SFF Worldbuildy/Novel Ideas

[kerravonsen]

1. Assassins Guild

The Assassins Guild has precisely 100 members, no more. Entry requirements are simple, but strict: to become a member, one has to assassinate one of the assassins, without getting caught.

2. Bureau de Change

Bureau de Change - currency exchange. You see those little offices all over the place. Simple, right? But in one corner of the city, those in the know can find that one special office, where they exchange things of a different sort: weaknesses for strengths. You give them one of your weaknesses, and they will exchange it for the strength you desire. But what Our Protagonist doesn't know is that a weakness is the flip-side of a strength, and s/he is going to be missing that "weakness" a great deal before our tale is done.

Feel free to use these ideas, just mention me in the acknowledgements of your fabulous novel when it gets published. ;-)

Comments

[watervole]

What happens when an assassin dies of natural causes?

[kerravonsen]

Good question. I don't know.
A similar problem is when the assassination part is successful but the "don't get caught" part isn't.

[kalypso]

If not caught, how do you prove you did it? I am wondering if some candidates claim that a natural heart failure was in fact the result of their undetectable poison, and so on.

[kerravonsen]

Another good point. I think this bit of worldbuilding is falling around my ears. Oh well.