PLOT POST & SIGN UP: LELIANA WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[fightingale]

HELLO FRIENDS.

Some of you may have noticed that Leliana has been becoming increasingly more vocal regarding rights and freedom for elves and mages. It's great! It's awesome. It's... really made a group of Chantry extremeists angry.

The resulting plot will be based in Skyhold, with two missions with sign up opportunities.



On 22nd June an assassination attempt will be made against the Left Hand, and it will almost succeed.

Here is the basic rundown:

A strike is made against Leliana for her vocal stance on freedom for elves, mages and rifters. The attack is also tied into her part of the Inquisition opting to spare Anders, rumours of her ties to that terrible bloodmage controlling Celene’s mind following the soiree (hi Morrigan), and her influence and power within that gross heretical Inquisition.

Two workers within the Inquisition have secret ties to an extremist group within the Chantry called The Thorns of the Rose, who see themselves as guardians of the true faith. They attempt to assassinate her via poisoning (Josephine gets to find her, sorry Josie), leaving a message painted in the main hall (or posted on a bunch of message things) of Skyhold. This message will decry the Left Hand's blind support of the demons coming through the rift, as well as mages and elves, and her ignoring the dangers they pose to Thedas. The message will criticise her failing to locate Anders within the Inquisition sooner, and the Advisor decision to keep him alive, and generally just be pretty terrible. (It’ll also take the form of really overwrought poetry, which will also ultimately be a clue as to who was behind all this.)

The poison itself is very rare and has a history, of sorts, that Dorian will be able to enlighten us all on, because he is a special and magical man despite his cruel glittery inclinations.


SO, WHAT IS THERE TO DO?

- deduce the thing; part of this is linked with Dorian and Josephine, but is also very open to involvement and stuff! If you'd like your character to help and Do Things then I will gleefully try to think of things that can be discovered and make things more interesting and nuanced.

- MISSION ONE: the traitors flee Skyhold and need to be retrieved and brought back for judgment
- MISSION TWO: some rare and hard to get hold of plants need to be found in the Braecilian Forest for the antidote

- possible discussion and THINGS in Skyhold, and exploration of wider themes relating to the Chantry and stuff???

- idk get chased out of Leliana's room by Morrigan

- I'm open to ideas, honestly


CONSEQUENCES AND STUFF.
Ultimately my goal is that the two traitors will be spared, and this whole thing will help pull Leliana back in a softened direction. However!!! Naturally there are other things to consider and I have a few ideas, but yeah let's have fun with it and stuff.
Leliana will need some recovery time so this will also involve her learning to get help and trust people and not be a cactus of cold fury at all hours.


ANYWAY, CONSEQUENCES ARE BORING, LET'S TALK MORE ABOUT MISSIONS.
Naturally Leliana won't be on either of these missions, although I will be NPCing like a chaammpppp.


MISSION ONE: CATCH THE TRAITORS, CONFRONT THE THORNS OF THE ROSE
A cross country adventure to a little town of little consequence between Montsimmard and the Dales, which is the home of the Thorns. I don't want to give away too much, but religious zealots and elaborate gardens, hurrah. Orlais!!! ps. if you see any cute brown nugs bring one back for Leliana pls & thank.


MISSION TWO: LET'S GO ON A PICNIC TO THE FOREST WITH RHYMING TREES NO WHY
Who doesn't want to traipse around in a creepy forest with creepy ruins and also find plants and put up with Dorian complaining about the wilderness?


Any members of Team Fifth Blight: Why Are We Stuck With This Bard edition get an auto-inclusion in either of the missions, should they wish for it. With th.at said, there are five slots open to other people for each mission, although if there are a lot of people wanting to be involved then I can see about trying to increase numbers. Selections with be RNG and sign ups will be in the comments belooowwww

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[fightingale]

yes, I do look this fabulous naturally, it's true.

Re: QUESTIONS?

