This post is here to help you all plot your Escape From Minrathous, and to provide some info about a new possibility: Not Escaping From Minrathous!


We've made a quick form you can use to tell others what you're planning for your characters and what RP wishes you have, but don't feel limited by the form! We also encourage you to post any other ideas and plans you have, and especially to tag around.

CHARACTER:
EVASION PLAN: How is your character going to avoid capture on their way through the city? Do you have disguise plans in mind? Clever ruses? Crawling through sewers?
ESCAPE ROUTE: Which of the three means of escape off the island (catacombs, deep roads, or stowing away) will your character be taking? If you haven’t decided you can say so! Maybe someone will help you decide.
HOPES & DREAMS: Anything you want to plan for? Heroics or narrow escapes?

<b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>EVASION PLAN:</b> How is your character going to avoid capture on their way through the city? Do you have disguise plans in mind? Clever ruses? Crawling through sewers? <b>ESCAPE ROUTE:</b> Which of the three means of escape off the island (catacombs, deep roads, or stowing away) will your character be taking? If you haven’t decided you can say so! Maybe someone will help you decide. <b>HOPES & DREAMS:</b> Anything you want to plan for? Heroics or narrow escapes?

CLARIFICATION: The three escape routes in the log—by ship, through the Deep Roads, or through the catacombs—are mutually exclusive, not three parts of one escape plan. Characters can't be involved in more than one of those logs, and once everyone is out, they will be in three different groups making their way back to the Gallows by three different routes. As only 20-30 Inquisition members were in Minrathous, this will mean approximately 5-10 people in each group, depending on which of the three options are the most popular and how many characters don't make it out at all.


Some of you have expressed interest in being captured during the attempt to flee Minrathous and after some consideration we've decided sure! Why not.

This option will be open to a max of six people. This can include a mix of (A) people caught by the Venatori and imprisoned and (B) up to two people who are nearly captured but saved and hidden by Tevinter citizens resistant to the Venatori.

Those imprisoned will obviously have no access to sending crystals—to keep concerns about Venatori listening in from locking down the network comm entirely, everyone captured would need to do the right, smart thing and destroy theirs. If we have people being harbored by sympathizers, they may be able to have access to a crystal for at least part of the time, but would have to use it secretly and carefully, and we will give you enough information to RP sitting in cells next to other Inquisition members’ cells and so on. We'll be giving priority to players who want to use this as an RP opportunity rather than as a hiatus, but there may be room for hiatusing also depending how many people sign up. Participating in this plot will not be an exemption from AC.

Captured characters may be tortured for information or handled gently in attempts to turn their sympathies; those with anchors would likely be subject to some experimentation, with potential negative effects varying. Based on who’s included and the preferences indicated in the sign-up form below, we’ll give everyone who participates a write-up for their specific character’s treatment and experience.

Getting everyone back would be a high priority, especially if any of them have anchors, so ideally a mission to recover them could occur during the last week of August. We will also handle a lot of the OOC organization for this ourselves to make sure things keep moving, but given the vagaries of RP and RL (and the fact that we're just making this up as we go right now because you asked for it), we can't currently give you a specific deadline by which PCs will definitely be back in Kirkwall. Signing up means accepting that uncertainty for now.


We're glad everyone's enjoying the Escape From Minrathous plot so far, and we know lots of you are eager to get in on the fun and help rescue the characters currently fleeing the city! There are all sorts of plans flying around IC and OOC right now, and we want to make sure that these get coordinated so that people who want to participate know what's going on and have a chance to dive in.

So far, the only rescue efforts that have been mod-approved are Beleth's plans to send out three teams: a ship to meet the ship full of escaping agents somewhere outside of Tevinter (because honestly does anyone who went to Minrathous even know how to sail), a Warden-led team into the Deep Roads to meet the agents fleeing by that route, and a team to meet those traveling through the catacombs. To help organize this, we've added a new sign-up option below.

Anything outside of that needs to be run by us first. You can do that either by asking a question about it on this post, or by submitting a plot request or contacting us on the Mod Contact. It's very important that we be kept in the loop ahead of time about things characters want to attempt so that we can review them, let you know if they're possible, provide any other info we might have that might be useful, and keep track of what's happening so the results can be incorporated into the overall plot as it develops.


Please try not to extrapolate too far outside the bounds of the log we've posted without checking with us first! If you need information about how the invaders are treating civilians, whether there are any significant casualties, what the state of the harbor is, or if there's any news from other parts of the Imperium, etc., please don't guess—ask! In this kind of chaotic emergency situation it's natural that some characters would have different experiences and perspectives on what's happening than others, but we do need to keep everyone on the same page to some degree OOC, and we're happy to fill in gaps to make that possible.