Re: escort missions
The most common escort mission in a RPGs is the caravan escort gig. Another one I've seen is the "noble bride delivery job".
Then there's "deliver the cure for the plague" mission, which may actually be about delivering the sample of the plague so it can be studied. Sometimes in a plague victim/carrier.
In Season of the Witch the characters were delivering a supposed witch who was actually a victim of demonic possession. Prisoner delivery missions in general.
Then there's "capture a wild animal and return with it intact"...often to a well-paying idiot.
Games often skip over the problems involved in returning a rescued hostage to her home because that can be anticlimactic, but rescuing the hostage from her captors might be the easy part. Consider Shrek.
Smuggling contraband missions in general. A delivery of guns to rebels, or a shipment of entertainment into territory controlled by a puritanical regimes. Even food past blockades to starve the populace into submission.
Return a valuable religious icon to the believers. That includes religious leaders. You could also be smuggling a missionary into or out of a religiously hostile place.
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