This is a not-terribly-polished idea that I had, come jump in and help me develop it into something fun.
Basic premise is that a group of disconnected rich men who are tired of betting on sports and races and things might decide it would be more fun to bet on a person. They'd choose an inconsequential target (probably WC male), then have a period of time to gather information and make predictions. Some of them should totally send an undercover diviner to try and steal his tea leaves or find a way to read his palm, or something. They'd then place bets for certain events happening to the target during a certain window of time. They'd either have a spy close to the guy, or would make some magical intervention to watch him (have an animagus follow him around, use some sort of scrying thing if those exist? idk, we can figure it out).
Where I think this could get really fun is it a few of them tried to cheat a bit. Say they had a lot of money riding on him moving to a new house and he doesn't seem like he's going to do that... just light his house on fire without anyone catching you, no big deal, right? You had a bet that he would sleep with someone, hire some hookers to go flirt with him and see if you can push it over the edge.
The 'target' would be oblivious to all of this, at least at the beginning.
SO if you have an UC person who might reasonably 1) be interested in this and 2) be involved in weird underground betting circles, OR if you have a WC person you want to torment a little, OR you have someone else who might be paid to go undercover - shout it out.
Lou made this! <3
Basic premise is that a group of disconnected rich men who are tired of betting on sports and races and things might decide it would be more fun to bet on a person. They'd choose an inconsequential target (probably WC male), then have a period of time to gather information and make predictions. Some of them should totally send an undercover diviner to try and steal his tea leaves or find a way to read his palm, or something. They'd then place bets for certain events happening to the target during a certain window of time. They'd either have a spy close to the guy, or would make some magical intervention to watch him (have an animagus follow him around, use some sort of scrying thing if those exist? idk, we can figure it out).
Where I think this could get really fun is it a few of them tried to cheat a bit. Say they had a lot of money riding on him moving to a new house and he doesn't seem like he's going to do that... just light his house on fire without anyone catching you, no big deal, right? You had a bet that he would sleep with someone, hire some hookers to go flirt with him and see if you can push it over the edge.
The 'target' would be oblivious to all of this, at least at the beginning.
SO if you have an UC person who might reasonably 1) be interested in this and 2) be involved in weird underground betting circles, OR if you have a WC person you want to torment a little, OR you have someone else who might be paid to go undercover - shout it out.
Lou made this! <3
