"Tristissima et alia" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 . . .
Weird mail. Not sure where the message ends and the signature begins. How do you steal somebody? Do you mean kidnapping? To the Romans, a slave was a thing. How do you steal a slave? Get him/her away, into a rural district in a different province, and running "home" would be about as practical as running away to join some bandits in the hills. Not everybody's cup of tea. Would the rightful owners assume that the slave has run away? Why steal a slave? Just for the market value? That doesn't justify the effort by the team of con artists. The slave knows something and isn't for sale. Because of the new household for the dowager flamen? Stealing a free person is a different ballgame. He/she would be better able to make a run for it unless the victim is under guard all the time. Could the thieves transport a victim and claim that he/she was a recalcitrant slave? A greek one, clever and able to speak with an upper-class accent. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
