<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=61457.msg2786289#msg2786289">Quote from: The Great Triangle on 27-02-2010, 10:57:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Remember that contract killings are only a part of an assassian's purview; an assassian can and often does accept regular adventuring work, quite often masquerading/advertising as a thief so that she can develop contacts, wealth, and a cover identity.  Particularly canny assassains will hire other assassains to masquerade as them in their cover identity to give them an alabi should a proper hit go sour.  Every so often, multi classed assassains will instead adventure as their secondary class, just to create even more confusion.  ("How could you suspect me?  I'm a frakking PRIEST!")<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Huh, all this kinda jives with my<em>original</em>ideas and plans, but then in our discussions, TGT, I got the impression that drow were rather rare on the surface. So, unless she were willing to spend just about all her time on the surface disguised and covered in body paint, people would have a bit of suspicion about her anyway, 'cause she's drow. Unlike, say, humans and other elves, there just aren't enough drow on the surface for her to really manage a cover identity (as a drow). Remember, I asked you if travelling as an entertainer of some sort would make a decent cover for her, and you said there weren't a lot of drow... That was what we established in our PMs, at least, TGT.<br/><br/>I then decided to play with the idea of an assassin from a culture where assassins are open, perhaps even venerated to a degree. They could, if their society thinks of assassins as weapons wielded by a client, not even be truly held accountable for their killings. Assassins, in that case, could even be celebrities!<br/><br/>Whether or not we took that extreme view, that's why people kind of expect the drow in the black leather armour with the hand crossbow and multiple daggers to be an assassin...it's the stereotype, sorta, so she's playing to it, much the way other drow assassins on the surface do. This actually works as a blind, bait and switch sort of 'ooo, look over here at me the scaaaaarrry drow killer-for-hire!', so that you have created a contrast for when you do want to go in disguised. Does that make sense, or should I try to explain it more clearly (not sure right now how to clear it up further...).<br/><br/>At least, that was what I revised my idea to...did we just get our wires crossed somewhere?<br/><br/>Either way, accepting a 'common adventuring' contract was my intent in finding a way to have Xiann be willing to work 'for a share (or two)'. Just need to hear from WW, or I'll just find another place to get Xiann plugged into the game. ;)