What is the difference between an infernal contract, a faerie contract, and anangelic covenant?
>>46154374
Here goes:
Infernal contracts are generally soul binding agreements and if failed you suffer....horribly.
Faerie contracts would be to spread the flavor(Belief/Bewilderment) so the entity can feed
Angelic Convent: See Infernal contract but less ass-rapey. Essentially its not soul-binding and freewill comes into play.
>>46154374
Just the number of of attempts you need to get your way.
>>46154374
Risk and reward.
>>46154374
Jurisdiction of course
Whose bitch you become.
>>46154374
The color of sparkles.
>infernal
You get everything right up front, but you end up paying for it all a hundredfold in the end
>faerie
You get something that you eventually realize you didn't want, in exchange for something you didn't realize that you would never want to give up.
>angelic
You continuously pay them, slave away for them, adjust your lifestyle to please them, and get very little until the very end, when you get everything
>>46154711
That's a very dubiously worded contract.
>>46154711
This contact is outrageous!
Article 4 is absolutely ludicrous, and I don't seem to gain ANYTHING from this agreement!
>>46154374
Angels: I'll be with you until you break the agreement; then I'll leave you.
Devils: I'll leave until you break the agreement; then I'll be with you.
Fey: I'll do whatever I want whenever I want and you get the illusion of control over our relationship
>>46156716
Good post.
The problem with fae is that they're way too varied to make any kind of useful generalization about. Some fae contracts probably resemble angelic or infernal ones very closely, and the rest fill the continuum between those two extremes.
Maybe you have a contract with a leprechaun to protect your brewery from bad luck in exchange for the first pull from every single keg ever poured out on the local fairy mound, and if you break the contract he spoils your barely harvest once and then fucks off. Or maybe you beg a rusalka to save you from drowning and in exchange you have to drown someone else in her river every year, and when you break the your lungs just fill up with water forever and you're trapped in a constant state of agony, suspended on the precipice of death.
It varies.
>>46156716
This
Infernal: Deferment of payment
Angelic: Layaway
Fay: Everything else, trade, bargaining, exchange of favors
>>46154374
Infernal Contract: Get your soul cut out, get power.
Faerie Contract: Get your sanity sucked out, get power.
Angelic covenant: Get your dick cut, get uhh.. power?
>>46158392
>Angelic covenant: Shove the souls and sanity back in of the other two
>>46158314
I remember being, I think, fourteen, and reading an article in the newspaper about a study that found that some huge percentage of men-- maybe 60%, maybe more, I don't remember now-- had seen porn at least once by the age of twelve. And I remember thinking "damn, I've been missing out for two years." And then I went and looked up some porn to jerk it to.
>>46158422
Well, that was definitely the wrong thread.
>>46158422
And this is why you don't make deals with the fae kids.
>>46158471
What about the fae adults?
When God breaks the covenant, you're supposed to feel bad about it.
>>46154374
>infernal contract
You get what you want but at a terrible price.She will sleep with you.
>faerie contract
You think you get what you want, but in reality you didn't.You sleep with the Fairy's Dog instead.
>angelic covenant
You don't get what you want.She will never sleep with you.
>>46154374
>Infernal
Obvious, amazing benefits but a very serious and cleverly concealed flaw. Making the pact is incredibly easy, demonic beings like to leave their books laying around for anyone to find. Breaking the pact is incredibly arduous.
Despite the drawbacks these boons of these pacts tend to be very straight forward and easy to use while also being incredibly potent.
>Angelic
Making the pact is very hard, unlike demons, angels are very particular about who gets their power. The means of contact are usually kept secret by orders of priests or reclusive hermits.
The price of the pact is made very clear, usually the potential recipient will not know the boon until the full extent of the cost is known. These boons are usually very specialized and, for those who are not cleric, paladins or other trusted allies of the divine, temporary.
>Faerie
Barely anything about this pact is clear. It's boon's are vague and terribly powerful to those who know how to use them.
>>46161436
>infernal contract
You get what you want but at a terrible price.She will sleep with you as long as you go along with certain.... kinks, you will enjoy it but you'll never feel clean again
>faerie contract
You think you get what you want, but in reality you didn't.She makes you go along with her weird as fuck fetishes, you're too confused to be aroused
>angelic covenant
You MAY get what you want, but only if you toe the line and do EXACTLY what you're told.She will sleep with you but only if you follow the ultra strict and byzantine rules she lays down and you learn to enjoy submitting to authority
Fixed
>>46161840
You didn't really change anything but add more words. Mine was way more concise.
