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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6261844" data-attributes="member: 4936">Siblings is possible...I wouldn't mind redoing the backstory to include that idea.So you'd be the big brother who decides to go with her when she's drummed outta town? My original plan was to have Niraya be discovered by the PC tribe, low on food and cold and getting desperate. That would give her a pretty powerful motivation to try to prove herself useful to the new tribe and gain the favor of the PCs. She was going to -lie through her teeth- about her origins and claim she was from a tribe that had been attacked by orcs, and didn't know if anyone else had survived.That would set up the very entertaining possibility that the PCs would one day encounter her actual former tribe and learn the truth. Tee hee.Having a sibling along doesn't mean this basic plan can't work...but it does remove a lot of the 'desperate and alone' motivation that I was going to use to try to bind her to the PCs and their tribe. Even one other person really takes some of the pressure off in a survival situation. And of course, they can both decide to lie...or even disagree between themselves about whether or not to do so (which would be fun too)...but a lie shared is a lie easier to crack open. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So I think if they are to be traveling together, perhaps a different story of how they join the PC tribe might be in order. Any ideas about that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 6261844, member: 4936"] Siblings is possible...I wouldn't mind redoing the backstory to include that idea. So you'd be the big brother who decides to go with her when she's drummed outta town? My original plan was to have Niraya be discovered by the PC tribe, low on food and cold and getting desperate. That would give her a pretty powerful motivation to try to prove herself useful to the new tribe and gain the favor of the PCs. She was going to -lie through her teeth- about her origins and claim she was from a tribe that had been attacked by orcs, and didn't know if anyone else had survived. That would set up the very entertaining possibility that the PCs would one day encounter her actual former tribe and learn the truth. Tee hee. Having a sibling along doesn't mean this basic plan can't work...but it does remove a lot of the 'desperate and alone' motivation that I was going to use to try to bind her to the PCs and their tribe. Even one other person really takes some of the pressure off in a survival situation. And of course, they can both decide to lie...or even disagree between themselves about whether or not to do so (which would be fun too)...but a lie shared is a lie easier to crack open. :) So I think if they are to be traveling together, perhaps a different story of how they join the PC tribe might be in order. Any ideas about that? [/QUOTE]

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