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![Hawking and Lawplay
Motivation
To be able to hunt with a raptor, you must first have one. While there are numerous permitted means of acquiring a hunting bird in the early middle ages, there are likewise many illicit ways. And these means can surely result in accusations and the pursuit of justice through the emnity of the faida [feud] and recourse to the law. For this one to two session scenario, each player character should be suitably motivated towards the acquisition and ownership of a raptor—typically a goshawk, else a sparrowhawk or peregrine falcon—whether they want it to hunt with themselves (for prestige or to fill the cooking pot), to gift it to another in the hopes of gaining favour, or else to maliciously prevent another from owning it and deprive them of the benefits it would have bestowed!
Scenario
The scenario should typically be split into two main parts, with the referee making at least one or two significant opportunities throughout, in which the player characters get to fly their birds.
The first part focuses on the .I. Acquisition of raptors by the player characters, and growing Suspicison as to who perpetrators likely are when illicit means have been employed. And with the referee (and ruleset) facilitating the onset and escalation of legal troubles, there should hopefully be many grounds for pointing blame and levelling accusations with relevant legal officials. By the end of this section, at least one of the characters (hopefully more, if not all) should be directly embroiled in one or more .II. Causae [law suits]. In the second part of the scenario, then, the player characters develop their role as the accusers, or the accused—depending on the nature of the shenanigans that occured previously. But, if all goes well (from the perspective of the troupe!), the dispute will have erupted between the collected characters, and the players will end up portraying both sides as the events unfurl.
If the acquisition scenario somehow passes witho…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fsevh2wqcophqnuqajfdvboy/bafkreicmrtqlb5sh3r3p3miie4vx3cwupfpxmouqo73pfzknxbvkw23mzu)
