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o. Elements
1 Supplication Persecutor Under persecution, a village sends out emissaries to the
Supplicant local lord, who is not known for his kindness, to beg for
Power in relief from bandits. They are harassed by the bandits along
Authority the way.
2 Deliverance Unfortunates Bandits have been preying on a village and threaten to burn
Threatener its crops. Come save the village and destroy the bandits.
Rescuer
3 Revenge Righteous A PC's sibling has been killed accidentally in a raid. His
Avenger wife refuses to accept the rule of law, which states that she
Criminal should accept a weregeld for him. She involves several PCs
in her plotting to totally annihilate the family of the killer,
including parents, siblings, children, and siblings' children.
4 Vengeance Avenging One of a PC's kin killed another in confused circumstances.
by Family Kinsman Whether it was accidental or not is unclear. The head of the
upon Family Guilty Kinsman family makes the killer responsible for supporting the
Relative bereaved spouse and children. But the widowed spouse is
unwilling to accept aid from a fratricide, and involves PCs
in plots to destroy the new guardian.
5 Pursuit Fugitive A madman wanders into town, raving about the monsters
Pursuer that pursue him and his poor, lost love. He is obviously high
born, and needs to be taken in. A few days later a squad of
pursuers arrives, to find and arrest him for crimes against
humanity and his own family, led by his advisor whose
advice drove him quite mad, to this awful juncture. Imagine
this as a sequel to Othello, with a jealous Iago pursuing
tragic Othello to bring him back to justice.
6 Victim of Unfortunates A cruel but effective noble is disgraced after an intrigue and
Cruelty or Indifferent or loses his titles, possessions and lands to an equally cruel
Misfortune Cruel Master rival. He has been banished and blinded, and is wandering,
alone, without followers, pitiful, when he encounters the
PCs.
7 Disaster Vanquished The country has been invaded and the flower of this
Power country's knighthood has been slain. The army of the enemy
Victorious is advancing, burning fields and robbing and murdering the
Power peasants. Run for your lives!
Messenger
8 Revolt Tyrant One or A well-respected noble enlists the PCs to assist in a plot to
more overthrow his own lord and usurp his position. His
Conspirators intentions seem respectable at first, but grow murkier with
time.
9 Daring Goal Bold Raikiela is an artist, and has promised her masterpiece to the
Enterprise Leader prince. Unfortunately, her friend showed the masterpiece to
Adversary a foreign noble, who desired it and took it without
permission. Without starting a war, the PCs must organize
an expedition to get the masterpiece back from the foreigner
and to the prince.
1 Abduction Abductor Pitolso is in love with Kareta, and Kareta is in love with
0 Abducted Pitolso. Pitolso enlists the PCs to help steal Kareta away
Guardian from those who would keep Kareta for themselves. They
must abduct Kareta without killing anybody and thus
rousing the implacable forces of justice. Kidnapping? No,
rather liberating the love from those who have imprisoned
him/her.
1 Mystery or Interrogator Fandolio has fallen in love with Ilsentosa, the princess and
1 Enigma Seeker heir to the throne, and she has announced that if he wants to
Problem win her love then he must promise to solve her riddle, and if
he cannot solve her riddle then he must die. He has accepted
the deal, and enlists the PCs to help him find the solution.
The riddle is...
1 Obtaining Goal Several It's time for the Spring Pageant! The maidens engage in
2 Opposed Groups contests to see who is the most beautiful, the most religious,
Judge or Referee the most knowledgeable about lineage, and the most
charming speaker. The contest is judged by former Year
Queens. The winner is crowned the Year Queen and gets to
marry the Great Hunter! It's time for the Great Hunt!
Unmarried men are able to enter the contest. Each
contestant must go out into the wild with only a knife, a
spear, and a bow and arrow, no armor. Come back with the
best catch, alive if possible. The contest will be judged by
former winners of the Great Hunt. The winner is crowned
the Great Hunter and gets to marry the Year Queen.
1 Familial Two or more A PC's brother hates his sister's husband, whom he sees as a
3 Hatred Family members whimpering syncophant. The brother-in-law in turn sees the
who hate each PC's brother as a cruel bully. The PC's brother has told the
other PC in private, after swearing him to secrecy, that he has
taken a vow to kill his brother-in-law.
