WHAT: Unscrupulous Orlesian academic Cedric Marquette is helping the Venatori and Faderift would like him to stop. As we're not going to be able to outbid the Venatori for Marquette's services, and we certainly aren't going to be able appeal to the angels of his better nature ... time to identify and lean on some leverage points.

WHO: Members of the Scouting and Diplomacy divisions. (If your character is neither but you want to make a case for them to join, you can do so in your sign-up.) Characters will be assigned to teams of two; pairs can sign up together if they like, and will otherwise be OOCly assigned to another person whose approach matches theirs.

WHERE: Mainly the Free Marches, but if any pair gets motivated to take a trip to Orlais, that is also on the table.

HOW: Depending on the characters who sign up and/or player desires, this plot is designed to involve spying on targets close to Marquette, pumping said targets for information directly, or a combination of the two. As always, I'm keen for you to thread things you're actually interested in, and this plot is designed to be fairly flexible, but I'm happy to help talk through ideas and can provide a variety of targets related to Marquette to choose from depending on the flavor you're looking for.

DEADLINES: Please sign up by June 1. I'm aiming to get the log up around June 4, and the report will be due June 30.