Congratulations, you've been selected for an impossible mission! Your partner is Ellie.
Grigorios Hanniwald, a renowned Nevarran researcher and collector of all things Ancient Age, has died, and his heirs are auctioning off much of his library and collection to cover the apparently massive debts he accrued over the years in acquiring it. Riftwatch has identified a number of potentially interesting books and artifacts but doesn't have the funds to persuade the owners to part with them pre-auction.
This sale is likely to attract a decent crowd from around Thedas but not an especially glittering one, with its contents being of interest primarily to academics and fellow collectors. The auction is being held at the Spannagel auction house in Cumberland, formerly the most prestigious auction house in Nevarra but now only the fourth or fifth most prestigious. Fortunately for Riftwatch, this means its security has lapsed, although how much is unknown.
Ellie and Allumin are assigned to attend the auction with two objectives. The first objective is finding a way to get a closer look at the most interesting lots, ideally with enough time to pore over them for useful information before they're sold. The second is finding out who else is trying to buy these things so that Riftwatch can determine whether they're enemy agents.
How they approach their first objective is up to you. They could break in somehow, or try to finesse their way in by posing as potential customers, or representatives of customers, who wish to look at the lot in more detail. Please respond to this comment after conferring among yourselves about how Ellie and Allumin will approach this task.
We will respond with further information, and then outline the set up and outcomes of the second objective of observing the auction.
Lastly, it's important to Riftwatch that nothing they do be traceable back to the organization and that they avoid tipping off any potential enemy agents to their interest, since the Venatori don't presently know that Riftwatch knows about the Gates (as far as we know). (Stealing the items of interest is therefore discouraged, since Riftwatch already tried to buy them and failed and so would be an obvious suspect.)
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Grigorios Hanniwald, a renowned Nevarran researcher and collector of all things Ancient Age, has died, and his heirs are auctioning off much of his library and collection to cover the apparently massive debts he accrued over the years in acquiring it. Riftwatch has identified a number of potentially interesting books and artifacts but doesn't have the funds to persuade the owners to part with them pre-auction.
This sale is likely to attract a decent crowd from around Thedas but not an especially glittering one, with its contents being of interest primarily to academics and fellow collectors. The auction is being held at the Spannagel auction house in Cumberland, formerly the most prestigious auction house in Nevarra but now only the fourth or fifth most prestigious. Fortunately for Riftwatch, this means its security has lapsed, although how much is unknown.
Ellie and Allumin are assigned to attend the auction with two objectives. The first objective is finding a way to get a closer look at the most interesting lots, ideally with enough time to pore over them for useful information before they're sold. The second is finding out who else is trying to buy these things so that Riftwatch can determine whether they're enemy agents.
How they approach their first objective is up to you. They could break in somehow, or try to finesse their way in by posing as potential customers, or representatives of customers, who wish to look at the lot in more detail. Please respond to this comment after conferring among yourselves about how Ellie and Allumin will approach this task.
We will respond with further information, and then outline the set up and outcomes of the second objective of observing the auction.
Lastly, it's important to Riftwatch that nothing they do be traceable back to the organization and that they avoid tipping off any potential enemy agents to their interest, since the Venatori don't presently know that Riftwatch knows about the Gates (as far as we know). (Stealing the items of interest is therefore discouraged, since Riftwatch already tried to buy them and failed and so would be an obvious suspect.)