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nkp1981 · 2 months
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bigguccielwopo · 1 month
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The smoothest jail escape you'll ever see
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Villain: Dastigaan, The Maddest Mage of our Age
There’s a secret they won’t tell you about descending into the pit of madness. It’s that once you realize there’s no bottom your fall begins to feel a lot like flying.
It’s a well known fact that casters frequently meddle with powers beyond their understanding, at risk of not only inflicting trauma to their surroundings and their own mind, but onto reality itself.  Dastigaan was the sort of mage folk all to reductively refer to as “mad”, the sort that confused the trauma he caused with an indicator of his growing power, and sought to cause more as a means of pushing his limits.   He dealt with dark powers and lost himself in the forbidden reaches of the multiverse, returning home as a catacylsmic storm of arcane power that just so happened to still wear a mortal’s skin. Before he could unleash his terrible power he was caught and imprisoned by the great mages of the realm, an imprisonment that’s lasted for decades and will very soon come to an end, possibly with the party’s unwitting aid.
Adventure Hooks:
Dastigaan’s escape begins in the most innocuous way: The heroes come into conflict with a belligerent magic shop owner, who over promises on the capabilities or reliability of particular items and then throws the party out (using telekinisis) when they come back to complain. As they’re picking themselves up off the ground, a helpful tiefling by the tame of Tristham approaches to help dust them off and offer commiserations. the shopowner was an old business rival of his who elbowed him out of the magic trade and has been running roughshod over all the other enchantment vendors in town.  Mutual cursing of the shopowners’s name turns into an offer of drinks, which turns into a completely innocent discussion of just how one might get into the shop and swipe a few choice items along with the owner’s collection of crafting diagrams. After the party returns victorious and after the heat dies down, Tristham will mention that he just so happens to have another job in the works, and that the party have just so happened to prove themselves more than qualified for an interview.
The architect of the big heist is one Ildra of Volennwal, a retired military officer and decorated war mage in her 60s who became dissolusioned with the kingdom’s goverannce after sustaining heavy personal injury including the loss of one of her arms to secure a victory that the diplomats traded away for trade concessions before she had even recovered. IIdra apparently has a plan to break a vault full of treasure held in reserve by the crown in the case of wartime, but is skeptical of the parties abilities to help pull it off despite her quartermaster Tristham’s appraisal. If the party want in, they’ll have to prove they can handle some danger... say by raiding a particularly notorious dungeon and bringing back a relic that will be useful in the caper
Drawn in by the promise of good pay and rich rewards by heisting an arcane vault, the party are half way into the execution of their plan when they discver that what they’re ACTUALLY doing is helping to break one of the most dangerous casters alive out of wizard jail. Do they abandon their plan an attempt to escape? Turn themselves over to the authorities? Go through with it and embrace their future as troubleshooters for a would be tyrant? They better make their decision soon, Ildra brought a small army of her old mercenaries buddies as a plan B of brute-forcing the jailbreak, and they won’t be too happy seeing their point-team turn tail and run.
Background: Far from the gibbering, nonsensical caricature that one could assume of most “mad” mages, Dastigaan is calm, cool, and in many ways perfectly reasonable.  Backpacking through nightmare dimensions let him shrug off the destructive impulses of his youth and come to terms with what it really means to be a master of the arcane. The problem is where this reason will take him, as in order to avoid further pain, imprisonment, and attempts on his life, Dastigaan decided a few decades ago that each and every mage that acted against him or aided in his imprisonment must be made an example of. In order for these examples to be effective, they must be so direct and horrifying that they scar themselves onto history, a personal apocalypse delivered to each of the realm’s greatest casters to ensure the world learns from their mistake in opposing him.
This was exactly Ildra’s intent, having studied at the knee of one of those powerful mages and realizing far too late how his loyalty to the realm and distance and lofty position made him out of touch with the sacrifices of common people his grand stratagems necessitated.  Knowing that she could never hold him, or the crown he served to account, Ildra remembered  one of the old wizard’s forwarnings about the Maddest Mage of the Age and knew she had a weapon.
