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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1175028" data-attributes="member: 3146">Which brings to mind something worth considering. Working within Wizardru's rather brilliant presentation of the story, how would Belle seek to betray and embarrass the devil lord for his actions while remaining safe from retribution and garnering power and reputation herself?One possibility--she tries to put off actually obtaining the skull until the last minute, shifting the blame onto the devil lord for getting her married too late, etc. . . and counting on the DoD to defend her from aggression (in fact, she might specifically add that to the contract and/or vows--a suggestion spell to the cleric performing the ceremony might account for a last minute addition (especially since protecting one's wife is part of the traditional idea of marriage anyway)). In fact, she might even arrange to be fooled by the defenders into sending a fake skull back to the devil lord. Of course, if she did that, she'd want to find another diabolic patron so she might try to use the DoD to subtly make contact with a rival devil lord in order to sell out her master. Or the rival devil lord might anticipate her desires and take it upon himself to make contact--subtly, of course, through the DoD.And the funny thing is that most of this is actually compatible with the &quot;nice [half-fiend] girl idea.&quot; A suggestion, dominate, or Geas--or simple deception and trickery (perhaps she doesn't know she's a half-fiend or that the devilish side of her family are actually devils and thinks she's just like everyone else and her &quot;uncle&quot; is really a nice guy who's dying of a terrible disease and needs the skull to cure him)--would account for her intent to take the skull.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 1175028, member: 3146"] Which brings to mind something worth considering. Working within Wizardru's rather brilliant presentation of the story, how would Belle seek to betray and embarrass the devil lord for his actions while remaining safe from retribution and garnering power and reputation herself? One possibility--she tries to put off actually obtaining the skull until the last minute, shifting the blame onto the devil lord for getting her married too late, etc. . . and counting on the DoD to defend her from aggression (in fact, she might specifically add that to the contract and/or vows--a suggestion spell to the cleric performing the ceremony might account for a last minute addition (especially since protecting one's wife is part of the traditional idea of marriage anyway)). In fact, she might even arrange to be fooled by the defenders into sending a fake skull back to the devil lord. Of course, if she did that, she'd want to find another diabolic patron so she might try to use the DoD to subtly make contact with a rival devil lord in order to sell out her master. Or the rival devil lord might anticipate her desires and take it upon himself to make contact--subtly, of course, through the DoD. And the funny thing is that most of this is actually compatible with the "nice [half-fiend] girl idea." A suggestion, dominate, or Geas--or simple deception and trickery (perhaps she doesn't know she's a half-fiend or that the devilish side of her family are actually devils and thinks she's just like everyone else and her "uncle" is really a nice guy who's dying of a terrible disease and needs the skull to cure him)--would account for her intent to take the skull. [/QUOTE]

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