Right. If Stephen, Matthew, Cat, Kit, Dan, or Collen - my players - are reading this, STOP READING NOW.
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Gone? Good.
Right, I'm working on a plotline involving a "perfect killer" - a Jason Vorhees-like unstoppable engine of death. Of course I immediately thought of Abyssals, as that's pretty much their entire schtick. They may be mechanically slightly inferior, but when it comes to getting back up after you should be dead for the umpteenth time, they're more-or-less unmatched. Between Cadaverous Torpor Technique and Immortal Malevolence Enslavement, short of someone dropping a Ghost-Eating Technique on them there's no stopping them (and I can probably pull off some kind of flange to get around GET, too - maybe an artifact or some custom Charm leading off IME). The emphasis is meant to be on the near-impossibility of killing this thing - I want my players thinking of ways to contain or redirect it rather than just stabbity-stab.
The only thing I can't think of is a name. I need an Abyssal-type name that expresses this thing's unstoppableness and limitless thirst for death, a name that gets across the slasher-movie-like nature of it. So far I'm not having much luck. Normally I'm quite good at this, but my usual flowery naming just doesn't seem to work in this context. So, any suggestions?
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Gone? Good.
Right, I'm working on a plotline involving a "perfect killer" - a Jason Vorhees-like unstoppable engine of death. Of course I immediately thought of Abyssals, as that's pretty much their entire schtick. They may be mechanically slightly inferior, but when it comes to getting back up after you should be dead for the umpteenth time, they're more-or-less unmatched. Between Cadaverous Torpor Technique and Immortal Malevolence Enslavement, short of someone dropping a Ghost-Eating Technique on them there's no stopping them (and I can probably pull off some kind of flange to get around GET, too - maybe an artifact or some custom Charm leading off IME). The emphasis is meant to be on the near-impossibility of killing this thing - I want my players thinking of ways to contain or redirect it rather than just stabbity-stab.
The only thing I can't think of is a name. I need an Abyssal-type name that expresses this thing's unstoppableness and limitless thirst for death, a name that gets across the slasher-movie-like nature of it. So far I'm not having much luck. Normally I'm quite good at this, but my usual flowery naming just doesn't seem to work in this context. So, any suggestions?
