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What has Sophia been doing?

  • Sparring and studying warfare 5
  • Working as a rogue treasure hunter 48
  • Studying the occult 24
  • Studying herbalism and pagan traditions 17
  • 2023-08-28
  • 94 votes
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How has Sophia spent the last three months?

This is related to my RPG and I want to know how people will answer this.

Comments

Knowbodynose

Treasure hunting plot is weird for me because I know real historians. How I imagine 3 months treasure hunting. 80% reading newspaper 10% asking people where a 100year old lady lives, 5% trying not to sound stalkerish when you know everything about her family . 4% walking. .01% finding rare musical box from an artist who didn't know he was using unobtanium. .9% trying to convince the TSA to insure it for its value.

Hexalt

Sophia lives in a world where fairies and demons stash their goodies in strange and disturbing ruins, sometimes in other worlds. It's a bit different than working as an archaeologist in our world.

MrMetroid

I'll admit, herbalism and paganism and the occult seem like they'd be big things to focus on in my book, if I had to choose one thing to do - sure the hands-on practical experience is nice, but I feel like it's gotta help knowing what to expect beforehand. IMHO at least, that feels like it'd mean studying myths, traditions and local flora - even if you don't necessarily believe everything in the tales, it's still a basis to work off of so you're not surprised when that hole in the wall next to you turns out to be the keyslot to a portal XD.

Knowbodynose

I see! I've been imagining this like Hellboy.

Kestrel

I'm with you here haha, my first thought when I saw the poll was "Applying for grants and teaching undergrads"

Knowbodynose

Yup. Or a historian interviewed my aunt as a branch from a lead he had. 3 days of interviewing and confirming details until the timeline was in her 20s, it was a week more until we got to modern days in her 70s... but guy hung onto every detail though. 🤷‍♀️ [I have no idea how I didn't realize my phone wrecked this story]