| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Harlequin |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:54:03 +0200 |
the street was...
> I Just got home from buying Harlequim´s Back (YAY!). Flipping the pages I
> read that you should be familiar with the original Harlequim book in order
> to run the adventure. Since I don´t have the original book, I would
> apreciate if someone could tell me briefly (few paragraphs) what the first
> book was about, something like a plot sinopsis.
Actually, it's not really necessary to be familiar with the original
Harlequin (with an "n," not an "m," at the end, BTW), but it _can_
help.
Spoiler space follows:
Scroll on if you're a GM...
In Harlequin, the PCs get hired for a bunch of different missions that
turn out to be related -- in each of them, they have to steal something,
and in amost all the adventures they must leave something else in its
place. For example, steal Matrix access codes and leave an envelope in the
owner's room.
All this is symbolic for striking at various parts of someone's life --
history, future, loves, hates, etc. -- and it's a form of ritual revenge
that Harlequin is performing on Ehran the Scribe (the famous author and
Tir Tairngire prince) as the latest chapter in their 5,000-year feud.
That's essentially all there is to it. The PCs get hired for ever-stranger
missions, then they get kidnapped and interrogated by Ehran's agents, and
then they get hired for some more missions. Finally, they meet Harlequin
in person and he sends them to go check on Ehran (inside Mount St. Helens
in the Salish-Shidhe Council) after Harlequin's final magical ritual goes
awry. Ehran and Harlequin do a swordfight, and then disappear, effectively
ending the adventure.
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