TEAM: Jenny Lou, Gwenaëlle, Sabine REPORT DEADLINE: April 5, 2020
ASSIGNMENT: Pieces of jewelry made from the glass of Eluvians were briefly all the rage during the Storm Age. A very prominent collector of such vintage pieces, Madame Hortense Keating, recently moved to Starkhaven to be closer to her son, a local merchant. Although she is not very fond of Riftwatch, she is very, very fond of certain musicals-- and is now too old to comfortably attend the theatre. A performance of the musical Les Chats by Riftwatch members will earn her friendship and access to the collection, including all-important authentication papers that will allow Riftwatch to rule out pursuing Eluvians confirmed broken—or discover fakes and confirm new leads.
DETAILS: The team sent to Madame Keating will have access to masks and costumes acquired from a group of actors who were so bad at performing Les Chats--due to trying too hard to make people take them seriously, mostly--that they've given up. Some of them will still have bits of fruit and vegetable smeared places and need cleaning. (Some might also be missing, if improvising replacements would be fun.) They'll also have Madame Keating's household staff, all given the day off of their other work to fill in other roles or be background extras.
Some potential complications include: Madame Keating's cook finding this whole proceeding ridiculous and needing to be persuaded not to just stand there fuming in a cat costume, her maid feeling so liberated by it that she'll need to be persuaded afterwards not to quit her job to become an actor (or at least to wait a few weeks so her departure can't be blamed on Riftwatch), and one of Madame Keating's friends apparently losing his sense of propriety entirely when confronted with furry body suits and being a little handsy with the actors.
Whether the performance itself goes off without a hitch or with many, many hitches--you're welcome to roll for it if you want--Madame Keating and her friends will be so delighted by it that it will be easy to maneuver her afterwards into showing off her jewelry collection. The authentication papers will confirm that the majority of the eluvian pieces were crafted from the shattered remains of two unaccounted-for eluvians (or just "elven mirrors predating the Imperium," as Keating will describe them) the last known to belong to Lord Regnault Beauvau and a merchant named Beneta Figiovanni in the Storm Age.
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Dramatical Cats, Diplomatical Cats
REPORT DEADLINE: April 5, 2020
ASSIGNMENT: Pieces of jewelry made from the glass of Eluvians were briefly all the rage during the Storm Age. A very prominent collector of such vintage pieces, Madame Hortense Keating, recently moved to Starkhaven to be closer to her son, a local merchant. Although she is not very fond of Riftwatch, she is very, very fond of certain musicals-- and is now too old to comfortably attend the theatre. A performance of the musical Les Chats by Riftwatch members will earn her friendship and access to the collection, including all-important authentication papers that will allow Riftwatch to rule out pursuing Eluvians confirmed broken—or discover fakes and confirm new leads.
DETAILS: The team sent to Madame Keating will have access to masks and costumes acquired from a group of actors who were so bad at performing Les Chats--due to trying too hard to make people take them seriously, mostly--that they've given up. Some of them will still have bits of fruit and vegetable smeared places and need cleaning. (Some might also be missing, if improvising replacements would be fun.) They'll also have Madame Keating's household staff, all given the day off of their other work to fill in other roles or be background extras.
Some potential complications include: Madame Keating's cook finding this whole proceeding ridiculous and needing to be persuaded not to just stand there fuming in a cat costume, her maid feeling so liberated by it that she'll need to be persuaded afterwards not to quit her job to become an actor (or at least to wait a few weeks so her departure can't be blamed on Riftwatch), and one of Madame Keating's friends apparently losing his sense of propriety entirely when confronted with furry body suits and being a little handsy with the actors.
Whether the performance itself goes off without a hitch or with many, many hitches--you're welcome to roll for it if you want--Madame Keating and her friends will be so delighted by it that it will be easy to maneuver her afterwards into showing off her jewelry collection. The authentication papers will confirm that the majority of the eluvian pieces were crafted from the shattered remains of two unaccounted-for eluvians (or just "elven mirrors predating the Imperium," as Keating will describe them) the last known to belong to Lord Regnault Beauvau and a merchant named Beneta Figiovanni in the Storm Age.
QUESTIONS? If you have questions specific to your assignment, reply to this and we'll answer them. If you have general questions applicable to every assignment instead of just yours, ask here.