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faderiftooc2021-11-22 11:25 am
cozen) wrote in faderiftooc2021-11-22 11:25 am
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War Table Assignment (Jeshavis)
WHO: Two or three people with some degree of stealth skill! If there are more signups than slots, I’ll RNG. If it comes to RNG, you’ll get preference if you sign up for the project.
WHAT: Working in conjunction with Orlesian intelligence, Riftwatch agents will go foil an assassination attempt on a military leader who’s advocating for sending Orlesian soldiers to the Free Marches.
Then they’ll have to decide what to do with the assassin—a bard who will claim it’s a set-up, that she’s a nobleman’s daughter, and she was hired by the same agent of the Empress who Riftwatch is working with and it must be a scheme to get rid of her, etc.
HOW: (1) You’ll write a log about foiling the assassination. (2) You’ll decide whether your characters believe the bard or not and what they do about it. (3) I’ll roll dice to see whether they’re right or not (which no one will know until afterwards, back in the Gallows). (4) You’ll get a bonus on that roll based on how action-movie cool the assassination foiling was. If you want a better chance at being correct, somebody better do a backflip.
WHEN: Sign up by 11/26, I’ll give you the info by 11/27, report due by 1/1/2022(!)
WHAT: Working in conjunction with Orlesian intelligence, Riftwatch agents will go foil an assassination attempt on a military leader who’s advocating for sending Orlesian soldiers to the Free Marches.
Then they’ll have to decide what to do with the assassin—a bard who will claim it’s a set-up, that she’s a nobleman’s daughter, and she was hired by the same agent of the Empress who Riftwatch is working with and it must be a scheme to get rid of her, etc.
HOW: (1) You’ll write a log about foiling the assassination. (2) You’ll decide whether your characters believe the bard or not and what they do about it. (3) I’ll roll dice to see whether they’re right or not (which no one will know until afterwards, back in the Gallows). (4) You’ll get a bonus on that roll based on how action-movie cool the assassination foiling was. If you want a better chance at being correct, somebody better do a backflip.
WHEN: Sign up by 11/26, I’ll give you the info by 11/27, report due by 1/1/2022(!)
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You all got FULL CREDIT for coolness, wow what BABES! So that was a +15 bonus on the roll. Unfortunately, the roll came out as 10, and the threshold for their choice being "right" was 30.
So a few weeks after their return from Kirkwall, news of Lady Clara d'Archambon mysterious disappearance would have filtered back—so she wasn't lying about her identity. A Riftwatch contact asked to look into it further will report back that d'Archambon, in her work as a Bard, had recently acquired some sort of blackmail on the Marquise Calvet, on behalf of a wealthy merchant who has also since died. Since then, the Marquise Calvet has amicably settled a border dispute with the Marquis Wiscotte, a particularly useful supporter of Celene's. No sign of d'Archambon having any connection to Tevinter will be found. Her lady's maid will confide in Riftwatch's contact that she loved Orlais and had cryptically mentioned a chance to impress the Empress before her disappearance.
This isn't necessarily a bad outcome: handing her over avoided damaging their relationship with the Empress and her personal spies, Riftwatch is not being blamed for anything, and they've received clear evidence that they can't trust Celene (or perhaps just Sedaina) not to use them for her own ends and lie about it, which will be good to know for the future. And Jade/Clara was totally going to kill that guy if they didn't stop her.
But, you know, all kind of sad and stupid.