The GrumpyCat wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 8:27 am
Here's one idea: Remove all trophies.
But - all successful Assassination attempts from the guild are made public.
This means that your 'trophy' because the notification from the guild saying 'Successful Assassination attempt carried out on Bob Clembrook' or whatever.
This does have the nifty benefit of giving people a good reason to use the assassins guild for something other than settlement leaders.
The main downside though is it's... not terribly available to those who are more keen to rp upholding an upstanding and Good alignment.
Still - there's one small idea anyway.
This is a solid concept.
Another to add to it, would be to have trophies, but they decay after 24 RL hours... but you can take them to the Shadovar Tradepost, and talk to a Priest of Kelemvor, who holds a copy of the "Book of the Dead". Giving him the trophy puts it in the book, which is never deleted, and anyone can search the book for a name. When that name is found in the book, it lists whoever handed in a trophy from that name's corpse, and whoever's trophies that name has handed in.
Example: Bob the Murderer kills John the Innocent, and takes an ear, going to the Priest of Kelemvor in the Shadovar Tradepost to hand it over and ensure that the record of his act of murder is recorded for all time. Now, if anyone goes to the Priest of Kelemvor, and gives them the name "Bob the Murderer", it will come up with "Not killed by anyone, killer of John the Innocent."
The reason to put this in the Shadovar Tradepost is that this is a neutral ground accessible by anyone.
The reason to make it a Priest of Kelemvor, is that their job is to handle the passage of souls from this world to whatever comes next, and as such they stay out of most mortal affairs.
The reason to make the trophies decay after 24 RL hours, is that this gives an incentive for those who want others to know what they have done, to go and hand the trophy in.
The reason for it to be based on whoever hands in the trophy, not on who may have actually done the killing blow, is that it allows for subterfuge and reputation building or concealing... it would show TRUE names, not disguise names, so some folk would not want others to know they had made a kill, for example, but it could also allow for someone who is disguised to be outed, just as a speak with dead would allow you to find out the name of someone you killed if you used it on their corpse.