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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4199746" data-attributes="member: 13855">The Method Actor should play an important role. My player talked about mackin' on him, since her character's getting frustrated with seducing a chaste cleric of Pelor, her ship's medic. Whom would the Method Actor murder to advance his reputation... possibly the Lech (who might have the lead male role) or the Avuncular Drunk (who could single-handedly ruin the performance). Or, wait, he could be murdering to advance his artistic agenda: he could murder people based not on  who they are, but based on who their backup is. If their backup has been converted to The Method, then he tries to advance their career.... I agree. The ghost goes either way, based on Perform checks from the PC. Motivation is entirely her legacy.Do we have any other red herrings? That was the plan. Unbeknownst to the player, the Noises Off episode that was last session was the result of the Doom Magnet being employed as a stage hand. This poor wretch was "favored" by the god of Ill Luck to be the embodiment of Murphy's Law. He ended up getting fired. Essentially, this guy was his avatar as a negative role model to teach the world to placate the god through worship. This poor Doom Magnet has no idea why his life is so ridiculously terrible.  He'll be back as a non-combat challenge for the PC a year or two from now. He's an antagonist who SHOULDN'T be killed, but must be defeated. (I have no idea how she'll do it, but we'll see.)The PC absolutely hates the cops, who are corrupt to the core. As a side note, they're also distracted by the Swan Street Slicer (a serial killer targeting the aristocracy, as in Shut in). They're not likely to send their best man.The Impressario negotiates separate contracts with each actor, while the Aasimar Costume Designer is his cohort. The Impressario could very well be in financial difficulties... it would motivate his unusual casting of the PC against vocal type and his PR use of her heroism. There's a Halfling "Benevolent Society" that could have given him a loan that's coming due. (Yes, it's Freeport. No, the cultists could care less about the Opera. This is a side quest and expand the universe adventure.) Finn, the head of the Halfling Benevolent Association, could very well place a halfling "child impersonator" in the cast to keep an eye on things. If the show's going to bomb, he'd want to know about it before it happens. (The PC didn't follow up on a lead, so she has no idea that the HBA even exists.)  I could have someone Lawful assigned to this case because he's low in the cop hierarchy and thus not trusted with the top case: the manhunt for the killer of the aristocracy.</blockquote>

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