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Riddles	By : Anesor Category: +M through R > Neverwinter Nights Views: 1133 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Their KC asked another question on a late-night watch sometime during the Shadowwar:

What wouldn't you do for a million gold pieces?

Ammon: What makes you think I haven't had that kind of wealth already? Do you think I built my Haven on a shoe string?

Very little, if I felt the need for a large sum of money for my goals. Money can substitute for so many other kinds of power. Enough money can buy power, or the services of those with power for a far smaller cost than other kinds of contracts.

((sighs and looks away)) Kinslaying. I never wanted to do that, and thought I had left them well situated and safe.

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Bishop: A million? Nasher's been giving you a bigger allowance than I thought. Many things, like... certain people in this group I'd do for free... Nothing, there's nothing I wouldn't do for that kind of freedom. Who do you want dead?

What? Fuck no! I wouldn't wear chains, or shackles, become shiny-good, or any of that bullshit! You didn't say that in your original question, 'commander.' Nice trap, but I'm not biting.

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Casavir: Interesting question, Commander. That kind of wealth does give many opportunities for philanthropy and charity, though even having that much money would invite temptation. But actions I wouldn't do to gain wealth like that? The list would be in some ways endless: starting with evil acts as a group, cruelty, betrayal... -pause- deliberately harming someone I cared for, oathbreaking...

It may be simpler to determine those few things that I would be willing to do for wealth. They would have to be monies earned through my own actions, in a way that does not conflict with good, law, or the codes of my faith. As few jobs like that would offer that kind of wealth, it seems unlikely.

Charity money, if I did something embarrassing, though safe for all, like...?

Oh. ((flushes slightly))

Would I be allowed to seek guidance first? No?

Only embarrassment, I might do that. But I am concerned that that kind of reward is corrupting, in and of itself, even if the acts are not. I will need to contemplate that in my prayers, thank you for your question.

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Elanee: ((shaking her head)) There are so many things I would not do. Money such as that, cannot really buy anything that is truly important. Money cannot help a pit of necromancy or blighted area, it cannot help the plants and creatures thrive, it cannot even give the joy of a well-made gift for a loved one. A small portion of that kind of money could be useful for certain required tasks out in the human world, but beyond that, it becomes meaningless. It has no greater meaning than the gold of the waning year's leaves.

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Grobnar: A million? I don't know if any kingdom has ever had that many coins in any legend I remember. How would you even carry it? What could you do with it? Throw a year long party for the city, maybe with singing and dancing every night. Every bard would be able to write the music they like without worrying about patrons, I guess. I could hire a Waterdhavian to make a Wendersnaven themed libretto.

What wouldn't I do? Well it is a serious question, not silly-fun like the water glass one. I wouldn't become a gloomy sourpuss, life is still too short to be as bitter or sad as some we know. They've forgotten simple joys and childhood games. I won't. I won't stop trying, as each smile, even if they don't think they like the joke, lightens the shadows. I wouldn't write something mean or cruel, especially about my friends.

I guess that's pretty much it, I won't give up trying and I won't be mean. Silly, stupid, or awkward? I've done those things so often accidentally or deliberately they don't bother me anymore. ((grins)) Often all I get for my efforts, is the groans and threats from my audience. That's fine, because they've had a moment of freedom from their own problems. If they like it, even better.

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Khelgar: I would not do anything to hurt my clan, whether some of them believe that or not. I would not betray my oaths to my clan, to Tyr, or to my friends. I would not give up my ale, permanently. Though I might be able to for a time, money like that would help my clan rebuild to greatness. I would not give up the occasional brawl, they're much too fun.

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Neeshka: Wow! A million? This would be in something easier to carry, like gems, right? Good. Now what I would do. What I would not do? I dunno, you know I'm pretty flexible about these things. I can't think of too much, that's a lot of shiny trophies. It wouldn't be as much fun to buy my toys, but I wouldn't mind.

What wouldn't I do... I guess I wouldn't become a boring little scribe or shopkeeper. I wouldn't turn on my friends, I haven't had that many. I can always find another mark, but friends? I couldn't join the army or watch, almost all of 'em must have had their humor removed with a mace. Anything boring, or reeks of poverty. Definitely anything boring, no way.

Well yeah, for its own sake, casing a mansion is usually boring, but that's a challenge.

Huh, that's more things than I thought I wouldn't do.

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Qara: Finally a question about something real. I can't think of much off hand. That kind of money and I could buy a seat and tenure at the academy, and make those girls' lives hell. Or maybe start my own school, without the stupid books and rote numbskulls. Then I'd get the respect I deserve.

Don't mistake me, peasant, some things I wouldn't do. I wouldn't give up the sweet thrill of my power. Wouldn't walk with a crutch, like books, when I can fly like the birds. Wouldn't choose to associate with the little people, like a swamp rat like you, or that slimy ranger.

There are a great many things I would do, for the power of that wealth.

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Sand: That question has an interesting phrasing, I find I'm actually curious as to what the others have answered. Hmm, I can admire your wishing to understand this collection of... people. They all do have their uses, excepting that idiot girl. She only could have gotten enrolled in the academy through bribery or extortion. This allows me the consolation that it is not my school, whose very reputation is at risk for her petulance.

Ahem. The question. As open ended as you've made it, the list could go on for hours if you wish a detailed accounting, but I can be brief. I wouldn't break my word, perjure myself, or the like. I wouldn't abrogate my chosen responsibilities. I'm not one to try to save the world, like the young paladin, but the duties and responsibilities I do accept, I take very seriously. I do admit I have duty to others and my fields. I would not wish ill on others just for their existence. I'm indifferent, unless and until they've done something to earn my ire. So the darker uses of Law, such as slavery I find abhorrent, and I would not support, nor even tolerate that. I would not repeat certain mistakes I've made over the centuries, the results of which eventually became truly distasteful. I would not forgo my studies of magic, and my studies of legal custom and politics would be short-sighted to abstain from...

Summarize? These things I just would not choose to do: forswear myself, fail my duties, and support or encourage vile practices. The amount of gold doesn't really matter, a hundred, a thousand, a million. I would not do them. If I was forced to it, there is no free will, and no soul debt.

My dear Commander, that is true. I would not kiss the idiot girl. But that fits both failing my duty to the field of magic and be a particularly vile practice. ((smiles nastily))

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Shandra: A million? That's a thousand thousand, right? Enough to buy estates and a title somewhere.

Or rebuild my farm, and start that shipping thing my mother always wanted to do. Bur what wouldn't I do for that kind of wealth? There's a lot of things you people do, I don't want to do. I'm hoping we find out why my farm was destroyed, so I can get back to real life and rebuild my family legacy. I wouldn't become a near vagabond adventurer, like you have. No offense.

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Zjhaeve: Know that I do not require such a mass of heavy metal. Where my people are from is a place of no space, where thought rules and souls visit, or pass through on their final journey. A lump of metal has no value there, value is only in the mind of the observer. Know that this question has little to no meaning.

What wouldn't I do for some object of great value, like a silver sword?

You know that already, I would live in exile in hopes of preventing its return to the Lich Queen, and returning it home eventually.
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