> On 18 Jun 2014, at 23:09, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jun 18, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> But my favourite was the noble who immediately employed two palanquin bearers....)
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> With gravitics, a palanquin might not even be all that barbaric so much as an affectation. The servants wouldn’t have to do much more than walk. It could well work as a security measure as well; a ‘safe room’ you’re always in.

With two muscular 'guards' thrown in.  (They'd look the part of a
palanquin bearer but no doubt be highly trained with weapons etc).
Good thought.  I might have to add that wrinkle - say a fault in the
grav module at an inopportune moment - if we do revisit the adventure.
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> Of course a hard-core purist dilettante would not employ gravitics.

Of course. :-)

>
> Trav subject: Fads that sweep the noble classes…if that year’s fashions take after classic chinese court dress, palanquins might very well be in style.

I tried to give some faddishness in their dress - a bit Georgian with
'asymmetric capes' in vogue - but no players particularly picked up on
this to play with.  (To be honest they had a heck of a lot of other
stuff to be dealing with, so I can't blame them!) (actually, now I
think about it, ISTR one made something of his cape wearing)

>
> When Genghis Khan comes into style, though, cleaning up after the war ponies might get tiresome.

!

tc