From: kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado)
Subject: Re: Unlucky mage
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:51:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.114527.21617@news.uit.no> stigs@stud.cs.uit.no (Stig-Lennart Soerensen) writes:
>I need some help in order to bypass my DM's evil plans for my poor magician.
>
>Problem:
>
>My 11'th level magician uses a new spell casting system (based loosely on the
>rolemaster spell point system). This new system outshines the 2nd ed. AD&D spells,
>BUT the gods strongly dislikes any magician using the new system. That means that
>none of the gods would allow a dead magician (using the new system) to be raised
>or ressurected.
>
>Core of problem:
>
>My character died (a Hades priest cast a kill spell of some sort, fail save etc.)
>and discovers that no god is willing to raise him. Enter Hades:
>'Ello mortal, overheard your heated discussion with Hecate. I got a sort of deal'
>(Athelstone look up hopefully) 'yeah?'
>'You have a soul, hmmm...lets see...Iam willing to return you to your friends, but
>you have to do two things for me.
>1.Kill all the spellcasters who uses the new magic system in the world
>(thats around 15-20, all of them high level)
>2.Kill the son of Ares.
>(hehehehe!manic cackle)
>These objectives must be reached within ten years. Otherwise I'll tear your soul
>apart! (sound of hooks slashing through flesh)
>AAAARGH!
>Athelstone whimpers, then shakily accepts the deal (what else to do?)
>
>The magician is returned to life, but he is not raised, he is an undead!
>He must drink two pints of blood each day or be drained of life energy until body
>collapses.
>
>The situation seems hopeless. But ten years is a long time so...
>
>Then something happens. A fellow magician discovers a geas put upon Athelstone. 
>The mage offers to remove the geas. Athelstone agrees. But as the magician cast a
>sleep spell on Athelstone, he discovers the truth about Athelstone. He is an
>undead (the magician is Lawful Good, he recoils in shock and horror)!!
>
>Athelstone tells him about the deal. The other magician offers to help. But
>suddenly Athelstone feels his lifeforce drain away!
>
>"No! Its him! Hades is coming for me'!"
>
>True enough, four hours later Athelstone is dead (the definition here of dead is
>somewhat blurry, but dead-dead then)
>
>Hades:Well, three months have passed, and nothing you have done for me! Shame on
>you!
>Athelstone whimpers, begs, etc.
>Hades: I'll give another chance! You must kill two magicians (names witheld by
>request) within three months or else...Begone foul mortal!
>
>Athelstone returns to dead from dead-dead state.
>
>Request: 
>
>Now how the hell do I get out of this one? Is there someway I can trick the god?
>Lure him into a track? Blackmail him (one of the idead from my fellow players in
>order to make Hades cringe in terror, was to go back into time when Hades in a
>moment of confusion actually plucked flowers for Afrodite and yell 'Aha, gotcha!
>Hades is picking flowers, Hades is picking flowers! nananana!', the example show
>how desperate we were...)?
>
>Any help appreciated: 
>
>stigs@stud.cs.uit.no
>
>And you can flame the DM too:
>
>nilss@stud.cs.uit.no


Why bother trying to go along with this obvious bullshit. Your DM realized
that he made a mistake when he allowed you to use the alternative magic system
and he just doesn't have the balls to suck it up and admit to that fact. Any
_GOOD_ DM would say, "hey guy, it seems that this magic system is way out of
game balance, let's go back to the normal rules and proceed along our merry
little way." Instead, your DM tried the old screw-the-player-over-till-he's-
dead-so-I-can-get-rid-of-this-problem trick. You, as a player have a choice:
you can either try kissing your DM's ass by going along with this stupid
game, or you can tell your DM he was right in the first place, and that you
should go back to the real magic system. Personally, I can't stand DM's like
this, and I would just stop playing in his games. Any DM who doesn't have the
sense to realize imbalance in the game, and then make a _reasonable_ effort
to rectify the situation, doesn't deserve to have any players.

Kevin

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