What about the oldie but goodie follower/family/innocent bystander grabbed off the streets and used as a hostage. Win and all are freed, with gifts (the carrot). Try and escape, and your follower X carefully kept in the dungeons will be sliced, diced and publicly executed as the main event (the stick). Lose and you die. (the big stick).
Slave bracelets are a fairly obvious game construct, but we are faced with the Gloranthan problems of dealing with magically powerful prisoners (probable answer: hostage exchange or quickly kill em), gaols (not an Orlanthi thing, and I suspect the Lunars would probably give you a fair trial and then kill you, preferably on the same day), and thralls.
Thralls, for me are the puzzle. How *are* they controlled?
John
> How about a magical net over the arena? Fine enough not to obscure vision
> but tough enough that you can't get through it easily.
Monofilament-sliced
> Orlanthi kabobs anyone?
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> Oliver
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> If the Lunars had captured the heroes and were going to force them to
> to be the star attraction in some gladiatorial games - do you think
> they would want to cripple them magically (frx by using slave
> bracelets) for the fight, or allow them to use their magic. The
> biggest problem I have with the latter is all those Orlanthi with
> movement magic trying to escape, let alone people with magical
> attacks using them on innocent bystanders. Or does somebody out there
> have a more cunning idea?
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> Ian Cooper
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