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[Harry Baldman]

So, the group's spent the night in the extraplanar dragon's castle, but the dragon's got a hard-on for sexing the party cleric. I plan to have him try to bluff the group that she decided to stay in the castle to enjoy his library, but anyone else have ideas for other fun shenanigans I could pull on the group too? Assume the dragon has access to 5th level Sorcerer spellcasting and 75,000 gp of wealth in various forms such as items. System is Pathfinder.

Have the dragon summon a caulborn to ask for dating advice? Definitely incorporate Greater Invisibility and Polymorph somehow, including possibly Baleful Polymorph as well.

[wierd]

Baleful polymorph on some lesser summoned being, to make it look exactly like your cleric, then use some kind of mind control on the cleric. (or just knock her out for awhile, hoping the adventurer party leave before the ruse is discovered)

The idea is to make the lesser summon go with the party as a changeling, while your pervert dragon keeps his prize.

[pikachu17]

Dragonborn children from previous liasons? A magic item that removes clothing? A Philter of Love? An anti-exhaustion item, so he can go all night? A magical chair that instantly summons a beer, and a bag of chips/popcorn (user's choice), when you sit on it? A gateway that goes to an alternate univere where the only difference is kobolds are CR 30, each? A Pirate's Eye Patch, because why not? A gateway to an alternate universe where wizards, Druids, sorcerers, and clerics are the weakest classes? A Dwarf Fortress inspired dwarf who is trying to steal magical socks from the dragon? A +5 magic sword that keeps anything you hit from dying for 5 rounds, that can't be identified as such in any way? A cursed item that makes people think it's a ring of three wishes, but it's only an illusion, and NPC's are immune to the illusion?

[Harry Baldman]

Baleful polymorph on some lesser summoned being, to make it look exactly like your cleric, then use some kind of mind control on the cleric. (or just knock her out for awhile, hoping the adventurer party leave before the ruse is discovered)

Baleful polymorph doesn't work like that, it only turns creatures into animals.

That said, planar binding or just plain old extraplanar acquaintances can probably get you a shapeshifter to pay off to take the place of the party's cleric. For bonus points, have the shapeshifter in question be ready, willing and terribly enthusiastic to adventure with the party for a share of the spoils if discovered, and have the same or even 1-3 extra levels of cleric compared to the original as well! Let the player of the cleric try to play someone imitating them for maximum amusement.

Maybe if they like it well enough, just let the player have the doppelganger's character sheet and play the rest of the campaign as a replacement.

[scriver]

A cursed item that makes people think it's a ring of three wishes, but it's only an illusion, and NPC's are immune to the illusion?

On a note completrly separate from  the dragon kidnappinh scenario above; This is a great idea in itself. Imagine it like emperor's New clothes scenario. The players think everything they wish for but it's all just in their heads. Nobody else buys it. Like they ask to be super rich and believe they get a Purse of Unending Gold but when they go to pay for a new sword with it the shopkeeper just sees them trying to pay for it with imaginary coins.

[Jimmy]

Well, I went with the tried and true method: Throw an enchantment on the target when nobody's looking, then distract the rest of the group with shiny loot.

So during the session, I pass a note to the cleric's player, asking her to make five DC 21 Will saves when their character is asleep in the dragon's castle. The player's character, being a Wisdom based spellcasting class, has an absolutely massive bonus to their Will saving throws too, so they only have about a 20% chance of failure per save. Unluckily for them, one of those five rolls fails. Cue second secret note!

The pretty young cleric gets tagged with a Suggestion spell: For the next seven hours, you think it would be a great idea to stay and study longer in the dragon's library. For background, the dragon's been watching her from behind one of the paintings of himself in her room that night, one with a secret room behind it and eyes that open out to peep into her room as she's sleeping. I described the room and the paintings to the players, but apparently nobody was paranoid enough to check if they were rigged to spy on them.

Then breakfast rolls around, and the dragon offers everyone gifts before they depart. I basically throw a bunch of random low-level magical crap at them, like wands and wondrous items, but the cleric gets an offer from the dragon to enjoy an extended stay. She accepts it in front of the group as witnesses, and there's nobody who checks her for magical tampering, too busy enjoying their own loot. The dragon smiles a toothy grin as the rest of the adventurers leave his castle, seals up the entrances, and the scene closes on him standing over the cleric as she reads in his library, gently stroking her hair as he monologues with cringe-worthy creepiness.

Mission success!

[scriver]

...mission accomplished...?

[NullForceOmega]

...Roll for ovulation and successful fertilization?  'Course being a cleric I'd assume she has the skills to prevent, but will the player remember?  And would it be a good idea to abort if it did happen?  Vengeful dragons are really bad news, and some of them take their progeny very seriously indeed.

[Jimmy]

Yep, the group sorcerer got the cleric to tag herself with a Bestow Curse of infertility beforehand, so the dragon doesn't know what's going on. Of course, being a dragon, his own personal outlook is that he plans to lock her in a tower for a few decades and let Stockholm Syndrome do the rest of the work for him before he makes his move. So if the group wants to mount a rescue, they've got time.

[Taricus]

Few decades? Seems awfully long-winded for a single individual especially when he can expedite the process a little by... well, just being upfront and asking. I mean that cleric isn't staying young forever you know.

Lets be honest, if they had the foresight to put that curse down, odds are the cleric knows what the dragon's after anyway

[scriver]

It's a dragon. It's a reasonable precaution regardless of what he's up to.

[Taricus]

At that rate they might want to do it at any inn/tavern they visit as well

[SOLDIER First]

The difference between your average drunken, lecherous tavern-goer and a dragon is that you can punch a drunken, lecherous tavern-goer in the nads and he'll go away.

[scriver]

Except in the tiny percentage of cases where that average drunken, lecherous tavern-goer turns out to be a dragon.

[SOLDIER First]

Unlikely enough that it can be safely ignored in this instance. ;P