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OOC: antiva mini-plot quest thing & sign ups
Hello, Fade Rift!
I come to bring tidings of a mini-plot mission thing orchestrated by the lovely Josephine and considerably-less-lovely Leliana. This plot will be set in Antiva and will require around eight participants, although that number may be increased if there is a lot of interest. The mission itself is gently timey-wimey for the sake of sign up flexibility, but will be roughly set between 1st-5th May, including travel time.
But what, tho?
A summary:
Leliana has collected information concerning a Merchant Prince in Antiva who not only is trading in slaves, but is supplying said slaves to Venatori. She wants his operation shut down and any intel that can be gathered, and any slaves to be freed. This Merchant has been colluding with an Orlesian noble who, while not personally involved in the smuggling, hold some sway in Orlesian court and has remained resistant to the Inquisition despite effort to schmooze. Josephine wants to make use of his diplomatic potential and perhaps some blackmail and threats to connect him with the Venatori and slave trade are now necessary.
The group travels to Antiva to deal with these issue on behalf of the Secrets and Connections branches of the Inquisition, although undeniably this is being dealt with in a Secrets capacity.
A team of roughly 8 will be sent to Antiva, and then how they divide themselves could come down to tactics discussed by the players involved, although the Orlesian noble will try to climb down some ivy to escape and maybe need a back up team to intercept him, because he is an A+ duellist. Fun and shenanigans, investigating, some NPCing (by me!) and then a return to Skyhold with a range of 1 to 5 new additions, depending how things go.
But why, tho?
There are three goals.
For Secrets: take down a Merchant Prince who has some shady smuggling ties with slavers who has been rumoured to be supplying some of his “merchandise” to Venatori, acquire all information and books relating to Venatori dealings. Whether he is brought back to be interrogated/face trial/etc or killed can be left up to the players and how they interact with the NPC.
For Connections: the Orlesian Noble involved in this would be brought back to Skyhold as an “honoured guest” so Josephine can work her terrifying diplomatic magic and let him know he is at the Inquisition’s mercy and he will henceforth act as an asset to the Inquisition.
For The Good of Skyhold: the Merchant Prince has a legendary trio of chefs that work for him, the envy of many in Antiva and masters of cuisine from across Thedas, with an obvious specialty in Antivan. Leliana and Josephine want his chefs to be recruited so people stop demanding Antivan Chefs. (These chefs are actually Tal-Vashoth who left the Qun to follow their culinary dreams.)
But who, tho?
Leliana and Josie will be behind the scenes, and the mission itself is open to anyone!
Those counted as Leliana’s scouts/baby spies would be ensured 4 of the slots, if they express interest. People who lied to Leliana regarding Anders probably would be blocked from involvement because she is petty and forged of salt, HOWEVER if you can think of a passable reason why they should be considered anyway/would be super useful then just note down what it is and we’ll chuck you in the RNG selection anyway >8]b
Sign ups will close 24th April to allow a few days for plotting/discussion and then the log will go live on 30th April.
Sidenote: I am still in Denmark and juggling some family stuff so there may be occasional instances of RP delays, but when this log goes up it will be my priority, so hopefully it will not be impacted at all.
ETA: due to arranging a sort of last minute trip to the UK, I'm tweaking the dates a bit - sign ups will close the plotting comments posted 22nd April, and I will post the log on the 1st May so that I'm not awkwardly overseas and trying to NPC stuff in an airport. Hooray!
I come to bring tidings of a mini-plot mission thing orchestrated by the lovely Josephine and considerably-less-lovely Leliana. This plot will be set in Antiva and will require around eight participants, although that number may be increased if there is a lot of interest. The mission itself is gently timey-wimey for the sake of sign up flexibility, but will be roughly set between 1st-5th May, including travel time.
But what, tho?
A summary:
Leliana has collected information concerning a Merchant Prince in Antiva who not only is trading in slaves, but is supplying said slaves to Venatori. She wants his operation shut down and any intel that can be gathered, and any slaves to be freed. This Merchant has been colluding with an Orlesian noble who, while not personally involved in the smuggling, hold some sway in Orlesian court and has remained resistant to the Inquisition despite effort to schmooze. Josephine wants to make use of his diplomatic potential and perhaps some blackmail and threats to connect him with the Venatori and slave trade are now necessary.
