[TML] Have your passive NPCs surprise your players!

[Richard Aiken]

On Nov 11, 2007 12:25 PM, Garry Ward <garry.e.ward at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Probably not a moral objection. Most likely a self image problem, which was
> also a contributor to her other behavior issue concerning the forged checks.
>
> Forging checks you can do alone, with no one watching and a very limited
> audience when trying to cash it.

Yeah.  Come to think of it, it probably does have very little to do
with morality.  And a lot to do with self-image.

Taylor used to be a "preppy little good girl" (as someone who's known
her since childhood put it) a few years ago, back in high school.
Then she got into drugs.  So even though she'll steal from, lie to and
manipulate everyone and anyone to get her drugs, she still wants to
*appear* to be a "good girl."  So no stripping; too many people who
know her would see her or otherwise find out about it, so she couldn't
stay a "good girl" any longer.

Funny thing is, *nobody* who knows her really thinks she's a "good
girl" any longer.  They'll party with her, but wouldn't ever leave her
alone with their wallets . . . not even her own siblings.  That
doesn't matter, of course.  She's still trying to play the "good girl"
in her own mind.  Though I wonder how long that will continue, now
that she's facing some serious jail time.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein