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** Same character, while torturing the kidnapper. This dialogue happens:

'''Spy:''' For what? Hurting your little toy? You're the one who'll get hurt... eventually. It never was personal, Mali, you just want it to be, to know someone hates you enough to hurt those you choose to love but you don't love her. You just want to think you love someone.<br />

'''Character:''' Perhaps you are right, but is there truly any difference to it, made or not? Of course I'll get hurt, that's what caring is all about! I have no regrets, even if she breaks my heart. I'm happy to have known her either way. }}

 

 

* [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Noh The story of Noh]. At least the good end. Warning, link contains [[NSFW]] material.

** The story's also related on the [[Off the Rails]] page. Apparently, the [[Game Master]] tried to give a party some kind of moral test by leaving two very powerful objects guarded by a tiny little girl (who wasn't real, and could only say "No" and "Please do not take these items".) Instead of doing anything simple, the party assumed the girl had been traumatized and spent ages trying to get her to snap out of it, sweet in itself. Eventually, the party's bard played a song for her to try and help, and because he rolled well, the GM let her [[Cry Cute]] very, very slightly. The party's response? They decided she was the cutest, most [[Moe]] thing ''ever'' and decided to ''take her with them''. Eventually the GM gave into the cute and let her develop a mind. She became the group's mascot, Noh. Say it with me: ''awwwwww!''

** Divine Spark, a Holy Symbol used to unite all the religions against the enemies of life.

** ... and more. The paladin's ghost that lingers to finish the training of his apprentice, who turns and just smiles at him; at that, the spirit passes on. The other paladin soul, captured in an über-evil blade, that ends up redeeming it. The messenger who seeks the god of travel to give his successor abilities to match his own, so that he not be mocked for not living up to an impossible legacy. And so on and so forth.

{{quote| Do what you need to do. [[The Power of Friendship|Nothing will harm you]], my brother.}}

** And if you ever wonder if a Promethean's pilgrimage is really worth it, there's this little story at the end of a chapter about a driver who casually, and just because he wants to help, picks up a battered and confused man to lead him to the hospital, not understanding why the man seems so baffled by this act of generosity. It's pretty clear he actually picked up a Promethean who finally managed to reach the New Dawn and to become a real human. The story ends with the driver looking in his rear mirror only for seeing the man smiling and opening his arms for welcoming the rays of the sun.

* This troper was once part of a [[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]] group (The campaign has since ended.) The PCs were as thus: A Chaotic Neutral Half Elf Duskblade(This Troper), a Chaotic Evil Half-Orc king of hell barbarian thing (Don't ask, would take too long), and a lich. Our DM decided to mix two of his campaigns, so characters from the other campaign were there as well. The setting: End of the world is nigh, this troper and his group are going to enlist the power of some gods to help us out. We've gotten to the point where the leader of Hell itself said "Oh no, not you guys!" Anyway, we're decending into the bowels of this mountain where we can find a shrine we can use to summon an ancient warrior to help stop the big bad. On the way down, we all of sudden realize we're all silenced in every form. We can't communicate telepathically, we can't talk, we can't even hear ourselves breathe. From nowhere, the Orc, who has had a reputation of murdering entire towns without blinking, picks up the half elf and puts him on his shoulders. Why? The Half Orc's player looked at troper and said "In all that we've been through, you've been my only friend. You stayed when no one in there right mind would. Why is that? I don't care, I'm not letting you go." It was at this point, that this troper realized just how strong the relationships grew between these two characters, and just how far they'd go for eachother.

* One of the latest errata for [[Exalted (Tabletop Game)|Exalted]] manages to give one to the ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Abyssals]]'', believe it or not:

* ''[[FATAL (Tabletop Game)|FATAL]]'' has the Flute of Felicity, aka "What The Hell Is A Flute That Makes People Happy Doing In A Piece Of Shit World Like FATAL"? (On the forum thread, at least two tropers attempted to "rescue" the Flute of Felicity from the tainted mires of its source material.)

* This troper was running a game of [[Maid RPG]] in which the PCs were heading into town to meet an emissary from [[Girl Genius|Castle Wulfenbach]] to the minor noble they all worked for. This being the [[Girl Genius]] universe we're talking about, they encountered a fifteen-foot-tall rogue clank that proceeded to chase them through the woods between the mansion and the airship port. The group, being [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|what they are]], started speeding through the forest, throwing everything they could at it: bullets, dictionaries, random pieces of the car they were all riding in. When they had reached the end of the forest, they managed to disable its legs enough to be able to escape. Its last act before it was out of sight was to shout "HUUUUUUUUG!" The players immediately went "awww..." The party turned the car around, drove back, and proceeded to repair the clank's legs and let it hug them all in apology. This clank (named the Hug-Bot by the players) then followed them around for the rest of the campaign, giving random people and objects (including the mansion the group worked in) hugs.

'''[[Japanese Honorifics|"Okaa-sama!"]]''' }}

** Hands down, the best example of stunting I've ever been witness to.

* this troper was playing a game of werewolf where he was pretty much disliked for being a pacifist. After he died giving one of his fellows a shot at killing a demon one of the other players insisted on burying his body on a mountain as I had once mention in character that he had never seen mountains in person. This player was quite moved

* In a game of Pathfinder, we were heading towards a goblin cavern. When we got there, we found a leopard. She was very pregnant, very hurt, and starving. The goblins had apparently captured her and forced her to guard the entrance to their cave. Outraged at this act of cruelty, the party ranger set about setting the leopard free. The party Rogue, who was a classic Chaotic Neutral mercenary type, was so outraged himself that he volunteered a healing potion to the leopard if it meant healing her. The leopard went into labor as he was doing so, and the player ended up using his ranks in the Heal skill to try to save the cubs and the mother. The last one was the runt and nearly dead, but the ranger managed to save her life. The party interrupted the game to make sure the leopard mother and her cubs were put in a safe place. A few months in-game later, the ranger discovered that the cub, now nearly full-grown, was following him, he had his animal companion.