PLAYER PLOT SIGN-UPS: HARE COURSING

[sulahnan]

WHAT'S GOING ON? It's been roughly a year since the demise of Devigny, a nobleman with ties to Tevinter and Orlais and whose name was once spoken in hushed tones in the halls of The Crimson Cat, one of the more disreputable establishments in Kirkwall. On the surface of things, The Crimson Cat is a typical brothel with an unsavory financier and a shrewd bawd, but the façade is flaking like cheap paint over porous stone.

Without Devigny providing protection and coin to The Crimson Cat, Madame Lette has started canvassing for new backers, starting with the men with whom Devigny associated. Most of them are bored nobles with delusions of grandeur and none of the business sense or discretion of Devigny. Talk is beginning to circulate that The Crimson Cat is an unsanctioned establishment, that they are operating without Guild approval, and that local officials are being paid off to turn a blind eye to the abuses that are happening within.

Players will be uncovering those abuses, taking down the noblemen responsible for causing them, and closing down the cathouse that perpetuates them. In the course of doing so, they'll get justice and closure for a number of families at the Alienage and put Riftwatch in good favor with the denizens of Lowtown.

HOW ARE WE DOING THIS? I'll be putting up a closed log for whoever signs up, and tailoring the way I run the plot based on what strikes people as most interesting to play. I'm mostly going to be GMing, not playing an active character role. Because this is an extension of an Athessa-centric plot from last year, she'll be involved in the setup and able to offer assistance where it's necessary, but she won't be the star of the show.

WHO'S DOING IT? This is going to start as a combination of official Riftwatch business and unofficial business; certain characters may be ordered to investigate names from Devigny's agenda as a matter of course, others may stumble upon the scene of a grisly murder or overhear something they deem worth investigating; basically, you don't have to be in a specific division or have a specific skillset to sign up. The adventure will be fine-tuned to what you want to play.

WHEN IS THIS HAPPENING? ICly it'll only take at most a week sometime late Guardian/early Drakonis. OOCly, Sign-ups will be open until 11:59pm February 28th. I hope to put the log up no later than March 7th.

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[sulahnan]

SIGN-UPS

[sulahnan]

<b>Character:</b> <b>Business or Pleasure:</b> Do you want your character to have been assigned this mission by their Division Head, or do you want your character to overhear/see/discover something unexpectedly? <b>Preferences:</b> Action? Mystery? What sort of thing strikes you as the most fun thing to do on this sort of mission? <b>Content Warnings:</b> This plot is going to deal with topics of sexual assault, murder, and abuse. I plan on things being glossed over and not horribly explicit, but for the sake of tailoring the plot to everyone's satisfaction, let me know if there are things you absolutely need to avoid.

[clawings]

Character: Erik Stevens
Business or Pleasure: Pleasure if you please, or it can be a mix?
Preferences: Mystery because I'm terrible at writing action we know this
Content Warnings: If nothing is explicit then I'm good!

[highborn]

Character: Vanadi
Business or Pleasure: Vanadi has been taking pains to be out and about in Kirkwall more often, let's make him useful for once and say he stumbles onto something.
Preferences: feed me that ACTION (not that i dislike mystery, just, ACTION)
Content Warnings: nothin, i'm good either way

[noonrodeon]

Character: Sol Noon (side character)
Business or Pleasure: Pleasure. Noon's not an official member of any division, reports directly to Mhavos and has generally been Around Kirkwall for a while. He knows folks.
Preferences: Noon is best for Action
Content Warnings: I'm good!

Character: Sister Sara Sawbones (side character)
Business or Pleasure: no pleasure, only business.
Preferences: Mystery for her.
Content Warnings: I'm good pt2!

[bouchonne]

Character: Byerly
Business or Pleasure: Business! Of the assigning-things sort more than the being-assigned things sort, but I'd love to have him participate in some aspect of mystery-solving.
Preferences: Mystery!
Content Warnings: I'm pretty uncomfortable with topics of graphic violence (particularly extreme sadism) and suicide! So I will dodge anything involving that stuff

[muckspout]

b>Character: Edgard
Business or Pleasure: pleasure, I think stumbling upon something might be an interesting change of pace
Preferences: both mystery or action or even mysteryaction sounds great
Content Warnings: if its not explicit, I think I can handle it, but warnings would be helpful!

[lumelume]

Character: Mado
Business or Pleasure: A combo of business and pleasure: faffing about Lowtown, doing what he does
Preferences: Mystewyyyy
Content Warnings: Animal harm or suicide are my big things, otherwise we're good

[indissection]

Character: Sidony Venaras Rutyer
Business or Pleasure: Pleasure!
Preferences: Mystery vibes are excellent for her, but she can handle a wee bit of adventure if needed.
Content Warnings: I'm good!