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From: davenpor@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Jim Bassman Davenport)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp
Subject: Tabolport: Encounters
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Date: 5 Mar 90 21:48:23 GMT
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Here is a list of 'random' encounters that PCs might have whilst walking
around Tabolport. It isn't numbered so you can select the appropriate
encounter or randomize it yourself. I prefer Tabolport to be systemless for
easy portability. :-)

Workgang - (Led by armed guards to site of work/ coming back with guards)
Newcomers - (people from boonies/people from other cities/rich/poor)
Beggar - (honest or not)
Thief - (posing as other encounter/hit and run)
Urchin - (poor child/may be thief/may have Fagan)
Townsperson 1 - out for a stroll
Townsperson 2 - in a hurry to somewhere
Funeral Procession - (Deceased - rich/noble)
Fire - (size variable/garbage in street/building/'controlled' bonfire)
Streetfight - (gangs/guard vs criminals/ guards vs rowdies/ riot/ nobles)
Nobles racing Horses in the Street - (no regard for others, hurt people)
Announcement by a Baron's/Church Crier - (arrival of dignitary/ call to
	arms/ offer for service)
Caravan - (just arrived/hauling to shops/departing)
Overturned Cart - (food/objects/
Duel - 
Abduction Attempt -
Witness Robbery - 
Animal loose - 
Rabblerouser - 
Entertainer - 
Armed Men 1 - escorting person/thing/message
Armed Men 2 - pursuing an NPC
Armed Men 3 - hiring civilians
Armed Men 4 - Putting on a show of power for their boss
Armed Men 5 - Off Duty, looking for excitement/sleep/drink/women/etc.
Pilgrim -
Barbarian -
Raggah Tribesman - (a primitive person who arrived in a deepship, see below)
Priest - (helping others/hurrying off/buying supplies/out-of-townie)
Inquisitor - (Seeking a person/seeking any person/delivering message)
Hag - (Bitchy old woman threatens with evil eye/etc)
Peasant - (local to estates around tport/ just moved from another place)
Sailor - (Just starting shore leave/buying supplies/scout for pressgang/etc)
Madman - (silent-paranoid/babbling person/etc)
Solitary Armed Warrior - See options for armed men
Shopper - (browsing/seeking specific item)
Bazaar Inhabitant - (watching people/hawking wares/ closing/ opening)
Prostitute - Streetwalker (with trick/arriving/leaving/hawking her wares)



BABBLING BROOKE - A very beautiful woman, dressed shabbily and unwashed,
	she wanders the street seeking her brother Mark. Mark doesn't exist
	and after awhile she'll consider anybody helping her to be her
	captors and try to escape, even later on she might see others as 
	her saviors and be willing to reward them. A simply insane young 
	woman living off of the kindness of people.

THE RAGGAH TRIBES - The Raggah live on some islands west of tabolport. These
	islands have no safe harbors and are generally avoided by seamen due
	to the residence of dragons in their higher elevations. But people
	live on these islands: the Raggah. They live on plants and killing
	the many varities of fish, birds, and mammals on the islands. It is
	rumored that they have some natural brotherhood to dragons, but 
	beyond their dark skin color, no evidence of this connection exists.
	The deepships are ancient creations, and it is a mystery how the
	Raggah gain access to them, but every hundred years or so, one
	appears and breaks up on the reef outside of tabolport. The relative
	infrequency of their appearence has stopped all but the most diligent
	and long-lived from attempting to prepare for them and keep them
	from sinking their ancient ship.
	Usually a few survive the sinking of the ship and they are brought to
	the city where sages and wizards study them (no one else wants to 
	deal with them, so after the usual hub-bub, they are quietly secreted
	away).