On 5/4/2011 3:19 PM, Johannes Trimmel wrote:
AFAIK at that time sensible and respectable people avoided travelling by night, but when did travelling actually cease? Did most people seek shelter while there was still plenty of light, or had travelling schedules with much leeway, so they sure did not have unplanned night travl? Or was it more common to cut it close?
You generally cut travel at whatever time still permits you to safely acquire shelter for the night. You'd probably try to arrange your travel schedule so you arrive in Rome by nightfall, though, unless there's a situation (such as a cart breakdown) that slows you down.
And while bridges are valuable property, they hardly can be stolen, and destroying them without an army, constuction equipment, catapults or similiar in one night is a difficult thing to do especially if it is a stone bridge. AFAIK destroying buildings to make political statements was not in high fashion at that time. So the motivation for any guards to investigate and if the investigation takes a while, start a night operation, just because someone saw some scary people on the bridge, will be limited. At night nobody will use the bridge anyway, and for the rest it's good enough to check it out in the morning.
My point about valuable property is mostly that it's likely someone's living right next door. They may or may not care about people crossing the bridge.
I am banking on the reluctance towards nightly outdoor activities at TL2 mainly. I am not really sure if i am overdoing it here.
Not sure what your shifty characters are trying to accomplish. If it's not invasion or tax fraud, it's quite possible no-one actually cares, ancient law enforcement was rather limited.
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