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a boy is born in kingdom that is superstitious. Boy later becomes cursed by a witch for an incredibly petty reason that the boy had no control over. The local inhabitants from common folk to nobles treat him like an anathema or outright being abusive or discriminatory due to this curse.
Boy becomes estranged from this kingdom and seeks life of adventure. Actually becomes successful at it. Collects many powerful artifacts.
Later, the king from his old kingdom seeks one of the artifacts in his possession to trade to a dragon who stole his daughter. There is no guarantee that the dragon will honor the ransom.
What should the adventurer do?
for bonus points, if you were the king, and the adventurer refused, what do you do?
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anyone have some thoughts?
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>>49587340
I was able to overcome my position through sheer force of will and determination, and have now established myself as a wealthy and very respectable man of proven ability.
The suffering I had endured in the past is just that, in the past. I will not stand by and let people suffer just because of past grudges. I'm over that, *above* that.
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>>49587340
Go kill the dragon, then take the princess for myself.
Be sure the king knows it.
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>>49587340
It depends entirely on the adventure. If it were me I'd kill the dragon for them, but I'm not going to fault someone for justified hatred. He's got no obligation to these people who essentially threw him away.
That's also why, should he refuse, I'd have no problem attempting to have him killed. He is, after all, anathema.
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>>49587893
If I were the king, I would first offer a title of nobility as well as the ability for this adventurer to do what he pleases short of murder to any remaining commoners that had wronged him in return for his aid, regardless on whether he's successful as a knight with ownership of a load of artifacts is too much of an opportunity to squander. If he refuses, I tell the boy that I didn't expect such an anathematic being to help anyway, and it was foolish to second-guess and think he was anything but an ungrateful ex-serf.
I then hire a party of adventurers to try and wrest the artifact from him, through means either diplomatic or forceful.
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>>49587340
Offer my services to the dragon.
Suggest that the dragon overthrow the king and marry the princess to cement a claim on the throne. Why settle for a ransom when you can have it all?
Rally nearby mercenaries, lizardfolk, dissatisfied nobles, whatever, and help lead them to overthrow the king.
Succeed and retire to my newly earned earldom, courtesy of my grateful dragon monarch.
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>>49587340
If I'm a king I'd make a deal with him. Of course if he refuses, life of one butthurt adventure does not amount for securing stability of whole kingdom. So even if his death would be tragical, making him disappear is only choice he left me and pay another group of adventurers to secure agreement with dragon.....Or try to kill him if he won't honor it
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Oh, now you want my help? Gather my adventuring buddies, kill the dragon, loot his shit, approach the princess in the most dashing way, gift her roses and the shiniest trinkets from dragon's hoard, then offer her to adventure with us.
Write an insulting letter to the king.
If I'm king - try to ransom my daughter, fail, try to take the dragon's head with my army, fail again, get forced to abdicate in favour of my chancellor by my "loyal" vassals who sensed my weakness after this whole dragon fiasco. Go incognito out of shame, become an adventurer, slay the dragon eight levels later and reclaim my throne.
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>>49591200
>try to take the dragon's head with my army, fail again
You're some shitty king
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>>49591276
All kings in fantasy usually are.
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>>49587340
Depends on the curse, the dragon and the princess. As it is, cut right down between telling them all to fuck off and fucking off someone where else or going to the dragon and 'improvising'.
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>>49591289
there are some good one once in a while
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Send a friendly warning to the dragon that the king of that location is seeking artifact wielders to take it out, advising him the next batch going after him will almost certainly have a nasty trick or two or punch above their weight.
Chuckle a little at how low the old place he hated so has fallen now.
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>>49591327
Not on TV though.
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>>49587340
>go to dragon cave
>rescue dragon
>become the dragon king
>become the dragon emperor
>become the high lord god of the dragon continent
>Become Dragon God
>Get killed, have my bones get chained up underneath the largest mountain by dwarves and get revived into a Demon by an ancient evil Giving Tree God
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>>49587340
Kill the dragon himself, or just do nothing and laugh at how his kingdom fucked itself over by estranging him. Hell, he could even kill the dragon and then make his own ransom demands. Depends on what kind of person he is.
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>>49587340
Kill the dragon myself. Take all its shit. Leave the princess to get back on her own. Don't accept any reward or titles from fuckers that I know I can't trust.
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>>49587340
>its another ''SocJus-Shit that never happened ,wat do''-Thread
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>>49587340
Slay dragon.
Lay princess.
Get married.
Visit dad-in-law some day.
"Hiya gramps, remember me?"
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>>49587340
>as a said adventure
Trade artifact. With a dragon and no asshole middle-man attached to the deal.
Could be negotiated into dragon-slaying if I know dragon wont go with the deal.
>if you were the king, and the adventurer refused, what do you do?
After my attempts to remind that pesky adventure about my rights on the aftifact as his rightful king and his duty to me and country have failed — I send assassins after him.
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>>49593562
A lot of people are assuming he stayed in this king's shithole dragon infested country.
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