Who cares if your wares are temporarily nullified. Some scofflaw is making off with your child's sword training money. Time to use AMF and beat them with a stick.
But true sight is better. I totally forgot about it lol.
"Temporarily"? You're implying that the caster'd drop the effect every time some "interested" buyer rando wanted to try something on, but throw it back up an instant later? That's some shitty security, to say the least. Better to have a "dressing room" or "firing range" set up to isolate & restrict effects, rather than dousing the whole damn place with a muggled muzzle.
The ring is also cursed to be unremovable. You either need to get used to stealing every single mundane item from clothes to food every single day or pay the shopkeeper to remove it.
That could make for a fun little side plot setup. Whole town is convinced it's haunted, but it's just some guy who doesn't have a good grasp on common stuck in a cursed ring of invisibility.
30 Comments
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 70 pts · 346d
Huh, I swear I've seen a version of this comic where the shopkeeper has been robbed blind in the last panel.
Poxlox@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 346d
I definitely saw that version too, i guess it was a fan edit and i only found this lol
violetsoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 346d
the one i saw each of the last two panels had progressively more items missing
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 346d
Yeah, that sounds about right for what I remember, too.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 345d
The actual comic, with actual credit instead of whatever mangled malarkey the OP is
lunarul@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 346d
Like this? https://youtube.com/shorts/aR2Ah7mhlZU
PugJesus@piefed.social · 51 pts · 346d
Roguelike shopkeepers know this trick - that's why they always stand in front of the door as soon as you pick something up.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 346d
my cat Mittens likes to pick things up. I just keep the shopkeeper distracted while she purrloins various wares.
Rothe@piefed.social · 4 pts · 346d
A lot of people didn't get your reference it seems.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 346d
Pawn shops may have locked doors that someone behind the counter has to trigger to open.
Went to one once (California) and think they said the fire chief had approved the system. Quick search shows perhaps that’s plausible.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 343d
I know some jewellers in my neighbourhood can:
With a single button or switch under the counter-top.
I could borrow that in a TTRPG set in modern times or some Sci-Fi future. It could work in a medieval setting as a kind of magic trap.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 346d
Neck stabby
Jinarched@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 346d
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 9 pts · 346d
What you do not see or smell is Vizzini, the most serious Sicilian when it comes to death known to man.
cornshark@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 346d
Ah so that's why the nazgul always hunt the ring bearer. They're store security
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 346d
Amateur move. The rest of the items are still in the shop.
teft@piefed.social · 10 pts · 346d
Anti magic field and guards at the door if he's not naive.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 346d
TBF: You meant True Sight. 🤓
AMF'd nullify the magic store's wares and the guards'd be at disad to do shit w/o it on them, anyhow.
teft@piefed.social · 3 pts · 346d
Who cares if your wares are temporarily nullified. Some scofflaw is making off with your child's sword training money. Time to use AMF and beat them with a stick.
But true sight is better. I totally forgot about it lol.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 339d
"Temporarily"? You're implying that the caster'd drop the effect every time some "interested" buyer rando wanted to try something on, but throw it back up an instant later? That's some shitty security, to say the least. Better to have a "dressing room" or "firing range" set up to isolate & restrict effects, rather than dousing the whole damn place with a muggled muzzle.
teft@piefed.social · 1 pts · 339d
The guards would have AMF on themselves at the doors. But as someone else already commented a week ago truesight would be better in this situation.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 338d
Yeah. Me. 🤓
Also, how big are the shops in your world? AMF @ the front door and yet ample room leftover for trial runs, etc.? What is this, a Star Trek economy? 🤣
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 346d
just have an enchanted fitting booth, sealed floor to ceiling and the door leaves no gap.
Godnroc@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 346d
The ring is also cursed to be unremovable. You either need to get used to stealing every single mundane item from clothes to food every single day or pay the shopkeeper to remove it.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 11 pts · 346d
You can leave money for purchases on the counter, etc
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 345d
That could make for a fun little side plot setup. Whole town is convinced it's haunted, but it's just some guy who doesn't have a good grasp on common stuck in a cursed ring of invisibility.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 346d
The price of the spell to undo the invisibility has now gone up to 100,000 gold.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 346d
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM
Gutek8134@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 343d
> Shopkeeper presses the big red button under the counter
> Ring explodes
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 346d
There should be a visible magnetic tag floating in the air.