<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314111.msg15200659#msg15200659">Quote from: Blinkin on 12-12-2019, 14:32:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Quick question for our glorious leader.<br/><br/>For the region, would bathing with a member of the opposite sex be acceptable among the nobility? Something like the roman bath's, or would it follow the more traditional practices of the European middle ages?<br/><br/>As the invitation was made from a tavern owner, I want to make sure that I don't take an IC misstep because I assumed something incorrect.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I'm going to answer this twice, once as GM-to-player, and once "behind the GM's curtain".<br/>Given that he is unknown to you I think it might be viewed as "daring" or "bold" but certainly not "slutty" or "sinful". Assuming one isn't trying to break up a paired couple by seducing one of them we're going to stay away from those two labels most of the time. The "chaste" choice would be to not bathe with a strange man -- but that isn't a better or worse choice.<br/><br/>Behind the Screen: This is possibly a sexual encounter. Or maybe just a social one -- the PC's choice. Lord G, the NPC, may become a contact we meet in the future, he may become an ally. Or he may just be one of many named NPCs we meet once and never again (Madame Falconer may fill that role, too). In order to facilitate a world where characters are comfortable with sexual encounters, we're dialing back "real world sexual morals" a fair bit. In a world of magic things like "the importance of virginity and proven bloodlines" which forged our own sexual morality can be assured through magic for the people for whom it matters most -- the nobility.