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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4888102" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>Hi, welcome to the boards.</p><p></p><p>Have have 2 things to define and the rest will sort of naturally flow from it ...</p><p></p><p></p><p><u>Culprit:</u></p><p> * You want this to be a sideplot rather than the main plot arc, so the culprit should be a single person or a defined small group/organization.</p><p> * You have 3 established characters for this, and knocked the nonmagical daughter out, so it could be the wizard himself, the magical daughter, or </p><p></p><p>a not-as-of-yet-introduced person.</p><p></p><p><u>Motive:</u></p><p> * Why is the culprit doing it?</p><p> * If it's the wizard himself, maybe he has debts to pay (or he's made enemies!) and wants to fake his death.</p><p> * If it's the wizard himself, maybe he's just gone crazy from some experiment and has a dual personality/mind that works while he's asleep or </p><p></p><p>under some particular circumstance</p><p> * If it's the magical daughter, maybe she just hates her father despite the happy appearance</p><p> * Maybe the wizard angered someone (either the government or an underground organization) for refusing to help them with some experiment</p><p> * Maybe the wizard created or summoned some intelligent yet uncontrollable creature that now hunts him for the sheer sociopathic thrill of it</p><p> * Maybe the nonmagical daughter has gotten trouble with the 'mafia' and attacks on her family are the way for them to get her to do something/pay </p><p></p><p>something/etc</p><p> * Maybe it's a religious cult bent on the elimination of non-divine magic</p><p> * Maybe it's the wizard's wife/former lover/mother of the daughters and she's simply a little 'off' but the daughters don't know about her, just that wizard said she had died even thoug she's alive (perhaps was in prison all this time) and now the daughter just thinks they're running from some unknown assassins</p><p></p><p></p><p>That leads to the trail ...</p><p> This will be a lot of on the fly thinking on your part, so the more you have the basics above cemented in your head, the easier it will be to extrapolate impromptu answers.</p><p></p><p> Ahead of time, think up skills that the PCs could use (it would probably be the charisma-based social type skills, as well as the intelligence </p><p></p><p>based knowledge skills). And then the usual perception (if they're searching the house) or intuition (if they're interrogating people). and try and </p><p></p><p>think up what sort of things might be revealed.</p><p></p><p> Play to the possibility of the obvious (that it is the other daughter) - never saying it is her but never ruling out the possibility until the end either.</p><p></p><p> Get the trail to lead to the magical daughter, she is more visible. So asking around town describing her someone might say that there is a teacher fitting that description at the university, etc. </p><p></p><p> <strong>Asking certain questions around town might attract the attention of the culprit (depending on who it is and their motives) so they might be watched in hopes that the PCs will lead the culprit to the wizard and daughter - doing the work for him/her/them!</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fba827, post: 4888102, member: 807"] Hi, welcome to the boards. Have have 2 things to define and the rest will sort of naturally flow from it ... [u]Culprit:[/u] * You want this to be a sideplot rather than the main plot arc, so the culprit should be a single person or a defined small group/organization. * You have 3 established characters for this, and knocked the nonmagical daughter out, so it could be the wizard himself, the magical daughter, or a not-as-of-yet-introduced person. [u]Motive:[/u] * Why is the culprit doing it? * If it's the wizard himself, maybe he has debts to pay (or he's made enemies!) and wants to fake his death. * If it's the wizard himself, maybe he's just gone crazy from some experiment and has a dual personality/mind that works while he's asleep or under some particular circumstance * If it's the magical daughter, maybe she just hates her father despite the happy appearance * Maybe the wizard angered someone (either the government or an underground organization) for refusing to help them with some experiment * Maybe the wizard created or summoned some intelligent yet uncontrollable creature that now hunts him for the sheer sociopathic thrill of it * Maybe the nonmagical daughter has gotten trouble with the 'mafia' and attacks on her family are the way for them to get her to do something/pay something/etc * Maybe it's a religious cult bent on the elimination of non-divine magic * Maybe it's the wizard's wife/former lover/mother of the daughters and she's simply a little 'off' but the daughters don't know about her, just that wizard said she had died even thoug she's alive (perhaps was in prison all this time) and now the daughter just thinks they're running from some unknown assassins That leads to the trail ... This will be a lot of on the fly thinking on your part, so the more you have the basics above cemented in your head, the easier it will be to extrapolate impromptu answers. Ahead of time, think up skills that the PCs could use (it would probably be the charisma-based social type skills, as well as the intelligence based knowledge skills). And then the usual perception (if they're searching the house) or intuition (if they're interrogating people). and try and think up what sort of things might be revealed. Play to the possibility of the obvious (that it is the other daughter) - never saying it is her but never ruling out the possibility until the end either. Get the trail to lead to the magical daughter, she is more visible. So asking around town describing her someone might say that there is a teacher fitting that description at the university, etc. [b]Asking certain questions around town might attract the attention of the culprit (depending on who it is and their motives) so they might be watched in hopes that the PCs will lead the culprit to the wizard and daughter - doing the work for him/her/them![/b] [/QUOTE]
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