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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 947638" data-attributes="member: 1792">1) The trap is a binding circle it is not a circle of protection. Circles of protection hedge things out. If you called something into a circle of proteciton you are forcing it against the creature you called and you break the circle. Traditionally, binding circles prevent what it inside from coming out, anything from the outside that breaks the plane and interrupts the barrier freeing the creature contained within. 2) The contract can be as specific or general as you choose. The looser your wording, the more latitude you give to the creature to carry out it's end of the agreement. Note that there is no such thing as an air-tight agreement. (See answer #3)3) No. It is only really required to comply with the letter of what you requested and no more. It is not obliged to follow your orders, only carry out the terms of the deal. If you order a creature to kill someone it can happliy wipe out an entire town of bystanders in the process as long as it kills the person it was contracted to. 4)I think it leaves after it carries out the terms. I don't remember anything clear about how it gets back though. I think the magic of the binding proces sends it back where it came from but it is possible that it has to leave under its own power. 5) I'd say you have to redo the entire process from the start, you can't just renew the effect to gain the benefits of the process. You have to redo the whole process as specified from the beginning to get its benefit.  I see no reason why you can't call it back into the same binding circle but that would breach the first circle so you'd better hope it works. 6) I believe the magic of the binding ritual forces it to carry out the terms of the agreement. There is nothing for it to "disobey". You aren't issuing commands to it. You have a deal and it is obliged by the ritual to follow it. It is not obliged to obey you unless that is what was agreed to. Basically, the binding ritual is a contract. The sorcerer captures the outsider then offers it freedom in return for a service. Once the oral contract is agreed upon, the creature is freed satisfying the summoner's part of the deal, the binding magic then requires the creature to carry out its part.  Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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