the prosperity and entitlement of themself and their destitute family.
2
the beauty, charisma, and love they’d been denied by fortune.
3
the strength to rid their home of bandits and mercenaries.
4
tutelage in the arts both mundane and magical.
5
long life, lasting youth, and perfect health.
6
the utter ruination of an enemy.
D6
This Faust made a bargain with
1
a minor yet ambitious courtier in a hellish duke’s court.
2
a thing of mud and mold they found bound in the cellar of an abandoned church.
3
a demonic merchant they commissioned a middleman diabolist to summon.
4
a fiend named in a grimoire they stole out of desperation.
5
the familiar demon of a wizard that snuck away from its master to cause mischief.
6
a charming sort they didn’t realize was a demon until too late.
D6
This Faust seeks to get out of their bargain
1
because they’ve had a spiritual awakening and now despise their affront against their god.
2
because an ancestor of theirs long ago damned contacted them in a dream to warn of the torment that awaits them if they don’t.
3
because inquisitors have caught wind of it and are now hunting them down.
4
because they’ve grown to hate the demon they bargained with and wish to spite it.
5
because another demon’s made them a better offer, but they can’t take it up until they remove the other claim on their soul.
6
because it hasn’t satisfied them like they thought it would.
D6
This Faust’s bargain might be escaped
1
if the demon they bargained with is destroyed.
2
if the demon they bargained with is tricked into reneging on its end.
3
if they can make a successful plea before a synod.
4
if they can find someone willing to take their place without enchantment or coercion.
5
if they can evade death for long enough that the demon becomes too frustrated to collect.
6
if they forsake the boons they got from it and hold to vows of absolute charity and pacifism for the rest of their life.
D6
The demon this Faust made a bargain with seeks to seal their deal
1
by bribing another mortal to murder them.
2
by sending an infernal bounty hunter after them.
3
by unleashing suggestive disasters and plagues until an angry mob kills them as a witch.
4
by disguising itself as a person and deceiving them into confirming their debt.
5
by hollowing out their body and taking it as their vessel.
6
by poisoning the boons it granted against them, while keeping to the letter of the bargain.
D6
Should their soul be taken, this Faust
1
will be crushed into a cobblestone to pave the roads of hell, and forever be trampled by red-hot iron wheels.
2
will be interrogated and vivisected, dismantled and reassembled, so that demonkind might glean superior methods to corrupt humanity.
3
will have their eyeballs torn out and pressed like grapes for their juices, then regrown to repeat the process ad infinitum.
4
will be made an incubator for newborn demons, their spirit gnawed away from within, always edging closer to but never fully reaching oblivion.
5
will be flayed and sent in ghostly form to haunt their living friends and family and tempt them into making a bargain of their own to lessen this Faust’s suffering.
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