Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lendro_Furioso" data-source="post: 6160125" data-attributes="member: 79242">Thanks for the input! I like the idea, but in this case I'm not sure it would work because there is only one mind flayer. He's avoiding acting directly, and is just pulling all sorts of strings to get what he wants. The illithid is well aware of the duplicity of the devils, and his plan is to capitalize on the deal as quickly as possible. Even without knowing much about the Prime Material Plane, a gate the Nine Hells is likely to attract unwanted attention. As such, he has timed his plans so that in a few days time a planetary alignment will allow him to open a temporary gate to the Far Realms. He will then herd a bunch of people through.Basically, for the illithid this was a free buffet! He was unwittingly summoned, and could have left anytime due to his plane shift ability, but being highly intelligent and conniving he decided to stick around and see what he could get out of it. Due the the Far Realms' lack of intelligent beings (appart from other illithids), getting a few people back home is highly advantageous to him.The devils, however, I've no real clue what they should be doing. Even if they are power crazy and think this could go on forever (which is doubtful), what do you do with a town of people too scared to fight you off? They don't want material goods, they want souls... So, I guess they'd try to get as many contracts as possible? Seems a little too freaky for a fantasy setting, like a suited devil going door to door asking if any residents are interested in a deal. I'm stumped, really. I've thought about the devils exposing the people to the hellfire's energy and transforming them into lemures or somesuch, but it seems lame...</blockquote>

Verification