Achilles Heel: Curse of Narcissus

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Achilles heel: Curse of Narcissus by Dragon blaze 99

There is another tale that tells the story of the beautiful nymph Echo. She was a woman who loved gossip and could not keep her mouth shut, and this was a dangerous combination with the employment of her as distraction for Hera while Zeus cheated on her. Having found out about his affairs, Hera was thoroughly distraught and punished Echo by only allowing her to repeat the last words of whatever sentence someone spoke.
Upon meeting the beautiful Narcissus, she fell in love with him and did everything she could to show her love for him. However she failed, for he was more than enough admired and lusted for and annoyed he told her off, which sent her running back into the woods. Narcissus then came into the woods asking if anyone was there. He said, "Is anyone here?" then Echo said, "Here, here!" Then Narcissus said," Come show yourself!" then Echo said, "Come!" to Narcissus and Narcissus said, "I give you no power over me!" and turned around. Echo said, " I give you power over me." but Narcissus was already gone. Echo prayed a prayer, "May he who loves no one love himself." Narcissus went to go find water and when knelt over the lake he saw his reflection and realized all the pain he had put these women through because he had finally realized how beautiful he was. So he knelt over the water and dove in, purposfully killing himself and as he was falling he said, "Farewell, farewell." It was only then that Echo could say farewell. Then when the nymphs were looking for his body they just found a beautiful flower where his body should have been and named the flower Narcissus after him.

This curse is fulfilled when the character became entranced by his reflection. The character finds himself so beautiful the cannot look away, when ever looking upon his reflection must make a save vs awe factor of 12+2D4 (roll each time for difficulty) if the character fails he it transfixed for 5D6 minutes and only the loss of all SDC and 20% of his HP will walk him early. The character has no actions so strike, parry or dodge and cannot move or use any super human abilities.