MOD POST ↠ FALSE GODS PLOTTING POST, PT 1

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PLOTTING POST: FALSE GODS, PT 1

The first plot log for time travelers and their future friends has been posted. Only part of that log is currently available. This is a plotting post for their escape from Kirkwall, which will take place IC in five days. Since there are so many characters involved, we're providing an outline of the escape plan rather than GMing it from beginning to end, and players can play the portions of it that they want to play. We'll post additional top-level comments in that log for the escape once there's been a little time to plan it here.

A general outline of the escape:

1. An NPC who drags characters away for presumably torture will instead deliver information to one or more of the imprisoned PCs. In addition to information, the NPC will give someone keys to the cells for the characters who are in the communal prison area and one of the confiscated sending crystals to facilitate reaching outside help. This will be GMed.
   
   
2. Once the characters from Step 1 have returned and passed around the keys so everyone is out of their cells, there will be an open log for getting past the guards in the dungeon and finding a place to hide for a few hours.
   
   
3. While hiding, the team will cook up a Cunning Plan. They'll also be able to reach out to non-imprisoned characters who may be able to help--any spies, infiltrators, saboteurs, etc., currently in Kirkwall--using the crystal. This will mostly be handwaved.
   
   
4. The Cunning Plan could include retrieving any other imprisoned characters in other areas of the Gallows, going after traitors to drag them home to face justice, creating diversions in the city to draw troops away from the Gallows, etc. This will be a free-for-all; it won't be GMed, so you can group off to play parts of it on your own, running into as much or as little trouble along the way as you'd like.
   
   
5. Everyone who lives through this and wants to go back to Ferelden will rendezvous in a cave on the Wounded Coast and catch a boat to safety. (Characters are also welcome to escape into the mountains or find their own way back to Ferelden later.)

Use the top-level comments below to plan how you want your character to fit into this!

Comments

QUESTIONS

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As always.

[serannas]

What steps would the Tevinters have taken to stop Ellana from using her magic?

[extramural]

Are the cells locked with regular locks? And does magebane work on Rifters with magic? (The Outsider can magically open normal locks so)

[not_the_question]

(Sorry if these questions seem basic, I'm trying to get caught up, but still mostly canon-blind.)

Others have mentioned Magebane, would it have been given to all prisoners as a precaution? (Makes a difference for the Doctor's rapid healing abilities and how injured he is at different points of the rescue.)

Also, what happens to people with Shards? (or what happens to the shard?)


(Thank you! This is an awesome plot!)

Re: QUESTIONS

[not_the_question]

Looking at the seating chart. Now that it matters: Which is the front and which is the back? XD

NPC LOG

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Comment here if you're interested in your character being given information and keys by the NPC. We'll RNG for a maximum of two PC participants.

[doneisdone]

There's a chance Teren might know someone or they might know her, from past shady stints! She'd be good for this kind of thing, also because she's skilled at keeping her mouth shut.

[sulena]

For ideas, Saoirse is a former mage from the Kirkwall Cirlce so maybe there is a familiar face wandering around??

[extramural]

The Outsider currently looks like an actual fifteen year old so maybe someone feels bad for him.

RESCUES

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This is for organizing rescues to make sure no one who needs to escape Kirkwall gets left behind! Comment here if your character is NOT in the communal cell area and needs someone to come get them. This includes characters held in isolation and characters who are not being held at all and may need to be persuaded/kidnapped.

If your character can be the one to rescue one of the characters who needs it, reply to them to plan that out.

[onlyhymns]

Cade does not need to be rescued (or like. he does, but wouldn't admit it), but is available to either block or facilitate any attempted Beleth rescues. Depends on who it is and how she reacts!

Basically look you can fight and/or yell at Cade and/or bargain with him

[arlathvhen]

OKAY SO I have a brand new plan which is: Alan, at one point or another, finds out about the plans the others are making, and lets Beleth know that shit is going down. She and Cade end up deciding that they ought to take this final chance to go back to the Inquisition (and by that I mean Beleth decides and drags Cade behind her).

They end up using their Insider Knowledge to the good of the Inquisition, in exchange for being allowed to go back to Orzammar. When Merrick shows up to rescue Beleth she politely suggests he help wreck Venatori shit.

What they do and other people's reactions are totally up in the air, this is just what she's gonna be doing.

Halp Halp I'm Being Repressed!

[lifeofendurance]

Al's being held in isolation because he's a stubborn mule and refusing to break. Tsk tsk.

If it's any help in knowing to go looking, he's prone to blocking out any torture/interrogation with reciting the Chant. His jailors just love him for it. And quite possibly bitching in the local mess or whatnot. (Also since he was supposed to be around overseeing the transfer of the Starkhaven mages to Kirkwall way back when, any npcs still around from that time probably would remember him and possibly be peeved because 'dude, why didn't you catch Meredith?')

DIVERSIONS

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If your characters would like to create diversions/chaos or otherwise facilitate the escape, comment here! Or reply to other people and arrange to help them with their chaos.

[circleprodigy]

I believe Inessa and Ciri were going to help in this regard! Inessa will follow Ciri's lead on this, but she's ready to cause some devastation.

Re: DIVERSIONS

[not_the_question]

The Doctor thinks he'd be good at this buuuut... Sonics don't work, so he'd pretty much be left with his yo-yo and anything else he can find lying around.

Re: DIVERSIONS

[tallasaking]

Tyrion would be happy to help be sneaky and get them things to bust out of there, outside of keys. Weapons, maps, all tha.

MISCELLANEOUS

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If your character would help (or requires help) in a way not listed above, comment here and we'll figure it out.

Re: MISCELLANEOUS

[tallasaking]

Tyrion's been spying for the Inquisition - so he can help them get out of the city if necessary?

FOREST ESCAPE!

[nadasharillen]

Nari and the other Dahlasanor hunters have trapped the deeper Planacene to shit over the last few years. :D

If y'all decide to go west into the forest from Kirkwall, you'll find her willing to serve a double purpose. Guide--she's lived in and hunted this forest for over two decades; and Rear Guard--false trails laid, mounts lamed or run off, supplies stolen/poisoned/otherwise compromised, and any number of pits, deadfalls, and other sundries in store for pursuers.

GET DORIAN

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Per the instructions of the Magister who orchestrated their escape, a few people from the TTT or Kirkwall contingent will need to peel off from the main group and go to Nevarra to rescue Dorian, our time travel nerd, rather than going straight to Orzammar. Nevarra is a police state, so those who are able to act subtly would make the most sense as volunteers. But no matter how sneaky they are, there will still probably be a medieval fantasy car chase.

Since travel times are made up and the points don't matter, this will only set back participants' return to Orzammar for their weepy reunions by a couple of days.

We'll RNG two or three participants for this. If you're interested please comment here to indicate that by 11:59 PM EST on February 7.

[doneisdone]

Team Nevarraaaaaaa \o/

(if she doesn't get selected does she have to give the thing to someone else?)

[watchesandlistens]

raises hand

[bookish_lioness]

/sits here

[extramural]

boop