Valdorian Sorcerer Tasks Thread

[Super Squirrel]

Yes, I am creating yet another Valdorian Age Thread.

Sorcerers, as you probably know by now, are required to perform tasks to pay off Favors owed to Supernatural creatures. I'd like to get a list going of various favors that could be used in a game.

I'll edit the front page as I get submissions to keep the list current and up to date.

Note: Please Make Sure it isn't an already existing task in either this list or in Valdorian Age before posting.

Minor Tasks

Correct His Pronounciation.
Sprinkle Salt in the dish of the guy looking away
Add an extra carrot to the stew
Inform the gentleman that his hat is crooked.
Drop a dirty handkerchief into the soup of First Mate Donar Waterstride.
Pretend to have the hiccups, for five minutes starting at noon, for each of the next five days.
Drink no beer nor wine for the next seven-day.
Walk back and forth (east to west) in Caravan's Rest for half an hour tomorrow, right after sunrise.
Go to The Holy One's Wineshop in Gibberish. Order a glass. While drinking it, blow your nose on your fingers.
Have turnips with every meal for the next four days.
Paint a red "1" on the door to your bedroom; two days lator paint a "2"; three days after that a "3"; four days after that a "4". Five days later either remove the numbers, or paint the whole door (color doesn't matter).
before your mid-day meal, hop up and down 20 times on your left foot.
Wear your shoes on the wrong foot for one day.
Walk around with no underwear for an hour.
Spit off the up-river side of Foom's Bridge.
Give yourself a good, hard nipple-tweak.
Whitewash a fence. Try to talk a passerby into doing it for you.
Go to Mansblood square and light seventeen candles. After they are all lit, randomly place them in the mud as fast as you can and then run all the way to Lowtown.
Wander the streets of the Snake's Den, carrying a lit lantern all day long, and extinguish it just as the sun sets.


Intermediate Tasks

Commission Jarvyd Highsole to Make a Trimere Oar and remain for the entire crafting process.
Spit into the cup of the blind begger who begs at the southwest end of Heart-Stirrer's Lane, Worm's Hole
At a specified time, walk north up Baking Bread Road from the Prince's Road (in Uphill East), pick up the first dog turd he sees, and carry it to the corner of Respectable Road and Faithful Road (also in Uphill East).
Walk down the east Prince's Road, from Founding Stone Bridge to Foom's Bridge, eating a loaf of day-old bread. Do not let it be stolen or extorted from you.
Wear nothing but rags and beg in the corner of Sator's Square for an entire day. At the end of the day, give all the money you have collected to the first person who talks to you.
Commission a portrait of [person] from a local artist. This portrait must be hung in a prominent place.
Speak no word for one hour, even if challenged by city guards. Then have them arrested.
Hold your left thumb in your right fist, and your right thumb in your left fist, for 3 hours in the middle of the day.
Buy 5 pounds of rock candy from The Sweet Tooth in Uphill East. Try to pay for it with bits; grumble if made to use coins.
Walk the whole length of Sawdust Street, in Uphill West, from south to north, giggling loudly the whole time.
Bake a pie. Give it to the first stray dog you find.
the first ugly, and I mean UGLY, woman you see tomorrow, address her politely as "beautious one" and make small talk for a few moments.
give a bit to the old, OLD begger at the corner of Captain's Walk and Fated Sea Rd., saying "Here's for you, youngling."
In the next week, acquire (by legal means) 6 Naraatian "tinnies," then persuade a moneychanger to buy them (for whatever amount you can get).
gather 30 Abyzinian argeles by the next New Moon. Throw five off of each of the 6 bridges between midnight and sunrise, the night of the New Moon.
Go to a place where public notices are posted, and post a series of cryptic and unfathomable actions.
Sing two children's songs, back to back, while standing in Slipbrick Square, The Canals.
Ride side-saddle to the next town.
Pay a crone one gold coin to shave all of your hair off. ALL of your hair.
sit on the steps at the uphill side of Dead Man's Slide (in Uphill East) until forced to move on by a Guardsman.
Go to Hawker's Square at noon tomorrow, and find the leather-seller nearest the northwest corner. Stand in front of his stall, staring gape-mouthed for at least the sixth part of an hour.
Dress up as a guard and hang around the armory. If asked, you have been transfered from a different neighborhood. At the end of the day, try to collect your pay of 1 coin.
Buy a bushel of apples and give them all away - but only one apple per person.


