Being Evil Sucks: Difference between revisions

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The thing is, you may enjoy yourself for a little while, but eventually [[Laser-Guided Karma|it will come back to haunt you]] in unpleasant ways. [[Kick the Morality Pet|Kicking the morality pet]] has the unfortunate side effect of making you [[Bad Dreams|lose sleep at night]] or [[Out, Damned Spot!|consuming you with guilt]] over the horrible things you've done. Letting your [[The Dark Side|anger rule you]] is fun and easy... but you'll probably [[Kick the Wrong Dog]] in your bloodlust. Oh yeah, and there's also the likely chance that you will [[Comes Great Insanity|go mad]], which really isn't as cool as it sounds when [[Sanity Has Advantages|you're in a straitjacket.]]

Because, you see, [[Good Feels Good|true happiness]] can only be achieved through [[The Power of Love]] or the [[Power of Friendship]]. ''[[Evil Is Easy|Anybody]]'' can cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]], but once you're there it [[Lonely At the Top|looks pretty bleak]]. Nobody wants to be your friend because they're all terrified that you'll kill them in their sleep (or you already have), you've done nothing to better your position except cause more suffering and generally made the world a worse place to live in. And through it all you've nourished so many bad feelings that not even [[Evil Feels Good]] anymore, you don't even ''remember'' what it's like to feel good for a change.

Because, you see, [[Good Feels Good|true happiness]] can only be achieved through [[The Power of Love]] or the [[Power of Friendship]]. ''[[Evil Is Easy|Anybody]]'' can cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]], but once you're there it [[Lonely at the Top|looks pretty bleak]]. Nobody wants to be your friend because they're all terrified that you'll kill them in their sleep (or you already have), you've done nothing to better your position except cause more suffering and generally made the world a worse place to live in. And through it all you've nourished so many bad feelings that not even [[Evil Feels Good]] anymore, you don't even ''remember'' what it's like to feel good for a change.

Of course, such a change of heart can be made much harder if it turns out [[Being Good Sucks]], too.

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** [[Wraith: The Oblivion|Wraiths]]: Your Shadow, your resident [[Enemy Within]], grows more and more powerful, working against everything you care about. When it's [[Split Personality Takeover|finally able to take over]], you become one of the local servants of Oblivion, and now work to the destruction of everything.

** [[Genius: The Transgression|Geniuses]]: (yes, it's fanmade, but shut up): the you that's actually, well, ''you'' slowly dissipates and your personality is overtaken by some strange, [[Eldritch Abomination|unknown and terrifying will]] that leads you to [[Ax Crazy|horrible acts]]. Also, the Geniuses who ''haven't'' given in to Illumination (likely including your friends and [[Mentor]]) will hunt you down and kill you. Granted, at that point it could be considered a [[Mercy Kill|mercy]] to ''you''.

* The fate of most servants of Chaos in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer ~~40000~~]]''. Sure, the lucky few become immortal and godlike Daemon Princes, but the vast majority is doomed to become consumed by their emotions and end up as blood-crazed berserkers who live only to kill and die in battle, jaded hedonists who have to keep doing more and more depraved things simply to feel something, sorceress who are forever driven to expand their knowledge in an attempt to reach an impossible goal, or disease-ridden husks who are kept alive by supernatural powers despite their bodies rotting away. That is, if you don't simply end up becoming a mindless mass of betentacled gribblyness because of all the mutations you've been receiving, or simply sacrificed, as cannon fodder, as an experiment, to slate the hunger of ravenous daemons, as a sex toy to rapacious daemons, or simply [[For the Evulz]].

* The fate of most servants of Chaos in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. Sure, the lucky few become immortal and godlike Daemon Princes, but the vast majority is doomed to become consumed by their emotions and end up as blood-crazed berserkers who live only to kill and die in battle, jaded hedonists who have to keep doing more and more depraved things simply to feel something, sorceress who are forever driven to expand their knowledge in an attempt to reach an impossible goal, or disease-ridden husks who are kept alive by supernatural powers despite their bodies rotting away. That is, if you don't simply end up becoming a mindless mass of betentacled gribblyness because of all the mutations you've been receiving, or simply sacrificed, as cannon fodder, as an experiment, to slate the hunger of ravenous daemons, as a sex toy to rapacious daemons, or simply [[For the Evulz]].

* Do enough truly evil stuff in [[Ravenloft]] and you'll end up becoming a darklord, along with the requisite powers and your own domain. Sounds fun, right? Except that you're confined to to your realm, you're forever being tormented by the objects of your desire, and the only way to escape is through a [[Heel Realization]]. Of course, as the sourcebook states, if you were the kind of person to ever ''have'' a [[Heel Realization]], you probably wouldn't have become a darklord in the first place.

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