So, at the moment, i am DM a homebrew world and sitting at my "creative" board and mood, trying to to create a...interesting villian. While i have already plottet who, what and why the Main BBEG is, i wanted to add second one, who has his own agende but on a smaller scale.
When i stumble upon the Master chymist, i took notice on his class feature regarding his mutagen and how it allows the prestige to have different alignments, thus brewing the idea of a Dr Jekyll/Mr hyde villan. Already now, i have a npc planted amongst the players and in the future, this guy could come up and start harrasing them.
Made a quick chart today, to give my self a idea about who and what:
Lafayette, professor, alchemist/Master chymist.
Traits (not game mechanic): pervert- perverting the natural cause or world into his shape and taste.
Sadist - takes great plessure in the pains of other, wheter psycical or moral pain.
Personal - using his Intelligence, he research, gather information and use whatever medhold to harm a person on a deep and personale level.
Stalker - stil working on that thought.
Arrogant. Schems alot, manipulate and lies alot but will use the truth to hurt others aswell, so long it furthers his intention.
Weapons of choice: Bite/claws, spells, poison, gold and expendable allies, proxy units, bombs, items of power, lies both with words and powers (simulacrum is a valid option)
So far, so good but here comes a certain problem; the npc who could be the host of this villan, would have acces to these memories, so i have been trying to see if their was either a spell or a item, that allowed this professor, to somehow erase, alter or implant memories. If this was possible, it would make it harder for the players to locate him, sinds the host wouldnt be able to speak about it and thus telling the truth.
Main goal about him, was to see how far i could keep the secret identity of the host, while the professor was on a rampage, stealing, experimenting and all other shjitty things.
So far, the npc who is my idea of the host, is a neutral good half-elf bramble brewer beastmorph.
A way forward can be found in a question I put forward some months ago.
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2sf51?Im-looking-for-a-spell#11
I would suggest that you could use a Major curse to change the memory of the character to make him forget the Master Chymist persona until a certain trigger dispels it and he rears his ugly head.
That is exactly the thing i was looking for!!! Thank you!!!!
Something I would do is to drop in small hints to the alternate personality coming through as the adventure went on.
Maybe, a symbol on the side of a church makes him grimace and hold his head.
Or, an old lady remembers him from somewhere else and, in silent fright runs from him.
Or he has a personality slip suddenly becoming angry before returning to his normal good guy persona.
just a few little things to foreshadow the change and reward some slightly more observant players.