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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WmRAllen67" data-source="post: 1893621" data-attributes="member: 20456">Your entry into high society...Instead of those 500 gp that country mayors are always giving out for someone to defeat the goblins, or whatever, ask for a letter of introduction to someone in the court circles. It need not be to the King himself-- any noble who may spend time at court would need guards, clerks, menservants, &c &c...Take on a job in the King's Household-- one of the castle guards if you're a fighter, perhaps chambermaid or lady-in-waiting for the Queen/ Princess, &c, tutor to the Dauphin, dance master, member of the castle waits ("I'm with the band.") or so forth. A castle of royal household has hundreds of servants and hangers-on-- and people rarely notice the man who empties the chamberpots (unless he's not there...)Provide something the household needs-- food and supplies, linen service, cartage and drayage. Alternately, instead of killing that owlbear, capture it and deliver it to the King's menagerie as a gift...Impersonate (or actually be) some foreign noble-- hey, it worked for Banderas in the Zorro movie...Got access to a dragon's hoard from your latest adventure? Historically, nobles and governments were always cash-poor-- a little moneylending is a classic way to begin the process of suborning nobles to your cause... and finding someone to turn their coat for cash is a classic espionage leitmotif...Is the enemy of your enemy your friend? Look around the court-- in period, "diplomat" was nearly the same as "spy"...Lessen your reliance on magic-- buff up those Bluff, Diplomacy and Knowledge (Noblilty, current events, heraldry, &c &c) scores...Good for a start, at least...</blockquote>

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