Help me name my scam ran by a devil
So I have this idea for fiendish warlock. He wanted to be a bard. But after applying to and being rejected from every bard collage around she came across a recruitment table for a new bardic collage that she had never heard of. She signed up without reading the fine print and may have sold her soul for some magic.
I'm kinda basing it off from things like those knife pyramid scemes or online collages that aren't really collages
So my question for you is, what should the name of what she signed up for be? Or whos the devil that is now her patron? (I'm leaning towards calling him cotten eye joe)
Posted Mar 20, 2018, 12:19 AM UTC
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Well, if I were doing something like that, I'd probably go with an egyptian name and theme for the demon, Thoth, Osiris, Bubba-Hotep, something. Maybe e's an old, almost-forgotten god who's trying to make a comeback. (S)he'd let your budding new bardlock know what it wanted, small things at first, a bit of grave-robbing, perhaps some stealthy breaking into a museum or rich collector's home after inscrutable ancient objects of power. Sandstorms, mummies waking from the dead, skinlike parchments with heiroglyphics of power written in blood, the whole nine yards.
Eventually, when it's got your bardlock in too deep to back out, it tells him the BIG task. It needs a new Temple so that he'll have an accumulator for the eldritch energies of the worship rites. The hapless bardlock must find and purchase property along the proper ley-lines, etc. - Eventually the time for actually building the temple arrives, and the blueprints are sketched in by the bardlock's fevered hands over a long night's possession.
Somewhere along the line after that, either the bard or one of other party members is going to look at the blueprints and grasp the shape of the Temple-to-be, and realize what they've been working at for so long is far more evil than than the usual old-god shenanigans.
Yep, it's a pyramid scheme.. ;p
Holy shit. This was a ride from beginning to end. I had no idea where it was going then BAM.