Hey all you cool cats and kittens.

Good news: Scoutmaster Yseult and Commander Flint aren't dead. They will be rescuing themselves sometime around week six of the current modplot.

This doesn't mean Riftwatch was simply waiting around for them to do so. Hope and I are looking for some folks to have chased some leads and uncover some of the trail, around week three/four and onwards. These leads all take place in Hasmal towards the end of the modplot, but please do not worry too much about location and timing for this instance. If your character has capacity to break from whatever they're doing to help search for the missing div heads, then come at us.

BACKGROUND

Drake's Landing is a nearly forgotten trading post which lies west of Hasmal in the vague borderlands of Orlais/Nevarra/Tevinter, nestled amidst a series of minor tributaries off the Minanter. Aerial surveillance of the marshy area surrounding it will clearly reveal that a portion of the Tevinter force which later ended up in Hasmal passed through the crossroads on their way east. Think signs of horses and a lot of foot-traffic related muck, and maybe a forgotten bit of gear or two.

The trading post itself is sparsely populated by a handful of people who are either blatantly wary, taciturn, or claim to just be passing through themselves. A generous bribe or a very intimidating threat to the right seedy local may earn confirmation that a man and a woman matching Flint and Yseult's description were captured here by "a Magister"—it will be impossible to tell if that's a real Magister or if the local in question just believes that all Tevinters wearing robes are Magisters—and carted off with the force as it moved east.

What became of them after they arrived in Hasmal will be significantly more difficult to determine. While the earlier surveillance of Hasmal (see Week One in the modplot writeup) will have identified a few key locations in Hasmal from which the remaining occupation force seems to conduct its business, upon first examination it will be difficult to tell where the "Magister" from Drake's Landing or his prisoners might have gone. It's very possible that they've been transported north into the Imperium and aren't in the city at all.

The villa compound acting as the Tevinter field office in Hasmal seems the most likely place to find answers, but it's painfully well-secured. Luckily before anyone will need to come up with clever plans for sneaking in undetected, Riftwatch will get an assist from an unlikely ally.

SIGN UP: FIRST CONTACT

If you were near enough to Hasmal around week three, then feel free to sign up to have received a tip from a knowledgeable party about Yseult and Flint's last movements. This conversation won't be RPed, necessarily, but you'll be OOCly handed information on the contact and what they know.

You are then welcome to contact either or both remaining div heads to move that discussion forward, and have made a new friend who could be useful at a later time.

SIGN UP: PURSUING LEADS

We are looking for members of the Scouting division or anyone with requisite skills to pursue some leads based on the above information. With resources stretched thin on the ground, this is open to anyone from any division, but preferences will be granted to Scouting due to the stealthy nature of the operation. We will select 2-3 people to move on these leads (and RNG if necessary), and you are free to pick whatever partners in crime you would like to accompany you.

These leads won't be GM'd, and you can RP them out however you want and with whoever you like. They serve as vehicles for CR building as well as circulating information around Yseult and Flint's whereabouts.

You can sign up for both things! We'll close sign ups on August 3, and disseminate info to volunteers.