Forgive me ... OSE?
Message:Just a typo or a new thing?
Perhaps a title ... Fragile Things
It would seem an Angel / Goddess could not be penniless ... could she not simply take what she needed? Could she not do some miraculous act and be paid for her work? Could she not simply reveal herself and receive tribute? (Would it not be a great free-style encounter for each player to imagine how their goddess would accumulate vast wealth ... and why she cannot.)
So, she must have some restriction against theft or wealth. Perhaps she is cursed (to believe) that wealth will harm her or someone / thing she treasures. Why else would money / payment be a problem?
Or, the mission can only be accomplished by someone with the right motivation. In other words, not because you are paid but because you choose to take the mission. Without the proper motivation, you would be controlled by the rival.
Perhaps the trapped Vampire is less a hostile rival ... or as you say ... a former lover. Was he a Vampire when they were intimate? Is the Angel even benevolent?
If the Angel gets wealth, perhaps the bottle that is his cage is broken and the Vampire is free to be on his Vampire ways ... bad for the locals. Bad for the repentant Vampire.
Does the Vampire need to be so cliche? (Bite, Bite, garlic and stakes?) Perhaps it is just an energy consumer? It cannot turn off the power. If it is allowed to roam, it will devour the energy of others (perhaps like an Angel). So the prison of the glass bottle is less a prison as a protection.
A tragedy of sorts.
I, of course, would love to see a room (a cavern) of bottle worlds at the end ... which bottle world do you enter to find the weapon to destroy the Rival?
Would you choose to remain in your own bottle if it gave you everything you ever wanted --- of course you would.
As you look through the glass of your perfect bottle back to the world you left ... it appears there is another layer of glass holding the world that you formerly called home.
Yours,
IronConrad
06-May-2021