Hi everybody, it's my first post here, so first of all I would like to apologize for my not-so-good english (I'm from Italy) and for any messes or rules infringements I should inadvertely committ... I promise I'll learn from my mistakes! :-)
Ok, back to businness.
I am running "Council of Thieves" (I'm posting in General 'cause the topic is somewhat generalist in nature and not path-related), and I would like to ask for your advice and opinions about the nature of different worships in a relation between a PC and a NPC. The dramatis personae are:
- Miriel (human female rogue now 7th level, played by a girl, chaotic good worshiper of Calistria, with a past of Calistrian prostitute and an attitude regarding sex like "It's not my work, it's for my pleasure, I take it as an expert of wine could take tasting it: I'm NOT always drunk, I NEVER feel compelled to taste it every moment, but if i like it, the moment is good, what the hell, why not? Jut let me a minute to take off my armor... or do you prefer i keep my leather boots on?"), and
- Calseinica (human female bard now 5th level, NPC, neutral good worshiper of Shelyn, beautiful petite girl, a naive and innocent soul in love with the entire world if there's ever been one, incredibly gifted artist who has decided that Miriel is the love of her life).
The story so far:
minor plot points in The Sixfold Trials:
In "The Sixfold Trials" I gave the NPC Calseinica Nymmis as good as dead in the acidic belly of the Beast, with so much of a grisly and messy description of her young flesh dissolving in the pool prepared beforehand. Well, with the surprise of everyone, including me, she instead proceeeded to roll about four natural 20es in a row to avoid the acid and jump to safety. In that precise moment, and for all the play's lenght, the main protagonist, Larazod, played by Miriel, took a liking to the poor NPC, and went out of his way to protect her, took opportunity attacks to reach her and keep her safe, etc. After the play, when Calseinica offered Miriel a taste (appreciated, I must specify) of the "unimaginable pleasures" promised in the play, I had the player roll for Diplomacy, and with another natural 20 (yes, my players are always ready to roll ludicrously high when trying to bed people, and quite low when triyng to kill them. They are not sure if they are happy with it. I am, for sure!), I decided Calseinica falled in love with her. The player was happy, I "buffed" Calseinica rewriting it with bard's level, and life & adventure path went on.
When Miriel hit 7th level, he went for the "Leadership" Feat, to have Calseinica as her cohort. Then, following Calseinica's nature and faith, I made her ask Miriel to marry her. Leaving aside all geosociopolitical consideration (same-sex marriage in lawful evil, obscenely orderly, very much traditionalst Cheliax), I would like to know how you would handle a try to a stable (same-sex, but knowing the two goddesses involved, this I would dare to say would be the least touble) relations between a neutral good follower of Shelyn and a chaotic good follower of Calistria, with all the issues originating from the drastically different opinions about sexual intimacy, particularly in a serious relation.
Yeah, right now, I realized i could simply write in the post "I would like to know how you would handle a try to a stable (same-sex, but knowing the two goddesses involved, this I would dare to say would be the least touble) relations between a neutral good follower of Shelyn and a chaotic good follower of Calistria." My bad. I have many good qualities, but I realize synthesis is not one of them. I'll try to learn.
Done. You have my sicerest thanks and apologies. I'll take much more care about where I post and what I post in the future. Thank you for your kind advice!
Under the text entry window when you're posting is the line "How to format your text" next to a button marked show. If you hit that button it will reveal all the secrets of text formatting on the boards, including The Spoiler. You can safely hide scenario specific information that people playing that game might not want to read within a spoiler.
I will spoiler my reply to your question.:
For me, it's all about personalities, much like the real world.
Miriel is the PC's problem. She's going to do what she's going to do.
So, Calseinica's smitten. She's going to try to develop a real romance with Miriel. Like anyone bitten by the love bug she'll look past Miriel's faults for a time. She'll try to smooth over their differences in religion and philosophy. Eventually reality will set in. She may have her feelings badly hurt depending on what Miriel does.
I would decide up front just how much Calsienica loves Miriel and how Cal interprets Shelyn's teachings. I would set some loose rules for reactions to various sample behaviors Miriel might choose. I would periodically adjust these loose rules based on how the relationship is going. If Miriel crosses a line, say through casual infidelity, just try to make Cal's response fit with what you've defined.
Under the text entry window when you're posting is the line "How to format your text" next to a button marked show. If you hit that button it will reveal all the secrets of text formatting on the boards, including The Spoiler. You can safely hide scenario specific information that people playing that game might not want to read within a spoiler.
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I finally did succeeded in masking the spoiler. Now I think I cannot ruin the fun for anyone wishing to play "Council of Thieves". Thank you very much for the tip, and for your opinion on the matter. For Cal's point of view, I thought something along the way "I love all the world, so I don't think Shelyn would be offended if we did something more... open and social, so to say, with our intimate life. If it's just doing fun things with nice people, I could even be okay with that. I just ask you to try to restrain yourself a little, just as I try to relax myself." I will think about some possibile scenarios, and elaborate an adequate response. Thanks for the help! :-)
