Re: [DL] You have to pay to play

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

This one's got my vote.

I can just hear the gunslinger now.  "I'm not going in there!  You go in 
there! Yer the huckster!"


 >All it takes to get inside is a piece of your soul.
 >"It's only collateral, so don't you fret none.  I
 >reckon you can think of it as an ante.  You can always
 >win it back inside.  'Corse ifn you don't, well then I
 >guess you might owe some favors.  But we can talk
 >about the details later.  Theres a game to be played."
 >
 >Have them write out a gamblers IOU and sign it in
 >blood.
 >
 >You can (if you like) give them a lower spirit die
 >type (until they win thier soul back somehow).  Or
 >simply give them a penalty to spirit rolls.  Or just
 >mess w/ thier heads - and have no game effects per se.
 > Just have a demon come a calling evry now and then.
 >
 >"You can't say NO to ME BOY.  I got a mighty big chunk
 >of your mortal SOUL here."  -Hold out clenched fist.
 >Light streams from between the curled fingers.
 >Squeezes fist and the PC get cold all over.  Leans in
 >real close. -  "I reckon you owe me big time."


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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.
                 -Poor Richard's Almanac 1734