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[OOC] Master of Jade, Mistress of Iron - a World of Conclave adventure
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<blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 6025685" data-attributes="member: 6693711"><p>I had a thought for our characters to have a link in their past, if you are interested.</p><p></p><p>If you've seen the movie <em>The Frighteners</em>, then I'm basically ripping off Michael J. Fox's character (pun totally unintended, but I embrace it wholeheartedly). If you haven't, I highly recommend it.</p><p></p><p>The basic idea is that the two of us run a con where we pretend to be exorcists. Call us monks, or shrine guardians, or ghostbusters. We case a prosperous business with a high public profile, like a successful restaurant or teahouse or antiquities merchant. Then I use my magic to make it appear that an angry spirit is haunting the place, harassing customers, breaking things, etc. </p><p></p><p>You come in some time later posing as a holy person with great knowledge, and I pose as your young and bumbling assistant. We convince them to hire us for the job, you set up a seance and use all sorts of expensive-looking but actually dirt cheap charms, incense, and so on, which we of course bill them for. Then there is a final showdown, where I surreptitiously fake a spirit attack and you put on a big show of bravely overcoming it with sacred sutras and trapping it in a vase, maybe faking an injury or two.</p><p></p><p>Then we get paid and leave, never looking back. We also advise the owners of the place not to spread the story around, as gaining a reputation for arousing the ire of the spirits is unlikely to help their business. That way people don't catch on to our con, and we can try it again in a few weeks somewhere else.</p><p></p><p>You can rationalize it as a victimless crime, since we target only wealthy establishments that can afford it and that, as a general rule, are kind of jerks. In-game we can have a rapport already established, reminisce about jobs we've pulled etc. Might be fun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slobster, post: 6025685, member: 6693711"] I had a thought for our characters to have a link in their past, if you are interested. If you've seen the movie [I]The Frighteners[/I], then I'm basically ripping off Michael J. Fox's character (pun totally unintended, but I embrace it wholeheartedly). If you haven't, I highly recommend it. The basic idea is that the two of us run a con where we pretend to be exorcists. Call us monks, or shrine guardians, or ghostbusters. We case a prosperous business with a high public profile, like a successful restaurant or teahouse or antiquities merchant. Then I use my magic to make it appear that an angry spirit is haunting the place, harassing customers, breaking things, etc. You come in some time later posing as a holy person with great knowledge, and I pose as your young and bumbling assistant. We convince them to hire us for the job, you set up a seance and use all sorts of expensive-looking but actually dirt cheap charms, incense, and so on, which we of course bill them for. Then there is a final showdown, where I surreptitiously fake a spirit attack and you put on a big show of bravely overcoming it with sacred sutras and trapping it in a vase, maybe faking an injury or two. Then we get paid and leave, never looking back. We also advise the owners of the place not to spread the story around, as gaining a reputation for arousing the ire of the spirits is unlikely to help their business. That way people don't catch on to our con, and we can try it again in a few weeks somewhere else. You can rationalize it as a victimless crime, since we target only wealthy establishments that can afford it and that, as a general rule, are kind of jerks. In-game we can have a rapport already established, reminisce about jobs we've pulled etc. Might be fun. [/QUOTE]
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