[stabsbooks]

can cassandra just be leliana's bodyguard forever 8(

she will get her a food tester

Re: QUESTIONS?

[sunshinethroughgrey]

Can I sign up two characters?

[foxsays]

I forgot to do this the other day but: official word/duties for bardlings since Araceli was on Antiva and I want to free up slots for others, Morrigan will be involved on slapping people away from Leliana so I don't want to cross streams, but I assume bardlings will probably be told things.

[dwarfing]

why

Shale is so done with Leliana and Zevran getting themselves in trouble with killers. They need a papoose to shove you both in.

SIGN UPS.

[fightingale]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Character:</b> <i>Mission preference?</b> <b>Skillsets:</b> <b>On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are?</b>

[fleurdesel]

Name:Belle
Character: Zevran
Mission preference? BOTH
Skillsets: ZEVRAN MOFUCKING ARAINAI, OMBRA NERA, SASSBASTARD and bb in a sling. So. Sneaking, stabbing, and burping skills.
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 100.

[amygdalae]

Name: Knightblazer/KB
Character: Bruce Banner >_>
Mission preference? Two!! but he can be in one if they need a mount lolol. He also can be part of DEDUCE THE THING if necessary
Skillsets: HEALING THINGS. SURGEON THINGS. also magic I guess :U
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 7.5 x 100

[aceso]

Name: Megan
Character: Christine Delacroix
Mission preference? 2
Skillsets: Spirit Healer, mage, judger of bad sylvan rhyming
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? Literally like a five but I will pretend it's a ten if it gets her on this mission. :D

[faithstarved]

Name: Varis
Character: Andra
Mission preference? 1
Skillsets: stabby with the knives, Bard, handy with disguises, sneaky elf.
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? Like 8? She thinks they're cute but isn't above eating them if there isn't anything else around. Not that she'd say that to Leliana.

[nofury]

Name: Stacey
Character: Maria Hill
Mission preference? 1
Skillsets: Templar Minion
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? You can't force her to love nugs, Leliana. She has free will

[seesobserves]

Name: Ronen
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Mission preference? Either! Sherlock is good for stabby infiltrations but also for poison and plants, so he could have a role in either place.
Skillsets: I heard the word 'deduce' and came running. I also heard the word 'Orlais' and Sherlock rolled his eyes so this should be fun. Arrows, daggers, and alchemical skills as needed.
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 6, the leather is real nice tbh and the meat is fine in a pinch :P

[ancarrow]

Name: Hannah
Character: Eirlys Ancarrow
Mission preference? 2
Skillsets: Eirlys is a healer with a particular speciality in herbs and plants, so this is right up her street. She will also feel she has a personal stake here seeing as the only reason she came back to the Inquisition at all is for elf freedom.
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 10 and a half

[byblow]

Name: MJ
Character: Alistair
Mission preference? Slight preference for 2 but happy to do 1 instead if that balances things out better.
Skillsets: Warden/Templar, familiar with Brecilian Forest for 2, cares about Leliana a whole lot even if they are still mad at each other so will stomp things extra hard on her behalf.
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 5

[mythalenaste]

Name: Tori
Character: Pel Ashara
Mission preference? One
Skillsets: Can shapeshift into a wolf or an owl by the time of this event, thereby able to run down traitors if they try to escape (thanks to wolf's nose and owl's hearing) and make them bleed/hold them in place with teeth while other people catch up.
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 7. Pretty tasty.

[el_tybs]

Name: Michelle/Tybs
Character: Samouel Gareth
Mission preference? 1 or 2! Either one!
Skillsets:Spirit Healer (he can heal and do barriers, good stuff), Shapeshifter (dogs are good at tracking, even if he is still learning that, and phoenixes are scary man), obviously magic
On a scale of 1-10 how great do they think nugs are? 5, he doesn't really spend a lot of time with them sorry

[elegiaque]

NOT A MISSION THING but:

given the topic of Gwen's current draft for the next month's thing being big thematically for rifter support, possibly a thread with either morrigan or leliana of like

"um"

"should i write about something ... different ... this month"

A+ opportunity to be like NO FUCK THE POLICE FREEEEEEDOM or whatever maybe idk /fingerguns

[fightingale]

that will basically be exactly leliana's response, probably
josie may have other thoughts, however

THE TEAMS.