Major Tasks

The sorcerer must sing The Lament of Valdor at The Mute from beginning to end.
The sorcerer must help find the killer of Hetima Nerizoo in Uphill East (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=852958#post852958).
Commission a portrait of [person] from a reknowned, expensive artist. This portrait must be hung in a prominent place.
Drill a hole in a Coin and wear it openly about your neck. Add a coin to the string every day for a month. When you have thirty coins, give the necklace to a pretty girl. Do not tell her why.
Order a glass of fine wine in The Somersaulting Torch, Snake's Den, an hour after noon tomorrow.
Take a trip by river to River Watch, sleep there overnight, and be back home by the next day.
Knock the head off the statue made by Drass in the Temple of the Twelve in Lannoch (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=866391&postcount=29)
Strip naked. Wrap yourself in an old fishnet. Start at Hawker's Square, walk over the Prince's Bridges and back to the Square.
Walk from the south end of Crooked Lane, in Worm's Hole, to its north end, in Gibberish, giving a bit to every fourth begger you pass.
Go the town of Hounskar and try to win the ritual competition of the Champion of the Butterfly Girl. (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=870235&postcount=38)
Go to "Valdor's Courage" in Worm's Hole, book passage on a barge going to Wolfwold. Insist on a ticket/receipt/whatever. Go up Laden Cart Path, starting from its south end (at Heart-Stirrer's Lane), and give the ticket/receipt/whatever to the first one-eyed begger you see.
Go into the first tavern you pass after nightfall. Buy a beer and spill it on the first man you see on entering.
shave 25 coins down to slivers (v. p.19). Take them to the one-eared moneychanger in Caravan's Rest, Uphill West, and get the best price for them you can.
Use Possess the Living and force a random patron to begin singing, badly. This favor comes from the undead behind the spell Possess the Living and will not cause you to collect Favor Points.
Travel to a specific cave in the western Oceanshore Mountains and start a bonfire. Keep the fire burning one day and one night, then quench the fire with water. Take one fist-size rock that has been cracked from the cave wall, bring it to Elweir and throw it into the Serpentine below the Colossus
Set a fire under a snow-laden tree, and watch until melting snow puts out the fire.
You have to drink your weight's worth of ale
Take five bricks to Hawker's square at dawn. Place one at each corner. Carry the fifth to the first corner, and swap it with the first. Then carry the first brick to the second corner and swap it with the second brick. Do this until sunset, taking no breaks for eating or other bodily necessities. Explain to no one.
Go into Gibberish and start yelling out a variety of racial slurs
Walk the length of Whose Ear Way, Snake's Den, stopping all who pass and saying to them, "I give up, whose??" Give two coins to the first person to realize you are making reference to the street's name.
rent a horse and ride to Tavern Keep. Buy and drink three beers there, then ride home, but do not return the horse to the stables until the day after.
Sprain your left wrist. Any method is acceptable.
Spend every night for a week in the Palace of the Beggar King - Uninvited
Leave a black candle burning in front of a statue in the Temple in Gold's Reside. Do this before midnight.
Set fire to Yully's bed while he is distracted by a customer.


Life-Threatening Tasks

Swim the length of the city. By night.
Remove the smallest finger on your left hand.
Jump off the middle of the Creaking Bridge two hours before dawn, without any floatation device.
Board a ship from Graecoria up until the Crawl and the Serpentine intersect. Depart and travel east until you reach the World's End Mountains.
Dig up a freshly buried corspe and deliver it to the grieving family.
Set fire to the Copper Pine tavern in Lowtown by igniting the front door.
Find a tavern with the most angry, nasty-ist looking patrons, then in the middle of the room, do a strip-tease while singing a tune to strip to.
Challange Skarg the Barbarian to a Duel. Instead of killing him, severe his right hand.
Dig up the bones of a respected member of the 50 Families, boil them to remove any remaining flesh, and rearticulate them using silver wires.
Aquire one of the eight coins from the Prince's throne and make a golden ring from it.
Kill the Prince's favorite horse.
Give a certain Magistrate a good, hard nipple-tweak.
Track down Sophia (http://aldaric.org/va/sophia.html) and steal the bones of "Stumpy" Sens' missing leg. Return the bones to Stumpy with a red ribbon tied around it. This task would be requested only of a Black Magician.
Hire a man to assassinate a local lord in three days time. Do not communicate with him in any way afterwards. On the third day, stop him.
Disguise yourself, and then kidnap someone from Worm's Hole and take them to mansblood square. Tie them up, gag them, and leave them there. A week later, without a disguise, find them and give them half a bit without explanation.
Break the River Chains and watch them sink into the river.
Urinate in the Ossuary, Gold's Reside.
Eat your own left hand.

[Super Squirrel]

I just thought of this one for Intermediate.
Commission Jarvyd Highsole to Make a Trimere Oar and remain for the entire crafting process.

[Super Squirrel]

Minor:
Sprinkle Salt in the dish of the guy looking away
Add an extra carrot to the stew
Inform the gentleman that his hat is crooked.

