Rolled 11, 8, 6, 15 = 40 (4d20)
>>5540819The Novice Fleshweaver called this approach damnable weakness and simpering sentimentality, but she also uses the same sort of verbiage when you are holding her, so you dismissed it. Besides, while you MAY feel some lingering affinity for the being which helped you best the Ghoul Supreme and the Necromancer, the lightning elemental’s primary value is strategic. You COULD feed it to your shoggoth-sword—still MIGHT, in fact—but as a separate entity it can serve as a quite literal ‘shock troop’ in a way it cannot while strapped to your hip, bound within the aberration you wield like a weapon.
“I am not here to fight,” you thus inform the runaway. “I am here to bargain.”
The lightning elemental buzzes and flickers with confusion and agitation, as if to ask: ‘what can you offer me?’
It spreads its arm, its steam-cape swirling about it, as if to say: ‘I have all I need right here!’
“What if I could give you all this and more?”
That gives the elemental pause. You’d been considering this all the way here, wondering what you could offer a sexless and virtually immortal entity which does not eat, or drink, or hold name or status. Seeing it here and now, you know your supposition was well-reasoned.
“I will have the Engineer build you a home,” you pronounce. “An apparatus, to draw forth the lightning from every passing storm, and to funnel it to you. You will have the privilege to feast on every bolt of power which provenance provides.”
The lightning elemental sizzles and snap-cracks in agitated uncertainty.
>6. You must not break an oath or promise given“I promise this,” you tell it, “on my oath as a Knight Ascendant of the Dark God of Glory, He Who Swallowed the Sun.”
[Clever write-in, DC reduced to 13; further reduced to 12 by Dark Prophet II]
