I had an idea, and was curious if it was possible to be implemented.

I know the scripters are gone and such, but just thought I'd throw this out:

Since you can hire NPC henchman in the OC? Is such possible on EFU? Henchmen, that is?

The IC business of slavery, for the most part, would likely deal in NPCs far more than PCs, though i'm sure PC slavers will also grab some PC's to sell.

What I was thinking of though, was you'd go to a shady place, Mur or Bibibibibiitiybop, and speak with a "Slaver", there. For different prices, you can hire different slaves, to be used as everything from pack-mules to warriors, but would serve as your henchmen until they were slain.

To spice things up, maybe a Charisma check vs. Rebelling against you once you are alone?

I know its kinda far fetched, and would take some scripting, but thought I'd throw it out there if it was at all possible

Easy to script honestly.

Watches the people jump on the slaves in the middle of no where, and also watches the AI freak when the server goes hostile

I'm pretty sure it's easy to script, but the matter is if we want to script it. Could be a gut feeling, but I feel somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of having henchmen type NPCs around, since the player won't be able to roleplay them nor will a DM be omnipresent.

If you do want to run into slavers like in the scenario mentioned in Loblobliiiblop, it'd be absolutely cool to find a DM. I remember once when the Lower Loons were around they purchased a goblin slave that I was going to add as an NPC to clean up their warehouse hideout, but a fellow goblin liberated that slave. Fun stuff!

I love this idea, even if its implementation were limited to only captured NPCs. For instance, what if there were something like a slaver's collar that you could put on a subdued NPC? It would open up all kinds of kidnapping or slave ring opportunities...

I still want scripted pack rothe. Make them first!

Can we have pack-goblins too?

PC slaves, while fun, could seriously suck for a player, while trying to find a buyer.

Locked in a room isn't fun to Rp.

So I was trying to figure out something a bit different.

The idea of selling NPC's, to PC's, for PC faction HQ's, is totally cool though.

Didn't even think of that, Thanks Sternie.

We can currently talk through our animal and magical henchmen, I would think that it would be easy to add a script to speak for a slave. I personally think its a neat idea, but potentially dangerous. Adding NPC henchmen into EfU creates a whole new wrinkle to the balance of the server. That being said, I'm sure it could be implemented fairly, the question really is if such a thing is wanted by the powers that be. My gut feeling says if slaves are indeed added they will be very costly and have next to no survival capability, but I figure they could carry out simple tasks and make for great rp!

Three words:

Grillix Clone Henchmen

That is all.