Briefed by Wrathion, a pack of the orphans he represents target Stephen Strange for the better part of seven days, taking turns to trail him when they catch him in public. Feel free to handwave Stephen conveniently eludes them, when he's needed for player threads or plot reasons.
They wait at his door, throw stones at and through his window, make him a bribe comprising a terribly sad breakfast of stale bread and olives each morning. They shout "DEBT! DEBT! DEBT!" and "UNDER THE SUN, UNDER THE MOON, STEPHEN STRANGE OWES A BALLOON!" after him in the streets. Some often rally around him in a hora, barring his path.
The craftier, older children (ages 8-9) try to interrupt his business and extort the magical performance out of him by pretending to weep in the marketplace and pointing Stephen out, claiming they are his children whom he has abandoned for drink or a woman not their mother on their birthday, after promising balloons. They start spreading gossip that he's their deadbeat dad who should be sent home from whatever his duty or errand. One child, given to thespian performances early, even faints dramatically in the middle of the street and shouts to the skies (and all passers by) that the Chained God has struck him and he will die, consumed by horror, and his last and only wish is to witness Stephen Strange's balloon show.
If they are shown a balloon show, it becomes blatantly obvious that these children don't know what a balloon is and at first don't believe Stephen if he reassures them.
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Briefed by Wrathion, a pack of the orphans he represents target Stephen Strange for the better part of seven days, taking turns to trail him when they catch him in public. Feel free to handwave Stephen conveniently eludes them, when he's needed for player threads or plot reasons.
They wait at his door, throw stones at and through his window, make him a bribe comprising a terribly sad breakfast of stale bread and olives each morning. They shout "DEBT! DEBT! DEBT!" and "UNDER THE SUN, UNDER THE MOON, STEPHEN STRANGE OWES A BALLOON!" after him in the streets. Some often rally around him in a hora, barring his path.
The craftier, older children (ages 8-9) try to interrupt his business and extort the magical performance out of him by pretending to weep in the marketplace and pointing Stephen out, claiming they are his children whom he has abandoned for drink or a woman not their mother on their birthday, after promising balloons. They start spreading gossip that he's their deadbeat dad who should be sent home from whatever his duty or errand. One child, given to thespian performances early, even faints dramatically in the middle of the street and shouts to the skies (and all passers by) that the Chained God has struck him and he will die, consumed by horror, and his last and only wish is to witness Stephen Strange's balloon show.
If they are shown a balloon show, it becomes blatantly obvious that these children don't know what a balloon is and at first don't believe Stephen if he reassures them.