How would you freak out a city of normal people as a transmuter?

[Maniacwyrm]

So while my BFT and his party has been having goofy fun, my DM decided at the end of the last session that the next location we are going to is a low magic, sort of in the midst of an Industrial Revolution city where which is mostly filled with like workers. And just before the session ended, a factory(?) blew up and like covered us in soot and ash. Like visually we should be looking like a loony toons character are a bomb exploded.

Naturally, we decided that we wanted to screw with the people there as payback and maybe stage a coup of something. For my part I was thinking of maybe using spells like polymorph or flesh to stone to mess around but that’s kind of basic. So what would be an interesting way for me to freak out/impress a bunch of normal people?

[Claxon]

Before you go that route, you may want to consider how likely it is that people will try to kill your characters if they know you're responsible for shenanigans.

Overall, this isn't really something we can tell you, because it's going to depend on your GM and how they have people react and behave.

[Azothath]

I'd suggest watching out for a mean step mom & sisters mr ashen pfütze...

I'd make sure casting magic still works. You might want to conserve what you got...

[Maniacwyrm]

Fair enough that is probably the correct answer

[Maniacwyrm]

Azothath wrote:

I'd suggest watching out for a mean step mom & sisters mr ashen pfütze...

What are you referencing? Google doesn’t recognise that phrase

[Azothath]

Maniacwyrm wrote:

Azothath wrote:

I'd suggest watching out for a mean step mom & sisters mr ashen pfütze...

What are you referencing? Google doesn’t recognise that phrase

cinderella. The original is aschenputtel(little ash girl), my pun was ash puddle ('cause you're in an ash pile).

[Maniacwyrm]

Azothath wrote:

Maniacwyrm wrote:

Azothath wrote:

I'd suggest watching out for a mean step mom & sisters mr ashen pfütze...

What are you referencing? Google doesn’t recognise that phrase

cinderella. The original is aschenputtel(little ash girl), my pun was ash puddle ('cause you're in an ash pile).

Ahhh interesting

[Pizza Lord]

Maniacwyrm wrote:

... Naturally, we decided that we wanted to screw with the people there as payback and maybe stage a coup of something. For my part I was thinking of maybe using spells like polymorph or flesh to stone to mess around but that’s kind of basic. So what would be an interesting way for me to freak out/impress a bunch of normal people?

Animate object on corpses and have them wander around, knocking on their families' doors. Only lasts a round per level, and 15k gp for a permanency is probably a bit steep for a joke.

But, claiming the factory caused an undead plague of zombies (while clerics are already low-magic and their channeling and turning fail since they aren't undead, just animated) could cause some deviant chuckles and freaking out.