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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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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.

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Re: Valdorian Sorcerer Tasks Thread

 

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.

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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

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Re: Valdorian Sorcerer Tasks Thread

 

IDHMBIFOM' date=' so I'm not sure what level they would be, but here are a few from the top of my head:[/quote']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?" Curtis
Beautiful. Much appreciated. And now I have two Life Threatening tasks to add up.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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