Trigger Suggestion


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This spell functions as suggestion, except you can use it only to specify a condition that triggers a special activity, and the subject does not remember that you made the suggestion. For example, you could use triggered suggestion on a palace guard to make him attack the king the next time he and the king are alone, and the guard would not remember the suggestion to do so until the trigger occurred.

So, in my game the sorcerer did that on a cult leader, he made a suggestion somewhat like this :

When you get back to your cult, gather all the gold you can find and send it at our mansion.

So what happen there?
Because I am going to be honest, I am about to send the gold, than a few days later, burn the mansion because the cult know where they are located now ... Yeah, I know, I'm evil :S


It seems like it could work. I don't know the specifics of the cult or the layout of the organization or how the cult leader would go about sending the gold.

For instance, if he starts gathering up gold and someone sees him and asks, he might just tell them he's sending it to the PC's mansion. Now, whether that person tries to stop him, tries to steal the gold on the way (possibly even volunteering to do it), or casts a protection from ... spell that might allow a new save or suppress the suggestion there's no telling.

There's no guarantee the gold gets there. If he's sending a bunch, it might get robbed or stolen, or if he sends a bunch of cultists carrying gold and a law enforcement or bounty hunter sees that, they will likely assume the PC's mansion is the cult headquarters and they're the leaders. Why else would cultists be bringing lots of gold to them?

So maybe their mansion gets torched and looted by good guys, inquisitors, and bounty hunters just like the PCs would do to someone else.


Well, those were all great scenario, but my question was more like :

Let's say he send all the gold he can find. Then when he is done, the spell end. Does he remember the location of the mansion and the fact that he sent all the gold there? ( Let's assume he's the only one doing it, and nobody saw him )


Rackdam wrote:

Well, those were all great scenario, but my question was more like :

Let's say he send all the gold he can find. Then when he is done, the spell end. Does he remember the location of the mansion and the fact that he sent all the gold there? ( Let's assume he's the only one doing it, and nobody saw him )

Yes. The only memory mod the spell does is preventing him from remembering the suggestion before it triggers.

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