Raid Aftermath Roleplay Options

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[Violetta Daviau]

Hi all,

I would like to open a topic that might be interesting for people that enjoy raids now and then.

What to do after a raid?`

Commonly we see that, when raiders return, two or three of them have taken a captive, often even if the raid target had been an entire buzzing sim, e.g. Sais, Turmus, Rorus, and I bet even raids on Ar will be followed up by this once Ar is open for raids.

Then the captors disappear in some kind of public dungeon or cage area, go to their private chambers or their out of Gor home to roleplay more or less with the given captive. Often captives are also just dumped into a cage while the captor babbles with someone else.
Often times captives are just released after an hour, caged to no end, sold right away to third parties or else ridded so the captor does not have to bother with them - and I do not mean even only bad roleplaying captives, snotty mega heroes or such, but also average to good players on either side.

How could such be improved, how could be more people included into that without taking away a captive from a captor that actually wants to play with his catch?

I would think of a few possible ways:

• A triumph march over the main street of the homestone city, with the captives stripped/colared either on wagons with some kind of cross on them, coffled amongst the raiders.
• Raiders take more than 2 or 3 captives from a raid target and once home a quick - group internal - auction is made to see if e.g. one of the people that had stayed home wants to play with a captive
• If a raid force really takes very many captives and does not find individual players for them the city's slaver steps up and begins to at once announce a public auction, a big event, to all BTB or all Gor to sell away the captive, with maybe the sole exception that people of the homestone of the victims and their allies may not partake
• Those two auctions points relate especially to kajirae who are usually taken completely after battles in the books. The reason why they are often left behind in favor to the free in SL stands surely on another rence paper, is topic of another discussion, the key though with these auctions is that they are done fast, so the captives do not stay long without roleplay

[Junea Demonia]

- Free women can be made to write to relatives to ask that ransom is paid for them. That can turn into very interesting role play back and forth - with negotiations - and the captive may be allowed to live in relative freedom in the household of the captor without being enslaved - as long as there is hope that enough coin will be paid for her return. A meeting can be set up to do the exchange, more negotiating, haggling - maybe even trying to cheat the other party - and so on.

- One captive free woman I played with once - a scribe - had the misfortune that no one wanted to pay ransom for her. Because she did not want to go the slave route and that was agreed upon OOC - she had to work off the debt to gain her freedom again. Her main job was to write the memoirs of the man who captured her - that involved quite a few sessions of very vain story telling and a lot of lies.

- Captured slaves can made to perform as if on an auction block - and they can be appraised to find out how much coin the raid brought.

- A man who captures a free woman could be so taken with her that he wants to take her as his FC. It would be fun to play out that he keeps her captive and she cannot leave - but he tries at the same time to get her to like him - or even fall in love with him.

[Violetta Daviau]

Some really cool ideas! Keep 'em rolling in!!

- Free women can be made to write to relatives to ask that ransom is paid for them. That can turn into very interesting role play back and forth - with negotiations - and the captive may be allowed to live in relative freedom in the household of the captor without being enslaved - as long as there is hope that enough coin will be paid for her return. A meeting can be set up to do the exchange, more negotiating, haggling - maybe even trying to cheat the other party - and so on.

just love that one, could include the begging that was forced upon Talena by Verna - to see if the relatives understand it hehe.

- One captive free woman I played with once - a scribe - had the misfortune that no one wanted to pay ransom for her. Because she did not want to go the slave route and that was agreed upon OOC - she had to work off the debt to gain her freedom again. Her main job was to write the memoirs of the man who captured her - that involved quite a few sessions of very vain story telling and a lot of lies.

That might be a cool idea especially for torvaldslanders or low caste "owners" that have a higher chance to be unable to write

- Captured slaves can made to perform as if on an auction block - and they can be appraised to find out how much coin the raid brought.

- A man who captures a free woman could be so taken with her that he wants to take her as his FC. It would be fun to play out that he keeps her captive and she cannot leave - but he tries at the same time to get her to like him - or even fall in love with him.

Had that once, yes, as panther girl even.

[Kaitlin Eiren]

Impalement of the men and selling off of the losers women after an assessment by slavers and physicians of worth with scribes tallying the price of the loot for the city treasures. 

State Executions ~ Imperial Ar

[Mercy Riiser]

That was an amazing rp....thanks for the link! 

[Kaitlin Eiren]

That was an amazing rp....thanks for the link! 

YW.  It was pure fun.  Perhaps if after raid activities were done as a group effort that pulled in all roles you might see a better reception to combat in BTB.

This still makes me laugh.

GK scoffs at the woman talk of impaling rods up her ass..."You would know of such, slave! I am sure that is how the Tyrosians took you!