1 Familial Preferred One of the player characters and his step-brother Joli, a
4 Rivalry Kinsman friendly sort of guy, have both been taken as lovers by the
Rejected same merchant's wife, who hides the affairs from her
Kinsman husband, encourages both lovers, and makes them intrigue
Object against each other and her husband, at the same time
planting seeds of suspicion in her husband, who is very
jealous.
1 Murderous Adulterer A married friend begins to have an adulterous affair with a
5 Adultery Cuckold mysterious woman. This gives him new zest for life. Then
Adulterer's his wife disappears, and the rumors start. A week later, the
Lover PCs are accosted by her ghost, demanding proper burial for
her missing body (she doesn't know where it is) and
vengeance on the adulterers. Try not to get framed for her
murder along the way.
1 Madness Madman The local hospital begins to be the site of strange, horrible,
6 Victim unexplained deaths. Then a PC's relative dies from a minor
ailment. Octara, one of the healers at the hospital has gone
mad, and sometimes, for some insane reason, slays her
patients instead of healing them. Usually Octara appears to
be perfectly normal and sane. The Bloody Bull, the PCs'
favorite tavern, and Azracon their favorite tavern-keeper,
have been there for years, serving them good food and
drink. One day Azracon changes the sign to a Happy Horse
 and brings two horses in and seats them at tables. Within a
week, all the rooms are full of horses that he has purchased.
Within another week, you cannot get a place at his tables
because the entire tavern is full of horses. Then Azracon
announces to everyone on the street that he is going to
marry Pythalda, the most beautiful maid in the world, and is
looking for a seamstress to sew a horse-sized and horse-
shaped wedding dress. or... The Bachelor Prince Prophoc
has always been a keen horseman. Then one day he decides
to seat his favorite horse at the dinner table, displacing a
foreign dignitary. This is a terrible scandal. A week or so
later, Prophoc holds a dinner at which he serves all sorts of
roasted delicacies to over a score of horses, and in a rage he
kills a horse trainer who complains that the horses won't and
can't eat the food. Soon the prince's mansion and grounds
are filled with horses, and taxes are assessed to pay for the
drain on the treasury. The people of the city are about to rise
and overthrow him, when he declares that he has fallen in
love, and that he will marry. There is much rejoicing, and it
seems that things have gotten better, since the number of
horses in the prince's mansion falls to normal levels. Then,
on the wedding day, he forces the city's high priest, with
death the penalty for refusal, to marry him to his favorite
white mare.
1 Fatal Imprudent A character known to the player characters, and which we
7 Imprudence Person Lost recommend be one of the PCs, has a famous item, which
Object Victim may or may not be magical. A curious family member was
playing with it, took it out of the house, and carried it
around for a while, gradually growing bored of it, and after
being attracted to some unusual noise and then frightened
by seeing something s/he shouldn't have seen, drops the
item and runs home, where s/he is found later, shivering in
fear. The guard finds the famous item at the scene of a
horrifying murder, and as a result the PC becomes the main
suspect.
1 Involuntary Lover Beloved Bonchanto, a friendly but mischievous acquaintance of one
8 Crimes of Revealer of the PCs, introduces him to Demice, a beautiful young
Love woman of respectable family, who has much in common
with the PC, but takes some pains to make sure that the PC
doesn't meet Demice's parents. At the same time he offers to
act as a go-between for the lovers. He arranges for them to
meet in secret several times. Soon thereafter he leaves town.
Then a letter from Bonchanto arrives at Demice's home, and
all hell breaks loose. Her parents come down on the PC like
a ton of bricks. Here's why... Nearly 20 years ago, Demice's
supposed parents couldn't bear children of their own, and so
 they asked the PC's parents to adopt one of their children.
This wish was granted. The PC has taken his own sister as
his lover!
1 Kinsman Killer Politics are getting nasty again, and the loyal opposition
9 Kills Unrecognized have a hooded leader who has been rabble rousing against
Unrecognise Victim the main PC's family interests with some effect. One of the
d Kinsman Revealer PCs is dispatched to a meeting with the secretive leader to
try to negotiate or force a solution. Negotiations are not
going well, when the city forces decide on that time to raid
the meeting and frame or kill the secret leader. They give
the secret signal to the PC, the signal to withdraw, and when
this happens the secret leader suddenly starts fighting to
reach the PC, shouting loudly with his sword flashing
wildly. No matter what the PC does, whether the secret
leader is rescued or not, whether he is killed or arrested (if
the PC does nothing the masked one will be killed in the
fracas), when he is unmasked he will be found to be the
PC's adoring younger brother.
