But does the fighter have high enough int to do this?
What is this “reddit” thing marked at the bottom of the image? 🤔🤔
Ah but you see, the agreed exchange was wait 5 seconds for me, therefore since the demon waited for 5 seconds, the fighter must uphold the transaction and give himself to the demon
But the agreed exchange was “make a deal OR the demon would steal their souls” - no mention of the deal needing to be two ways to be valid. (or that’s my take, anyway).
Contact law necessitates “mutual consideration”:
https://blog.goodlawyer.ca/goodlawyer-blog/what-is-consideration-and-what-does-it-mean-for-you
For a deal to be a deal, each side must offer something; the fighter offered nothing so it fails to meet the standards, I’d say. Clever attempt, but not quite.
The demon is coercing the party so no deal made between any of them is legitimate anyway, so it doesn’t matter.
Reminds me when I played Star Wars: Edge of Empire and our group met Bib Fortuna. One of our group immediately lobbed a thermal grenade at him, killing him, which is not supposed to happen. Our DM then sent a fuckload of mercenaries after us because, well, we did kill Jabba the Hutt’s second in command. The group was completely obliterated by the bounty hunters. I wasn’t even mad. (Well, except at the idiot with the grenade.)
I had something like that happen in Shadowrun. We were in a car chase and we were escaping. I’m driving, and passenger says he wants to throw a paint grenade at our persuer to help. I tell him no, I’ve got it handled, he does it anyway. Crit fail the throw, paint hits our windshield. I fail my reaction and we crash. Goon squad drives their car over our bodies. The end.