My group includes a player that frequently forgets he should be playing his character, not doing whatever he thinks would be funny, or whatever he wants to do. This player is the Cleric. I started the group off below the deck of a ship as prisoners on a slave ship, they over took the pirates onboard by freeing the other would be slaves and using their help to overcome their weapon disadvantage. The most prominent NPC suggested a course of action for them, trying to dissuade the group from what seemed like a poor plan. The Cleric asks to stealthily attack the Druid NPC. In response, our groups Paladin, who's character flaw is to smite all evil no matter the cost leaps into action and deals enough damage to put this cleric well below his max HP below zero. It was the first night however, so Instead of him dying outright, I had his left arm severed, but warned him that if anything like this happens again, there is no mercy.

Also in the group is a Warlock who is a worshiper of Cthulu, and his motivation for adventuring is to find offerings to the drowned god. He has a running tally of how many people he has thrown into the sea, and which ones were alive when he did so. After arriving in the port city, they hit the town. The Warlock finds a starving homeless man and offers him a deal. If he can tread water for an hour, he will feed the man for three days. With a high persuasion roll, the homeless man agrees, and drowns after the last CON check I had him make. The warlock gave a live sacrifice to the drowned god.

Seeing this out of character, our Cleric decides he wants in on this fun. He goes to the church of his faith in town and offers his high priest all of his gold on the wager that he cant tread water for 2 hours. I would have turned him down had he not rolled so high. The high priest drowned after critically failing the roll. Because the Cleric was so explicit that he was doing this in service to Cthulu, I felt it was fitting that his god stripped him of his divine power until he attoned for his sins. He played a few sessions hiding from our paladin until he realized i was serious about him needing to atone. He returned to the church and "I tell them everything" "Everything?" "Everything." Now I have to create a court system, because he demanded a trial. Im fairly sure he's a dead man waiting to be executed, but the group is very excited to see if he can get himself out of this mess, but at the same time prepared if he cannot.