This is a great story seed idea for the finished work.
Oliver
wrote:
> --- In whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams" wrote:
> > > A Trickster inside a besieged fortress
> > > full of people who are straining to get
> > > along and forget century old feuds?
> > > Doesn't sound like a very good idea.
> >
> > For plot-generation, it's a wonderful
> > idea! Those on the receiving end may
> > disagree. (Ask Insterid for her opinion,
> > and stand well back). Though remember
> > that the Trickster is essential to any
> > fundamental change, so he may well have
> > a use, long term and accidentally. Maybe
> > they forget their differences to gang up
> > on him?
>
> Having a trickster around can be very problematic. At one point in
> the Fire Bull campaign, Bruce Ferrie played a trickster (and it was
> tough for him to be trickster enough to justify the title while not
> being such a trickster as to piss the other players off). On many
> occasions, the rest of the heroes (including mine) beat up the
> tickster after varying levels of provocation. One idea from that
> campaign follows.
>
> Elusu insults or even harms one of the players in such a way that,
> as proud Heortlings, they will want to kill him. When they call
out
> Elusu in public (they don't want to commit secret murder do they?),
> Kallyr intervenes as Elusu is bonded to her. Did the hereoes know
> this?
>
> Well, of course, this is an opportunity to interact with Kallyr to
> show how great you are and how much you deserve vengeance. However,
> she will be adamant that Elusu, despite being a complete shit
> (deliberate reference here), is not going to die or be seriously
> hurt.
>
> How do the heroes handle this situation?
>
> They can push their luck and get thane's weregild (or better) from
> Kallyr, though the cost may be that they piss her off.
>
> Perhaps a better route is to get a much lesser compensation and
> watch as Kallyr publicly humiliates Elusu as she beats the crap out
> of him. Maybe, if they play their cards right, they can help in
the
> beating. But woe betide them if they "accidentally" kill or
> permanently maim him.
>
> Or do they chicken out and say it is OK, they didn't realise that
> Elusu was so important to her? Of course, that carries the risk of
> loss of reputation in front of Kallyr and their peers.
>
> To my mind, this is more of a sub-plot rather than a full blown
> scenario in its own right.
>
> regards,
> Charles