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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paka" data-source="post: 1492217" data-attributes="member: 100">Shere's wonderful player, Paula, e-mailed me the following just before the game, more background.  We were on the verge of playing before sitting down at the table, so I was glad that we played just after this, right when the iron was hot.As it turned out, this NPC was a big part of the overall plot:Sigrid Meritmiuwset (means "pretty little girl kitty") is not the slightest bit Egyptian.  A tall, platinum blond stunner with blue eyes, fond of fancy dresses, long, curled hair, and stylish hats, she is as different from Shere as Bast is from Thor.  (Picture Darryl Hannah as a Wild West whore) Sigrid arrived in Little Pyramid 13 years ago, at the age of 11, when her father traded her in payment for his bar and gambling tabs at Little Pyramid's whorehouse. This was well before Shere had control of prostitution in Little Pyramid (she was a working girl herself at this time), so Sigrid did not have the easiest time of it, having been used as rough trade for the first 6 years of her life.  Shere bonded with the child early on, and helped her through the most difficult parts of the business, all the while accumulating enough money and influence to challenge the current owner of the bordello.   When Shere was able to oust her former employer and take over, Sigrid was 17 and Shere's lover.  This fact is an open secret among the girls in the whorehouse, now ennobled into a Temple, but as far as Sigrid and Shere know, not known by anyone who is not a devotee of Bast.  Both Shere and Sigrid stopped plying their trade once they took over the house, although Sigrid occasionally had liaisons with some of her favorite regulars, much to Shere's bemused annoyance.  Still, theirs is a mostly happy relationship. Sigrid runs the nitty-gritty financial aspects of the bordello and the Temple, dealing with the mundane housekeeping and upkeep aspects as well, while Shere does the front-end work of public relations, dealing with clients, liaisons with other local businesses, and keeping the patrons and girls in line. She's pretty soft-spoken, practical, and feminine, not aggressive, brash, and charismatic like Shere.   Sigrid's Devil is the fact that she secretly longs for a "normal" life.  She wishes she had been able to marry a man, settle down, and raise a nice Norse family.  Once her alcoholic, degenerate father traded her into a life of prostitution, any chance of that happening was shattered; in her eyes and the eyes of society, she is "ruined" forever.  She has created with Shere a life that is as close an approximation of her dream as she could construct, with Shere as her "husband," the girls in the house as her "children," with her running the household, but still likes men too (still, rarely but sometimes, sleeps with them, which she keeps from Shere as much as possible) and still wishes she could be a regular lady of a regular house.  She has never told this to Shere, who would not remotely understand this urge whatsoever and would feel deeply betrayed.  Usually,  Sigrid's Devil is dormant, unless she meets a man who appeals to her fantasy of "husband material," or Shere really ticks her off.  HAND 2EYE 4GUTS 3HEART 4 Beautiful as Helen of TroySmart as a whip Figurin' 3 (by this I mean finances)Seducin' 2Ridin' 1Sweet Talkin' 2Housekeepin' 3 Devil: 1</blockquote>

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