faderiftooc | minrathous player plot: the making of a villain

The Venatori governor who took over Max's pirate island keeps a home in Minrathous, where his estranged wife resides. Since the Inquisition is conveniently in the neighborhood, Max would like to take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about him and his Venatori ties. She's looking to recruit a few people to break into said home in hopes of recovering documents that will help her and the other Nascere pirates start unraveling his operation and/or destroy him personally.

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Open to 1-3 characters (+ Max)
Only open to characters already in Minrathous
Prior CR not remotely required, Max doesn't have room to be picky
Payment available, flexible morals preferred but not required
Not an official Inquisition mission. The information recovered could reach the Inquisition if your character wants to share it, but Max would prefer they didn't.
Secrecy is paramount, let's not risk the Inquisition's reputation here

I'd like to get a log up on Sunday, July 22, so if you want to join in, sign up soon! This will be a pretty straightforward little spy movie interlude and shouldn't interfere with anything else going on in Minrathous.

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NOTE: If you're interested in signing up but not sure how your character could be convinced to go, please hit me up below or sign up anyway! Max is willing to frame this however she needs to to get it done.

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Character name: Kitty Jones
Relevant skills: Extensive background as a burglar, extensive background stealing intel, magic resistance
What would motivate your character to help? A chance at Venatori intel + the chance to help the Inquisition
Would your character feel obligated to inform their Division Head of what they find? Yes, sorry Max :'( Kitty's in the research division.
Anything else: We might need to figure out a way for Max to find out that Kitty has these skills, since she keeps a bit mum about them!

gdi Kitty. I feel like Max could proooobably guess Kitty is too honest to keep this to herself though, if that sounds good to you? In which case Max can reach out to the division heads first at least in a cursory way to minimize damage to anyone's reputation.

As for Kitty's skills, at the moment Max knows she's observant and trusts her more than she trusts anyone else who's going, which might be enough for her to ask for Kitty's help all on its own tbh! Maybe we could say Max asked for Kitty's help as a lookout, and Kitty either shared what else she's capable of or not at that point?

(Also, hello, I'm probably not going to manage to get this log up tonight, but you will definitely see it before I sleep tomorrow. ♥)

SORRY MAX....Kitty would also be pretty up-front about her obligation to share information; she would also be quite willing to say "a little birdie told me" and keep Max and the others out of it.

And yes! If Max mentions her intentions, Kitty respects her enough at this point to volunteer her skills (aside from the magic resistance) fairly freely.

looking forward to this, it's gonna be good

Character name: Nikos Averesch
Relevant skills: an assassin familiar with info trading and acquiring secret intel. very sneaky. surprisingly good at break-ins. great at keeping secrets; if you don't have any friends, you don't have anyone to blab to!
What would motivate your character to help? Venatori intel would be great thanks. also pirates et al fighting for their island isn't quite the same as revolutionaries making the world a Better Place but it's close. and anyways friendship with Max and co. could be useful in the future of those revolutionaries, helping would be worth it for the new connection opportunity alone.
Would your character feel obligated to inform their Division Head of what they find? absolutely not....... but he might tell his boyfriend Caspar.
Anything else: HMMM. well I tagged your network post and I think a logical eventual end to that would be Nikos flagging Max as an interesting person to dialogue with. so maybe we can work out/handwave a letter or something that offers a proposed connection between Max and Nikos' cool spy/revolutionary network??

HELLO, I'm still hacking at that network thread obvs but at the very least it seems Max will be Aware that Nikos is the type of person who might have some skills in acquiring information, and she has limited options for who to trust here, so she might well approach him based on that alone. And if you want to handwave that they work out some kind of mutually beneficial relationship with Nikos's spy network in their thread I'd be down! That's definitely up her alley.

Also, clearly this log is not going up tonight, but I am determined to get the ball rolling before I sleep tomorrow, so: very soon.

YES GOOD to all of this. I think we can keep hacking at network thread but if you're good with assuming that somehow (despite his winning personality) they would get to something good, I am!!!!

promise it will be mutually beneficial xoxo

double promise he will shape up and be nicer in the next tag or 2 if only because offscreen his much more charming boyfriend kicks him in the shins or something

YAY

Character name: Loki of House Asgard
Relevant skills: Skilled at shapeshifting, sneaking, and the ins and outs of murdering people in Tevinter.
What would motivate your character to help? Idk, Loki likes mayhem but also has probably met and dislikes this person. Maybe he spilled his drink at a party. Who knows.
Would your character feel obligated to inform their Division Head of what they find? Ahahaha--No.
Anything else: Loki is very useful in situations like this but he is a shitheel. Tolerating him is definitely a challenge.

Oh, I think we can make this work. Max would probably not be eager to invite Loki, BUT how would you feel about Loki being the source of Max's information about said Venatori's house, and then have him tag along despite objections?

Max knows that the Venatori in question, Woodes Rogers, has a wife named Severina who lives somewhere in Minrathous, but she doesn't necessarily know where. I'm thinking, if Max has noticed Loki is a Tevene mage of good social standing, she might try to use him to find out where the house is, pretending she's an old friend of Severina's or something. And if Loki is familiar with Tevinter politics, it wouldn't be hard to put together that Severina is married to the current governor of Nascere, Max is probably not her friend, and something else is going on here. If something like that works for you, I'd be happy to play it out or handwave it!

Woodes Rogers himself would be a Laetan mage from a prominent shipping family who made a name for himself both as a naval officer and the author of a popular book, Voyage Round the Known World, which is an autobiographical account of his travels, including the death of his brother at the hand of some pirates. It's by no means high literature. He's very much the boy scout type and probably not much fun at parties, but his wife Severina might have been in her day, and she would be closer to Loki's social status anyway.

This sounds amazing and I am 100% here for rping it if youre down.

Okay the post is here, with a starter for you and one for the group! And also I made an organizational plurk over yonder, if that's helpful for keeping our ducks in rows as we go.

Character name: Hanzo Shimada
Relevant skills: Scout, Tevene, proficient in bows/hand to hand/sneaking around/assassinations. He's been working as an assassin for about ten years, so he's good at it. He knows a little bit about the Venatori as well and has no connections to worry about losing.
What would motivate your character to help? His family are also Venatori and he hates them.
Would your character feel obligated to inform their Division Head of what they find? Not necessarily.
Anything else: He also lowkey has magic but he won't be admitting that or using it unless necessary.

Hello there! I definitely think this can work! I'm going to toss Max at Hanzo on the Tevinter log just to give them a baseline, but as long as Max knows he's Tevene and not fond of the Venatori, she'd consider him a useful addition. She would want at least one Tevinter native with them, and Loki is not her first choice, let us say.

I obviously didn't manage to get the log for this up tonight, but it will be up before the end of the day tomorrow, and I'll send a link your way when it is!

That sounds excellent! I'll get right back on that now :D

Excellent, the post is here! And also I made an organizational plurk over yonder, if that's helpful for keeping our ducks in rows as we go.

Cheerleads from the sidelines!!!

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