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faderiftooc2021-09-12 06:40 pm
nonvenomous) wrote in faderiftooc2021-09-12 06:40 pm
HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW WARMBLOODS
While a chunk of Riftwatch is away having a fancy time at a fancy party, Dick Dickerson’ll be letting himself in to rummage around in a few rooms that don't belong to him. He is not looking to steal. He is just nosy, and was planning on raiding Holden’s quarters anyway because he is a good friend. Fill out the form below if you’d like your character to be hit. This is opt-in only.
Searches will be pretty straight forward -- pocket patdowns, drawer checks, and feeling for anything hidden under mattresses or false bottoms in trunks/other furniture. He is particularly interested in letters and private communications because he is an asshole.
He will have Thot working as a lookout. EVEN SO, it’s possible for someone else staying home to catch him in the act. If you’d like that to be your character, there is a form for that also. If there are multiple interested folks, I’ll roll for it.
Important Notes:
Partygoers only for victims this time around!
You don't have to catch him in your own room!
EDIT: JONE won the snake catching race, victim slates are still open it looks like dick was real busy during the party.
Searches will be pretty straight forward -- pocket patdowns, drawer checks, and feeling for anything hidden under mattresses or false bottoms in trunks/other furniture. He is particularly interested in letters and private communications because he is an asshole.
He will have Thot working as a lookout. EVEN SO, it’s possible for someone else staying home to catch him in the act. If you’d like that to be your character, there is a form for that also. If there are multiple interested folks, I’ll roll for it.
Important Notes:
Partygoers only for victims this time around!
You don't have to catch him in your own room!
EDIT: JONE won the snake catching race, victim slates are still open it looks like dick was real busy during the party.
VICTIMS
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CHARACTER: Derrica
ROOM SUMMARY: Semi-cluttered, lots of scarves and shawls and coats and tunics hanging off hooks and the arm of a chair, lots of jewelry scattered across the top of the dresser. Organized chaos type set up.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: All her correspondence is with the orphans she helped relocate to Ostwick several years ago. It doesn't seem as if she kept it deliberately, more like she puts letters in a drawer and forgets about them. Has go-bag under the bed. You know the set up, all the essentials if someone had to hightail it out. (Plus her phylactery tucked at the bottom of the bag, wrapped in scarves.) Otherwise, nothing too exciting.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: u naughty snek
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CHARACTER: Allumin
ROOM SUMMARY: He's in the general quarters of the mage tower still so his stuff is hanging out near the bed he's claimed. I assume there's maybe also a little bedside table with drawers? If so, his stuff is in there while he's out.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: His wand - I don't have a specific ref for it, it's wood (birch, maybe), it's got a gem or two inlaid into the wood, maybe there's some silver inlay as well - it's well made and well taken care of, and his spellbook - linked is description of book and what the pages look like if he wants to flip through it, spells and most notes are written in Sylvan and Abyssal in case Dick can read either
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: he has other stuff but it's just a pen, clothes, etc. no secret letters or anything.
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CHARACTER: Byerly
ROOM SUMMARY: On first blush, it seems to be roughly what you'd expect from a messy bitch like this - too many fancy outfits for someone of modest means, some cheap and idle correspondence with gossipy assholes strewn about, three or four wine glasses that he hasn't washed, etc.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: If Dick keeps looking, though, there'll be some stuff that doesn't exactly add up: a locked chest with an incredibly sophisticated lock under his bed (a lock way beyond what you'd expect someone like this to have), a few outfits that are of a very different style from the rest mixed in with the others (with no particular pattern to these outfits; they seem, if anything, like they might be disguises?) and, if he keeps prodding, a few empty hiding places. Basically, nothing actually incriminating, but a clever brain could probably tie the techniques and supplies Byerly has back to spycraft.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: Byerly knows the state he left his room in, so anything out of place would be noticed!
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CHARACTER: Marcus, Petrana, Julius
ROOM SUMMARY: A fairly organised living space, one of the larger shared spaces organised to support the busy lives of three adults. There are two writing desks, one of which is particularly large and imposing, full of locked drawers and storage. The also generously proportioned bed (couple-of-beds in disguise) will have been crudely made, with a few items of clothing from the wardrobe strewn on it in the chaos of getting ready. The place smells faintly of dog and smoke and perfume.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: Per the large desk, the locks are decently sophisticated but nonmagical and if Richard is keen to get past them, he'll find a diplomatic treasure trove belonging to Petrana de Cedoux, all highly organised. Hightown connections, wider diplomatic connections, all work related. There's also a very earnestly written and detailed journal that is part record and part diary about her sex life, perfectly up to date.
