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amethyst73Lady Karen's family is messed up. She'd always heard vague rumors of a curse surrounding the Margravines (rulers of the March); some died young, and her mother the current Margravine seems to be having paranoia issues. (Arrested her husband out of the blue on charges of treason and adultery. The adultery part may be true, but not the treason part. And she sees plots against her everywhere.)
The players studied Lady Karen's family tree and noticed an odd thing: starting with the second Margravine, all Margravines have reliably had two daughters. As the March rulership is passed to the eldest female child, this means that the March has stayed in the main family for several generations now, with "an heir and a spare" every single time.
Our warlock thought this was kind of odd, and that it sounded like the kind of benefit one might get from an Infernal Pact. Oh noes! Lady Karen, the Lawful Good paladin, comes from a family that dealt in Infernal Pacts? The horror! Worse, when our bard (a cousin of Lady Karen's with an eye towards getting himself landed) did a kind of arcane scan on Lady Karen, he found some sort of subtle magic centered on... Lady K's ovaries. Eeek! Lady Karen never did any deals with any devils! How the heck do you inherit an Infernal Pact, especially without ever having been told about it???!??
We think we now know what infernal individual the pact was originally made with (a Duchess of Hell, so waaaaaaaayyy powerful), and the ancestor who made the pact. What we don't know: the exact terms of the pact (e.g. what benefit does the devil involved get for ensuring two female children to every Margravine?) and, naturally, how to get rid of the dratted thing. The theory is, if we can break it, the current Margravine *might* regain her senses (we really don't know), take her husband off of Death Row, and, um, Lady K's ovaries would quit glowing like that!
Meanwhile, Lady Karen gets to be emo while trying to figure out what the heck to do. She's good at the emo part, anyway!
The players studied Lady Karen's family tree and noticed an odd thing: starting with the second Margravine, all Margravines have reliably had two daughters. As the March rulership is passed to the eldest female child, this means that the March has stayed in the main family for several generations now, with "an heir and a spare" every single time.
Our warlock thought this was kind of odd, and that it sounded like the kind of benefit one might get from an Infernal Pact. Oh noes! Lady Karen, the Lawful Good paladin, comes from a family that dealt in Infernal Pacts? The horror! Worse, when our bard (a cousin of Lady Karen's with an eye towards getting himself landed) did a kind of arcane scan on Lady Karen, he found some sort of subtle magic centered on... Lady K's ovaries. Eeek! Lady Karen never did any deals with any devils! How the heck do you inherit an Infernal Pact, especially without ever having been told about it???!??
We think we now know what infernal individual the pact was originally made with (a Duchess of Hell, so waaaaaaaayyy powerful), and the ancestor who made the pact. What we don't know: the exact terms of the pact (e.g. what benefit does the devil involved get for ensuring two female children to every Margravine?) and, naturally, how to get rid of the dratted thing. The theory is, if we can break it, the current Margravine *might* regain her senses (we really don't know), take her husband off of Death Row, and, um, Lady K's ovaries would quit glowing like that!
Meanwhile, Lady Karen gets to be emo while trying to figure out what the heck to do. She's good at the emo part, anyway!
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Date: 2010-05-03 05:07 pm (UTC)