Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
Playing the Game
Play by Post
Living Worlds
Living EN World
The Crux of the Matter
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3556093" data-attributes="member: 29014"><p><span style="color: darkorchid">"No, I want you to get me Laynie before you deal with the other Aspects. Some of them are, as you saw, insane. I wouldn't even be out at all if Senex hadn't tried to betray both sides to get us to kill each other, for instance. You can't know what things the other Aspects will do. You claim that the others of your group will do what I want if the Aspects hold or kill you, but they won't. They don't have their souls signed to me. The Freefolk is barely willing to even let <em>you</em> do it--he won't do it himself. You forget something--<em>I don't trust you or your friends</em> past what I can bind in a contract from experience because you've been basically doing the most unscrupulously evil things possible in every case except for when I have a soul on the line. I don't like this whole soul thing, but I've espied you all mentioning multiple times how you would have destroyed the Crux by now if not for that, so I have empirical evidence of what you are capable. You're even blackmailing me for the life of myself and my children in exchange for money! 'Also, see it as a payment for your freedom', you said."</span></p><p><span style="color: darkorchid"></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorchid">"Second, only one person can sign their soul to a contract, but I'll make a second contract for myself and sign it with your stated terms--you can be the beneficiary if you like. I don't care because I'll be doing those things anyway, so I won't default my soul, so it doesn't matter."</span></p><p><span style="color: darkorchid"></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorchid">"That being the case, let us indeed trade the items now, as you said."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3556093, member: 29014"] [color=darkorchid]"No, I want you to get me Laynie before you deal with the other Aspects. Some of them are, as you saw, insane. I wouldn't even be out at all if Senex hadn't tried to betray both sides to get us to kill each other, for instance. You can't know what things the other Aspects will do. You claim that the others of your group will do what I want if the Aspects hold or kill you, but they won't. They don't have their souls signed to me. The Freefolk is barely willing to even let [I]you[/I] do it--he won't do it himself. You forget something--[I]I don't trust you or your friends[/I] past what I can bind in a contract from experience because you've been basically doing the most unscrupulously evil things possible in every case except for when I have a soul on the line. I don't like this whole soul thing, but I've espied you all mentioning multiple times how you would have destroyed the Crux by now if not for that, so I have empirical evidence of what you are capable. You're even blackmailing me for the life of myself and my children in exchange for money! 'Also, see it as a payment for your freedom', you said." "Second, only one person can sign their soul to a contract, but I'll make a second contract for myself and sign it with your stated terms--you can be the beneficiary if you like. I don't care because I'll be doing those things anyway, so I won't default my soul, so it doesn't matter." "That being the case, let us indeed trade the items now, as you said."[/color] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Playing the Game
Play by Post
Living Worlds
Living EN World
The Crux of the Matter
Top