[Super Squirrel]

Minor:
Drop a dirty handkerchief into the soup of First Mate Donar Waterstride.

[gojira]

This is a great thread and I won't smeg it up with any of my off the wall ideas.

...

...

Oh yes I will!

"You must bring me . . . . . a shrubbery!"

[Super Squirrel]

Amusing, but I'm not sure how you can seriously implement that as a task. :)

Maybe "Bring Nobleman Nee a Shrubbery"

[L. Marcus]

. . . Lucky me, my group includes a landscape architect! :winkgrin:

I'm still reading the Valdorian Age book, but it sure looks fun thus far . . .

[gojira]

Amusing, but I'm not sure how you can seriously implement that as a task. :)

Maybe "Bring Nobleman Nee a Shrubbery"

Shouldn't that be SIR Nee? :D

[Basil]

Minor task:
Pretend to have the hiccups, for five minutes starting at noon, for each of the next five days.

Drink no beer nor wine for the next seven-day.

Walk back and forth (east to west) in Caravan's Rest for half an hour tomorrow, right after sunrise.


Intermediate tasks:
Spit into the cup of the blind begger who begs at the southwest end of Heart-Stirrer's Lane, Worm's Hole

At a specified time, walk north up Baking Bread Road from the Prince's Road (in Uphill East), pick up the first dog turd he sees, and carry it to the corner of Respectable Road and Faithful Road (also in Uphill East).

Walk down the east Prince's Road, from Founding Stone Bridge to Foom's Bridge, eating a loaf of day-old bread. Do not let it be stolen or extorted from you.

[Super Squirrel]

Awesome! Thanks.

[James Gillen]

Wear the clothing of the opposite sex.

jg

[Super Squirrel]

I think that should constitute and intermediate task because it involves dishing out money for the clothing, hiring a tailor, and/or ostrocizing your friends. :D

[keithcurtis]

IDHMBIFOM, so I'm not sure what level they would be, but here are a few from the top of my head:

Wear nothing but rags and beg in the corner of Sator's Square for an entire day. At the end of the day, give all the money you have collected to the first person who talks to you.

Speak no word for one hour, even if challenged by city guards. Then have them arrested.

Drill a hole in a Coin and wear it openly about your neck. Add a coin to the string every day for a month. When you have thirty coins, give the necklace to a pretty girl. Do not tell her why.

Commission a portrait of _________ from a local artist. This portrait must be hung in a prominent place.

Swim the length of the city. By night.

Remove the smallest finger on your left hand.

Keith "What you're looking for?" Curtis

[Super Squirrel]

IDHMBIFOM, so I'm not sure what level they would be, but here are a few from the top of my head:I'll take a stab at placing them.

Wear nothing but rags and beg in the corner of Sator's Square for an entire day. At the end of the day, give all the money you have collected to the first person who talks to you.Intermediate. The worst you have to worry about is being confronted for conduct or mugged. It involves a single day's work.

Speak no word for one hour, even if challenged by city guards. Then have them arrested.Intermediate. Can cause problems but can also be very simple.

Drill a hole in a Coin and wear it openly about your neck. Add a coin to the string every day for a month. When you have thirty coins, give the necklace to a pretty girl. Do not tell her why.I'd say this one is Major. It takes a commitment of time and resources (30 coins) which isn't chump change.

Commission a portrait of _________ from a local artist. This portrait must be hung in a prominent place.Intermediate or Major depending if the artist is expensive or not.

Swim the length of the city. By night.Life Threatening.

Remove the smallest finger on your left hand.Life Threatening and a damn good idea.

Keith "What you're looking for?" CurtisBeautiful. Much appreciated. And now I have two Life Threatening tasks to add up.

[Basil]

Intermediate: Hold your left thumb in your right fist, and your right thumb in your left fist, for 3 hours in the middle of the day. Intermediate because it ties up---um, occupies---both hands for a considerable length of time.

Major: Order a glass of fine wine in The Somersaulting Torch, Snake's Den, an hour after noon tomorrow. Major because of the risk.

[James Gillen]

Life Threatening:
Find the Drindrish. :eg:

JG

[L. Marcus]

Conduct a diplomatic mission to the ruler of Poteidon's Get.

[Super Squirrel]

Intermediate: Hold your left thumb in your right fist, and your right thumb in your left fist, for 3 hours in the middle of the day. Intermediate because it tie up---um, occupies---both hands for a considerable length of time.

Major: Order a glass of fine wine in The Somersaulting Torch, Snake's Den, a an hour after noon tomorrow. Major because of the risk.
Added.

[Super Squirrel]

Life Threatening:
Find the Drindrish. :eg:

JG
I'm not sure this one should count.

