Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-71.61.177.24-20131002204819

UselessArgonianMage wrote: I actually really like it.

(Hmm... Might as well give the idea for my favorite Prince.)

Vile Tricks: At level __, a travelling merchant named Vivace Cullis wearing a strange mask approaches you. He says he can give you something regular Merchants can't, in exchange for a certain person's soul he will grant you a wish, be it wealth, cake, secret knowledge or infinite health (Other options are available). When you give him the soul he will grant you your wish. When it comes to using what you wished for it will all go horribly wrong. E.g. Eat cake, get poisoned. Use money, wrong currency. Secret knowledge, find out your mother's favorite underwear. Infinite health, zero stamina and magicka. When you realise it has all go wrong, a Dog will appear out of an Oblivion portal, it will start talking and calling itself Barbas.

Barbas will say that the player was tricked by Clavicus Vile, but Barbas will say that Clavicus Vile is willing to revert it if you do one thing, trick his Champion in to killing his family. At this point you can ask Barbas questions, such as asking why Clavicus tricked the player, in which he will reply that the player asked for an impossible wish, he should of saw it coming. Once you find his Champion you can do many things, pretend to be a Courier giving him a letter which says his family betrayed him, use Frenzy, use your own words and convince him, torture him and threaten him until he agrees to do it. Then Clavicus Vile will appear before you and the blood covered Champion and say that the player has the true soul of a Trickster and will give him the Masque of Clavicus Vile, a new spell which distracts enemies (Even in battle) and he reverts the bad wish. The Champion will go insane and try and kill the player, you see his blade go in to you and the screen goes black, you suddenly open your eyes, the Champion is dead on the floor and Clavicus is standing before you and quotes, "You think you lose, you die, and that's the end. It's not.". You are let free and you get Clavicus' alliegance. Hmm. Awesome. But it seems a little...outlandish. Over-the-top. And Clavicus Vile isn't exactly a trickster...just a thoroughly dishonest merchant. XD

It woud be quite awesome if you meet Clavicus as an unnamed beggar on the road, and you give him a coin and he offers you a choice of three items in gratitude, and each one has a negative enchantment that the player isn't told about in the offer. So then you go back to look for him, but he's gone. So you go about your business, finding along the way that you can't seem to drop the item, until a guard (the first one you come across) asks you to collect your dog. You can accept this quietly, or protest that you don't have a dog. Either way, you'll be pointed to the location of a dog, sitting in front of a paper that says "Property of {Character Name}". The dog gets up, asks you to follow him on a little walk, leaving the paper behind (although it could be useful to take it, since if you set it on top of another item, nobody will take the item and it'll stay until you come back for it - just a possibility), and he explains about Clavicus Vile and himself. He offers to take you back to Clavicus in exchange for some small mercantile task - perhaps acquiring 45 gold for five extremely low-value items, then bringing the gold back to him. He takes you to Clavicus's nearest shrine and tells you how to summon the Prince. You do, and he eventually offers to take back the item he gave you if you will convince a particular person to sell you their family heirloom. Upon bringing him this heirloom, he takes back the item and offers you a wish instead. If you choose one of the options for a wish, it'll be granted with a downside that you can cure by performing a similar task to the one he set you to do in order to free yourself from the item. This task will be suggested by Barbas, and is determined by which wish option you chose. You can also say that you have learned to know better than to accept a gift from Clavicus Vile. Either way, Clavicus will react with pleased surprise and say that you've bested him, and deserve a place in his honor, as well as "a little well-earned help in that clever little quest of yours". He vanishes with a last "Come along" to Barbas, who vanishes with him. The Masque of Clavicus Vile is left in your inventory, leaving you no choice to accept it despite any misgivings.

I apologize for rewriting it. -apologetic smile-

- WorshipsMeridia