Haggish shenanigans in Artrosa

[The Black Bard]

So, my fabulous party has made it into the Maiden, Mother, Crone stage of the AP, and certain things have become accepted aspects of the campaign, for better or worse.

1. Irrisen sucks, Iobaria sucks more, Baba Yaga sucks most.
2. There is always room in the Gunslinger's harem.
3. The urban druid will always open his big mouth at the wrong time.

So, a few rooms in to Artrosa, the druid has made the moves on Caigreal.

Context:

The half-fiend satyr managed to hit EVERYONE with suggestion, but upon seeing them absoutely destroy the tendriculos, he thought better of outright assault and brought them to the annis hag. Who has likewise succeeded in bluffing them as to her true nature and setting them against Jadrenka. Granted, most of the PCs are still suspicious: whats a human woman doing all alone in Iobaria? Her cover story of being a Desnan priestess only goes so far. Even Caigreal herself warned them to not trust anyone in the dungeon.

But here is where it gets fun! After the friendly meeting and a few more encounters chopping away at the daily resources, the party retreated back to the top of the mesa and rested in the grove there. However, the druid decided he wanted to spend more time with the pretty lady, and went back down to have dinner with her.

Even better,

Fate of the foolish druid:

the dinner provided was the dead pig familiar of the ettin witch from the first room. Which the druid had engaged in solo battle due to an insult and profanity laden exchange made possible by Speak With Animals.

While Caigreal is playing a long game and wants to use these pawns to acheive her goals, her innate haggish nature can't be suppressed that long. She collected the coven, and used their powers to do a number of things during the dinner date. Some of these are a little loose with the rules, but my group has always agreed that outside the box thinking is fair game regardless of PC or NPC status.

So, what has the hag coven done?

1. Cursed the druid to only gain sustenance from undead flesh.
2. Animated the pig's spirit as an ectoplasmic creature, disguised as the gravy of the meal. It now swirls in his guts, biding its time to use its horrifying ooze ability against him from the inside. Should he be nauseated by anything, it will come up, and attack.
3. Animated the pig's skinned, boned, and roasted corpse as a meat-puppet undead, where it now sits within his stomach permanently regenerating. Soon he will notice that he isn't getting hungry anymore. Should he ever assume a female shape via Thousand Faces or Wildshape, the meat-puppet will fully regenerate and attempt to escape, which will be likely completely horrifying.
4. Cursed him that the next time he prepares Reincarnate (he's had to reincarnate 3 party members so far, so it will happen again), it will be the coven's animate dead ability that gets used. Until he does this or dies, the coven does not have access to that ability. This is a one-off curse, permanent until expended. I'm planning to offer the unlucky PC who gets animate dead on them the chance to come back as a skeletal champion, if they don't want to wait for ressurection magic.

This isn't the first terrible thing to happen to this druid, nor is it likely to be the last. The previous session's encounter with Tooth Fairies (I had to, how could I not?) left him in a coma from the pain and violation of having ALL his teeth taken (failed every save against paralysis). He got half of them back in time to re-set.

Anyhow, I just wanted to share a brief look at the trouble my party gets into, and perhaps see if anyone has any further ideas for haggish manipulation of the PCs (in general or mine in specific) throughout Artrosa.

[Tangent101]

That is truly horrifying.

But I have to admit it sounds like he has it coming to him. Though it would suck to have another PC suffer because of that curse - perhaps allow a saving throw by the dead PC's spirit to avoid the curse?

[The Black Bard]

My group is pretty understanding about the ramifications of others actions. Plenty of times where an active choice to do something (attack rather than heal) has resulted in a character death or other form of misfortune. Ultimately, this is hardly different, just more... protracted in delivery.

I'm lucky to have a group that is focused on telling the story first and winning the game second.

That said, I plan on giving the unlucky reincarnee the option of skeletal champion with a possible slow degrade into evil, a new character, or waiting for ressurection. And since we use hero points, a free hero point for the trouble regardless.