[player plot] the minanter job

[katabasis]

Hope all you rough and tumble types took that etiquette class seriously, because it's about to come in handy.

Late in the month of Justinian, Yseult, Flint, Darras and three additional Riftwatch agents - carefully selected for their abilities in combat - will be staging an attempted raid on what intelligence reported was 'the personal ship' of a wealthy Free Marcher noble, currently acting as a gambling house as it cruises up and down the Minanter near the Nevarra-Marches border - the profit from which is feeding a number of Venatori agents abroad.

Unfortunately, our intrepid would-be-raiders will discover the planned smash-and-grab isn't really feasible: the 'personal ship' is less daytime pleasure yacht and more 'small floating island'. Think hanging gardens and whatever the medieval equivalent of an infinity pool is. Unable to simply board, take control of the ship, take everything shiny and leave, the team will instead find themselves planning an impromptu heist to infiltrate the ranks of the high society players, access the ship's bank, and maybe get away with a well-connected Venatori agent tucked under their arm without being detected by the small army manning the ship.

If you'd like your ill-fitting combat-focused character to be thrust unexpectedly into an Ocean's 11 style riverboat casino heist, then this is the plot for you. We have slots for the following character types to be filled (if we get more interest than there are spots available for a particular role, we'll RNG the final line-up):

- 2 mages: ideally 1 with an offensive focus, and 1 with a defensive focus
- 1 soldier/knight/physical tank type character.
- 1 sailor Darras Rivain

We'll have a log post for this posted around 6/26. The log will not be GMed, but we'll provide enough information for everyone to feel confident running with the concept. We'll also be doing our best to provide impetus to split the party once aboard to keep six person group threading to a minimum (cause: yikes).

Please sign up in the comments below if you'd like your character to come along.

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[katabasis]

<B>PLAYER NAME:</b> <b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <B>ROLE:</b> Mage(/Specialization?) or Good At Stabbing

[byblow]

PLAYER NAME: mj

And obviously I can only have one character involved (if that!!) but I have several who might work and would all be terrible at heists and I can’t decide so I’m listing them all and hoping the RNG can be fair despite that sorry and thank you.

CHARACTER NAME: Alistair
ROLE: Good At Stabbing, Templar stuff

CHARACTER NAME: Kostos
ROLE: Defensive mage (barrier spells and recon wisps)

CHARACTER NAME: Osana
ROLE: Good At Stabbing

[katabasis]

Welcome to the team, Kostos. (<--I wanted to make this glitter text but I'm on mobile so you'll just have to imagine it.)

The log for this has been posted over HERE. There are a few different open prompts, a weird round robin style thread for tracking the vault key, and a team assignment. Kostos's teammate is Yseult; they'll be providing a DISTRACTION.

We're also currently collecting ideas for escape plans. See THIS COMMENT for details. We'll draw something out of a hat in the next few days.

[swordproof]

PLAYER NAME: Rachel
CHARACTER NAME: Six
ROLE: Paladin (tank + healing + magic and stuff). Strong girl. Good at cleaving people in half with a giant sword.

[katabasis]

Welcome to the team, Six.

The log for this has been posted over HERE. There are a few different open prompts, a weird round robin style thread for tracking the vault key, and a team assignment. Six's teammate is Flint; they'll be playing at SAFE CRACKING.

We're also currently collecting ideas for escape plans. See THIS COMMENT for details. We'll draw something out of a hat in the next few days.

[thunderproof]

PLAYER NAME: Nat
CHARACTER NAME: Adalia
ROLE: Mage(/Combat, specifically Lightning)

[katabasis]

Welcome to the team, Adalia.

The log for this has been posted over HERE. There are a few different open prompts, a weird round robin style thread for tracking the vault key, and a team assignment. Adalia's teammate is Darras; they'll be CAPTURING the Venatori agent.

We're also currently collecting ideas for escape plans. See THIS COMMENT for details. We'll draw something out of a hat in the next few days.

ESCAPE ROUTE

[katabasis]

Got an idea/ideas for how the escape goes down? Toss 'em here. We'll pull one out of the hat in a few days.

Re: ESCAPE ROUTE

[hassaran]

- fireworks show gone wrong
- fireworks show gone right aka wrong on purpose
- collision with another boat
- accidentally blow a hole in the side
- intentionally blow a hole in the side and swim out of it
- an unrelated team of hijackers shows up
- somebody gets caught red-handed, we roll for who and when
- forced to all jump overboard before an inquisition ally recognizes them
- kostos's parents show up
- steal somebody's actually-yacht-sized yacht for escape purposes and get caught
- accidentally run the boat aground while fighting by the helm
- exit stage left, pursued by pet tiger from the menagerie (this. boat. has. everything)
- exit stage right, pursued by Carta
- jump overboard and have to hang on secretly to the side of the boat and get towed for a bit until people stop looking and assume they drowned
- hide in bins of dead fish
- grab a tree branch and hang on as they sail under it

[exequy]

I don't want to add anything because I love all of these ideas so much that I'll be disappointed if we don't use one of them.