2 Self Sacrifice Ideal Hero After declaring that only through sacrifice will our land
0 for an Ideal Person or Thing embody IDEAL, a very well respected and loved elderly
Sacrificed couple throw themselves onto a bonfire (with spectacular
but unclear magical consequences). This would work best if
the elders were either priests at a temple the PCs attend, or
grandparents or parents of one or more of the PCs. The
authorities, ignorant of the planned sacrifice, will have
already dispatched troops to break up the gathering and
arrest the leaders.
2 Self Sacrifice Hero Kinsman Mideratho has always been a short-breathed, wimpy,
1 for Kindred Person or Thing genius. He can understand the workings of mechanisms like
Sacrificed nobody's business, and has even invented his own minor
sorcerous cantrip to better play with mechanical creations.
To his misfortune his parents wish to have a war hero as a
son. In order to make his parents happy, Mideratho joins the
most hazardous duty military unit he can, and must now
learn to fight. Does he lose his sight or a hand in combat?
Does he get killed? Can the PCs train him well enough so
he can survive? Will he ever get to work on mechanisms
again?
2 All Hero Object of The Bachelor Prince Santus, the greatest general the land
2 Sacrificed for Passion Person has had in a generation, has conquered two neighboring
Passion or Thing states by the age of 18, but has been otherwise sheltered
Sacrificed from life. He falls in love with Oclea, a prostitute hired by
the terrible King Rometradi to seduce him, and completely
loses interest in war and his principality, except as a tool
which he will spend freely to capture Oclea (who may like
him or may despise him, signals are mixed) from
 Rometradi's land. And worse, he declares he will marry her
and make her the queen, and if he can't then he will abdicate
his throne to Aelus, his idiot brother.
2 Sacrifice of Hero Beloved Politics are getting nasty again, and the loyal opposition
3 Loved One Victim Cause have a hooded leader who has been rabble rousing against
for Sacrifice the main PC's family interests with some effect. The PC
discovers, perhaps he is told by his parent, that the hooded
leader is his own, adoring, younger brother Antigoly. The
PC is dispatched to a meeting with Antigoly to try to
negotiate or force a solution. After the initial meeting fails,
the PC is told to do whatever it takes to stop the enemy
movement. At the same time, city officials inquire about the
location of the enemy leader, and place a bounty on his
head. Antigoly refuses to meet with or speak to his family
and their agents, including the PCs.
2 Rivalry Superior Suddenly Stranoc the Guiding Hand, the most learned
4 Between Inferior Object magical adept of the land, is at magical war with his oldest
Superior and friend and former student Vulfus the Black Spider over
Inferior possession of ARTIFACT. The PCs, who have dealt with
both, have no choice. They are involved without their own
consent, and must deal with all manner of horrible
monstrosities as they attempt to survive, save their friends
and families, and get out of town. Rivalry of Two Peoples:
Referring back to plot 10, the land was recently conquered
by a foreign people, and the High Lord sees the opportunity
to marry Kareta to Frusta, a noble of his own people, as a
way to legitimize the conquest. He will not give his
approval to Kareta and Pitolso, who has kidnapped Kareta
heedless of the consequences. Frusta sees her abduction as
an opportunity to rescue her from bandits and thus prove his
worth in her eyes.
2 Adultery Deceived Thossuleo sends his wife, Fonya, to visit her family, sells
5 Spouse most of his stuff, and goes wild buying baubles for a
Adulterer beautiful young girl, Crotia, who may or may not care for
Adulterer's him. She is happy to accept his gifts, however. Thossuleo
Lover loves his wife, Fonya, very much. Then the persecution
from Crotiadek, a noble and judge, begins. Thossuleo loses
money, status, and finally his freedom. After he is jailed his
wife divorces him and moves into Crotiadek's home.
2 Crimes of Lover Beloved Procsoutia falls in love with her twin sons Abon and
6 Love theme of Aromed, and causes them to lay with her. The results of
Dissolution these matings are monstrous and terrible.
2 Discovery of Guilty Beloved Lyclus and Lia are very proud of their successful daughter
7 Dishonor of Discoverer Linbaria. Then evidence is found that she has been an
a Loved One assassin working for an evil noble. Linbaria is very proud of
her parents Lyclus and Lia. Then she discovers evidence
 that Lia had once been a prostitute. Even worse, the
evidence indicates that Lia has returned to her former
profession in secret.
