Congratulations, you've been selected for an impossible mission! Your partner is Richard.
The Orentius University of Minrathous is hosting a triennial conference, the Society for Premier Thinkers in Natural Philosophies and the Arcane Sciences, that invites a wide range of Tevene and international academics. It had been thought that it would be cancelled due to the wars and invasions and coups and so on, but the representatives of Orentius, it being a point of pride in having won the claim to host the conference, insisted that it should go ahead anyway, and so there's been a bit of a desperate scrabble to secure attendees, panelists, and lecturers.
Riftwatch has managed to procure two invitations through some diplomatic leveraging, and Richard and Bastien will be using these invitations to go undercover and attend the conference. You may confer and invent your undercover identities, and some tips include that it is not necessary to be able to speak Tevene to fit in, as Common is the wider dialect, but it wouldn't hurt to brush up on some basics. That said, the Society is also open to anyone from anywhere, mage or no, but there will be pros and cons to how obscure and foreign you make yourselves.
The objective will be to use the conference as cover to gain access to a couple of locations and people of interest.
One location is the secure archives of Orentius, which will require you to spend some time to see what you can find on the subject of the Gates, if there is anything to be found. You can leverage this via your identities or through simply breaking and entering.
A person of interest, which they will discover for themselves in review of the program for the Society, is a professor of Orentius, Nastasia Sellic, a Laetan mage who will be speaking at the conference on the subject of revisiting pre-Chantry Blight narratives in the context of recent developments in rift research. The lecture itself will be quite dry and boring, but some later surveillance and eavesdropping during a mingling event will hint to Richard and Bastien at her frustration that the convening Society council had heavily censored her presentation.
Making direct contact at this stage is not advisable but also no one is here to stop you. They will also be supplied with a sending crystal that can be planted in a location and set to receive audio in a constant live stream to a second crystal, requiring extensive listening in and surveillance.
Please respond to this comment after conferring among yourselves about how Richard and Bastien will approach these two tasks, as well as with details around their undercover identities, or with further questions you may have to inform your decisions. We will respond with further information (or answers), at which point we can decide what parts of this you wish to RP.
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The Orentius University of Minrathous is hosting a triennial conference, the Society for Premier Thinkers in Natural Philosophies and the Arcane Sciences, that invites a wide range of Tevene and international academics. It had been thought that it would be cancelled due to the wars and invasions and coups and so on, but the representatives of Orentius, it being a point of pride in having won the claim to host the conference, insisted that it should go ahead anyway, and so there's been a bit of a desperate scrabble to secure attendees, panelists, and lecturers.
Riftwatch has managed to procure two invitations through some diplomatic leveraging, and Richard and Bastien will be using these invitations to go undercover and attend the conference. You may confer and invent your undercover identities, and some tips include that it is not necessary to be able to speak Tevene to fit in, as Common is the wider dialect, but it wouldn't hurt to brush up on some basics. That said, the Society is also open to anyone from anywhere, mage or no, but there will be pros and cons to how obscure and foreign you make yourselves.
The objective will be to use the conference as cover to gain access to a couple of locations and people of interest.
One location is the secure archives of Orentius, which will require you to spend some time to see what you can find on the subject of the Gates, if there is anything to be found. You can leverage this via your identities or through simply breaking and entering.
A person of interest, which they will discover for themselves in review of the program for the Society, is a professor of Orentius, Nastasia Sellic, a Laetan mage who will be speaking at the conference on the subject of revisiting pre-Chantry Blight narratives in the context of recent developments in rift research. The lecture itself will be quite dry and boring, but some later surveillance and eavesdropping during a mingling event will hint to Richard and Bastien at her frustration that the convening Society council had heavily censored her presentation.
Making direct contact at this stage is not advisable but also no one is here to stop you. They will also be supplied with a sending crystal that can be planted in a location and set to receive audio in a constant live stream to a second crystal, requiring extensive listening in and surveillance.
Please respond to this comment after conferring among yourselves about how Richard and Bastien will approach these two tasks, as well as with details around their undercover identities, or with further questions you may have to inform your decisions. We will respond with further information (or answers), at which point we can decide what parts of this you wish to RP.