DEBT OF HONOR
Your character owes a debt to a powerful NPC, and that debt is to be repaid with service rather than with goods or money.
[2 Pts.]
Moderate Debt: Over the course of the unfolding campaign, your character will be called upon to perform three substantial services for an NPC.
These services will test the character’s abilities and will contain assorted challenges and dangers. If your character fails to heed the call when his services are requested, something unfortunate will happen to him– he and his friends will very likely be targeted for violence by the character he has spurned.
[4 Pts.]
Substantial Debt: As above, save that your character will be expected to carry out six substantial services for the NPC over the course of the campaign.
Special Handicap:
[Certain Weirdness, +2 Pts.]
Oh, gods. The nature of the NPC is such that the errands assigned to your character are certain to involve unusually bizarre inconveniences, particularly strange requirements, and especially weird or magical obstacles.
The nature of the NPC (master thief, powerful noble, mysterious sorcerer, etc.) should be such that he feels no real emotional connection to your character.
Your character will therefore have no idea how much of a risk he is facing when he undertakes each service. The nature of each service will also probably be contrived to minimize potential reward for your character, especially when the NPC wants something of value retrieved or an enemy wiped out. These missions are duties to be discharged, not opportunities to acquire loot and glory.
Special: The NPC won’t mind at all if other characters accompany yours out of friendship or duty, but he won’t offer them a single penny in compensation for their time and effort.