2 Obstacles to Lover 1 Nymus and Teropha are terribly in love with each other.
8 Love Obstacles However, because of their incompatible temperaments
Lover 2 every time they make plans to marry they get in a huge fight
and end up calling off the engagement. Every time they do
this they involve all their friends and end up getting mad at
all of them. Nymus and Teropha are terribly in love with
each other. However, their parents do not approve, and have
both placed very difficult requirements (quests) upon their
children's beloved. In order to marry, Nymus must give
Teropha's parents a sieve full of Styx water, and Teropha
must produce a wedding dress made of purest starlight.
2 An Enemy Beloved Enemy Montirkul and Pytha have fallen in love despite their
9 Loved Lover Hateful families being at war. The greatest warriors in each of the
Kinsman families are Katal and Shokalmor, whose bitter rivalry will
destroy the lovers and tear their families apart.
3 Ambition Ambitious Fleon is an ambitious general who desires to rule the city
0 Person and establish a royal line. His wife, Paria, acts as his
Coveted Object conscience and to stay his hand as he spins plots and
Adversary dispatches troops to bring the mercantile and noble interests
under his thumb. Finally, Fleon becomes the city chief
consul, and has made enough powerful friends to change the
charter of the city from a republic to a dictatorship, and
Paria must act now if she would stem his ambition. Prince
Mepilus wishes to become king, but his father, King
Promanast, shows no sign of weakening, and even worse his
older brother, Crown Prince Aphorphon, has been declared
the heir apparent. Mepilus hatches a plan to have
Aphorphon slay Promanast unknowingly, upon which
terrible occasion Mepilus will declare martial law, avenge
his father upon his brother, and take the crown of the city
for his own.
3 Conflict with Mortal General Panmodon has been arrested, and when he is
1 a God Immortal banished for his crimes he swears bloody vengeance on his
home city and on the city's patron god, Lys. He goes away
and begins to gather horrible artifacts with the goal of using
them to bring plague, war, and famine to the city and thus
weaken Lys, so that he can finally destroy Lys's temple and
slay the god itself. The Noble Sturix begins a persecution
against the pacifist followers of a new god named Aes. He
believes that their religion will lead to disobedience of the
civic cult, rebellion against the civil authorities, famine,
war, plague, and pestilence, and so he persecutes them
vigorously, putting as many of them up on crosses as he can
 find.
3 Mistaken Jealous One Medarion is baselessly jealous of his wife Clexia, and
2 Jealousy Object of continues to grow more and more jealous of her. He
Jealousy persuades Hametrea to infiltrate her group of friends and
Supposed search out her "many" infidelities. Clexia has two doubles in
Accomplice the populace, one is a poor woman, and the other is a
Author of visiting youth who has disguised himself as a woman to
Mistake hide from pursuers. Medarion himself has also has doubles,
a sorceror with the visiting circus and his drooling idiot twin
brother. Medarion discovers his wife Clexia is having an
affair with his best friend, Promurtin. Medarion feigns
ignorance, but encourages Promurtin to be jealous of Clexia
by talking about how much Clexia speaks of her old friend
Nantius, and how little she speaks of Promurtin. At the
same time Medarion tells Clexia stories about how
Promurtin has been seen about town with Nantius and a
prostitute named Hametrea.
3 Faulty Mistaken One Oulitarth has been consorting with prostitutes and in order
3 Judgement Victim of to protect him from being disinherited by his very
Mistake conservative family, his friend Taverion takes the blame.
Author of Taverion's wife, Marnasia, hears of this and leaves him.
Mistake Guilty
Person
3 Remorse Culprit Victim Samarand has led a bad life, and now he is haunted by the
4 Interrogator ghosts of his misdeeds, which in reminding him of his
crimes cause him incredible pain and terror. He finally has
remorse, and while still haunted, begins to make some
amends to his victims. Please help him with amends, and
with the ghosts which terrorize him.
3 Recovery of Seeker One Mantraeas learns from an oracle that his father, once
5 a Loved One Found thought dead, is still alive. Now he will seek his father out.
Marnady learns from an oracle that she has a twin sister,
and that this twin sister is still alive. She must seek her sister
out and bring her home.
3 Loss of a Kinsman Slain Nyoquilat has taken a vow of chastity, and one day he
6 Loved One Kinsman comes home to the horrible sight of his family being
Witness slaughtered like sheep by horned raiders. He runs in to try
Executioner and save them, and is beaten and left for dead, yet he lives.
Now he asks for aid from any who would give it.
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