WAR TABLE ASSIGNMENTS: COASTING AROUND

[katabasis]

WAR TABLE ASSIGNMENT(s): COASTING AROUND

WHAT: A series of mixed-division (and mixed-project) assignments focused on sea-faring faction building, resource acquisition, and strengthening Riftwatch's intelligence network along the Waking Sea. See comments for specific mission details and sign-ups.

These are 'odd-job' style assignments that are either meant to be done by a small (2-3) number of characters or styled as mingle logs for ease of play.

HOW: You'll be provided with a brief overview of the goals/stakes/potential complications of each mission, but will otherwise be expected to set up their logs/conduct the missions as you see fit. Everything is fairly open ended and/or low stakes, so if presented with a choice of A path or B path, the selection won't affect that mission itself but it will affect future endeavors/the world state.

WHO: Forces Division + Everyone Else

WHEN: OOCly, sign-ups for this close at midnight on July 18th. Assignments will be rngd and additional details distributed in the next 48-ish hours. This sign-up window is purposefully long so you can have a chance to plan given the density of mod plot related activities this month.

ICly, you're welcome to date these however is convenient given the ongoing Free Marches invasion. If you want to backdate it and say your characters were sent to do this before Tevinter's invasion into the Marches, feel free. If you want to say this is part of the work they're doing during the invasion (although some assignments will lend better to this than others), then you're welcome to assume that Tony (for anything +Research or Especially Forces-y), Byerly (for anything +Diplomacy or +Scouting), or Julius (for "Into The Woods") are giving the orders. And if you want to hold ICly off until after Flint has time to come back from being missing, that's okay too.

The only important part is that reports for each assignment be filed no later than September 19th as the outcome of these will affect future war table assignments to come.

Comments

[exequy]

PLAYER: MJ
CHARACTER: Kostos
CHARACTER'S DIVISION: Scouting
MAIN OR SIDE CHARACTER?: Side (and I'm struggling to get back in the habit of playing him consistently + don't want anyone else to miss out on something while I do that, so if it comes down to RNG just skip him!)

[katabasis]

Agents in the field have reported suspicious activity from a lighthouse near Cumberland which seems to have coincided with an increase in allegedly Tevinter-aligned shipping interests in the Waking Sea. Every third Tuesday, the lamp of this lighthouse is made to blink at regular, recordable intervals for a number of hours. It's feared that someone is passing information to an enemy lurking off the coast.

Upon investigation, Kostos (and his +1, if you decide to thread something where he needs a sidekick) will discover that the lighthouse keeper is not in fact a spy for Tevinter. She's just in a long distance relationship with a guard who has a night patrol on the Cumberland city walls every third Tuesday, and she has been encoding a series of saccharine and occasionally somewhat racy love letters to let her beau know she's thinking of him.

As Kostos is being sent to investigate the signal, he is welcome to pursue the investigation and/or """solve"""" the """"problem"""" or make new ones as he sees fit. Feel free to get creative with it/go off the rails. Just be prepared to include a summary of his findings and decisions in a group report which will be due by September 19th

[katabasis]

Hey there! This is your casual reminder to get with Cami and Eppy to hash out a group report summarizing the findings for this; this is due September 19th.

PS. After posting this, I realized you and Eppy are scattered all over this so consider this your reminder for the other assignments under this umbrella too (and thank you jumping on all of this!)