[Super Squirrel]

Conduct a diplomatic mission to the ruler of Poteidon's Get.
...or this one.

[L. Marcus]

Retrieve a chrystal found only in the Heavenspyres.

Insult one of the Duke's Men to his face.

Retrieve a specific coin won at the Click-Clack.

[Super Squirrel]

Retrieve a chrystal found only in the Heavenspyres.

Insult one of the Duke's Men to his face.

Retrieve a specific coin won at the Click-Clack.
And what do you rate those ones at?

[Basil]

Minor: Go to The Holy One's Wineshop in Gibberish. Order a glass. While drinking it, blow your nose on your fingers.

Major: Take a trip by river to River Watch, sleep there overnight, and be back home by the next day.

Intermediate: Buy 5 pounds of rock candy from The Sweet Tooth in Uphill East. Try to pay for it with bits; grumble if made to use coins.

Intermediate: Walk the whole length of Sawdust Street, in Uphill West, from south to north, giggling loudly the whole time.

Minor: Have turnips with every meal for the next four days.

[Super Squirrel]

This is great! I'm glad the thread caught on. Keep them coming guys.

[Basil]

Life-threatening: Jump off the middle of the Creaking Bridge two hours before dawn, without any "floatation device".

[L. Marcus]

And what do you rate those ones at?
. . . I have no idea. I'm not at the Sorcery chapter yet . . . Tonight, mebbe . . .

[Super Squirrel]

Life-threatening: Jump off the middle of the Creaking Bridge two hours before dawn, without any "floatation device".
Added.

[Super Squirrel]

. . . I have no idea. I'm not at the Sorcery chapter yet . . . Tonight, mebbe . . .
Ahh. I see.

[Markdoc]

Here's one I'm using in my game.

"Knock the head off the statue made by Drass in the Temple of the Twelve in Lannoch"

That sounds nasty enough, but on reaching the temple, it turns out that Drass (who worked as part of a team) has been dead for a long time - and no-one knows which statue is his. To find out which of the statues is his, the sorceror is going to need to find some way to talk with Drass' spirit.

(or if he is smart and reckless, just decapitate all twelve statues).

I'd class that as major, simply because it involves a great deal of work and potential danger, but not guaranteed risk of death (even if caught decapitating a statue in the temple, jail, a severe beating, maybe a branding and a big fine are more likely than death in this game world).

cheers, Mark

[Super Squirrel]

Here's one I'm using in my game.

"Knock the head off the statue made by Drass in the Temple of the Twelve in Lannoch"

That sounds nasty enough, but on reaching the temple, it turns out that Drass (who worked as part of a team) has been dead for a long time - and no-one knows which statue is his. To find out which of the statues is his, the sorceror is going to need to find some way to talk with Drass' spirit.

(or if he is smart and reckless, just decapitate all twelve statues).

I'd class that as major, simply because it involves a great deal of work and potential danger, but not guaranteed risk of death (even if caught decapitating a statue in the temple, jail, a severe beating, maybe a branding and a big fine are more likely than death in this game world).

cheers, Mark
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[Enforcer84]

wow. These are cool. But I have no idea what they are about. I apologize if my contribution makes absolutely no sense/is invalid.


How about:
Bake a pie. Give it to the first stray dog you find.

[Super Squirrel]

wow. These are cool. But I have no idea what they are about. I apologize if my contribution makes absolutely no sense/is invalid.


How about:
Bake a pie. Give it to the first stray dog you find.
They aren't supposed to make sense. That is what makes them cool. Supernatural beings have plans or are looking at the big picture and request these of Sorcerers for whatever purpose they have in mind. I really like your idea.

The stray dog happens to be allergic to the type of pie made, wanders into a shop and dies. The shop keeper ends up closing shop for a stretch of time to get the mess cleaned up. A customer goes to another shop to do business instead and is mugged on the way. The muggers take a valuable necklace off of their victim and sell it to a Black Magician who recognizes it as something that was stolen from a member of the Fifty Families. With this object, the Black Magician is able to summon a demon to torment the woman.

[Super Squirrel]

wow. These are cool. But I have no idea what they are about. I apologize if my contribution makes absolutely no sense/is invalid.


How about:
Bake a pie. Give it to the first stray dog you find.
Oh yeah!

Added.

[L. Marcus]

Intermediate: Strip naked. Wrap yourself in an old fishnet. Start at Hawker's Square, walk over the Prince's Bridges and back to the Square.

Sick, aren't I . . . :D

[Super Squirrel]

Intermediate: Strip naked. Wrap yourself in an old fishnet. Start at Hawker's Square, walk over the Prince's Bridges and back to the Square.

Sick, aren't I . . . :D
Posted under Major. The reprecussions of this act and the time involved I felt made it worth the extra level. Especially if you consider there are also female sorcerers out there too.

