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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liquidsabre" data-source="post: 1485670" data-attributes="member: 15635">I suggest the first month or so to go smoothly with interesting tidbits of info coming in, the next 2-3 months the bard meets with some resistence (in-place-spells, darkness, reactive casting, etc.), during the 5th month or so he realizes the bad guys are on to him and are looking to take him out (via his family, friends, and businesses). Does the Bard have a home where he scry's in safety? Evicted. Casting time 1 hour? The bard finds there is always something distracting and breaking his spell's concentration: hired thugs throwing rocks through windows, random innocent visitors, and strange invitations that can't be refused from royalty to visit them at their summer cottage where they'll never have a moments rest between dinner parties and amusements for the next month or two.If the bard persists and scrying have the Lich dominate the poor bard and have him hang out and scry on his buds to funnel info to their enemies. I suggest either a simple Geas or Domination would be effective where the Bard is made to stop or better yet, to hang around his friends (or as a point of irony scry) and gather info on his friends and funnel this to their enemies. The Lich could even make a profit from the Bard's activites. (drawing the Bard closer allowing the Bard access to some info, but dangerously close as he has an obvious weakness that grows with every domination cast on him by the Lich - say thanks to an evil artifact perhaps). Even better is to follow the Dominations with some kind of a mind wipe effect as well (isn't there a spell that does it? Ah well, that is what research is for...), you don't even have to tell the bard this but you can leave horrifying hints at lapses in memory. (a frightening mystery that might even pick the player's interest)This all could provide possibly valuable info that may lead to the downfall of the Lich at the same time a precarious and dangerous line the bard could tread. There are all sorts of ways to, ahem, "mess" with this wily Bard scrier. These are just a few, have fun!</blockquote>

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