Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1907007" data-attributes="member: 9254">Yes, magic mouth is quite flexible.  It can have fairly complicated conditions so "Out of the shop and in a crowd" would be an easy one.  MM can be confused by illusions and can't detect alignment, class or intent but a conditional any 4yr old would recogize would work.  Okay, that works.  I wouldn't ask; I'd demand.  Furthermore I'd require them to sign a contract agreeing to work for the shopkeeper at the guild-standard rates for (stolen stuff value) in gold, already paid in full.  Time to start: 12 months from now.  "The Diviner said you'd do something important that would be to my benefit but that you didn't need the [important item] to do it.  He didn't say you'd survive, either.  If you live a year, you can work off your debt.  If you welsh on me I won't accuse you of any theft but it will brand you an oathbreaker."Oathbreaker isn't as fatal a crime as grand theft but it generally puts you in a social class where the slaves get to spit in your food.</blockquote>