MOD POST ↠ March Assignments

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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.

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Dramatical Cats, Diplomatical Cats

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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.

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.