Shade brings me back to Earthdawn Cathay Quest. The party had found a mysterious evil book, a pattern item for a Horror and burned it to ash. They had placed the ashes inside a pouch afraid to let the evil dust out of their sight. The Horror had horror-marked Vek, a Sorcerer, and told him to bring it the ashes. But Vek refused the Thought Worm. Furious, the Horror killed Vek and then brought him back as a Shadow using Create Shadow. Instead of controlling it myself, I gave the player, Kevin, the stat sheet for Shadow Vek and ordered him to get the ashes by any means necessary. Then I just sat back and watched the carnage at Kevin's repeated attempts to get the ashes back. Shadow Vek was eventually defeated, but it was definitely a highlight session of the Cathay Quest...and lazy Gming.
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