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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6697173" data-attributes="member: 4937">All good liars know that 'the truth' is the best way to deceive.  Your interpretation is consistent with the historical portrayal of devils and diabolic figures in general.  I immediately caught most of the traps you mention, though I missed "in this place" possibly implying that the inn had to be intact, I caught that he didn't actually promise to be present and the contract does not compel him to be present.  Good delivery contracts specify the obligations of the receiver as well.I'd also be really worried about just exactly what a Devil could do with the dagger of a Sun Deity, and would have presumed that the Sun Deity probably wouldn't be particularly happy with me turning over his personal property to a Devil.  I would be wondering if the implied terms of the deal were, "Assist me in blotting out the Sun, and become an enemy of all the Gods of light and good, and all your debts will be paid."I wouldn't be terribly worried about figuring out the timing, as that's something you can calculate with sufficient astronomy.  But the fact that its obvious that the dagger might not be where he says it is, and probably isn't, that you don't know what you are promising to deliver, and that the deal is void if the devil just chooses to show up late and for all I know that this place is on a volcano scheduled to blow sky high before the year is out mean that well, it's entirely a sucker bet even if it wasn't consorting with devils to enter into the agreement.Incidentally, the Devil missed a trick in his contract.  Good delivery contracts specify that the goods will be delivered undamaged.  Without such a clause, no warranty for the merchandise is implied and the buyer accepts the merchandise in an 'as is' state without any implied suitability.  A broken dagger would appear to fulfill the contract with the same literalness that assumes the inn must be intact for it to be 'this place'.  If the Devil specified the dagger was undamaged, it not only would warranty the merchandise, but it offers another layer of making the task impossible - if the reason the dagger is lost that it is broken, good luck mending an artifact.</blockquote>

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