I’d keep it and use it to spread strife and discord. Every day would center around finding new ways to fuck with people. I don’t see myself using it to gain money or sex since I’ve been able to get those things without supernatural abilities…but the idea of being able to, through clever use of this power, throw whole societies into turmoil sounds intriguing.
…considering how much of my meager social interaction is online, anyway, I don’t think this’ll actually effect my life that much.
On the days when I could bring myself to get out of bed in the morning, though…yeah, I’d try to keep it. Mostly to do good, maybe with a bit of greed and impishness mixed in. I wouldn’t go around telling random people on the street they need to give me all their money then kill themselves with a highway flare, or anything.
I would just go around telling everyone that yesterday was Wednesday, regardless of what day of the week it really was. How much fun would that be?
You know, you learn a lot about people when they answer a Skald the Rhymer thread/poll.
You mean, people don’t already believe everything I tell them? 
Wow, Monday comes right after Wednesday? That’s a serious typo on my calendar, then.
Oh, and I finally decided on my answer to the poll. I picked “other”: I would keep and use the power if I trusted the source, but I know that any mysterious power granted in any connection with Skald is guaranteed to be a monkey’s paw.
This sort of trick doesn’t work on Jabba. You’ve been warned.
How would this situation resolve? I walk into an engineering conference…
Me: I invented cold fusion! Give me a billion dollars!
Scientists: Excellent! This is exciting! Let’s see it!
Me: I…already showed it to you.
Scientists: Oh…I…suppose you did. I would like to get to work reproducing it.
Me: Er…you don’t need to!
How long would I be able to lie to them before short-circuiting their natural curiosity?
“Really? OK.”
“Everybody but Jabba? Jabba is planning to kill you; you have to shoot him now, before he kills you himself!”
This power actually exists and I use it to practice law. However, it does not always work. But it usually does.
I’m a lawyer. With this power, I’d be an unbeatable lawyer. And a very rich one. I’m keeping the power. And making some serious bank. Athena may not be happy, but Thor won’t care, and I’m more of a Thor guy.
after convincing several filthy rich people to give me large sums of money I would buy the most over the top sound system ever in the history of the world and start holding religious events, tell as many people as possible they need to be there with their friends and family. start by telling the gathered crowd they need to turn off all recording devices, destroy any remotely controlled recording devices, after the show you will tell your friends and family who missed it that they need to come see the show but not why or what was said.
Evolution is the truth and you need to study it
the universe is 13.7 billion years old and you need to study how we know this
there is no god, there never was a god.
voting for people who deny these facts is something you should NOT do.
voting for people who have been shown to lie, take corporate cash, or pander to the people are unworthy of public office.
The scientific method is the only way to find the truth. you need to learn the scientific method and understand it.
idk thats just off the top of my head.
I would travel the world doing this, making sure to hit up the governments of every country I could in the process, as well as the biggest crowds possible.
(edit) and Jessica Alba…mmmmmmm
Where were you when Lucas was writing Return of the Jedi?
Best. Negotiator. EVER.
Nope, not going to keep it, it’s inherently unethical, as all forms of mind control are. Yes, the Jedi too. Mind-rapists, the lot of them.
I’m going to say no.
This. Since the power can’t directly affect a person’s morals or emotional state, I think telling a suicidal person, “You are perfectly healthy” is going to have unintended consequences.
My dreadfort is going to be epic.
Wait – so are you saying I shouldn’t just rewrite the neural circuitry of the seven genocidal ethnic cleansers in my dungeon–the ones who all got off on technicalities though each was personally responsible not only for multiple rapes and murders but orchestrating same on an organized basis in Rwanda and Bosnia?
You just insulted Aayla Secura. I’m going to need you to take that back. It’s like the Gilmore Girls rule in that I just made it up but am applying it retroactively.