Der_DWSage
2015-01-10, 05:45 AM
Good day to you all. I am the Evil Baron of Nemesisville, and I have a proposal for those who dislike it when royalty lives.
As you may know, The King of Kingdomland (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?391116-protect-the-king-challenge) has recently rejected my proposal to defend him. I intend to show him what folly he made in that decision.
While he has acquired most of the local mages, I have faith that my far more devious and cunning friends can handle him. I want his head on a platter. I want his ashes scattered so far across the planes that even a God of Tedious Tasks will get bored of trying to gather them all. I want him to be obliterated, not just from this lifetime, but from all of them that ever may have existed.
Of course, failing that, I'll settle for him not being resurrected. Those pesky Clerics seem bound and determined to ruin everything fun about a good assassination.
There are, of course, rewards. Each and every one of you will have a custom item of my creation-a customized Ioun Stone of Mindblank, preventing you from being detected. And yes, this is the Painful RAW Mindblank, preventing people from spotting you with even Detect Alignment and True Seeing-and extends this protection into your past, protecting you from those who might attempt to Teleport Through Time to end your assassination attempt before it begins. (They might still kill you through old-fashioned research, but you can't blame me if you fail to cover your tracks well enough.) My pockets are deep, and I have millions of gold in various offshore accounts and businesses that can be diverted to assist in helping with this endeavor.
So who's with me? Who's up for a challenge?
There are three mandatory criteria to the challenge at hand.
The first is that the King must be correctly identified beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The second is that the King must be killed, and in some way that will prevent him from being resurrected.
The third is that it must overcome all defenses laid out by the other post as of January 10, 2014. That would be post #44. This is subject to change at a later date.
There is also secondary, non-mandatory criteria. Those who fail to meet it don't fail, per se-but there's something to be said for doing a job with the right amount of flair.
It's preferred that those who take the job are indeed similar to what was outlined in the Protect The King challenge-which means it's preferred that the assassins are indeed Assassins, Rogues, and others of a stealthy caliber. Beguilers count, but not as firmly as Rogues.
Wizards, Clerics, Druids, and other T1 classes lose style points for use. T2 classes do as well, but not nearly as harshly.
Infinite Wealth is assumed, but it's bad form to request too much for an assassination. Your payment for killing the King is 50,000 GP, in addition to keeping the Mindblank Ioun Stone. If you need more than that, you are penalized, but will still get the items requested. There are no limitations on robbing the King, however.
It is preferred that the assassination be carried out alone. If an army was wanted, it would've been requested.
The lower the level, the better-really rub it in the King's face that he got killed by some putz. That said, level 20 is still the limit.
Just like in the other thread-no weaseling into money. if you could sell off infinite walls of salt, why are you even here? No wishes, infinite magic items, or Candles of Invocation are possessed, nor anything else of their caliber.
Minimize the collateral damage. While you could, technically, overcome the challenge by bringing down the castle and killing everyone inside, we are not barbarians. It is preferred that damage be limited to the King, whatever pet Wizard he may have guarding him, and his guards. Every additional death is a minor penalty.
Currently empty. Be the first to murder a noble today!
As for why? Well, it's a much more thorough test on the King's part if he has something to test against. That, and I find the idea, at 3 in the morning, far too amusing to resist.
As you may know, The King of Kingdomland (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?391116-protect-the-king-challenge) has recently rejected my proposal to defend him. I intend to show him what folly he made in that decision.
While he has acquired most of the local mages, I have faith that my far more devious and cunning friends can handle him. I want his head on a platter. I want his ashes scattered so far across the planes that even a God of Tedious Tasks will get bored of trying to gather them all. I want him to be obliterated, not just from this lifetime, but from all of them that ever may have existed.
Of course, failing that, I'll settle for him not being resurrected. Those pesky Clerics seem bound and determined to ruin everything fun about a good assassination.
There are, of course, rewards. Each and every one of you will have a custom item of my creation-a customized Ioun Stone of Mindblank, preventing you from being detected. And yes, this is the Painful RAW Mindblank, preventing people from spotting you with even Detect Alignment and True Seeing-and extends this protection into your past, protecting you from those who might attempt to Teleport Through Time to end your assassination attempt before it begins. (They might still kill you through old-fashioned research, but you can't blame me if you fail to cover your tracks well enough.) My pockets are deep, and I have millions of gold in various offshore accounts and businesses that can be diverted to assist in helping with this endeavor.
So who's with me? Who's up for a challenge?
There are three mandatory criteria to the challenge at hand.
The first is that the King must be correctly identified beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The second is that the King must be killed, and in some way that will prevent him from being resurrected.
The third is that it must overcome all defenses laid out by the other post as of January 10, 2014. That would be post #44. This is subject to change at a later date.
There is also secondary, non-mandatory criteria. Those who fail to meet it don't fail, per se-but there's something to be said for doing a job with the right amount of flair.
It's preferred that those who take the job are indeed similar to what was outlined in the Protect The King challenge-which means it's preferred that the assassins are indeed Assassins, Rogues, and others of a stealthy caliber. Beguilers count, but not as firmly as Rogues.
Wizards, Clerics, Druids, and other T1 classes lose style points for use. T2 classes do as well, but not nearly as harshly.
Infinite Wealth is assumed, but it's bad form to request too much for an assassination. Your payment for killing the King is 50,000 GP, in addition to keeping the Mindblank Ioun Stone. If you need more than that, you are penalized, but will still get the items requested. There are no limitations on robbing the King, however.
It is preferred that the assassination be carried out alone. If an army was wanted, it would've been requested.
The lower the level, the better-really rub it in the King's face that he got killed by some putz. That said, level 20 is still the limit.
Just like in the other thread-no weaseling into money. if you could sell off infinite walls of salt, why are you even here? No wishes, infinite magic items, or Candles of Invocation are possessed, nor anything else of their caliber.
Minimize the collateral damage. While you could, technically, overcome the challenge by bringing down the castle and killing everyone inside, we are not barbarians. It is preferred that damage be limited to the King, whatever pet Wizard he may have guarding him, and his guards. Every additional death is a minor penalty.
Currently empty. Be the first to murder a noble today!
As for why? Well, it's a much more thorough test on the King's part if he has something to test against. That, and I find the idea, at 3 in the morning, far too amusing to resist.