Just sign here... (Concordant setting)

[gridlore]

Getting away from the blimps for a second, I was thinking about making indentured servitude part of the setting.

Historically, this was a common way for those too poor to pay the cost of passage to the New World to make the trip. A formal agreement for a period of time where the indentured person worked for the family that paid his/her way over. I could see this becoming big as we move into space.

It would of course be tightly regulated (and an entire arm of the legal profession would spring up around it) but it could make for some fun plot points.

Any opinions?

Comments

[caraig.livejournal.com]

Any code of laws can and will be circumvented by people who are inethical enough and think they can get away with it. Likewise, indentured servitude will also be taken advantage of. The more complicated you make the laws, the more loopholes there will be. And any charge of law will be appealed, and re-appealed, and counter-appealed, ad nauseum....

Which is just too darn bad for the player characters, now, isn't it? ^_^

[collie13.livejournal.com]

It could certainly lead to interesting game play. Remember Hati on Reality Fault? ;)