Has anybody created any additional associations to flesh out Sasserine.
I am still working on the benefits and the Affiliation Score.
The real Hellfire Club, and the movies Plunkett and MacLean, and The Abduction Club, have inspired this association.
On observation the Hellfire Club is a group of debauched rabble rousing nobles and rich merchants. The club got its name from the way they roll through Sasserine like “Hells Fire” creating chaos and havoc whereever it goes.
Every Inn, Tavern, Brothel in Sasserine both love and hate the club. A Hellfire club revel can put an establishment out of business or make it the flavour of the month. When a revel is called, the masked members descend on the on the drinking establishments and bordellos drinking, fighting and fornicating the night through. Usually more than enough money changes hands to repair any damage several times over and the entertainment that the Club members provide in the way of art, poems, and oratory draw a large crowd.
Club members will often end up fighting duels, as they are notorious womanisers, and braggarts, who love to invite trouble. The club is suspected of being involved in several illegal duels to the death.
Their favourite forms of duelling are light crossbows with alchemical bolts at 20 paces or elaborate roof top sword swordfights.
A service that the club often provides is to “kidnap” wives for second sons, poorer members the nobility and non-noble merchant families.
The rules for the abduction are simple:
The petitioners woo the young ladies in public, if the suitor is rejected by the family the Club then abduct the young woman from their home in the night, so the would be suitor can persuade the fair maiden to marry them before daybreak (and the intervention of their disapproving parents). The abductions are usually done during dinner parties or gatherings so the maximum show can be made. A priest is on hand to officiate should the maiden accept the offer.
No lethal force can be used during an abduction doing so no mater the provocation. If somebody is seriously harmed the abduction is declared void. The offender is either handed over to the watch or disposed of in a most gruesome and public manor depending on the nature of the incident.
The young lady is not to be harmed or taken advantage if somebody breaks this rule they are punished as above.
If in the morning the young lady is not interested then she is returned unharmed and unsullied to her family and the petitioner can make no further attempts.
On the inside the Hell Fire club are zealous patriots. They swear an oath to maintain Sasserines independence and further her cause in the wider world. The club is opposed to anybody that they see as a threat to Sasserine, from the Sea Princes to the Scarlet Brotherhood.
Often the illegal duels are little more than assassinations, revels are often used to cover strikes against the Clubs enemies.
The Club will attack the supporters, allies, representatives, suppliers and clients of their enemies. They use arson and assassination as their primary weapons.
Several members of the Great Houses the leaders of the club.
The Oath.
By word and weapon
By divine wrath and hells fire
I swear by my soul to protect Sasserine
Her people, her holdings and her freedom!
Scale: 6
Members: 60
Type: Spy Ring
GP Limit 11,200
Requirements: The club members must be male, educated, of a noble or rich background, although actors, poets, artists, philosophers, and radicals are often invited to join.
