Editing Big List of RPG Plots (section)

==Escort Service==

The PCs have a valuable object or person, which needs to be taken to a safe place or to its rightful owner, etc. They must undertake a dangerous journey in which one or more factions (and chance and misfortune) try to deprive them of the thing in their care.
* The thing or person is troublesome, and tries to escape or sidetrack the PCs. 
* The destination has been destroyed or suborned by the enemy, and the PCs must take upon themselves the job that either the destination or their charge was meant to do when it got there. 
* The person is attempting a political defection. 
* Safe arrival at the destination doesn't end the story; the PCs must then bargain with their charge as their token (exchanging money for a hostage, for instance). 
* The PCs must protect the target without the target knowing about it.