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<blockquote data-quote="monsmord" data-source="post: 9335857" data-attributes="member: 6876475"><p>Taking this one step...down...</p><p></p><p>How about a nondescript service animal, like a pony or mule? It bears a special mark, deformity, or other feature that endears it to the party, and may seem smarter, stronger, more hardy, or more capable than others of its kind, though not supernaturally so, just enough of an "NPC" to make selling it distasteful. Somehow it miraculously survives every encounter, and may even aid the party in some rudimentary way. If they do sell it, or its stolen, it somehow escapes and returns to them, or comes back to them via some darkly coincidental event (sold to a caravan, which the PCs later overtake and find obliterated, all but their friend there...)</p><p></p><p>Unknown even to the animal, at first, is that it's not the animal, or not exactly. A previously dead god or demigod being re-planed? A polymorphed amnesiac dragon, or one that can't undo the spell and secretly guides its "owners" on a path to find the cure (and therefore maybe its the source of the rumors)? An artifact or relic that assumes whatever form it needs to obtain its own power-mongering or dimension-hopping objective? The prophecied beast that will end, or feed, a great evil? Etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="monsmord, post: 9335857, member: 6876475"] Taking this one step...down... How about a nondescript service animal, like a pony or mule? It bears a special mark, deformity, or other feature that endears it to the party, and may seem smarter, stronger, more hardy, or more capable than others of its kind, though not supernaturally so, just enough of an "NPC" to make selling it distasteful. Somehow it miraculously survives every encounter, and may even aid the party in some rudimentary way. If they do sell it, or its stolen, it somehow escapes and returns to them, or comes back to them via some darkly coincidental event (sold to a caravan, which the PCs later overtake and find obliterated, all but their friend there...) Unknown even to the animal, at first, is that it's not the animal, or not exactly. A previously dead god or demigod being re-planed? A polymorphed amnesiac dragon, or one that can't undo the spell and secretly guides its "owners" on a path to find the cure (and therefore maybe its the source of the rumors)? An artifact or relic that assumes whatever form it needs to obtain its own power-mongering or dimension-hopping objective? The prophecied beast that will end, or feed, a great evil? Etc. [/QUOTE]
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