[Basil]

Minor: Paint a red "1" on the door to your bedroom; two days lator paint a "2"; three days after that a "3"; four days after that a "4". Five days later either remove the numbers, or paint the whole door (color doesn't matter).

Minor: before your mid-day meal, hop up and down 20 times on your left foot.

Intermediate: the first ugly, and I mean UGLY, woman you see tomorrow, address her politely as "beautious one" and make small talk for a few moments.

Intermediate: give a bit to the old, OLD begger at the corner of Captain's Walk and Fated Sea Rd., saying "Here's for you, youngling."

Major: Walk from the south end of Crooked Lane, in Worm's Hole, to its north end, in Gibberish, giving a bit to every fourth begger you pass.

[Super Squirrel]

Added.

Has anyone used any of these tasks in a game yet?

[Markdoc]

Here's one I am going to use...

Go the town of Hounskar and try to win the ritual competition of the Champion of the Butterfly Girl.

The basic idea (stolen from the famous Garhound Contests scenario) is that this is an annual re-enactment of a legendary event where suitors of a goddess competed to be chosen by her. It's seven days of competition (based on the legend) to choose the ritual champion of the goddess and involves various feats of strength, endurance and cunning - but also charm and attractiveness. Magic is also forbidden in most cases, so if a sorceror wants to win, he'll probably have to cheat. The NPC contestants certainly will...

For Valdorian settings you could probably put it on the border of the Cynthian Lands, which would definately make it major.

cheers, Mark

[Super Squirrel]

Added.

Also added a Life Threatening one as it forces you to cross the Cynthian Plains.

[Basil]

Major: Go to "Valdor's Courage" in Worm's Hole, book passage on a barge going to Wolfwold. Insist on a ticket/receipt/whatever. Go up Laden Cart Path, starting from its south end (at Heart-Stirrer's Lane), and give the ticket/receipt/whatever to the first one-eyed begger you see.

[Enforcer84]

Minor: Wear your shoes on the wrong foot for one day.

[Super Squirrel]

Major: Go to "Valdor's Courage" in Worm's Hole, book passage on a barge going to Wolfwold. Insist on a ticket/receipt/whatever. Go up Laden Cart Path, starting from its south end (at Heart-Stirrer's Lane), and give the ticket/receipt/whatever to the first one-eyed begger you see.
Added.

[Super Squirrel]

Minor: Wear your shoes on the wrong foot for one day.
Added.

[Eoywin]

I'm really afraid of these, and how many of these my character might have to do.

I have one though, though I'm not sure how good it is:

Dig up a freshly buried corspe and deliver it to the grieving family.

[Super Squirrel]

I'm really afraid of these, and how many of these my character might have to do.

I have one though, though I'm not sure how good it is:

Dig up a freshly buried corspe and deliver it to the grieving family.
I owe you rep.

[keithcurtis]

Shades of Aaron the Moor?

LUCIUS Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?

AARON Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

LUCIUS Bring down the devil; for he must not die
So sweet a death as hanging presently.

AARON If there be devils, would I were a devil,
To live and burn in everlasting fire,
So I might have your company in hell,
But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

Keith "Bardolator" Curtis

[L. Marcus]

Titus was a sick puppy.

[keithcurtis]

But he liked pie.

Keith "couldn't resist" Curtis

[L. Marcus]

He liked to bake'em, at least.

The movie was pretty disturbing. It had Anthony Hopkins.

[Super Squirrel]

Was it disturbing and had Anthony Hopkins or disturbing because it had Anthony Hopkins in it?

[James Gillen]

Was it disturbing and had Anthony Hopkins or disturbing because it had Anthony Hopkins in it?
Could be either.

jg

[keithcurtis]

Both, actually. The play is pretty roundly considered Shakespeare's worst, most awful play. It is also considered by many to be the most fun. Done correctly (as in Titus), it is a horrific, wonderful act of blackest comedy. Done poorly, it's an Elizabethan slasher flick.

Keith "Go rent it" Curtis

[L. Marcus]

Was it disturbing and had Anthony Hopkins or disturbing because it had Anthony Hopkins in it?
Yes.

See Keith's post.

[Markdoc]

OK, here's an easy but potentially debilitating one:

"Go into the first tavern you pass after nightfall. Buy a beer and spill it on the first man you see on entering."

As a GM, this sorcery system is great. It makes it hyper-easy to introduce NPCs to characters. As in: "Hey, isn't that the guy who spilled beer on you a couple of days ago?"

cheers, Mark

[Basil]

Life-threatening: Set fire to the Copper Pine tavern in Lowtown by igniting the front door.


