On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Onno Meyer wrote:
The story involves two female slaves and two Roman women. The
slaves would legally have to obey any order from their owners,
which are Furia for Ingrun and Minucia's husband for Eurykleia.
When Minucia gives Eurykleia an order, does it have legal
standing? Does she have standing orders from her owner which
orders she can disobey? Does Furia know about that in enough
detail?
Technically Eurykleia is supposed to follow Minucias orders whenever they
don't directly contradict the husbands orders. But if
Eurykleia reports back to Minucias husband, that Minucia had avoided her
or otherwise had behaved suspiciously then Minucia gets into trouble.
Is Ingrun company in her own right while on duty?
She is not the kind of company Minucias husband is happy to see his wife
with. If they are not hanging around together (or there is plausible
deniablity) but them being in the same place fulfills a (morally sound)
purpose, such as Ingrun working as bodyguard, then it might work.
I was wondering if slaves did count as 'people' back in 90AD.
Given Gladiators were pop stars, they are at least peopleish pets.
The husband would insist on picking and hirering bodyguards himself, and
manipulating him both to hire a bodyguard and specifically hire Ingrun
would be a tough nut to crack, especially since he is not really on
speaking terms with Furia, and will not listen to his wife on male matters
out of principle.
He would have to rent Ingrun from Furia, right?
the gladiators have some sparetime, and they may use it taking jobs as
bodyguards, to earn further funds to buy their freedom.
BTW, what if Furia gives Ingrun to Minucia as a birthday
present?
The husband considers slaves a male issue and would go at great length to
show that he is in charge of ordering Ingrun around, not Minucia. Also
Ingrun is pretty close to her Manumission (buying her freedom) already and
Furia wants to do her a favour, not get her into trouble.
* An outing which involves a river crossing on a boat for
two passengers, plus rowers. Can Furia insist to travel
with Minucia, not one of the slaves? Have a hut with
Ingrun on the other side.
The husband will not be too happy with Minucia and Furia being together
unobserved. But propably Furia can call in a favour of some more
respectable female aristocrat.
I was thinking of this trick question how you get a wolf, a
sheep, and a bag of cabbages across the river in a small
boat. The wolf will eat the sheep if left alone, the sheep
will eat the cabbages.
First you ferry the sheep across, then you ferry the wolf
across and bring the sheep back, then you ferry the
cabbages across, then you go back for the sheep again.
Take half a dozen aristocrats, a dozen slaves, and a small
boat, and see if you can separate Minucia and Eurykleia ...
Propably i can do something with that.
Trick Minucia into tricking Eurykleia away.
Minucia already is not happy about having Eurykleia around. But she can
only send her away, if she has a plausible reason, or she gets domestic
problems.
Any plan that involves sending Eurykleia on errands, requires that she
believes, that Minucia is in respectable company during that time.
The rain pours outside, they're out of wine or garum or
whatever, and Furia says "send the wench" with the
unspoken comment "so neither of us gets wet -- she
doesn't count, after all". Could Eurykleia refuse?
Works in principle, and something similar had already been used, when
Ingun and Minucia had first met. But all that was neccessary at that time
was, that they had been able to talk, (Minucia had hired the pcs to get
rid of a blackmailer). They and Eurykleia could see each other from afar.
But now it would be good to have some insurence against Eurykleia coming
back early, because she knew a closer stock of wine, or managed to pass
the command on to someone else or similar.
One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle
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