But if she finds out, she may *decide* it's her problem.
> >I'd guess that she'd hire a good lawspeaker for both sides
> and then stand
> >back. Try to find compromise no-lose solutions, perhaps. But
> she's never
> >going to satisfy everyone in a situation like that. And how
> many spare
> >wandering lawspeakers are there, anyway? ..
> >Oh. No. Wait for the next group of PCs who include a lawspeaker.....
>
> I'd put the number of wandering lawspeakers as very low
This is what makes me thnk they're all PCs!
> and they'll
> have problems if they don't know the Volsaxi tribal preceedents,
> which will be slightly different from Kheldon or Colymar ones.
A slight improv. mod. I'm sure any PC can cope with that.
Starkval "Wall-thane" (?):
> >All that flashy showing off.... And it makes the youngsters in the
> >fyrd want to run round being heroic instead of useful, too!
>
> They aren't his problem, once he's got them past the stage where
> he can knock them down with one hand behind his back they're
> allowed to join the warband. His problem is all the people who'd
> rather be doing something else.
Exactly - something heroic and flashy. Because of these annoying heroes who keep giving them ideas.
> She's also got to get them away from the idea that you ride back
> to WW with the loot and have a celebration.
Roast a wild boar, gag the bard....
> Instead you disappear
> into the hills, bury or flog your loot and do it all again.
Hand over loot to authority to be divided (as per duties of tribal king).
> > It's
> >the sort of job Kallyr would be very good at - but when she hands
> >over to whoever does it when she isn't there, what vital information
> >gets missed out?
> Does she even hand over properly? or does she just go off leaving
> everyone in the dark?
She'd try to hand over properly. As I say, she's been doing this sort of thing for a while, double mastery does not imply incompetence. But she may not have time, and if the reason she suddenly isn't around was involuntary in some way....
> Bear in mind that a guerilla army doesn't do much co-ordination
> between groups, there aren't enough groups for friendly fire to
> be a significant risk. The risk of communicating plans to a
> central figure is far greater. So only a general idea of who's
> operating where will be known to her.
That's true of her operations in Sartar - here we have a lot of groups operating in a much smaller area. And friendly fire does happen. Remember Jestamin's Joke?
Can I find the message number...? Easier to re-tell. Jestamin was a trader supplying the Lunars. Two Orlanthi warbands spotted him at once. They then fought each other for the "honour" of raiding him. He stayed long enough to laugh, but not long enough to still be around when they'd finished.
> I think the problem is more likely to be a guerilla band sends
> Kallyr a message which needs her to tell Broyan something -
> maybe arrange for the WW garrison to do something. Kallyr's
> not there and no one else knows what to do about it so nothing
> gets done.
Sounds good, though examples aren't springing to mind at present.
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