Microscope RPG--Rise and Fall of an Empire: Scene: Saint Xavata invokes Destroyers name
Scene: Saint Xavata's invokes the Destroyer's name; gives herself to the Dark One as his bride.
Focus: The Destroyer
Question: Why did Saint Xavata accept the Destroyer as her patron, immortal husband, and seduce the Pure Thought Crusade to follow his evil?
Required characters:
Saint Xavata - A great hero among the Pure Thought Crusade, and one of the movement's greatest leaders. The Destroyer (Avatar) - An Avatar of the Dark One, a malevolent deity that only cares of the base instincts of men. Revels in fear, death, torture, and death. A Witch - A disciple of the Destroyer attached to Xavata's army for some reason as determined by player.
Banned Characters: Non-humans
Setting the Scene: The Pure Thought Crusade have recently suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of the Naga-Sar-Ti, a hybrid snake-and-man abomination. The battle had occurred due to encroachment on the Naga-Sar-Ti's ancient burial ground, filled with earthwork graves and totems of reverence. Xavata, the great general, lead the Pure Thought Crusade and foolishly discounted these creatures as she marched her army to attack an Invisible Empire holding.
Now, her army, after having lost nearly half of their number, sits camped in the burial grounds with the Naga-Sar-Ti forces closing in. Many of her men that are alive are sick from poison, or fatigued from days of fighting. The end seems near. And yet, black magic and terrible contracts are whispered in the night ...
Choose Characters
Yadal: I'll take Menmos, an advisor to Saint Xavata. Menmos, technically Duke Menmos of the now collapsed human empire, has always been an utterly pragmatic person, and an intelligent advisor but with very few morals. How Xavata has reacted to this is up to whoever plays her this time.
Glyptodont: As for me, I will reprise the role of Saint Xavata, whose identity (unbeknownst to her comrades in the Pure Thought Crusade) has been discovered by agents of the Invisible Empire. They have been subtly influencing her mind causing her to make poor strategic decisions and to lose the military gains that the Pure Thought Crusade has made so far.
Muskrat: I'm going to go for the avatar of the Destroyer.
TetNak: I'm the priest!
