Johannes wrote: > A basic draft: Someone else, who wants to steal the book manages to get it > hidden in some furniture or something, that gets auctioned, and them buys > the furniture. Buyers can inspect the merchandise before the auction and > Synois, who has taken some pcs for protecting her money steals/replaces it > there, and then buys something else. A few days later the pcs witness a > shouting and shoving match between the buyer and the hider of the book.
Do you know if Romans had that kind of auction? Slave auctions are a common stereotype, but this furniture auction sounds rather modern. Would it be appropriate for upper-class Romans to have their minions bid against each other like quarreling plebs? > I'll need to come up with a good hiding place in the bed and with what > stuff Synois carries around with her, or has the pcs help her carry > around. And with some other beds to describe. It would work with just one bed in the lot. Stuff is sold, Synois tries the bed, then bids on a silver goblet. > New idea. The convict will be on a long chain or rope in the "bedroom", so > he can move a bit. Or maybe it is a cage and he is otherwise from climbing > out. If it is a Roman arena spectacular, the goals would be to - kill the convict - humiliate the convict - entertain the masses. The last item requires good visibility and an unpredictable, drawn out fight. No stage props to block the vision, and no complicated, just-for-this-fight special scoring rules. Or no fight at all, just gore in excessive detail (hence the impaling suggestion). > What can Minucia do to keep money coming in. I guess it is unrealistic > that she inherits anything moneymaking, other then the taberna (small > shop) that is usually outside a villa. Take stock of her assets, divide by the remaining life expectancy, plan to spend no more than that each year. Should be enough for a solid middle-class living. But does she think that way? > I could see a setup though, where she rents out her secretary and her > prestiguous address to some merchant, who has not yet a representative in > Rome. The secretary will do all the public work, him being male and > civilized (he's a Greek), so that will not cause any scandal. Her contacts > to roman upper class women can occasionally be used, as can her contacts > to gladiatoral problem solvers. But wouldn't it cause a scandal that the lady directly profits from deals with money-grubbing foreign merchants? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
