1d20 Ways to get the demon's attention


1 Call their name three times

2 Say their name

3 Think their name

4 Look in a mirror, any mirror

5 Compliment them out loud

6 Insult them out loud

7 Go on down to the crossroads and make your presence known

8 Talk to the doll they gave you

9 Write your request on an offering and burn it

10 Submit a request for audience in triplicate via courier imp

11 Turn around

12 Close your eyes

13 Go to sleep

14 Pour a drink

15 Put out a plate of cookies

16 Call them up, they've got a cellphone

17 They prefer texts

18 Email works best

19 Just talk to them, they're accompanying you on your journey

20 No need, they're always watching

Message for you

Message is a classic spell, one of the oldest and most useful out there. Here are some variations on it for when you want to play with magical telephony.


Black Fax
Duration:  3*[caster's level] minutes
Components: Your best imitation of a dial tone

Instead of conveying information this spell fills the target's head with darkness and static. Thought and movement is impossible for the duration of the spell while they receive the warped message. When it ends the target knows exactly who cast the spell. The target can't respond to anything happening around them, but can choose to make an INT or WIS save. On a success the spell only lasts half its normal duration, on a fail the duration doubles.


Spam
Components: A list of strangers' names and a shard of your soul

Sends an identical message to every intelligent creature within 1000'. They can't respond or tell who sent it. The spam message preempts or interrupts any other communication a target might receive. Spam can be cast as a cantrip to send 1 message, or with a spell slot to send [spell level] messages in sequence.

The message's subject is:

  1. Advertisements
  2. Unsound medical advice
  3. Sketchy pharmaceuticals 
  4. Celebrity gossip
  5. Risky financial advice
  6. Thinly-veiled wire fraud
  7. Opinion poll
  8. Gambling
  9. Religious screed
  10. Vampire transformation testimonials


Party Wire
Components: 1 SP

Sends the same message to up to 10 targets the caster chooses. Each recipient can respond, but their return messages will get garbled if they try to reply at the same time and talk over each other. After the caster sends their message and hears all the responses roll even or odd. On even only the chosen targets got the message. Odd, the caster accidentally connected another person into the spell and they heard everything. GM decides who the extra person is.


Landline
Duration: Up to 10 minutes
Components: A little bit of your dignity

Lay face-down on the ground with your forehead pressed into bare soil. While in that position you can speak to 1 target and carry on a normal two-way conversation with them no matter where they are as long as their feet are touching the ground.

Tiny Coffins Challenge: May

 Welcome back! This month's prompt is:

"winding trails, disorientation, and the scent of flowers"

Getting lost in the woods is a peculiar feeling. It quietly picks at something superstitious in the back of your head. The absence of people, places, even background noise you could use to orient yourself gets to you in a way that just 'not knowing where you are' doesn't match. It's easy to get turned around, even when you're on a trail, and if you can't find a blaze or marker to get your bearings you have to look for landmarks. A distinctive tree, a big rock you passed, the sound of a stream, anything that might cement where you are. I used to use the smell of honeysuckle. Most of the parks around here have their parking lots and trail heads in meadow areas where they grow; so smelling honeysuckle meant I was on the path back to the car.