What really surprised me was when, about a year later, I ran into one of our two female players and she told me she had written lurid erotic fan-fiction featuring the Kerek. She gave me a copy. It was… memorable.

As for your Kereks, sounds like excellent stuff to me. Sorry you lost your players/friends, but I think the world needs more delightful inventions from the likes of “faggot perverts.”

First, just to make this clear, Anal Explorers jumped the shark back with XV. XIX was the “Phantom Menace” of anal porn. I’ve never seen so much CGI overkill. And they call that acting?

Ahem. Anyway, the “details.”

Warning: Rough Stuff Ahead

The story behind the monsters: They were known as the Kerek. They were large, humanoid creatures forced from their native lands long ago by crusading human mages and had taken up residence in certain remote areas near where the player characters were campaigning.

The human mages had played one last, cruel trick on the fleeing Kerek: a two-fold curse. The first part made the Kerek males prisoners of lust, so much so that they would go mad, and eventually die - without regular sexual intercourse. The second part was that any female having sex with them would die from it. The mages figured this would finish off the remnant of their kind, so they let the surviving males escape into the wilds.

The mages were wrong. After all the females died off, the Kerek turned to raping human women (and anything else they could get their hands on) only to have them all die, too. The remaining Kerak males were about to turn on each other when it occured to them: What about human males?

So began the Kerek raids into human settlements for sexually-appealing males. By Kerek standards, muscular bodies are the most appealing, so he-man fighter types like the players’ characters were prime targets.

Men taken by the Kerak can expect to be either shared among a group or “married” to one of the stronger warriors. Either way they are dressed and treated as Kerekian females with two key differences: First, their teeth are knocked out. (You can guess why.) Second, their thumbs and toes are cut off to prevent them from handling weapons or running very far.

There were even more horrific penalties for refusing sex to their “husbands.”

Finally, as the icing on the cake, I told my players that the reason the Kerek still exist at all is that their own wizards had figured out a way for human males to bear Kerekian children. For obvious reasons, all such “births” are surgical and result in the death of the human male. Also, while pregnant, the human male’s personality is transformed by the Kerekian sorcery into that of an actual Kerekian female, so he welcomes both the pregnancy and the further attentions of Kerekian males.

And that’s the story.

I laid (no pun intended) this on my players one week to the day after one of them asked me - in complete seriousness - if his character could rape a farmgirl. Would I as the GM, he asked, take revenge upon him? He thought I shouldn’t take such things “personally” and just be a dispassionate rulebook adjudicator.

When I finished describing the Kerek, my players were statues for about five straight minutes. Literally… they neither moved nor spoke. We then knocked off for dinner and when we reassembled five of the ten told me I was either a “faggot pervert” or trying to impress the two women in our group by turning the tables and placing men in sexual danger.

I’m not hitting on the girls, I replied, but the latter is precisely the point. Still wanna molest some villagers? Not quite so funny now, is it? The five promptly left and shortly thereafter I couldn’t get a phone call returned, let alone organize an fantasy RPG group, from any of the local gaming circles.

And that’s the tale.

A lot of people think I'm gay because I have many gay friends, a high-camp sense of humor and I look faaaabulous in a Bob Mackie.
You’re just moved up five points on the Bonnie scale of approval. You know, if you care.

PS - Bonnie, DO you actually want the, ahem, "details?"
Please! I wouldn’t settle for anything less ;-).

Damn! Revealed at last! I’d make a dramatic escape through the nearest window, but it looks like an original colonial frame and I’d hate to break it. Nice curtains, too. I wonder if Company Store has those…

I’m sorry, but you forgot to mention women, preferrably in a derogatory or condescending manner: i.e., chicks, broads, dames, skirts, babes, `hos, etc.

Go back to your musical theater, you fairy!

So trying to resist making any of the obvious phallic jokes…

It means just what it sounds like. When I announced this new enemy, half my players quit on the spot. Within days, I had complete strangers accosting me in Waterloo Hobbies and at school, wanting to know what the hell was wrong with me that I should introduce such “faggot” material into my campaign.

That, plus a few other stunts, eventually got me blacklisted from every local FRPG gaming circle. This occasioned my move to sci-fi and Traveller, which was just fine with me. Honestly, how many fucking magic swords can you have, anyway?