The other desk hosts no such archive, and a perusal through its contents will only find some recent looking notes, letters, and reports on Project Sashamiri business. A few books in the process of being read, judging by being lain face down or bookmarked.
One of the smaller tables by the sitting area has a wide drawer, unlocked, with a box of letters, all personal in nature. They're addressed to Marcus, and are signed off by people named Sima, Nyall, Fenn, Yve, all mostly speaking of daily life, responses to Riftwatch-related news from Marcus, and a couple of them refer to each other. A stand out in its difference is a recent one with a crest on more expensive paper, signed by a Rufus Rowntree. There's also a chest shoved into the corner that houses some heavy duty mage armour.
And beneath that are loose sheets of paper that would easily be recognised as notes taken after the prophetic dreams last winter, in Marcus' hand.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: I can Provide more information if there's closer snooping! Unless it's about the sex diary in which case you know where to find the guilty party.
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CHARACTER: Ellie
ROOM SUMMARY: Sparse but cluttered. She has a collapsible telescope in a case by the door, several library books left open and a stack of maps of Thedas. There's children's primers, along with Ellie's practice at the local alphabet, then books of history, lore and mythology. A half-finished hand-drawn star chart next to another one depicting an alien sky with a single moon is hung up over the desk.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: A couple of journals kept in English/Common rather than the Thedosian alphabet. Lots of words are crossed out, it looks like Ellie scribbles various thoughts in here and some have the look of poetry or song lyrics. It's common to find drawings of the places she's been stationed or sketches of people in Riftwatch. Astarion, Glimmer and Derrica are featured often. Some of the drawings are bloody, or gruesome, or depict monsters. There are several full pages where she's attempted to draw Abby Anderson, focusing on specific details like her eyes, which Ellie has drawn over and over in the margins. Some are scribbled out in apparent frustration. On the pages Abby appears, Ellie almost obsessively doodles moths. They're disjointed, like she isn't looking the paper when she does these. She still hasn't managed to get all of the details of Abby right.
He can also find a small enamel pin shaped like a space shuttle and an antique coin in her cloak pockets.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: snek
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CHARACTER: Bastien
ROOM SUMMARY: One of the large double rooms, divided by furniture to make separate sleeping and sitting areas. Filled with all the same things that can be found in every other Gallows room, except more of it, because he’s pilfered rugs and tapestries and extra chairs and so on from unused rooms/storage. Instruments in a corner, a half-played card game left as it was on the table for later, a reasonable number of books stacked in an unreasonable number of places, various gifts and knickknacks (paintings, a bust of who knows who, a music box, a bandalore, a mug that says Riftwatch's #1 Dad, etc.) on the shelves.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND:
- A note behind a loose stone in the wall that says TIME.
- A small bag of pebbles under the mattress, with a slip of paper that says BETTER.
- A hollowed-out book containing a key and tiny scroll that says NEXT.
- A letter-folded paper in the drawer unlocked by that key that says LUCK.
(He’s not prescient. They’ve been there since Aleksei and Yevdokiya stole all of his shit last year. There might be enough dust and cobwebs involved to make that clear.)Otherwise the complete absence of non-professional correspondence or items indicating connections outside of Riftwatch might be notable in itself. Or it might not. I’m really just here for the joke.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: kss kss.
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CHARACTER: Brother Gideon
ROOM SUMMARY: single-occupancy, sparse and undecorated save for a wooden Andrastian sun on the wall.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: The cupboard next to the bed contains several sets of identical black robes and a small prayer book. The contents are, one might say, Concerningly Intense and would be considered of the 'fire & brimstone' persuasion in a Christian setting. No fun allowed.
Between the mattress and the bedframe is a hand-drawn map of the Gallows towers. Nothing is labeled, but there are markings here and there to indicate some manner of importance.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: andraste is watching
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if he takes the time to check a marked spot or two on the map is he likely to find anything interesting?
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CHARACTER: Emet-Selch
ROOM SUMMARY: A single-occupancy room that would probably look like it's not even lived in if not for the fact he has a couple borrowed books sitting on a dresser. There's just one or two outfits and it's all kept very clean and neat. This nerd's boring as hell, basically.
SOME THING(S) YOU WANT DICK TO FIND: The one non-boring thing is that he has a half mask wrapped in fabric in a drawer, & it doesn't appear to be any recognizable material.
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: hello I'm sorry I have so little to hand you but here u go.
WANNA CATCH THAT DICK?
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DISCORD/PLURK: wehwalt @ plurk, steve spiderman#5780
CHARACTER: Jone