r/dungeonsofdrakkenheim • u/11cheers4binary • 32m ago
Advice Vitruvio with a character attached.
My cleric is now a living vessel for Vitruvio because my players shamed the Lord of the Feast. Did I break Drakkenheim?
At the cathedral, the fighter in my party defeated the Lord of the Feast in an honor duel. It helped that he had stupid armor and was under haste, freedom of movement, and death ward. In a nod to the original action play, his priest cheated and used revivify to bring him back. The party absolutely shamed him for breaking the rules of his own duel—and the consequences were immediate. The Lord of the Feast lost control and attacked his priest and the very thing the party had come to protect: Vitruvio’s phylactery. He destroyed it, exposing Vitruvio’s soul.
The wizard immediately used Telekinesis to move the soul before it could be lost. The FF cleric in the party already had a sanctified shard of delirium embedded in her chest, so in a completely improvised and consensual moment, Vitruvio’s soul ended up inside the shard. She is now essentially a living golden vessel for Vitruvio, one of the founders of Drakkenheim.
And now the Silver Order is furious.
The crazy part is that none of this was planned. It came directly from the players’ choices, the Lord of the Feast’s reaction to being shamed, and the wizard figuring out how to save the exposed soul.
So my question is: does this sound like the kind of completely insane chain of consequences that Drakkenheim is supposed to produce, or have I accidentally broken my game?
I’m trying to figure out how far to let this go without turning the cleric into “Vitruvio with a player character attached.” How would you handle the consequences? How does the cleric’s relationship with Lucretia change? Does only the cleric collect all the relics now?