| NihilsticBanana |
So I'm in a evil gestalt campaign where I play a lvl 10 fey sorcerer/mesmerist, now that's all fine and good and we've been getting along perfectly fine, only trouble is that we found a Harrow deck of many things... Now I've never encountered a deck of many things before so I didn't fully understand the sheer amount of fire I was playing with when I decided to pull 13 cards from it. Sooo now I'm in a rough spot I'll give you a rundown on the noteworthy things that happened to me because of this choice.
A genie showed up and asked me to marry them (I said yes) now I gotta come up with 50k before the week is over (I currently have 365 PP, 55 GP, and 4 SP)
A cursed dagger that doesn't do anything special besides stabbing me if I try and leave it behind or don't use it in battle.
The power to open any door in existence once.
Immunity to fire, weakness to acid
Permanently large size (All my armor broke leaving me with 11 AC but I think my mage armor can balance that out)
I'm always flanked
Crits always confirm for me as well as on me
-4 charisma, -4 Wisdom, -2 Int permanently
My water skin is made of sapphire and now worth 20k
once per day +10 CMB or CMD also something metal shatters
14 (Now 10) peasants are following me around and keep getting themselves killed
The other stuff was mainly just stuff I was able to deny and get nothing out of.
This campaign has some homebrew elements added to it due to some "Seven deady sins" theme going on, basically as envy I got myself a +1 to my wisdom every 2 levels and the ability to copy a power/ability of someone or something an equal amount of times to my wisdom mod permanently, thing is I can't turn off the power and remove an ability when I don't need it anymore and I act more like whoever or whatever I copy, this basically meant so far that I got a -4 to my intelligence when I tried to copy some demon horse thing and also I look a lot more demonic. I lose the abilitys gained when I try and copy something beyond the limit and it sort of just resets.
My current ability scores are now
Str 10
Dex 12
Con 11 (-3 due to con damage)
Int 6 (Temp -4 thanks to the copy,
Wis 14
Cha 18
AC is 11, Fort 5, Ref 8, Will 16
Now with all the knowledge you know I have at my disposal how can I spin this around and turn this into more of a positive? I thought maybe like I could try to trap the Genie or something but IDK how to go about doing something like that, I've got a huge worry about what's going to happen if I can't afford the wedding in a week, I don't know what that will smith looking freak is gonna do to me but I can just tell it ain't good. Any and all ideas to try and undo the negatives gained here would be great and any ideas on how I can use any of this to my advantage would be even better.
| Scott Wilhelm |
So, the first issue is that Genie. Why do you want to marry him? Do you love him? Is he good to you? What happens if you can't pay the 50,000gp dowry to his father?
Do you have a patron to act as your father to give you away? Is he willing to put up part of your dowry? For a service? Is your fiancé's father willing to waive the dowry in exchange for some service from a powerful sorceress? Also, I understand that it is typical that it is typical to finance the payment of modern dowries over time.
Your canteen is now made of sapphire and is worth 20,000gp: you are almost halfway there. It seems to me you should sell that to capitialize yourself to be able to make the next 30,000. It seems likely to me that if you pay your dowry partly in money and gems and partly in magic items or something, that should suffice. You could purchase a Lyre of Building and use your peasants to run some kind of company, like construction, mining, or shipping. The Lyre of Building works off of the Performance Skill, and you have a very high Charisma.
50,000gp is a dear dowry! This must be a powerful Genie!
You have the magic power to open any door once. Perhaps you can find that door to vault that is full of treasure.
The envy/copying thing is interesting. You should figure out the nuances of it.
| NihilsticBanana |
So, the first issue is that Genie. Why do you want to marry him? Do you love him? Is he good to you? What happens if you can't pay the 50,000gp dowry to his father?
Do you have a patron to act as your father to give you away? Is he willing to put up part of your dowry? For a service? Is your fiancé's father willing to waive the dowry in exchange for some service from a powerful sorceress? Also, I understand that it is typical that it is typical to finance the payment of modern dowries over time.
Your canteen is now made of sapphire and is worth 20,000gp: you are almost halfway there. It seems to me you should sell that to capitialize yourself to be able to make the next 30,000. It seems likely to me that if you pay your dowry partly in money and gems and partly in magic items or something, that should suffice. You could purchase a Lyre of Building and use your peasants to run some kind of company, like construction, mining, or shipping. The Lyre of Building works off of the Performance Skill, and you have a very high Charisma.
50,000gp is a dear dowry! This must be a powerful Genie!
You have the magic power to open any door once. Perhaps you can find that door to vault that is full of treasure.
The envy/copying thing is interesting. You should figure out the nuances of it.
Hey thanks for the response! Uh so lets run through these, When I first encountered them they were described to me as "Rich-looking" so that's a instant marraige choice right there, I don't think my character fully understands what love is so they're really basing all of this off of selfish desires and physical attraction rather then any real love. As for how good they are to me.... Eh I only met them in a short 3 minute burst where they instantly proposed and threatened to do "Something" if I cant manage to pay for the wedding, they then vanished through a portal never to be seen again until my week is over I'm assuming so asking for a dowry is kind of out of the question here. The closest thing to a father I had in game was my actual father... who I had killed... So I'm kind of on my own and stuck with a group of 6 other deadly sins working under some evil godly force that I still don't fully understand. So I mean maybe the closest thing I have is my pet fairy they seem to hate me though.
A little update since last session, I managed to get a book written and out there to be published by a book publisher but apparently I threatened to kill each and every single book publisher in the city if they published my book, we're working on the idea that some members of our group has some evil clones running around... Problem is the book profits are majorly being cut into, the publisher taking 75% of the profits while Greed is taking another 15% because I used his contacts. I'd love to rob a bank of vault of some kind but we're supposed to be undercover currently and can't really be openly evil at the moment.
| Cevah |
Fabricate can triple your sapphire waterskin into 60K of jewelry. Hire a wizard for 450 gp to cast the spell, and 1 gp for another waterskin.
You could try to profit from your own wanted status. I.e. have a "friend" turn you in for cash, then escape. Repeat.
See if you can manage to get someone to steal the cursed dagger. That might retarget it to the thief.
/cevah
| Scott Wilhelm |
Fabricate can triple your sapphire waterskin into 60K of jewelry. Hire a wizard for 450 gp to cast the spell, and 1 gp for another waterskin.
You could try to profit from your own wanted status. I.e. have a "friend" turn you in for cash, then escape. Repeat.
See if you can manage to get someone to steal the cursed dagger. That might retarget it to the thief.
/cevah
Oh, you mean like use the Sapphire as raw materials along with some gold and silver to make jewelry with? Clever.
Maybe encrust that dagger with some of those sapphires to make it look better.