What Would a Hag Ask For?

[Scribble]

So what kinds of things do you think a hag would ask for in return for some information?

Your word- (Ability to speak?)

A smile- (Ability to feel happiness?)

Services? (Perhaps you would be compelled to return at certain times to do the hag's bidding?)

I preffer the more misleading types like the first two... Ones that seem innocent unless you ask for more info...

 

[Aeolius]

Your next-born child. The catch is that she is the mother of said progeny.

 

[Shroomy]

Their name...a lock of hair.

 

[Aeolius]

a vial of tears...

a single hair turned white from fright...

your fondest memory captured by a patch of obliviax; memory moss...

a gallstone...

a tangled knot from a horses tail (known commonly as a hag-knot)...

 

[DrunkonDuty]

the breath of a fish
the tears of a clown
a killer's mercy
a fairy in a bottle (for a night light)

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The answer to a question, such as "What can change the nature of a man?"

Answer wrong and she eats you and continues her quest for knowledge.

 

[Hella_Tellah]

I run Mage: The Awakening, so my NPCs always want something weird, inscrutibly magical, and horrific in exchange for favors. Some favorites:

*Fourteen toes from stillborn children.
*Dispose of the results of a magical experiment gone horribly awry: a young man whose mind was replaced with that of a demon.
*A thimble of blood from a girl's first period.
*A rope used to commit suicide by a man who was forcibly retired.
*The full, given name of a powerful, respected, and honorable mage.

And most ominous of all: a favor to be asked at a later date. Sealed with a Geas.

 

[der_kluge]

Your shadow.

 

[Aeolius]

Your shadow.

"My echo, my shadow, and me..."

I was about to say: Your reflection.

 

[Shemeska]

I run Mage: The Awakening, so my NPCs always want something weird, inscrutibly magical, and horrific in exchange for favors.

"Take this box and deliver it, unwanted and unasked for, to this one particular mage on the material plane in the forests north of the Great Dale." - Daru ib Shamiq, "The Lie Weaver"

Because it's always a good idea to trust someone called -the lie weaver-. The box of course had no hinges or seams, was carved with a leering, almost infantile face, and occasionally leaked blood like it was sweating.

"Take this vial and pour it onto the wounds in the roots of the World Tree. Do not allow Nidhogg to see you... or not... that part is for your own good. Then climb the tree and accept what the ratatosks offer to you, and then return it to me. That is all I ask for my help. Nothing more and nothing less." - Harishek ap Thulkesh, The Blind Clockmaker