
"Fraz-Urb'luu. That's the only name you'll hear. Fraz-Urb'luu. It means the end and the death. Fraz-Urb'luu. I am Fraz-Urb'luu. Fraz-Urb'luu is all around you. Fraz-Urb'luu is the man beside you. Fraz-Urb'luu will gnaw on your bones. Look out! Fraz-Urb'luu is here."
Ok somebody else probably has a better and more informed suggestion than mine
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I was considering something like this but book says "while inside the gem, the demon lord can’t be attacked, harmed, coerced, or heard. He can be contacted via telepathy, however". They don't know there's a person in the gem, just that it can make you go crazy, so I don't see them trying telepathy. This player is going to be the end of me, the character already made a pact with a demonlord this campaign (despite knowing how messy that would be) and now she has a different demon lord on her pocket! Literally! My biggest fear is that they try to use this as a spell component? Like what happens if you use a cursed gem hosting the soul of a powerful demon in your ressurection ritual? Nothing good, probably.
If they actually manage to have a conversation with the demon I will definitely go with your suggestion! It sounds really creepy >:) it's just seeing if my players get that far I guess. Thank you for your help!
Presumably if they can contact it by telepathy then it might have its own, subtle abilities of telepathy?
EG the player with the gem, when you give them a new scenario, just whisper / pass a note to them saying something simple yet unnerving, like "you see the goblins, and you want to sacrifice them all." no context, no link to the gem.
Also you could use an NPC to do the old point at them and shout "you bring great evil here" to call them out with the gem. or someone else hunting the gem who turns up inexplicably to take potshots at the carrier. They might try to steal it from them at night, perhaps. if they are caught, the gem is found in their posession and the other players know the first player took it. if not, the gem can turn up again later.
Just run with it and let the demon lord try and corrupt her
Ohhhhhh
Maybe she gets the idea “out of nowhere” (😉) to take this beautiful gem and make it into a necklace or a ring and wear it. (Lot easier to corrupt someone if they’re wearing the gem against their bare skin than if it’s in their pocket.) Or the PC’s SO finds the gem and gets the idea to have it made into a piece of jewelry and give it to her as a gift.
I don’t remember which demon lord Fraz-Urb’luu is.
Which other Demon Prince did this player make a pact with and what does the pact entail? I think this is a great opportunity to have Fraz-Urb'luu try to subtly influence this PC and mess with their other pact. Or if this PC angers their first patron, maybe he offers them a way out of their pact?
Fraz-Urb'luu is supposed to be the Prince of Deception, so maybe he can use telepathy to subtly alter the perceptions of the PC who is carrying the gem. Not saying this PC should automatically be corrupted, but it should be hard to resist being changed by one demon prince let alone two!
Have them have nightmares that do not mention anything specific. If they ever detect magic, have it glow brightly. Any gem buyer should detect magic on it also, to prevent it being an illusion.
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Im running OOTA and long story short one of my players just managed to pocket the gem containing Fraz-Urb'luu without anybody else knowing. I mean this is hilarious but. What the hell can I do now? I guess I just let this play out?
Have Fraz whisper stuff into his ear and generally be very corrupting and creepy :)
"Fraz-Urb'luu. That's the only name you'll hear. Fraz-Urb'luu. It means the end and the death. Fraz-Urb'luu. I am Fraz-Urb'luu. Fraz-Urb'luu is all around you. Fraz-Urb'luu is the man beside you. Fraz-Urb'luu will gnaw on your bones. Look out! Fraz-Urb'luu is here."
Ok somebody else probably has a better and more informed suggestion than mine
Grappling and knocking prone a young dragon 4 times in a row as aarakocra monk=angery DM
I was considering something like this but book says "while inside the gem, the demon lord can’t be attacked, harmed, coerced, or heard. He can be contacted via telepathy, however". They don't know there's a person in the gem, just that it can make you go crazy, so I don't see them trying telepathy. This player is going to be the end of me, the character already made a pact with a demonlord this campaign (despite knowing how messy that would be) and now she has a different demon lord on her pocket! Literally! My biggest fear is that they try to use this as a spell component? Like what happens if you use a cursed gem hosting the soul of a powerful demon in your ressurection ritual? Nothing good, probably.
If they actually manage to have a conversation with the demon I will definitely go with your suggestion! It sounds really creepy >:) it's just seeing if my players get that far I guess. Thank you for your help!
Presumably if they can contact it by telepathy then it might have its own, subtle abilities of telepathy?
EG the player with the gem, when you give them a new scenario, just whisper / pass a note to them saying something simple yet unnerving, like "you see the goblins, and you want to sacrifice them all." no context, no link to the gem.
Also you could use an NPC to do the old point at them and shout "you bring great evil here" to call them out with the gem. or someone else hunting the gem who turns up inexplicably to take potshots at the carrier. They might try to steal it from them at night, perhaps. if they are caught, the gem is found in their posession and the other players know the first player took it. if not, the gem can turn up again later.
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Just run with it and let the demon lord try and corrupt her
Ohhhhhh
Maybe she gets the idea “out of nowhere” (😉) to take this beautiful gem and make it into a necklace or a ring and wear it. (Lot easier to corrupt someone if they’re wearing the gem against their bare skin than if it’s in their pocket.) Or the PC’s SO finds the gem and gets the idea to have it made into a piece of jewelry and give it to her as a gift.
I don’t remember which demon lord Fraz-Urb’luu is.
Which other Demon Prince did this player make a pact with and what does the pact entail? I think this is a great opportunity to have Fraz-Urb'luu try to subtly influence this PC and mess with their other pact. Or if this PC angers their first patron, maybe he offers them a way out of their pact?
Fraz-Urb'luu is supposed to be the Prince of Deception, so maybe he can use telepathy to subtly alter the perceptions of the PC who is carrying the gem. Not saying this PC should automatically be corrupted, but it should be hard to resist being changed by one demon prince let alone two!
Have them have nightmares that do not mention anything specific. If they ever detect magic, have it glow brightly. Any gem buyer should detect magic on it also, to prevent it being an illusion.