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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2781260" data-attributes="member: 13164">Bingo.  I had thought no one else had figured this out.I once had a character who frequented a brothel.  Let's talk about him for a moment.He was a handsome traveller who always arrived like a thief in the night and left the same way.  There was something strange and mystical about him, but he never spoke with anyone in the city.  He never requested a room at the inn or any meals, and most assumed he was some sort of adventurer who could easily survive in the wild with the help of magic.  Once a week, he would enter the local brothel, and eight hours later he would exit.  He never spoke to the management after his first time; they knew what he would request if he were to deem it necessary to speak.  He liked virgins.  And he paid well for the privilege.Every week, he took four virgins into his room, one at a time.  Every last one of them exited his room with a 1-lb. bar of platinum, and quit the next day.  Naturally, this encouraged many a girl thinking of entering the business to keep herself pure until the stranger arrived, as he could somehow sense the purity of those sent to him, and would not open the door for them to enter.So, this mysterious stranger gave great wealth as a thanks for a service rendered.  Or did he?The truth is, every girl that entered his room a virgin exited the same way.  He spent the two hours with each girl teaching them the dogma of Pelor, and giving them a contact who was a priestess of said deity, as well as being a former successful merchant who enjoyed teaching her trade to others.  The mysterious traveller then gave them a bar of platinum worth a staggering 500 gp, told them to speak of what had actually happened to no one, and bring the next girl in.He could have just given them the bar of platinum and the name of the priestess and spent the 2 hours taking what they were so willing to give... but he was a servant of [Good].  And that meant he would do what he could to aid them without asking for anything in return.</blockquote>

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