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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6253377" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Well, it's both better and worse than that.We're in a Grecco/Roman setting, and the sun god is Apollo.  Helios was the Titan who had the job before himThe party traveled back in time to Pompeii, on the very hour of it's destruction, to retrieve the dagger before it could be buried.And, as the screaming people cried out to their gods to save them from the fire falling from the sky, our intrepid heroes swoop in and steal the altar piece from the Temple of Helios, right in front of the congregation.The PC who did the actual grab was our Druid, who turned into a Fire Elemental to get through the crowds, pretty much killing everyone he touched as the mob panicked.  His rationale was that, being several centuries in the past, in a doomed city, he was at most accelerating their deaths by a few minutes.  Besides, they'd actually been dead for centuries, and nothing *should* change that.So, in terms of anything resembling alignment issues, they didn't just step off the deep end, they marched off, singing and dancing, with a brass band for accompaniment.  It was grand.  If I'd been the DM at the time I'd have slapped everyone stupid for that stunt, including my own PC.I have a tale of the Golden One's participation as well, but I'll save that for another time.On the "better" side, the worship of Helios ended when the current gods displaced the Titans, centuries ago.  There is no church to seek retribution.  The note was sent to the temple of Zeus in Olympia, and they will be the ones to respond.As for the Devil trying to foul the deal:  This mission was laid with so many booby traps it isn't funny.  The way I play a Devil in a deal, he can't actually lie when making the terms.  And he didn't.The deal, as proposed, was:  "I have heard it said that in the ancient city of Pompeii beneath the ashes there stood a Temple to the fallen god Helios, and that in that temple there was a altar piece, the Dagger of Helios.  Bring that to me and your debt is paid.  And, to show that I'm being fair, you have a full year to complete the task.  You are to deliver the dagger to me one year from tonight, in this very bar."He spoke the truth, technically, when he said that he had heard of the dagger, and where it was.  He didn't say that he had heard this from a reliable source, or whether he knew for certain that such an item existed at all.  Also, the bar they were in was on an island that is known to vanish and reappear.  (I looked up some ancient maps of the Aegean Sea, and this island appeared on some, but not on others.  How much fun is that? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )  So the Devil doesn't even know if this bar will be reachable at all on the night in question.  Now he'll be there, not because he expects to receive a holy relic, but because he expects to collect a soul.  The PC owed 10% of his, but the deal was that if the PC accepted a task and failed, the penalty was the other 90%Oh, and the PC later bargained away another two tenths of his soul, so I get to screw with him again, and then again, even if this works out somehow.Honest, I didn't set out to be an evil DM.  It just sort of happened. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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