RE: Trickster goes a wooing

From: Grawe, Philipp <pgrawe_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:31:26 +1000


That trickster's doing a hell of a lot of wooing, because that's the fifth time I've gotten this bit of mail.

Harry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Ferrie [mailto:bruce_at_...]
> Sent: Friday, 13 July 2001 10:15 AM
> To: 'HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: Trickster goes a wooing
>
>
> On Friday, July 13, 2001 12:32 AM, Grawe, Philipp
> [SMTP:pgrawe_at_...]
> wrote:
> >
> > That's not to say that Eurmal can't charming, witty and
> very successful with
> > impressionable young maidens. I'm sure Eurmal does work
> his wiles quite
> > successfully at times (and it makes for MGF when he does...)
>
> In the campaign I've been running, the clan's wily old
> trickster, Jarn
> Two-Measure (an NPC), has a reputation as a ladies' man.
> Being a trickster, of
> course, he tends to get away with it and then find himself
> being falsely
> accused when he's innocent but can't prove it for some
> convoluted reason.
> Caused a feud with the Broken Spear clan, he did.
>
> > I can imagine the clan trickster (or maybe the neighboring
> clan's trickster)
> > watching the wooing from a distance, then approaching the
> heart-broken young
> > lad (who's been turned down for the fourth time) with an
> offer of "You know,
> > there are means of succeeding in the game of love, perhaps
> I can help
> > you..." (and out comes the pitch for the heroquest of
> Eurmal gets the girl),
> > "a simple, small heroquest that you could complete
> yourself...no combat, no
> > great enemies, no, no, nothing like that. Trust Me, Would
> I like To You?"
>
> Hmmm. Cyrano de Trickster. It fits.
>
> For MGF, I can see this ending up as "How the young lad did
> all the wooing and
> faced down the girl's ugly and dangerous brothers but ending
> up feeling short
> changed when, somehow, the trickster got the girl". Then,
> when the whole truth
> gets out - probably 'cos the trickster lets it slip -
> *everyone* has it in for
> him. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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