>>46161938
Meh, didn't feel like you captured the "will like it but hate it" aspect of demons, nor the strict rules the angels would invoke in their contract
>>46162242
>>46161938
>>46161840
>>46161436
You guys should both take a long walk together off a short pier.
>>46154374
I see far contracts as varying wildly in power and benefit, due to the capricious nature of the creatures. You could get a coobie, or you could get a holo.
The important part of fae contracts is that the pact must constantly be honoured. You could get a small guardian spirit for the house and so long as you never spoke poorly of it and left it a small bowl of milk and bread every 3 days or so, the pact would be mutually beneficial. The creature may grow in power over time, and by honouring the pact the benefits of its protection may even be increased. Failing to honor the pact may simply result in an upset or mischevious spirit, or it could abandon you entirely, or even screw things over.
Some more vindictive fae may require darker things, in exchange for more powerful boons.
In most cases, these pacts are generally positive for both parties.
>>46154374
no mention of the great old one?
I hope you get eaten first.
Divine contracts are generally arduous and challenging, but at the same time they will never ask the outright impossible.
They demand the best of you and they may even ask things that are incredibly difficult, because they force you to acknowledge and correct wrongs, however this is always done with the best of intentions (eg challenging your adoptive brother who just declared you legally untouchable for the fate of slaves).
They demand justice, virtue, honesty and hard work. In exchange they provide power now (though with some limits) and paradise in the long term.
>>46154374
Infernal: You either will know exactly that you are making a bargain with a demon, or you will not, but you will have the gist that they are self-interested only and that agreeing is some sketchy stuff. FYI they would not have offered if you were going to deny it. You will know approximately what you're getting into and make the horrible mistake of getting into it anyway at the immediate and undeniable temptation, and it will all go horribly wrong as you've always known it would but for reasons in hidden agendas you will never know. Parable: the promise of pleasure yields pain, don't want pleasure.
Angelic: You will not know what you're getting, you will not know of the contract, and you will not know why you are paying the cost day after day after day. Then, all at once, you will know the boon and it will never sour. Though denied acknowledgement for your labors along the way you will know the reason eventually and you will know the fruit of them for eternity.
Fair: You will know shit-all in the beginning, you may only agree as a joke or not at all, the spirit at least pretending to see your implicit consent, you will know shit all along the way (the beautiful woman you're sleeping with will, one night, when you rub your eyes, reveal themselves to be your dog; the never emptying beer glass you've been drinking will one day reveal itself to what you've been pissing in, thus it's never ending status), you will know nothing in the end as to why, what, or whom. You will have only your shame.
>>46154374
Think of it like a lottery with about 100 or so tickets.
Demonic:
>You get the prize money up front. The 'winning' ticket actually sends you to eternal ass rape torture or whatever penalty you end up taking.
>Either you draw a ticket every time you use the powers of the contract, you draw a ticket every day, or you 'win' instantly if you don't draw a ticket every day.
>You can get someone else to pull a ticket for you, but they have to be willing. If they pull the 'winning' ticket, they suffer the effects and the game resets for you- bur you still have to play.
Fey:
>Every ticket has a random prize or punishment on it, and you can draw whenever you want.
>Break a rule, and all of the punishment tickets happen at once, even those you've already drawn.
Amgelic:
>The prize is much bigger than the other two lotteries, but you have to draw every ticket to win.
>You draw tickets when you follow the code of conduct set down, and have to give tickets back when you break it.
>>46154408
>Infernal contracts are generally soul binding agreements and if failed you suffer....horribly.
Nah. Faust could have escaped any consequences by repenting sincerely and turning to God right up until he was dragged into hell. To a demon a contract is just a prop in the web of lies that's designed to trick you into damning yourself.
Divine covenants are worth taking more seriously. Break one of those and you'll never forget about it, just ask any descendant of Adam and Eve. Angels never lie, but that also means they'll never, ever go back on their word.
Fairies take a much more human approach to these sort of agreements - they want something from you, and they'll use whatever means they can to get it. The main thing you need to remember is never make any agreement with the beings of Faerie unless you know what rules they *have* to follow, because they're not going to respect your contract out of any sense of fairness or integrity. Fortunately there's almost always some name or talisman you can use to cow them into playing fair, just be sure to do your research.
>>46163611
Which great old one?
If you're talking something of Cthulhu's ilk, the idea of striking a deal with it is absurd. Even trying to attract its attention is the act of a madman.
