What if the Dyrymoi brothers are there to steal someONE not someTHING? It's maybe a bit too early still for me to have a good idea of who they might be there to steal, but I have always liked playing with player's expectations like that . . . Si uales, ualeo, Christopher Douglas Salvatore Hughes............Tristissima Princess Teacup................................................Grok Amiri Stacey Everheart...............................................Wizard Lizard et alia laughing and weeping...........................Flurp Pope Uncommon the Dainty
ciues Antinoopolitis (groups.yahoo.com/group/ecclesia_antinoi) mustes Antinoou (groups.yahoo.com/group/ekklesia_antinoou) 7th mystery, of Mars (groups.yahoo.com/group/Temple_of_Inanna_and_Dumuzi) muppet..............................................................Keeper of the Sacred Chao Once-Baked Feri..............................................Once-Baked Umbanda/Pomba-Gira Once-Baked Thelemite...................................Once-Baked Tantrist/Ardhanarisvara Once-Baked Tlazolteotl....................................Devotee of Hermaphroditus Making up shit about Azathoth :-) >________________________________ > From: Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]> >To: The GURPSnet mailing list <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 9:29 AM >Subject: Re: [gurps] classified for de ludis players > > >On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Onno Meyer wrote: > >>> I can reuse the Dyrymoi brothers, who had allied with the pcs during the >>> adventure, where Tribunus posed as his double. There they had been Syrian >>> cooks, all with lot's of curly beard, all wearing very similiar tunics all >>> talking with the same accent. So for their next apearence, they should all >>> be shaved and bald, talking in a completly different accent and >>> impersonating an other profession and all again wearing the same clothes, >>> though very different from the ones from the last heist. My first idea has >>> been them posing as some sort of religious order, explainign the shave. >>> I'm not sure yet, what they want to steal at the auction, and thus not yet >>> sure what function they should have there. Answering guests questions >>> about there wares would be good though, as this allows them access to a >>> lot of places and they spread around a lot. >> >> Holding horses. >> Greeting and announcing guests. >> Handing out basins and towels after the dusty trip. >> Carrying a litter. >> > >I guess greeting, announcing guests and be their primary contact is the >best, as that allows them most running around. > >> If they impersonate domestic slaves, they could be shaven and >> barechested, if they're "decorative" enough. >> >> They could have let their hair grow again ever since the last caper, >> when was that? A month or two of growth are really visible. >> > >The primary reason for them being shaved, is that the pcs should recognize >them by their modus operandi, but not by the description how they look >like. > >Their modus operandi is, to have many guys that look the same run around, >making it impossible to track their movements. Propably some drop the >costume for a while. > >The most sensible thing for them to do is to wear some very conspicious >robe, that hides individual differences in their build, though they might >go for body painting as well. If they pose as priests they can paint >themselfs with holy symbols, that draw attention away from identifiable >features. > >I guess masquarading as monks or priests is a good plan for them, as that >gives some extra exclusivity if they explain the artistic properties of >the merchandise, and some cult doing things for money or as favour to a >patron is AFAIK not something, where you have trouble to suspend >disbelief. > >I can make them Ba'al monks, since Ba'al was a rather general term for >lord, and there were many deities called that. > >I have not yet decided what they want to steal. Some of the merchandise? >Money of the guests. Valuables that are incidently stored where the >auction will happen (such as silver cutlery (if that already exists)) that >the guests should use. Overall i am tending to the last one. >_______________________________________________ >GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> >http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > > > _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