P.S., I don't have V.A. with me, so I had to invent a tavern name. ;)

[Super Squirrel]

OK, here's an easy but potentially debilitating one:

"Go into the first tavern you pass after nightfall. Buy a beer and spill it on the first man you see on entering."

As a GM, this sorcery system is great. It makes it hyper-easy to introduce NPCs to characters. As in: "Hey, isn't that the guy who spilled beer on you a couple of days ago?"

cheers, Mark
Added.

[Super Squirrel]

Life-threatening: Set fire to the Copper Pine tavern in Lowtown by igniting the front door.


P.S., I don't have V.A. with me, so I had to invent a tavern name. ;)
Added. Cool Tavern Name.

[Eoywin]

Find a tavern with the most angry, nasty-ist looking patrons, then in the middle of the room, do a strip-tease while singing a tune to strip to.

Oh, and I think you should add the we were talking about yesterday. By using Possess the Living to make people in the tavern sing or whatnot.

[Basil]

Intermediate: In the next week, acquire (by legal means) 6 Naraatian "tinnies," then persuade a moneychanger to buy them (for whatever amount you can get).

Major: shave 25 coins down to slivers (v. p.19). Take them to the one-eared moneychanger in Caravan's Rest, Uphill West, and get the best price for them you can.


NB: The Valdorian Age repeatedly refers to "usurer" when discussing moneychangers. Don't be misled by this error. ;)

[keithcurtis]

NB: The Valdorian Age repeatedly refers to "usurer" when discussing moneychangers. Don't be misled by this error. ;)
Do the moneychangers not lend?

Keith "Doesn't remember the description" Curtis

[Super Squirrel]

Find a tavern with the most angry, nasty-ist looking patrons, then in the middle of the room, do a strip-tease while singing a tune to strip to.

Oh, and I think you should add the we were talking about yesterday. By using Possess the Living to make people in the tavern sing or whatnot.
Added. And by posting this idea, you hearby forfeit all rights to complain should I use this or a similar version of this idea upon you.

[Super Squirrel]

Intermediate: In the next week, acquire (by legal means) 6 Naraatian "tinnies," then persuade a moneychanger to buy them (for whatever amount you can get).

Major: shave 25 coins down to slivers (v. p.19). Take them to the one-eared moneychanger in Caravan's Rest, Uphill West, and get the best price for them you can.


NB: The Valdorian Age repeatedly refers to "usurer" when discussing moneychangers. Don't be misled by this error. ;)
Added.

[Super Squirrel]

I added a particularly nasty Life-Threatening Favor.

[Super Squirrel]

And it was in this thread the the Squirrel ascended to the plane of immortal gods by his own 2,000 post.

[L. Marcus]

Boo-Yah! unto you, Lord Squirrel. What is your portfolio?

Major/Life-Threatening: Travel to a specific cave in the western Oceanshore Mountains and start a bonfire. Keep the fire burning one day and one night, then quench the fire with water. Take one fist-size rock that has been cracked from the cave wall, bring it to Elweir and throw it into the Serpentine below the Colossus.

[Eoywin]

Added. And by posting this idea, you hearby forfeit all rights to complain should I use this or a similar version of this idea upon you.

I figured some of the ideas on this thread would be used on me

:help:

[Captain Obvious]

Dig up the bones of a respected member of the 50 Families, boil them to remove any remaining flesh, and rearticulate them using silver wires.

This thread needed a bump.

[Captain Obvious]

Oh yeah, that last one is a life-threatening task.

Another idea: Set a fire under a snow-laden tree, and watch until melting snow puts out the fire. Given the relative lack of snow around Elweir, I'll call this one a major task. It drops to an intermediate task in colder climes, or even trivial if the sorceror just happens to be camping in the wilderness at the time.

[Eoywin]

You have to drink your weight's worth of ale

((I hope that makes sense)) :o

[keithcurtis]

Take five bricks to Sator's square at dawn. Place one at each corner. Carry the fifth to the first corner, and swap it with the first. Then carry the first brick to the second corner and swap it with the second brick. Do this until sunset, taking no breaks for eating or other bodily necessities. Explain to no one.

Keith "Thank you, Phineas Taylor Barnum" Curtis

[Basil]

Intermediate: gather 30 Abyzinian argeles by the next New Moon. Throw five off of each of the 6 bridges between midnight and sunrise, the night of the New Moon.



BTW, Keith Curtis----where is "Sator's square"??

[Captain Obvious]

Go to a place where public notices are posted, and post a series of cryptic and unfathomable actions.

[Basil]

Go to a place where public notices are posted, and post a series of cryptic and unfathomable actions. Hmph! Sarcastic commentary.




:winkgrin:
:lol:
"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Captain Obvious again." Drat!

