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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2883424" data-attributes="member: 9254">Two classic intrigue plots from literature:3 Musketeers:&nbsp; the party acts as messengers for a patron and are attacked en route and possibly believed killed (e.g. dropped in an underground river).&nbsp; The party survives and has to fend off assassins.&nbsp; For true intrigue, the assassins come from within the patron's organization so that attempts to ask for help result in new attacks.&nbsp; Hamlet: a ruler's ghost haunts the castle.&nbsp; The ghost is continuously being banished by the new ruler's high priest but ghosts have that nasty ability to reform.&nbsp; He begins pleading his case to the party b/c they don't have the power to consistently turn him.&nbsp;&nbsp; His messages are incomplete or partially garbled (possibly by the high priest turning the ghost) but he is implicating the new ruler and/or high priest.&nbsp; I'm sure there are more but I'm being summoned to get things done IRL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 2883424, member: 9254"] Two classic intrigue plots from literature: 3 Musketeers: the party acts as messengers for a patron and are attacked en route and possibly believed killed (e.g. dropped in an underground river). The party survives and has to fend off assassins. For true intrigue, the assassins come from within the patron's organization so that attempts to ask for help result in new attacks. Hamlet: a ruler's ghost haunts the castle. The ghost is continuously being banished by the new ruler's high priest but ghosts have that nasty ability to reform. He begins pleading his case to the party b/c they don't have the power to consistently turn him. His messages are incomplete or partially garbled (possibly by the high priest turning the ghost) but he is implicating the new ruler and/or high priest. I'm sure there are more but I'm being summoned to get things done IRL. [/QUOTE]

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