[fightingale]

Group One:
— investigate the Thorns of the Rose
— travel to a Small Orlesian Town
— intercept & bring back the would-be assassins
— shenanigans with Thorn HQ, maybe

Team: Andra, Athos, Maria, Obi-Wan, Samouel, Sherlock
with a later appearance by: Zevran


Group Two:
— travel to the Braecilian Forest
— find some Rare Herbs And Plants And Stuff
— survive all the weird shit, fight some things
— bring it back to Skyhold
— maybe some random mysterious shenanigans

Team: Alistair, Dorian, Zevran, Bethany, Bruce, Christine, Eirlys, Sina

If you could please fill in the below form and comment to the entry with it that'd be great! Then feel free to get chatting and throw around ideas that'd be rad. The log will go up in a few days, and I'll ping folks on plurk!

This form is for injuries for my npc and randomising purposes, but also some info on your character and their skills to help with brainstorming. Injury form shamelessly stolen from Jackie and Tori :'DDDD


A FORM
<b>GENERAL</b> <b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Skills:</b> (you can c/p this from your signup comment or go into more depth, w/e works for you, this is for brainstorming team ups with each other and me seeing what I can do to give everyone a chance to shine) <b>Requests:</b> (any random heroics you pine for? adventure wishlists? particular foe types you'd enjoy? this is for cr ideas but also things for me to see if I can work in somehow!) If you want to chuck in a link to your info sheet or cr meme post, chuck it in. The sky's the limit. <b>INJURIES</b> (Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous".) <b>Physical pain:</b> <b>Lacerations:</b> <b>Burns:</b> <b>Electrocution:</b> <b>Abrasions:</b> <b>Concussions:</b> <b>Sprained joint:</b> <b>Bone fracture:</b> <b>Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed):</b> Y/N

[sunshinethroughgrey]

GENERAL
Player: Wren
Character: Bethany Hawke
Skills: Mage - Force, Elemental. Grey Warden for any darkspawny nonsense, and undeniably diplomatic.
Requests: I would love for them to meet up with Wynne's old student and have his help on their epic quest because he remembers Zev and Alistair and how sweet Leliana was.
Aneirin saves the daaaay.

INJURIES
Severe
Physical pain: Severe
Lacerations: None
Burns: None
Electrocution: None
Abrasions: Moderate
Concussions: None
Sprained joint: Moderate to severe
Bone fracture: Moderate to severe

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N

[aceso]

GENERAL
Player: Megan
Character: Christine Delacroix
Skills: She's a Spirit Healer, so she can tend to people on this mission. In the interest of letting characters get hurt as much as players' want, I'm happy to say the healing takes awhile to do and if they're in the middle of a fight, she can only do so much. ALSO: if you want your character to be badly hurt, but bounce back quickly, then come to me, my child, and I shall embrace you. Ahem, I mean Chris will heal you right up! Her combat skills aren't great, but she excels at barriers and usually employs spells from DA: O.
Requests: Always up for Chris talking shit on Ferelden and then immediately realizing it's not all bad. Though it may get bad with whatever they find on this mission! Making her do something ridiculous would be fun too, because we all know the Brecilian Forest is wacky fun.

INJURIES
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous".)
Physical pain: Severe
Lacerations: Moderate
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Severe
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: Moderate
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: Severe

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N (She'd just heal it anyway. Girl is vain.)

