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MARCH ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment teams and details will be posted and linked as they're determined.

↠ The Heart of the Matter: Bastien, Ellis, Wysteria
↠ Dramatical Cats, Diplomatical Cats: Gwenaëlle, Sabine, Jenny Lou
↠ The Best Shade Plans: Barrow, Marcoulf
↠ In the Nick of Thyme: Ilias, Matthias, John
↠ Tulipgit to Quit: Sawbones, Tavin
↠ How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Anders: Jenny Lou, Alistair, Ket
↠ Uncrossing the Crossroads: Richard, Loxley, Athessa, Yngvi
↠ In the Enemy's Grippe: Nikos, Derrica, Lino
↠ Join the Navy, They Said…: Bastien, Darras
↠ How to Train Your Draconology Expert: Julius, Fitcher

If you didn't sign up for assignments and wish you had, we'll have more next round (or sooner)! And if you did sign up for assignments and wish you hadn't, hahaha sucker.

Jk, just let us and your teammates know if you need to back out for any reason.

RULES

OOC, the only two rules regarding these assignments are: (1) they must be RPed in some way, not entirely handwaved, and (2) you have to file a report by the deadline. Otherwise, you can handle them basically however you want. For example,

— Format: You can write a log addressing the main action/meat of the assignment, handwave that and do a log or crystal post that’s instead focused on deciding what to do about the problem or discussing how it went after the fact, or whatever else, as long as you RP about the assignment’s substance in some way.

— Personnel: You can limit the assignment to only the assigned team, if you prefer, or you can take other people along, whether that means involving just one other specific character to go for some specific reason or turning the assignment into an open log/discussion that the whole game can participate in. Just make sure everyone on the team is on board with whatever you decide, and check with the relevant project leaders or division heads if you want to include someone whose suitability for something is in question, since they might not be willing to OK their inclusion.

— Content: If you want to add obstacles, problems, pit stops, etc. to your assignment, you can, as long as they’re reasonable given the scope and spirit of the assignment. For example, if your characters are tasked with finding a lost child in the woods, it’s fine for them to accidentally wander into a bear’s den or to get caught in a storm that causes a flash flood in a ravine, because those are hazards that make sense given the assignment and its setting, whereas finding a zany artifact that causes bodyswaps or assassinating Corypheus would be outside the scope.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

TEAM: Bastien, Ellis, Wysteria
REPORT DEADLINE: April 5, 2020

ASSIGNMENT: The Merchant-Prince Daniello Bassadoar, up until recently, supported the Inquisition, but he has abruptly turned towards neutrality. We need to figure out why. Diplomacy has gotten their hands on a large shipment of books; your mission is to accompany this shipment and, while in Bassadoar's home, find out what happened to dampen his enthusiasm. The best team will be made up of people who can chat about books (especially romance novels) for hours.

DETAILS: Although he'll accept the shipment and allow their presence, initially Prince Daniello will be distant and difficult to speak with for any length of time, leaving handling the shipment and hospitality to his wife and staff. His young wife, Tomasia, will be friendly in a way that occasionally gives way to looking very sad, but impossible to crack if pressed. Both will say that their newfound neutrality is a matter of principle.

Information as to what’s gone wrong will actually come first from the couple’s nanny, who tends to their toddler, Agostino. She’ll steal a moment during one of the child’s naps to sneak aside with a Riftwatch member and tell them that the little-seen, occasionally-heard child she’s been caring for is not sick and is not actually Agostino at all.

Acquiring further information could occur in one or both of two ways:

Catching Daniello alone with his collection of books and engaging him in conversation about them—which he’ll do, warming up to the subject by fits and starts as he seems to momentarily be distracted from his other problems, and will eventually soften him up enough (and make him consider the Riftwatch representative allies enough) that he’ll break down. Have you ever seen a 60 year old man cry?? It’s very sad.

Snooping, which will turn up cryptic correspondence alluding to the continued good health of Daniello’s young nephew Salvestro, who anyone familiar with his family tree will know does not actually exist. Confronting him with the letters will make him admit to the truth, but in a much more confrontational way, including initial attempts to bar the team from leaving and instead have them tossed in his dungeon so they can't do anything that would endanger his son..

However it's found, the truth is that Agostino was taken by Tevinters some months ago. The boy currently residing in his nursery is a Tevinter—a slave’s orphan, as far as Daniello and his wife are aware—who was given to them to help them maintain the appearance of normalcy, which they’ve been instructed to do if they want their boy kept alive and someday returned to them. Whether Daniello and Tomasia consider Riftwatch to be trustworthy allies who might help them get their son back or self-interested enemies who might give away the game and get their son killed will depend on which of the approaches they took.

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.