Re: [DL] You have to pay to play

[Bryce Perry <sandchigger@yahoo.com>]

--- Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net> wrote:
> No, this isn't about charging access fees to games. I'd be more
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> usually buy the sodas, so all is well.
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> If you aren't a marshall, you may want to skip this one...
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> Anyway, my posse is heading to new orleans to find a widget I
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> earlier, To do so, they will need to enter a high-stakes and very 
> exclusive game run by and for manifested demons that I've decided
> takes 
> places on rare special nights in the ghostly remains of a burned out 
> tavern that no one seems to want to rebuild on.
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> Anyway, this sounds good so far, and since I have both a 'gambler' 
> Huckster and a Blood Mage this plot seems amusing.  But one challenge
> I 
> want to add is an 'entrance fee' and I'm having some trouble here...
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> far my best idea is that it can only be paid in 'stolen gold' so the 
> mostly law-abiding posse will have to either become criminals or raid
> a 
> thieves' den for the entrance fee. It has to be something relatively 
> simple and quick (no fetch quest to resolve part of a larger fetch 
> quest) but i want something that's got a properly occult feel to it
> to 
> let them know that they;re going into someplace dangerous where they 
> aren't in charge and pulling a gun would be bad.
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> Once they get in, they'll have to enter a low-stakes game for an hour
> or two to earn the ante for the higher stakes game (a soul) and
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> the two they'll be offered a nice faustian deal to lose in exchange
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> wealth, power, and the secret of how to be attractive to women and a 
> 'good enough' widget to obtain their goal.
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> So, any ideas for a suitably creepy entrance fee to a demonic poker 
> game. 

Babys are always good for entrance fees to Demon games.

-Bryce "don't eat the coctails" Perry

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