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Episode 2620: Shrine On, You Crazy Dameron

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Different things can be holy or venerated by different cultures. So different that it might not be obvious to outsiders.

The prominent drinking fountain in the town square is not meant to be used by people, because it's for the gods. Banging your head on the low lintels they habitually seem to use in doorways is sacrilegious, because everyone must remember to be humble and bow when passing through a doorway. In the throwing target game they play in pubs, it's considered gauche to score exactly 27 points, because that is the number of Demons who overthrew the Lord of Light, so any player on 22-26 points with one throw to go will deliberately miss.

Introduce clueless PCs to such situations and see just how much they can mess up.

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

No chaos yet, though Jim is certainly trying. This must be the idea planning comic page. When we suddenly have a ruckus happen later, I give it a 70% chance Poe is involved somehow, probably from off-screen. Rey has 19% being the special Jedi-maybe-in-training character who got them to come here, Finn has 8% being a former stormtrooper, and Chewie/BB/Threepio all have 3% together as the more backgroundy comic relief kind of characters.

So if we do have the group split up, will it be two groups? Three? Everyone for themselves? I think three groups is most likely. BB-8 and C-3P0 are probably sticking together whatever ends up happening, and they'll probably fade into the background as the droid buddies. Rey pairs up with Finn or Poe. Chewbacca goes with whoever Rey doesn't pair with. Going by players, I hope it's Rey/Finn and Poe/Chewie. Ben seems most suited to keeping the Jim Plans from causing too much trouble, and it'll be very amusing when he fails at it.

Transcript

Poe: This shindig is the perfect setup. We “accidentally” smash a sacred urn or release some ceremonial lizards. Cause a ruckus.
[SFX]: ♪♫
Finn: You want to get arrested at a spiritual festival? In full view of thousands?
Poe: Good point! It’s even better than I thought.
[SFX]: ♫♪
Chewbacca: Might I suggest we devote at least a modicum of effort to looking for Lando before we commit vandalism, malicious mischief, and quite possibly sacrilege?
GM: Thank you for talking Jim out of that.
[SFX]: ♪♫
Poe: Fine, no lizards. We’ll just topple a shrine or two. Nothing too holy.
Chewbacca: That’s not the improvement you think it is.
[SFX]: ♫♪
Rey: How will we find Lando? This crowd is huge. We’ll never find anyone.
Poe: Ooh! Let’s split up!
[SFX]: ♪♫
GM: Truly, the gods mock me.
[SFX]: ♫♪
BB-8: Ah, splitting up. Exactly how people die in horror stories.
[SFX]: ♪♫
Chewbacca: Or in Jim’s plans.
GM: Same thing, really.


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