Good opening line for Nualia?


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My group should encounter Nualia in the next session - while I'm pretty organized as a DM and good at building interesting & challenging encounters, I'm somewhat less than adequate at coming up with pithy lines worthy of my villains.

You know, like:
James Bond: "You expect me to talk?"
Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."

Or, Darth Vader, "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

That sort of thing.

So, the players fight through a bunch of bad guys & come upon Nualia... what is a good line for her upon meeting the players?

I was thinking something like, "Welcome to my parlor, little flies." Or something ominous like, "The town's fate is sealed - surrender now and pledge your souls to me and perhaps you will not share their doom."

Any other ideas?

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She's a cleric of Lamashtu, so I'd just have her stare coldly, bite her lip so hard that she bleeds, smile a smile that will haunt the PCs forever, scream "DIE !" and charge.

CE follower of a mad mother of monsters, no place for subtleties here.

Dramatic exposition would fit a follower of Asmodeus or Norgorber far more :)


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Screaming wildly:

How dare you fools interfere! You have no idea what those people did to me.

They deserve every tear and drop of blood they're about to shed and if you're going to stand with them, then so do you!

Aeeeeiiiiiaaaaggghhhh!!!!!!

Or quiet menace:

So, here you are finally. You've found the "big bad monster" responsible for all of this. Well let me tell you something, that town, those people, they earned their fate.

For what they did to me, my child, my life, they deserve the pain and death that is coming, and if you've decided to defend those pigs, --[Draws sword]-- then so do you.


Dirty Rat wrote:

Screaming wildly:

How dare you fools interfere! You have no idea what those people did to me.

They deserve every tear and drop of blood they're about to shed and if you're going to stand with them, then so do you!

Aeeeeiiiiiaaaaggghhhh!!!!!!

Or quiet menace:

So, here you are finally. You've found the "big bad monster" responsible for all of this. Well let me tell you something, that town, those people, they earned their fate.

For what they did to me, my child, my life, they deserve the pain and death that is coming, and if you've decided to defend those pigs, --[Draws sword]-- then so do you.

Thanks - good ideas from both of you. I did level her up a bit to make her more of a fitting final challenge for the group of six PCs.


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She's a cleric; she might as well try to preach her goddess' message in hopes of converting the intruding heathens. Also, keep in mind that most evil people believe in their cause and see their opponents as the evil ones. I'd aim for something that bridges Nualia's madness with her justifiable anger at the people of Sandpoint.

"Heathens! You've been duped by the false seeming of Sandpoint's residents. You must realize that that town has to be destroyed for the good of all; only then can it be reborn as something better! Tear the wool from your eyes! Don't make me tear it for you..."

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