Messgenger Girls: A little less anonyminity

[Vlaid]

Just a small suggestion regarding the messenger girls that I feel might be beneficial to curtail some of the obnoxious uses people use them for.

When using them, you offer between 10-100 gold or so for them to send a message. Depending on how much you offer a Persuade check DC is set (fluctuating by some random amount of say 5 independent of that DC). If you fail the persuade check (not a visible check)...the Messenger Girl will instead, say the name of the person who sent her along with the message.

Rogues would be able to skip this functionality.

[Random_White_Guy]

90% of messenger girl senders say to meet at the crone anyway. You have to pay a high price initially if you're not a rogue to acquire this and on the whole it's not that game breaking.

If anything I would say talk about the gender or race of the individual who sent it at the maximum.

[Paha]

They are paid to take a message. Nothing more. They don't care for names, they get paid for taking a note and saying what is in it pretty much.

[Vlaid]

90% of messenger girl senders say to meet at the crone anyway. You have to pay a high price initially if you're not a rogue to acquire this and on the whole it's not that game breaking.

If anything I would say talk about the gender or race of the individual who sent it at the maximum.

That might be interesting. If you fail some persuade check:

 "A cheap male human told me to say....'blahblahblah'."

But ehh....guess it might be more work than the payoff is worth to implement.

[PanamaLane]

I always considered the anonymity to be part of the perks to using a message girl. I think this suggestion needs to be reversed so to speak. Why not put a messenger girl in Upper? This way people above have the choice to send a message themselves or to use a girl to hide their identity without having to go below. Added benefit to this is also that PC's won't be able to tell whether the sender is a lowersman or uppersman.

[Talir]

As has been brought up on IRC, there are already urchins capable of delivering messages somewhere in Upper. We are not really looking for improvements to this particular feature. Focus your energies elsewhere.

Edit: Being banned from using the beggar sending system for those who misuse it is already a good enough incentive to keep in line. Seeing that once losing access, you never get it back again with the character.