[Eoywin]

Go into Gibberish and start yelling out a variety of racial slurs

[keithcurtis]

To be honest, I have no idea where that came from. I meant "Hawker's Square" of course.
It just sounds so familiar...
[Google][Wiki]
Hmm. it's a Latin Palindrome. Somebody musthave used it on a map somewhere and I dredged it out of my memory. Anybody remember?

Keith "I certainly would have remembered a Latin palindrome, or even a Latin Palindromedary" Curtis

[L. Marcus]

. . . Sator Square is in Ankh-Morpork . . . :D

[Captain Obvious]

To be honest, I have no idea where that came from. I meant "Hawker's Square" of course.
It just sounds so familiar...
[Google][Wiki]
Hmm. it's a Latin Palindrome. Somebody musthave used it on a map somewhere and I dredged it out of my memory. Anybody remember?

Keith "I certainly would have remembered a Latin palindrome, or even a Latin Palindromedary" Curtis

The sator square is commonly used in folk magic.

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

[keithcurtis]

. . . Sator Square is in Ankh-Morpork . . . :D
Thank you and repped.

Keith "I knew I had read that like a million times somewhere" Curtis

[L. Marcus]

Not at all, keith . . . I'm a Discworlder myself.

[Basil]

Now I feel stupid. I should've recognized a Discworld reference. :idjit:

[L. Marcus]

Major: Discover the sound of one hand clapping. :D

No, but: Major/Life-Threatening: Aquire one of the eight coins from the Prince's throne and make a golden ring from it.

[Basil]

Life-threatening: Kill the Prince's favorite horse.

[Basil]

The sator square is commonly used in folk magic.

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

"Sator" is a perfectly good Latin word, one of whose meanings is "author". So not only is Pratchett punning on "the sator square," but he's also pointing out it's an invention of the author (himself).

Very witty and recondite. :)

[L. Marcus]

He does things like that all the time. Silly man. :D

Minor: Walk around with no underwear for an hour.

. . . Does Elweirians use underwear? :think:

[Basil]

. . . Does Elweirians use underwear? :think:
Yes.

Nice soft cloth; great for polishing swords.

;)

[Basil]

Intermediate: Sing two children's songs, back to back, while standing in Slipbrick Square, The Canals.

Minor: Spit off the up-river side of Foom's Bridge.

[L. Marcus]

Minor: Give yourself a good, hard nipple-tweak.

Major/Life-Threatening: Give a certain Magistrate a good, hard nipple-tweak.

[Super Squirrel]

Minor: Give yourself a good, hard nipple-tweak.Intermediate if your sorcerer happens to be female and in Low-town at the time. :D

[Super Squirrel]

Updated the list with all of the ones mentioned. Added one that others can use in their game. Basically, you could think of it as the Demon, Cold Pyre's revenge.

[Eoywin]

Updated the list with all of the ones mentioned. Added one that others can use in their game. Basically, you could think of it as the Demon, Cold Pyre's revenge.

That's funny! Though Sophia wouldn't give up Stumpy's leg without a fight.

I'm a little worried about which one of these Sophia might be asked to do tonight :help:

[Super Squirrel]

You assume I'm using this list. :eg:

[L. Marcus]

. . . I see . . . Sneaky devil! :eg::thumbup:

[AliceTheOwl]

Updated the list with all of the ones mentioned. Added one that others can use in their game. Basically, you could think of it as the Demon, Cold Pyre's revenge.
You may want to attach stats for our characters to that one. After all, if they're going to be fighting us as NPCs . . .

[Supreme Serpent]

Don't have Valdorian Age, but looks like an interesting system. Apologies if there is duplication with what's in VA, as I wouldn't know. :D

Howabout including "impossibles"? Like:

"Pluck a hair from the beard of a woman and place it in the brush of the princess."

"Compose a lute-melody incorporating the sound of sunshine."

More normal weirdness:

Minor/Intermediate (depending on distance): "Ride side-saddle to the next town."

Intermediate: "Pay a crone one gold coin to shave all of your hair off. ALL of your hair."

Minor: "Whitewash a fence. Try to talk a passerby into doing it for you."

Major/Life-threatening: "Hire a man to assassinate a local lord in three days time. Do not communicate with him in any way afterwards. On the third day, stop him."

[Basil]

Major: Walk the length of Whose Ear Way, Snake's Den, stopping all who pass and saying to them, "I give up, whose??" Give two coins to the first person to realize you are making reference to the street's name.

Intermediate: sit on the steps at the uphill side of Dead Man's Slide (in Uphill East) until forced to move on by a Guardsman.

Major: rent a horse and ride to Tavern Keep. Buy and drink three beers there, then ride home, but do not return the horse to the stables until the day after.