Sherlock's mission quest thing form (Group One)

[seesobserves]

GENERAL
Player: Ronen
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Skills: Detective-ing, infiltration, grenades/arrows/daggers
Requests: UUUH I'm just excited for spy-type shenanigans involving masks. Please make Sherlock wear a mask and talk to Orlesians, he'll do it for the mission but he's going to hate it

INJURIES
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous".)
Physical pain: Severe
Lacerations: Minor
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Minor
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: None
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: Minor

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): Y

[byblow]

GENERAL
Player: MJ
Character: Alistair
Skills: Templaring (magic-annulling, Veil-strengthening, demon-smiting stuff), Wardening, locating traps with his feet or face, carrying Sina piggyback if she needs it, being genre savvy about the creepy haunted forest, swording things.
Requests: An opportunity to do something stupid but brave because he CARES. ABOUT. LELIANA. might be nice but I can easily make my own. >]

INJURIES
Physical pain: Grievous
Lacerations: Severe
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Moderate
Abrasions: Severe
Concussions: Moderate
Sprained joint: Severe
Bone fracture: Severe

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): Nah, his face is all he has going for him.

[nofury]

GENERAL
Player: Stacey
Character: Maria
Skills: Templar bullshit
Requests: Not so much a request as a statement that she will be down for handling the interrogation part of things if needed. Sticks and stones will break their bones and Maria will have her answers.

INJURIES
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous".)
Physical pain: severe
Lacerations: moderate
Burns: minor
Electrocution: moderate
Abrasions: moderate
Concussions: none
Sprained joint: severe
Bone fracture: severe

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N

[obi_wanmanshow]

GENERAL
Player: Mica
Character: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Skills: Has lightsaber will travel, can force-suggest suggestible people, is able to have a spooky shard hand, and is super good at finding sneaky people and using powers to gently subdue them.
Requests: I kinda wanna force-suggest peep(s), I think that would be fun.
If you want to chuck in a link to your info sheet or cr meme post, chuck it in. The sky's the limit.
[Info Page]

INJURIES
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous".)
Physical pain: severe
Lacerations: moderate
Burns: minor
Electrocution: minor/moderate
Abrasions: moderate
Concussions: moderate
Sprained joint: moderate/severe
Bone fracture: none

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): N

[eolasemah]

GENERAL
Player: Cami
Character: Sina
Skills: Fairly legit herbalism knowledge, especially in a forest setting. Also excellent with research and whatnot, but her knowledge of various flora and their uses should be enough explanation as to why she's here. Also decent at healing.
Requests: Not so much a request as a reminder that Sina will have to be kept away from rifts. They won't necessarily kill her unless her shard decides it's time to close it, but the burst of energy from it would pretty much make her crumple/scream/faint etc depending on severity. She is taking a huge risk leaving Skyhold.

INJURIES
(Enter allowable severity as "None," "Minor," "Moderate," "Severe," or "Grievous".)
Physical pain: Grievous (I mean lbr she can deal with it)
Lacerations: Moderate
Burns: Moderate
Electrocution: Minor
Abrasions: Moderate
Concussions: Minor
Sprained joint: Moderate
Bone fracture: Moderate

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): Y

team orlais

[aeipathos]

GENERAL
Player: Jansen
Character: Athos
Skills: A noble Orlesian. In a weird grey area wrt being a chevalier. Hella intense skills with bladed things, also p decently hella with ranged weaponry. He's a standing member of CSI: Paris Val Royeaux thanks to canon, leadership and strategy. Honestly he's been wandering around fighting random injustices he comes across throughout Thedas for the better part of five years. He has a v random skillset.
Requests: Forcing him to display his skills borne of growing up within The Game would be hilarious. Especially if he then at some point gets to be all stabbity with some swordage. yo yo

INJURIES
Physical pain: severe
Lacerations: moderate to severe
Burns: moderate
Electrocution: moderate
Abrasions: severe
Concussions: moderate
Sprained joint: severe to grievous tbh this is more likely than most others
Bone fracture: minor rn unless we come up with a good reason

Facial scarring (not disfiguring unless otherwise discussed): idk he already has one so i'm gonna lean towards no for now unless we come up with a v good reason