I'm sorry. I keep seeing the words "Conversion of St.
Peter" and I think, "Into what? A living artifact?"
Actually, wouldn't _that_ be a scandal. St. Peter,
down on a rare visit to the Corporeal Plane, gets
kidnapped by a bunch of Renegade Habbalah of
Technology who stick him into a plaster statue of
himself (using Vaputech Stock Plot Device
#5544-5f(c))and then try to ransom him to Heaven, in
exchange for the Inquisition's secret files on Jesus.
A shame Heaven doesn't have any such thing, huh? Or,
heck, maybe they do. Maybe Dominic's even so tired of
trying to figure out precisely _what_ happened in
Judea all those years ago that he figures that letting
the Renegades actually have said files. It's not like
there's anything useful in them, the Habbalah haven't
considered the fact that Dominic can have a Cherub
attune to the blessed things and track the Punishers,
and besides, maybe the demons will uncover a clue.
The Habbalah are, truth be told, shocked as Hell when
the messengers (wonder who _that_ could be?) show up
with the files: they expected at least some defiant
posturing. But the (random PC/convenient NPC) Seraph
sings out that Dominic agreed to the trade, and the
Vaputech dissonance-o-meter isn't going off, so that's
that. Miserable milksops in heaven, anyway. So, the
head Habbalite gestures grandly with the
aforementioned V.P.D. at the plaster statue.
No effect.
He does it again.
Still no effect.
One last time.
Nada. Zip. No Saint.
The Punishers look at each other, then look at their
human servant/punching bag. Some quick
'interrogation' will indicate that said servant, not
actually being there for the forced plasterization of
St. Peter, may not have been completely sure _which_
one of the half-dozen or so statues of his Holiness he
was supposed to have grabbed. Oops...
Now, at this point the Habbalah are sweating (and
bloody, of course, but that's another story). Lunatic
Renegade demons or not, they can figure out that
stealing a Saint is one thing: reneging on a deal with
the Cloaked One is just _dumbass_. The PCs will no
doubt have made similar calculations, substituting
"having to tell Dominic that the first Pope is now
adorning some matron's back yard", but keeping the
dumbass bit.
Guess it's time to go search some yards, gardens,
rectories and houses with the PC's new friends: do I
really need to tell you how to make this a nightmare
for them? Made worse by the extreme tackiness of some
of the places that they'll have to check out. Try not
to let the Habbalah kill anyone for having bad taste.
No matter how badly the PCs are tempted.
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