You find out where that kid lives. Go to their town and tell them of how brave their father was and how he died next to you in battle fighting the enemy hordes. Tell him you made a promise to raise him and see to his education. Add child to raiding party. Raise him to be a merciless avenger in his father's memory. Become the scourge of the continent. Eventually child finds out that you were the one who killed his father and turned him into a monster for your own profit. Meet child on the plains for a final battle. Refuse to lift your sword in defense because you've come to love him as your own. Oh no - the whole thing was a setup by the enemy: they leaked the truth to the kid and set up this meeting as an ambush for both of you, hoping you'd kill/weaken each other. Fight to your dying breath defending the kid and helping him escape. Last words your hear as he escapes and leaves you to your fate are about how much he'll miss you and forgives you.
I don't always upvote walls of text, but when I do it's because it's a better story than half the Hollywood movies I've seen.
Paragraphs are important!
Alternate ending: Find kid, wait until kid is at birthday party, kill 5 kids, take loot, 4c, 5 poison vials. Letter from father says "I left because you were a bad son". Wasn't birthday party after all was suicide pact. Other 4 kids were half siblings with the same letters. As you walk away stunned but feeling slightly better you find a chest of weapons nearby and a manifesto. It was a murder suicide pact and these kids were in their way to slaughter the local happy families. You are a hero. Everyone claps. You leave the 4c.
In the distance you see he man you "killed". It was all a setup to get you and those damn kids to weaken each other. He rides up laughing and says "welcome home son".
Pretty sure I know this story
If you're implying that years of mindless consumerism and television have left my brain completely devoid of originality and creativity, leaving me unable to conjur up unique and never-before imagined stories not anything like those of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Lion King, Frailty, Thor, Batman Begins, Maleficent, Iron Man, and many, many others...well...that'd be a serious accusation friend. What kind of monster would do that? And on the internet?!
me too but i can't really remember where from anymore lol
/me furiously taking notes
I had a group of players in a Curse of Strahd campaign. They started killing soldiers in Vallaki indiscriminately and leaving behind their bodies - not even looting them! So I had Strahd return a bag of things they "left behind" including a letter from a loving wife about how much she missed soldier A, a drawing from a child for their father soldier B, a locket with a picture of soldier C and wife, etc.
They didn't like that.
Mark as junk.
This happens in baldurs gate 3
Can you murder the kid?
asking the important questions i see
Send the kid's father's head to him in a box with a letter in it framing a major enemy of yours with the murder. Do this with every single encounter. In 10 to 20 years a huge group of these children will have grown up to be adults seeking revenge for their fathers against your greatest foe.
Sure, if you want to be evil, I guess.
I had this so much playing Sniper Elite. You'd shoot a Nazi in the head and get a brutal slowmo of the bullet shattering his skull, then loot his body and get a letter to his mom apologizing for not being a better son. Like, christ dude.
Gonna be missing him a lot more lol
