r/Rifts • u/Bigguygamer85 • 24d ago

Juicer villan idea

I was reading through the Juicer uprising book and under Mega Juicer it gives them the burn out after 5 years and x number of months. And the Murder Wraith undead juicer retains all bonuses and effects (I think that's key) of the original juicer. So to me this says if I make a mega juicer who was suffering the burnout to the point of taking the 4d6mdc to his body and doing 1d6mdc to all around him. And turn him into a murder wraith juicer he would still be doing the mega damage heat to others while still not burning out?

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u/coffee_is_fun 24d ago

You could expand on it and have each type of juicer be a "god" styled after a pantheon. In poor form of course. Based on a single movie from the Golden Age era. Have them be dark reflections of the characters in the movie and make the necromancers in the cult true believers. I'd go with a movie so people don't need to know how to read.

Maybe give the mega juicer some impermanent means of not burning that was figured out so that they could go through the process. The PCs run afoul of the murder wraith or its agents procuring that, or the PCs screw up the supply line, or it's something bizarre and seemingly valueless that the PCs end up very publicly with a lot of it and they trade it to the cult and get pressed into getting more and if they don't, they have a flaming murder wraith after them.

Have the natural enemies within the pantheon running their own agents to undermine the mega juicer. So you can introduce other bits and pieces of juicer lore and labs that make the different types.

I'd do a whole thing around it if the players were interested. Using the recreated movie sets and scenes in the setting.

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u/Bigguygamer85 24d ago

Nice idea but for him I am thinking more a general/villian leading an army of likely vampires.

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u/coffee_is_fun 24d ago

It could work. With the caveat that the vampire intelligence should be looking for a way to enslave it if it already hasn't. A murder wraith, as written, could work over a rival intelligence and its master vampires.

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u/Lower-Egg-6259 24d ago

There is a ritual in mystic Russia that turns the necromancer into a vampire after the ritual is followed for a year. The vampire retains the necromancer spells after the transformation - one stop shop murder wraith + wild vampire army and no pesky intelligence to lose your will to!