[Super Squirrel]

Intermediate: "Pay a crone one gold coin to shave all of your hair off. ALL of your hair."I don't think Sophia or her player would be happy if I used this one.

[Super Squirrel]

Updated. Now that I'm not doing the NaNoWriMo I should be a bit more deligent about updating this.

[L. Marcus]

Major: Tattoo a pentagram on your scalp

[Basil]

Intermediate/Major: Reduce two coins to slivers (vide p.19), then eat them, with a horseradish sauce.

[Eoywin]

I don't think Sophia or her player would be happy if I used this one.

Nope - Sophia will be pissed if she has to get all her hair shaved off!

[Basil]

Major: Sprain your left wrist. Any method is acceptable.

[L. Marcus]

Nope - Sophia will be pissed if she has to get all her hair shaved off!
Things could get hairy.

[Captain Obvious]

While reading through the d20 updated version of White Plume Mountain that WOTC just put out on their website, it occured to me that there's a lot of crap in there that makes no sense UNLESS some supernatural creature is calling in a favor, perhaps.

Some examples:

Obtain large glass globes; paint them with silver paint, and then with lead paint; fill them with treasures, and some bound creatures; hang them on wires in a room
Sew together five complete bodies made of parts from various corpses; bind a spirit into one; leave them all in an underground chamber; order the spirit to attack anyone who can't figure out a puzzle which you provide
Build a spinning tubular passageway into a cave complex; coat it with flammable, slippery oil
Create a series of terraces in a dungeon, each of which has a theme...desert, ocean, etc...and stock each with appropriate creatures


Most of these are pretty big hassles, but a sorceror with ambition would most likely have either a lot of negative Favor points, or a desire to create as large a buffer of positive Favors as possible.

Pretty much any D&D adventure has plenty of inexplicable uses of magic that would fit right into this scheme, if you want to seed your Valdorian Age world with old school dungeons.

[Basil]

While reading through the d20 updated version of White Plume Mountain that WOTC just put out on their website, it occured to me that there's a lot of crap in there that makes no sense UNLESS some supernatural creature is calling in a favor, perhaps.

Some examples:
Obtain large glass globes; paint them with silver paint, and then with lead paint; fill them with treasures, and some bound creatures; hang them on wires in a room
Sew together five complete bodies made of parts from various corpses; bind a spirit into one; leave them all in an underground chamber; order the spirit to attack anyone who can't figure out a puzzle which you provide
Build a spinning tubular passageway into a cave complex; coat it with flammable, slippery oil
Create a series of terraces in a dungeon, each of which has a theme...desert, ocean, etc...and stock each with appropriate creaturesMost of these are pretty big hassles, but a sorceror with ambition would most likely have either a lot of negative Favor points, or a desire to create as large a buffer of positive Favors as possible.

Pretty much any D&D adventure has plenty of inexplicable uses of magic that would fit right into this scheme, if you want to seed your Valdorian Age world with old school dungeons. See! When you play Hero System, any other game can be mined for ideas.

Even :hush:&:hush:

[Basil]

Intermediate: Go to Hawker's Square at noon tomorrow, and find the leather-seller nearest the northwest corner. Stand in front of his stall, staring gape-mouthed for at least the sixth part of an hour.

[Super Squirrel]

Added tasks. The D&D ones are a bit too complex and inappropriate for Valdorian Age.

[Frenchman]

Minor: Go to Mansblood square and light seventeen candles. After they are all lit, randomly place them in the mud as fast as you can and then run all the way to Lowtown.

Minor: Wander the streets of the Snake's Den, carrying a lit lantern all day long, and extinguish it just as the sun sets.

Intermediate: Dress up as a guard and hang around the armory. If asked, you have been transfered from a different neighborhood. At the end of the day, try to collect your pay of 1 coin.

Intermediate/Major: Spend every night for a week in the Palace of the Beggar King - Uninvited

Major: Leave a black candle burning in front of a statue in the Temple in Gold's Reside. Do this before midnight.

Major: Set fire to Yully's bed while he is distracted by a customer.

Life-Threatening: Disguise yourself, and then kidnap someone from Worm's Hole and take them to mansblood square. Tie them up, gag them, and leave them there. A week later, without a disguise, find them and give them half a bit without explanation.

Life-Threatening: Break the River Chains and watch them sink into the river.

[L. Marcus]

Intermediate: Buy a bushel of apples and give them all away - but only one apple per person.

[Super Squirrel]

Updated.

[Basil]

Life Threatening: Urinate in the Ossuary, Gold's Reside.

[Captain Obvious]

Life-threatening: Eat your own left hand.

[Super Squirrel]

Life Threatening: Urinate in the Ossuary, Gold's Reside.
Added.

[Super Squirrel]

Added.