I have a couple of unfinished ideas, what i could do in the next adventure but nothing really finished, so i ask for ideas.
The character Tribunus has gotten the biggest possible destiny (IIRC 15cp i don't have my books with me now). My idea is, that he saves the life of someone close to a future emperor (or a future emperor).
My primary candidates are Salonina Matidia, Ulpia Marciana and Pompeia Plotina. The lack of biographical data found easily on the net is frustrating though.
The other problem is how to engeneer the situation, so Tribuns comes out reliably as the hero, as opposed to the whole party, without being too obviously railroading. The good thing is Tribunus has Glory Hound, so i guess i can play on that, the bad thing is, that the player is a natrual minmaxer, also for solving problems and his natrual reaction is to go for tactics and efficiency, rather then heroics. So it's a bit of a toss up if the player or the character wins, unless i explicitly remind the player of the disad.
I am also not sure about what the danger should be. An attack by ruffians? An assassination attempt? An out of control bull? A fire?
I have an other open thread with Tribunus, he recently killed the "traitor" who had been sold out his family and resulted in most of them getting sold into slavery. The traitor had bought his mother and the wife of his brother and kept them in his household. His wife hated this and now as widdow wants to sell them, but to make sure, they get sold to somewhere gross, not where they will get a good life. Someone will inform Tribunus, and he can setup some strawman, to buy them under false pretenses.
That part i can already use, but it likely will be only a B story and how long it actually plays out entirely depends on the players, so it alone does not make an adventure.
I also intend to either make an other iteration of the "book" story arc, or end it. There is a book on magic, that actually is pretty worthless, but because so many people have comitted so many crimes to get it, it got a reputation, making more cults covet it.
I'd like to use Synois there, a female masterthief, who has an affair with one pc. She already tried to steal the book from the pcs (based on bad information, that they have it) but the attempt was too subtle for the pcs to notice, so they do not know that she is a thief yet. The basic model for her would be Amanda from the Highlander series and the persona the pcs know is that of a daughter of a rich greek merchant.
An other sideline would be the arena death of the villian from the last adventure (he had Ingrun (pc) framed for murdering a candidate for the position of the flamen dialis). My idea is, that he gets chained into a bed, and various gladiators, including Ingrun have to climb over stuff to get to him. Who gets there first and guts him wins.
Any ideas how the competition could be played out, additional to a series of climbing and acrobatics rolls?
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