Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Plot Seed for Athanor

Lady Serena Amador is known for her unusual and lavish parties. This month's theme is "A Parade of the Unusual," and promises a carnival atmosphere, an eclectic collection of peasants and outcasts, clowns, acrobats, a menagerie of the fantastic (including a caged girallon, trained osquips performing tricks, and fighting velociraptors).

But the central piece of her entertainment plans is the White Woman, a woman found by adventurers in the western sea beds. The White Woman has alabaster white skin, silver hair, blue eyes, and a extremely refined features. She wears a silver tunic and slippers and speaks a language entirely unintelligible to even the most knowledgeable scholars. Lady Serena purchased the White Woman as a slave, and finds her exotic and entertaining, especially since the White Woman is of an unknown race and culture.

What no one can understand or explain is the White Woman's frequent agitation, when she seems to be trying to talk to people as if to tell them something very urgent.

4 comments:

  1. Very nice. Can the White Woman be understood by magic/psionics?

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  2. its a very nice article. i like it so much. thanks for sharing us...

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  3. seaofstarsrpg: I'd have to have a good reason to say no. That said, the PCs would have to have access to the spells, since I don't think Lady Amador would submit her amusing slave to study by outside parties. And the PCs would have to be clever to really interrogate the White Woman without annoying their hostess.

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  4. swords: you're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

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