MOD PLOT: SHOULD GLORY COME AT SUCH A PRICE

[faderifting]

MOD PLOT: SHOULD GLORY COME AT SUCH A PRICE

OPEN LOG

The open post for characters going to Minrathous is up here! There's no required sign-up form for your character to go to Minrathous, but you should add their name to this spreadsheet, to record their rooming assignment. Rooms will be assigned, so you can place your character with a random stranger, but characters who know each other can also get lucky and assigned to room together and/or swap rooms with other people as desired.

As a reminder, each player can send one character into Minrathous. This is because Tevinter wouldn't be down with a hundred foreign military members hanging out in its capital, so limiting everyone to one character will keep the number a little more reasonable while allowing everyone to participate.

Mages, elves, rifters, etc., are all welcome to participate, but as a prerequisite for attendance, your character must be able to behave or convincingly promise that they will. If you aren't sure if your character would be allowed to go, you can ask here. All characters who do go will be warned that it is of the utmost importance that they behave themselves and that the consequences if they do not will be severe. So if your character, looking deep into their own heart, can't honestly say that they can go to Tevinter and talk to people without slapping anybody or otherwise causing a ruckus, no matter who Wrong that person may be, they should probably not go.

Anyone who does go and does cause problems for the Inquisition while there can expect IC consequences. If you do decide that the character you're sending is going to cause a problem, let us know here so we can let you know what the consequences would be in advance and let you make informed choices about what to do.

PLAYER-LED PLOTS

We have a number of player-led plots available. For those of you who are new to FR, these are plots where a few paragraphs of information are provided by the mods to a player, who then runs with it on their own within the parameters given. Each of these will be assigned to one character, who can bring along a partner or small team to help at their discretion.

The following three plots take place outside of the city, and preference for these will be given to characters who aren't participating in the Minrathous part of the plot:

1. Closing a rift in a Tevinter village. (Must have or bring people who have anchors.)
2. Locating a few key refugees who were displaced into Tevinter following the Ander invasion of Nevarra and Orlais.
3. Assisting a Tevinter team with excavation of ruins in the Silent Plains.

The remainder will take place inside the city and must be assigned to characters participating in the Minrathous part of the plot:

4. Visiting the Minrathous Circle to acquire sensitive information.
5. Three assassinations, for three different people/pairs.
6. Formally meeting with the Archon to discuss his reasons for inviting them to the city.

You can sign up for these plots here. Please sign up by the end of the day on July 21 so we can get everyone additional information!

PART II

The more action-oriented Part II of this plot will go up in about a week, so plan your tag load accordingly.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[faderifting]

Hit us.

[hwaaaitsme]

Question: Would the Archon take offense if one were to bring their own personal slaves for daily tasks?

Asking for a friend.

Also a real question: If I wanted to do an open post during this event (as Loki) that includes say, Frigga or Odin, would it be alright to play them in my tags or should I make one or the other a Side Character officially?

[faderifting]

The Archon wouldn't be offended, but they wouldn't be given access to any part of the palace that the Archon's own serving staff uses, so they would be pretty useless for anything outside of answering the door to the room Loki is staying in and carrying things the few steps required to reach him. The more likely offense would come from other Inquisition members, who will be staying in close quarters and will definitely be able to tell if someone has slaves with them. Loki and Thor would be allowed to stay in their own home if they’d prefer.

You don’t need to make Loki’s parents side characters—we actually don’t allow canon characters as side characters, whether they’re AU or not—and it’s fine to play them as NPCs in logs as necessary.

[hwaaaitsme]

Excellent, on both counts, thank you.

[altusimperius]

Not so much direct trouble as A Possible Internally-Resolved Ruckus, the followup to Bene's personal plot will be that Simon and James are brought in by the city guard on account of their recently-acquired brands dictating they are escapees. House Artemaeus will be contacted and Benedict will be called to deal with it, aka go bail them out.

He's going to try to keep it super hush-hush within the Inquisition because it's hugely embarrassing for just about everyone involved, he doesn't want his family on the Inq's shitlist, etc.

OOCly I intend it to be resolved on a personal level without including anyone who isn't directly involved, but I figured a heads-up was in order just in case!

[faderifting]

This is fine as long as it's taken care of quietly like you said. To the extent that there's going to be any kind of public ruckus either during the arrest or in getting them free, please make sure to let us know, since that would obviously reflect on the Inquisition's reputation.

[rathercommon]

Hello charming friends! Is there any Good Shit to be found in the palace libraries - i.e., something that might help with Corypheus? Obviously, stealing books isn't possible, but Kitty might try to copy down information (with the help of someone who can read whatever language the books are written in).

[faderifting]

Hey Hope! Sorry for the delay. We'd love to give you something here, but to be honest we're drawing a bit of a blank, in part because the request is just so broad. If you could narrow it down a bit, maybe throw some specific topics at us that Kitty would be targeting or that you'd find particularly interesting to build off, we'll see what we can come up with?

[eruit]

A couple of things regarding the Shimadas in Tevinter!

Hanzo has been 'on the run' from Tevinter for a decade now, but the Shimadas are still present. They're described in his app as being more black market-esque mages, getting involved with the Venatori and so on. My question is then - would you consider there to be significant risk to Hanzo being in Tevinter? He's going, but he's going to be as elusive and sneaky as possible, which given his training should be okay-ish.

I just wanted to check in and see what kind of assumptions I could make about Hanzo's position in Tevinter society before I go ahead and just assume that people would be after him; he's likely not as well known now as he was before, even if members of his family might want him back, so it could make for an interesting mini-plot with him at some point!

[faderifting]

Our understanding from your app is that Hanzo's "exile" from Tevinter was entirely self-imposed due to conflicts internal to his family, and as you said he's been gone for 10 years, so unless he's going to go around introducing himself to the authorities by name and reminding them of the crimes he committed a decade ago, it doesn't seem like there ought to be anyone after him. But if there's an element we're missing here, or if you think that his family would cause problems in some way, please let us know so that we can consider what the consequences might be.