On 6/17/2011 8:32 AM, Johannes Trimmel wrote: > > The 2 relatives coming next in the list of heirs, want to prevent that > the doughter gets married. > > One will simply blackmail a pc to do so. > > But i need ideas for disruptive actions the other one (or his lackeies) > might do. Preferrably the actions should not be actually real major > crimes, like murder, but more in the line of spreading unfavourable > information (real or invented) while looking like not being responsible. >
A story about the daughter having a secret lover would probably prevent a marriage until proven untrue. That is something the PCs could work on. Or if the proposed husband is a nice guy, telling him that the daughter does not like him and does not want to marry him might get him to call off the wedding. A story that the daughter isn't actually the daughter of the Baron (the Baron's wife had a lover!) might mess things up all over. Perhaps the potential husband's family can be attacked by rumor. Claim they are part of a treasonous conspiracy? Claim that the potential husband abuses women? Perhaps a servant can be bribed to claim that he made unwanted advances. If there is truthful bad information about the family, even better! Maybe one of the cousins is a werewolf, married an elf, is a necromancer, ran away to join the circus, eloped with his sister, or whatever bad things happen in your society. Does the Baron really want his family associated with such goings-on? Other things that might disrupt a wedding: Get the groom drunk and hooked up with a bridesmaid, the bride's sister, etc, a few nights before the wedding. It doesn't even have to really happen, as long as it looks like it did. Bonus points if the groom was too drunk to honestly remember. A truth spell might not even work. Sabotage the wedding dress and the other clothes. Bonus points for being clever, like replacing all the measurements with some a few sizes too small. Or put itching powder in them. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
