(12-04-2014, 03:53 PM)Steel Wolf Wrote:(12-04-2014, 03:38 PM)Verad Wrote: As for your situation, short of the obligatory "show up at the Quicksand and do not run from the old Duskwight selling junk to you" recommendation, does your character have any short-term goals that you could use as a motivator to approach strangers?
...that's actually a great angle. Â Thank you for that.
Well...she's basically a sellsword/ronin of a sort. Â She's always willing to learn more about her burgeoning martial skill with the axe and the means of its use. Â Also, she has same axe to grind against Garleans for the death of her husband at Carteneau, so anyone willing to chop Castrum faces should look her up.
Otherwise, any odd jobs needed...that don't require a great deal of finesse and caution. Â She's bad at cloak and dagger stuff. Â Being about 8 fulms tall makes that hard.
Potential angle: sellsword character is down on her luck after a long drought of work, and hangs around the Quicksand drunkly pestering anyone and everyone she can for any jobs that need doing that would pay gil. Character gets loud, folks chime in trying to get her to calm down, someone eventually starts a one-on-one with her, etc.
Another possibility: you roll into town on the backend of a job, looking to make a delivery. You're tired, dirty, and exasperated because all you have is a name and no face, no means of contact for finding this person you're supposed to deliver the goods to because the gods-damned bastard didn't show up at the Coffer & Coffin or the Missing Member or w/e. So you start walking the streets yelling at the top of your lungs.
A third: you overhear folks talking, and it turns out so-and-so is a Garlean expatriate. You run into so-and-so later and decide that if you can't get at the Garlean soldiers, you might as well pick a fight with so-and-so.
idk, just throwing ideas out there. The best place to start, imo, is always, "What kind of character is my character? What would they be doing on a normal, average day for them that would catch someone else's interest? How can I shoulder my way into someone else's business in a perfectly natural way?"
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