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Plot Help: Gaining the Council passage through Faerie

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KLC:
I can tell I'm just getting the tip of the iceberg here, so I will just make a simple suggestion on the sanity issue.  Compare Aurora to Hamlet - we never know whether Hamlet is insane or acting insane for his purposes.  What if your Queen is alternately, to best serve your story:
- actually insane
- acting insane
- poisoned into insanity
- under a spell
- ect.

And therefore at different times and depending on the quest what you / others (the council etc) need accomplished, this could drive many of your access / availability / quest / "who-is-a-good-guy-who-is-a-bad-guy" issues.   

Perhaps I am suggesting that the initial plot is "what's up with the Fae Queen?"  Then "Who did this to her?"  This gets access through Fae.  And you can work through there.

I hope this makes sense and is helpful.

K

cranialspasm:
A Sidhe may ask for a part of a person's name with correct pronounciation. Name is very important when it comes to the inhabitants of the Nevernever.

A memory may also be a considerable exchange, but something big - like a wedding day, or the birth of a child - even a year in their past. As a GM, that may provide some great plot devices in a future story. The player has no idea what they did when they were younger (for that year) and the entire group is searching for something important, and they find that one of the characters would've had the answer had they not foolishly bargained with the Sidhe.

TheMouse:
NPCs in a vacuum can get boring. In order to make them interesting, they have to need and want things. They need goals, and they need problems. The Fae seem to adore making their problems other people's, so there's a start.

For example, let us say that a given Sidhe desires something, perhaps a book of power. Yet his Queen has ordered him -- for whatever reason -- not to acquire this book. However, the command does not cover forbidding him from accepting the book as a gift. So, if the PC can get this book -- which should be problematic -- the Sidhe lord will look kindly upon her. If she were to ask for a little favour, just between friends, she would likely receive it.

Of course, that's a very simple version. You'd need to add some thorns to that. The book is in the hands of a rival, or the local Black Court wishes that it remains in its secluded spot, or whatever. Life in the Dresden-verse is never as simple as walking down to the book store, picking it up, and remembering to get it gift wrapped.

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