Suggestions wanted. Four of my plyers have moved and I am having some replacements join in. The folks who moved wanted to continue in a pbp. So I am splitting the party/universe. I ended the tabletop in the last storm of the SWW where the sea wyvern was thrown into a maelstrom of wind waves, and electricity--alas some crew got pulled into an alternate (electronic) universe while others got thrown out. I will begin the story with the ship wreck on the beech (insert Lost opening here) but wanted some help introducing new characters to both stories. I thought it would be fun to have two wrecks on the reefr, neither of which is whole. I want this to foreshadow the split of the Bid D.
Besides having the nameplate of one of the ships have a backward S, any suggestions on emphasising the split demons personality (or am I stretching too far)?
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In my campaign, there's a recurring duality between groups influenced by each of the two heads' personalities. I don't have their names handy, but the calculating one (Aameul?) = lizards = obsession with coins, letters, runes, gambling, bones = the popular Old Nick-style figure of a bone devil named Mr. Bones. The bestial one (Hethrediah?) = apes = obsession with wearing furs, mutilating animals, sweaty perversion = a popular image of a demonic girallon called Two-Prick Tommy.
These archetypes first turned up during the Wormfall Festival, as giant puppets of Bones and Tommy who were, in folk mythology, supposed to be the fiendish allies of Zelkarune who were also vanquished by Sasserine & Teraknian. Since then, the PCs met one tribe of rakasta led by a mad hermaphrodite who had shaved off his fur (lizard), and was in conflict with 'the Others' who burned giant swathes of North Olman Isle & drove giant apes into the pyres (ape). Near Tamoachan, they met a fur-wearing lizardman druid (ape) who wanted their help to destroy the heretic 'crocodile lovers' (lizard).
So far the party has caught on that the tribes they meet are often "crazy" and fighting among themselves. And they know that their doings are of interest to demons (with Dagon, Socoth-Benoth, General Ghorvash, and the 'Lemorian Prince' on their radar so far). Hopefully when they learn about Big D's dual nature it'll allow them to connect the dots with hindsight.
Anyway, in your situation I'd just go with making one group lizardy and calculating, and the other group apey and bestial - with whatever associations that suggests to you.