Further Adventures:
If your party don’t pick up on the original magic shop plot-tread (bastards) consider having them join up with the mercenary company that Ildra employs, or come into service of one of the mages Dastigaan is going to eventually target just before he escapes on his own.
The escape of the Maddest mage of the Age is going to make the great wizards and sorcerers of the realm shit their collective robes, having them stockpile arcane weapons, vanish completely as they flee to other planes, or drop all their responsibilities and disguise themselves as commoners while they wait for this all to blow over. While the panic and the chaos it brings begins to trickle down to the commons, the party end up adopting a skittish grey cat who seems intent on following them about for protection. This cat is infact Ildra’s mentor, having polymorphed himself into an easily overlooked form with a collar of nondetection.
While he possesses innumerable forbidden magics learned in his time beyond the stars, Dastigaan’s chosen method of avenging himself against his captors is to open the door to his good friend the outergod of paradox and let the lovecraftian horror horror go to work. Each of these violations results in the creation of a grisly monument, proportional in size and horror to how culpable Dastigaan believed that victim was in his imprisonment. Some are merely fist sized idols of clay and still living meat, others are grotesque instillation that eat up the lives and bodies of an entire city block. 
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kellyerosen · 2 years
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I am their fury. I am their patience. I am a conversation ⭐️
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pratchettquotes · 1 year
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Twoflower looked past Rincewind at the fallen guard.
"Is he dead?" he said, speaking of a man with a sword half buried in his back.
"Extremely likely."
"Did you do that?"
"I was inside the cell!"
"Amazing! Good trick!"
Despite several years of exposure to the facts of the matter, Rincewind remembered, Twoflower had never really wanted to grasp the fact that his companion had the magical abilities of the common house fly. It was useless to try to dissuade him. It just meant that modesty was added to the list of non-existent virtues.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
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interact-if · 1 year
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Are there any IFs that feature a jailbreak? Or where the MC is taken captive and has to elaborate a plan to escape?
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[ID: A anonymous ask that reads: “Hi hi! I wanted to ask about any if recommendations where MC is like a prisoner! You know, held against their will somewhere.” /end ID]
Hi Anons!
Here are a few IFs where the MC is a prisoner and/or is involved in a jailbreak:
Completed:
Blood Money by @hpowellsmith (Certain branches)
Breach: The Archangel Job by @breachverse
Donor by Elena Hearty
Heart of Battle by Fay Ikin
Lost Heir 2: Forging a Kingdom by Mike Walter
Demos:
I, the Forgotten One by Bacondoneright
Shepherds of Haven by @shepherds-of-haven
Swan Song by @swansong-if
Timekeepers by @timekeepers-if
Throne of Ashes by @13leaguestories
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thethirdman8 · 10 months
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Step right up! Love for sale at Tardiff Farm in Mansfield, Connecticut. It must be Caturday.. Jail break!
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archangelscorner · 6 months
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Oh, oh you're stuck up there! Shit, I'm sorry!
Here I was, accusing you of not wanting to bother, and you're trapped in Heaven!
Do you want us to break you out?
Who are you....?
What you are speaking of... is dangerous...
Ducks have ears... walls have ears...
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commanderwaybright · 2 years
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Like Captain, like Commander
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luckydiorxoxo · 8 months
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I need someone to jail break tumblr so I don't have to see all these ads.
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jaystellarbirb · 2 years
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It is 11 pm
And I just got a phone call from the GCPD station. Y’all remember my old baseball team right?
Snake bit a police officer when asked to leave a protest. Skip and Homie managed to convince everyone they where all just high. And now I’m calling up Lucky and the gang to come help me break them out of the station early. So that’s how I’m spending my night. I’ll keep y’all updated.
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vintage-tigre · 9 months
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summer-time333 · 2 years
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WARNING!!!: If you haven't seen the movie, then please step away from this post!!
This is one of my favorite scenes of the film! 🤩🤩🤩
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yaboi-weenis · 1 year
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Hide! 🍊
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mionmion · 1 year
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Gouache painting of Garnet ofthe Season 1, Episode 49 “Jail Break,” Garnet comes out as a fusion between Sapphire and Ruby.
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kingoftieland · 1 year
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Iron Man can make armor out of ANYTHING! 🥄🔋🧷💡
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