See, he could have gone about things the smart way, but this was way funnier and made for a better story. It was also 100% in-character for him to do something like that - the guild he was a part of was commonly mocked in-universe for thinking with their swords rather than their brains.
Plus I was able to hold it over his head for years afterwards. I was a cleric and he didn’t even wait for me to do the bare minimum preparations that might have let us survive before summoning them.
See, he could have gone about things the smart way, but this was way funnier and made for a better story. It was also 100% in-character for him to do something like that - the guild he was a part of was commonly mocked in-universe for thinking with their swords rather than their brains.
Plus I was able to hold it over his head for years afterwards. I was a cleric and he didn’t even wait for me to do the bare minimum preparations that might have let us survive before summoning them.