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A word on Saaladoor
Until a couple of weeks ago, I ran two games a week. Sadly, this state of affairs (though sustainable for the last four years) is no longer tenable, though for all the best of reasons. I simply don't have time to devote to two games.
Having switched from one campaign to Zeitgeist back in June, it was only natural that I maintain that game and let the other go once it had run its course. But there was one player in the second game who deserved to be offered a place in Zeitgeist, as my longest-serving and most consistent player. I knew he was going to come on board from September, so began seeding references to his character back then.
Now Saaladoor Saan - flamboyant member of Jered Lawman's Band, Docker and one of Nilasa Hume's many suitors - has joined the group. He is a bravura warlord, a terrible show-off and a womaniser.
Though he has already proved his worth in combat, his depitusation by Stover Delft came as a surprise to everyone. But Stover is not being as uncharacteristically impetuous as the unit believes: Saaladoor is in fact an undercover RHC agent who has been working to get close to Gale (however unsuccessfully) for some time.
We haven't worked out a full background yet. The player just wanted to try out a character concept he'd been working on, so Saaladoor is a cameo role: he'll leave Flint at the end of the Dying Skyseer and turn up throughout the campaign in a variety of disguises. (A Risuri noble in Ber; even a female pirate captain.) At the moment, even we don't know who he really is. Once Saaladoor is out of the picture, the player will be introducing his full-time character.
Saaladoor kept the groups spirits raised on Cauldron Hill with his song about the absent El Perro, 'The Man Who Shot Too Soon'. This led to the suggestion that he be called 'El Prematuro' from now on.
That's the thing about dick jokes. You wait for one for ages, and then three come along at once.
Until a couple of weeks ago, I ran two games a week. Sadly, this state of affairs (though sustainable for the last four years) is no longer tenable, though for all the best of reasons. I simply don't have time to devote to two games.
Having switched from one campaign to Zeitgeist back in June, it was only natural that I maintain that game and let the other go once it had run its course. But there was one player in the second game who deserved to be offered a place in Zeitgeist, as my longest-serving and most consistent player. I knew he was going to come on board from September, so began seeding references to his character back then.
Now Saaladoor Saan - flamboyant member of Jered Lawman's Band, Docker and one of Nilasa Hume's many suitors - has joined the group. He is a bravura warlord, a terrible show-off and a womaniser.
Though he has already proved his worth in combat, his depitusation by Stover Delft came as a surprise to everyone. But Stover is not being as uncharacteristically impetuous as the unit believes: Saaladoor is in fact an undercover RHC agent who has been working to get close to Gale (however unsuccessfully) for some time.
We haven't worked out a full background yet. The player just wanted to try out a character concept he'd been working on, so Saaladoor is a cameo role: he'll leave Flint at the end of the Dying Skyseer and turn up throughout the campaign in a variety of disguises. (A Risuri noble in Ber; even a female pirate captain.) At the moment, even we don't know who he really is. Once Saaladoor is out of the picture, the player will be introducing his full-time character.
Saaladoor kept the groups spirits raised on Cauldron Hill with his song about the absent El Perro, 'The Man Who Shot Too Soon'. This led to the suggestion that he be called 'El Prematuro' from now on.
That's the thing about dick jokes. You wait for one for ages, and then three come along at once.