Failed Career: Burglar

You get

A dagger, well-kept leather shoes, a dark wool cloak.

Professional burglary is no longer part of your life, why?

  1. Judged: The last time you were caught they took an ear, next time you’ll probably be executed.
  2. Reformed: The Acolytes of Law convinced you that your actions brought unholy Chaos into the world. Now you seek to pay for your past transgressions.
  3. Cursed: Rumors that the last house you breeched were a witch’s hut were entirely true. Now when you sleep you have dreams of that house being hoisted on dozens of legs, crawling ever towards you.
  4. Soured: While out robbing another, you returned to find your home had been burgled. Having tasted your own medicine you found it very bitter, and resolved to leave it behind.
  5. Pursued: A bounty has been put on your head. You hope to find lands where no one recognizes you, or to earn enough gold to perhaps repay your crimes.
  6. Bungled: You just were never good at it – you were continually caught in the act, assaulted by your targets, repeatedly found yourself having to make escaped by leaping into manure piles. Maybe adventuring will be different?

What was the most outstanding thing you stole?

  1. Lucky Coin: This coin seems to always land the side you intend upwards.
  2. Monkey’s Paw: An unattached paw of a money. When something is placed in its palm the fingers wrap around the object with an unbreakable grip. Squeezing the wrist stump causes the hand to release its grip.
  3. Fossilized Legend: A palm-sized hunk of amber containing the miniature skeleton of a winged serpent.
  4. Makani’s Magnificent Messaging Cube: An elaborately-decorate cube with a removable lid. Retains one sentence spoken into it, and will replay the exact wording in the speaker’s voice once when opened.
  5. Coin-Purse of Copper Conversion: A peculiar leather purse that will immediately convert any coin or gems placed within to copper, bearing the markings or minting of the region that the owner is currently within.
  6. Suspicious Song Bird: A cage containing one warbler that will begin chirping when in the presence of a statement that is unlikely to be true.

Inspired by Electric BastionlandKnave, and Ten Foot Polemic.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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