Minor spoilers for book 5.
In book 5 the Temple of Crawling Chaos has a room full of sarcophagi that pluck the recently slain from across the multiverse. In one of the sarcophagus is the fresh corpse of the DM's choosing.
—the body could be someone they recently slew, for example, or could be a body from an entirely different campaign. It could even be a body from a distant planet called Earth.
My question: What body did your players find in the sarcophagus? What body would you put in the sarcophagus to get a good reaction from players?
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I'd have two:
One of a character who died in the Rise of Mhar, and whose player has since lost all contact with me;
One of a character who would canonically die in the far future.
See, I'd set up a homebrew Shadowrun adventure for my players, which had Gnarly himself try to manipulate a way to show up and herald the collapse of cyberpunk civilization far ahead of schedule. The PCs could help put a stop to this, but the players all gave up early on into it.
So the Crawling Chaos would put an echo of this corpse here because as far as anyone knows, he's destined to wreck a world because there'd be no-one to stop him. Plus, in some unsettling way, he knows that putting this corpse here would maximize dread in some unwitting passersby.
(One of the players is playing in a module I'm running that also involves worshippers of Gnarly. One of them will point at the PC and claim his god told him to name-drop two random people and declare them dead)