If you were Death personified in charge of collecting souls but can be bribed to delay a person’s death, what are the things you can be bribed with?
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I’ll gladly trade one innocent soul for one bad one.
Elder Wand
Resurrection Stone
Cloak of Invisibility
A new scythe, or any other new garden tool.
By making them do what they hate the most.
For example, a rich guy has to donate all his money to a socialist party.
Cash is always welcome. Or tell me your life story.
I was always partial to Piers Anthony’s version of the Incarnations of Immortality. Death was not really bribed, but chose to forego collecting a soul to help defeat Satan.
They can an have an extra year of life, for each year of my pain they will bear for me.
They have to murder somebody of my choosing.
Wait I’ve realized I didn’t really answer the question.
I would take money. But, they’d have to murder somebody near and dear to them as well.
If I’m death I want people to die so they’d have to give me souls to torture first, by murder.
I’m easy. Give me some good Wisconsin cheese.
^^I take bratwurst. And Maine lobster.
A chess game. I will not take them for as long as the game continues. If they win, they live.
I think I’ll accept as bribe virtuous and benevolent acts that they would want to do before dying. Like for example, from those Americans who applauded, felt nothing and said nothing when trump separated kids from their parents.
Or the ones who paid no interest during Obama’s presidency when pictures first surfaced of kids in cages, separated from their parents.
@Patty_Melt
@stanleybmanly is correct.
Aside from being a great film, the way I see it if I’m Death personified then there is precious little that any mortal could offer that would be of any interest or use to me. However, a game of skill, like chess, in exchange for a temporary extension of their brief life, just might amuse me. And they have nothing to lose, but much to gain. While I have lost nothing either way. If they win it does matter to me. Today, tomorrow, 50 years from now, I’m coming for them eventually.
Stanley was addicted to chess in his youth. But I remember watching that movie as a teenager and thinking that if death were willing to play chess for souls, he would be rated beyond grandmaster. I should have understood then and there that the deck is always stacked!
Well there was the bit with Antonius revealing his strategy.
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