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The RHC audit - how to make the best out of a great premise
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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 7441075" data-attributes="member: 78958"><p>I gave the party a chance to notice they were being tailed. Sure enough, the group's Inquisitor (we're playing the PF version) spotted her assigned tails, pushed them into a corner, and interrogated them. Which made the internal affairs guys pay extra attention, and look favourably on the group's abilities.</p><p></p><p>In my game, the audit was not only to find negative stuff (like constables taking bribes, brutalising innocents or embezzling funds), but also to come to a fair assessment of the constables' merits. While far from spotless, my groups' constables have been pretty scrupulous and more or less law-abiding, only resorting to creative workarounds sometimes, not to any outright breaking of rules. Their record is thus a rather good one.</p><p></p><p>After spotting their tails, they discussed the audit issue amongst themselves and grudgingly accepted it. They even came clean about some of the more questionable things they do – mainly love interests, one is involved with a former Risuri corsair who has been 'freelancing' since the war, and one has actually hooked up with Gale. They asked for and received one-on-one interviews with Pryce-Hill, and came clean about everything that might be seen as incriminating.</p><p></p><p>Pryce-Hill was impressed. The group had shown capability, loyalty, and trust in their ultimate superiors. He flagged them "ready" – for whatever may come and befall the nation of Risur. He also got the group's Inquisitor the promotion to Captain she deserved. She's now the youngest ever Captain in the RHC's history, and Delft's second-in-command (after Saxby was removed from office and Delft stepped up), even though she's a field agent (earning military rank and privilege in my campaign), not a bureaucrat Assistant Chief Inspectress.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>All in all, I used the audit to offer the group a glimpse of where they stand in the grand scheme of things, to remind them of their responsibilities, limits and options, and to showcase how the PCs are important persons in the world. The players liked it, and although it only really came up in two sessions (one at the beginning of the adventure, one towards the end), they repeatedly talked about it during and after.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 7441075, member: 78958"] I gave the party a chance to notice they were being tailed. Sure enough, the group's Inquisitor (we're playing the PF version) spotted her assigned tails, pushed them into a corner, and interrogated them. Which made the internal affairs guys pay extra attention, and look favourably on the group's abilities. In my game, the audit was not only to find negative stuff (like constables taking bribes, brutalising innocents or embezzling funds), but also to come to a fair assessment of the constables' merits. While far from spotless, my groups' constables have been pretty scrupulous and more or less law-abiding, only resorting to creative workarounds sometimes, not to any outright breaking of rules. Their record is thus a rather good one. After spotting their tails, they discussed the audit issue amongst themselves and grudgingly accepted it. They even came clean about some of the more questionable things they do – mainly love interests, one is involved with a former Risuri corsair who has been 'freelancing' since the war, and one has actually hooked up with Gale. They asked for and received one-on-one interviews with Pryce-Hill, and came clean about everything that might be seen as incriminating. Pryce-Hill was impressed. The group had shown capability, loyalty, and trust in their ultimate superiors. He flagged them "ready" – for whatever may come and befall the nation of Risur. He also got the group's Inquisitor the promotion to Captain she deserved. She's now the youngest ever Captain in the RHC's history, and Delft's second-in-command (after Saxby was removed from office and Delft stepped up), even though she's a field agent (earning military rank and privilege in my campaign), not a bureaucrat Assistant Chief Inspectress. All in all, I used the audit to offer the group a glimpse of where they stand in the grand scheme of things, to remind them of their responsibilities, limits and options, and to showcase how the PCs are important persons in the world. The players liked it, and although it only really came up in two sessions (one at the beginning of the adventure, one towards the end), they repeatedly talked about it during and after. [/QUOTE]
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