Shattered Honor – Part Eighty-Five
Chapter: Season Ten
“Finally. Freedom.”
“Speak your wishes, mortal. I must reclaim my throne.”
“You cannot understand. Typical.”
S-Wish you were here…
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“Finally. Freedom.”
“Speak your wishes, mortal. I must reclaim my throne.”
“You cannot understand. Typical.”
S-Wish you were here…
Comments are closed.
Fresh underwear, healing and so long aspect of Acererak!
That’s the thing with wishes. With ANY djinn, you need to be super careful on how you word your wishes. “I wish to be rich!”, okay, here are cartloads of gold… that was taken from a King (and MIGHT be magically enchanted to let him know where it is if stolen).
Or even better. So long ASPECT of Acererak, and hello Acererak himself!
Oh, you evil, brilliant bastard. You must be a DM.
“NOOOO!! The fresh underware is a thong!! It rides up! Alllll the way up!!”
Wish 3 should always be get back in the bottle.
Or wish for his freedom?
I wish for immortality so that I can never die from physical or magical harm, I wish for you to be bound to me in service to me until I die of old age, and I wish for eternal youth locked in at the age of 25.
God that first wish sucks. Immortality is not the way to go. Seeing all your friends die while you live on, knowing if you make new friends you’ll just have to live through their deaths. Sounds like torture to me. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Being tossed into molten iron that hardens would suck too.
True, but at least that suffering would have an end where as immortality does not. It is unrelenting unending torture.
I think they’re saying if you couldn’t die, being tossed into molten iron would be even worse, because it DOESN’T end…
Isn’t the main antagonist of this his ex a jinn? So its not his frist time dealing with this sort of thing i belive.
You know right that its only torture to extroverts, to introverts its no big deal
ah..but it was reasonably well worded, they can still pass away of old age. now they only have to work about illness, madness, and imprisonment.
They cant even be tortured , so all attacks would have to be aimed at friends and family
Servitude, yeah. But no more wishes.
Prometheus was chained to a rock and a large bird pecked out his liver, which would regenerate, EVERY SINGLE DAY. Not being able to die from physical/magical harm isn’t the same thing as not feeling pain.
I’ll make you a deal. If you don’t do that monkey’s paw bs and grant my first two wishes as intended, my third will be to free you.
This is a solid start, otherwise you better hope you have a 4th degree black belt in Extraplanar Law.
Flaw in that is, by dnd rules, the djinn is already free once that third wish is used, not sucked back into the vessel
“I’ll make you a deal. If you don’t do that monkey’s paw bs and grant my first two wishes as intended, my third wish *won’t* be for you to get back in the bottle until you’re released by another.”
This, this is the right choice lol. We pulled it on our dm and got a good enough persuasion check that it worked out for us.
Ah, I didn’t know that.
Hey at least it’s not the Djinn that’s been in there so long he’s gone from “I’ll grant wishes” to “Screw it the first mortal I see is dead”.
Read WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT for a good example.
“I wish for you to become my best friend.” That worked on a unicorn in “Phoebe and her Unicorn.”
Is not a Demon, is a Ifritt, the slavers of the Geine race! Well that guy have a luck to find Geines.
Well, he seems nice.
HAVE SOME OF COLUMN A, TRY ALL OF COLUMN B
I’m in the mood, to help you dude!
You ain’t never had a friend like me!
My first wish shred the aspect across all the prime material planes
Restore the sanity of the karthun goddess of death
Step not upon the mortal realms again for 300 years
Why is no one talking about irony? He is bound granting his “wife’s” wishes… And now this guy has to grant our favorite sneak clerics wishes…..
Sam: “I wish for-”
Brett: “Not so fast. Opening the flask was your action. I let you speak four sentences. Your turn is over. You
can make *a* wish next turn.”
Sam: “I…”
Brett: “You have 1 hp still? The Aspect uses a Legendary Action.”
Ah wishes, that classic old school double edge sword . . . can’t wait to see how Sam and Brett play this one out
“I want you to raise all of my attributes as much as possible.”
“Your wish is my command. RAZING all of your attributes.”
1: Destroy the Aspect of Acererak in such a way that no harm can befall myself or my allies, directly or indirectly, from its destruction.
2: Return Deyla to us, freed of influence of the forge god and as she was before donning the Fist of Fire.
3: Destroy the Dwayla in such a way that no harm can befall myself or my allies, directly or indirectly, from her destruction.
(I admit, I had to go back into the archives the find those names. My memory isn’t THAT good.)
I wish all my allies were fully healed.
I wish all my allies were standing upright.
I wish for the granter of my wishes to be in the place the granter needs so the granter can be successful in what the granter desires, so long as the granter of my wishes, the granter’s kin, and anyone serving my granter’s will never cross paths or cause harm to me, my allies, as well as my progeny and my allies progeny for the rest of time.
Last one is a little open ended, but it is the best way I’ve found to deal with wishes. Make it thematic (GM’s love thematic), make it something a spell could reasonably accomplish, and the last wish SHOULD ALWAYS get rid of the thing granting wishes in a way that they are happy. Everyone wins!
Wish one: I wish for you to grant this and my following two wishes in the spirit in which they are made, not in literal or semantic interpretation.
Yeah, you “lose” a wish that way, but you sholud be safe from the ‘literal genie’-shenanigans.
Unless your GM does what I did when a mate of mine sprung that forst wish on me when I was GM-ing:
“It’s an ifrit, Patrick, not a genie, so it inverts every wish as muck as possible.”
Which didn’t help at all. My mate wished for the groups recurring arch-enemy and nemesis to have good luck and good health. Sometimes, you just can’t catch a break, even if you’re the GM. 🙂
“Wish 1: I wish that, upon the good-faith granting of my next two wishes in the spirit in which they are given, that the granter is immediately transported to a place of their choosing and absolved of any debts, bonds, or obligations. ”
Guiding Bolt on Aspect.
“Wish 2: I wish that you assist myself and my party in the death or destruction of the enemy I shot at with Guiding Bolt, to the best of your ability, until either myself and my party or the enemy is deceased or destroyed.”
“Wish 3: I wish for your good-faith assistance, also to the best of your ability, destroying the fey entity known to us as Dwayla, this service being concluded upon our success or the utter destruction of myself and my party.”
Good thing none of the players is a lawyer…
“Ok, how many rounds and actions does it take to draw up this 100-page legal document with clauses and sub-clauses and liability negation for every possible future wish or implied wish?” 🙂