The group travels to Antiva to deal with these issue on behalf of the Secrets and Connections branches of the Inquisition, although undeniably this is being dealt with in a Secrets capacity.
A team of roughly 8 will be sent to Antiva, and then how they divide themselves could come down to tactics discussed by the players involved, although the Orlesian noble will try to climb down some ivy to escape and maybe need a back up team to intercept him, because he is an A+ duellist. Fun and shenanigans, investigating, some NPCing (by me!) and then a return to Skyhold with a range of 1 to 5 new additions, depending how things go.
But why, tho?
There are three goals.
For Secrets: take down a Merchant Prince who has some shady smuggling ties with slavers who has been rumoured to be supplying some of his “merchandise” to Venatori, acquire all information and books relating to Venatori dealings. Whether he is brought back to be interrogated/face trial/etc or killed can be left up to the players and how they interact with the NPC.
For Connections: the Orlesian Noble involved in this would be brought back to Skyhold as an “honoured guest” so Josephine can work her terrifying diplomatic magic and let him know he is at the Inquisition’s mercy and he will henceforth act as an asset to the Inquisition.
For The Good of Skyhold: the Merchant Prince has a legendary trio of chefs that work for him, the envy of many in Antiva and masters of cuisine from across Thedas, with an obvious specialty in Antivan. Leliana and Josephine want his chefs to be recruited so people stop demanding Antivan Chefs. (These chefs are actually Tal-Vashoth who left the Qun to follow their culinary dreams.)
But who, tho?
Leliana and Josie will be behind the scenes, and the mission itself is open to anyone!
Those counted as Leliana’s scouts/baby spies would be ensured 4 of the slots, if they express interest. People who lied to Leliana regarding Anders probably would be blocked from involvement because she is petty and forged of salt, HOWEVER if you can think of a passable reason why they should be considered anyway/would be super useful then just note down what it is and we’ll chuck you in the RNG selection anyway >8]b
Sign ups will close 24th April to allow a few days for plotting/discussion and then the log will go live on 30th April.
Sidenote: I am still in Denmark and juggling some family stuff so there may be occasional instances of RP delays, but when this log goes up it will be my priority, so hopefully it will not be impacted at all.
ETA: due to arranging a sort of last minute trip to the UK, I'm tweaking the dates a bit - sign ups will close the plotting comments posted 22nd April, and I will post the log on the 1st May so that I'm not awkwardly overseas and trying to NPC stuff in an airport. Hooray!
QUESTIONS?
SIGN UPS.
Please fill out the following form:
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Character: Legolas
Class/Specialisation: Ar...cher? Hunter / warrior, tolkien!elf.
Particular Qualifications? He can be sneaky as needed, walks silently, he can see and hear far, he can put people to sleep (AND NOT JUST BY PUNCHING THEM lmao), snipe from afar, fight well, see in the dark well, be politically savvy if needed... JUST POKE ME if this should be more in depth 8D
Notes: FREEDOM
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Character: Ellana Ashara
Class/Specialisation: Mage/Shapeshifter
Particular Qualifications? Mainly just a do-gooder who has fought a bit in combat. In a group fight, she's big on protecting her allies with barriers. Plus now that she can shapeshift into a small bird, she would love to get more experience scouting out situations to be of use to the Inquisition.
Notes: Magekid who wants a pseudo-scout merit badge and to SEE THE WORLD!
no subject
Character: Zevran
Class/Specialisation: Rogue / Assassin
Particular Qualifications? The Ombra Nera, a sneaky sneak to end all sneaky sneaks, a native that knows the area and has connections, and his reputation holds some weight if they wish to use it.
Notes: lied about Anders but. Apology gifts of nug armor and shoes. Come on brosis t-t give him a chance.
Re: SIGN UPS.
Character: Isabela
Class/Specialisation: Rogue/Duelist/Swashbuckler
Particular Qualifications? Though she doesn't talk much about the details, the fact that Isabela hates slavery is well-known (and Leliana may be aware of how she freed the last shipment of slaves she was supposed to transport). Also, Isabela has shady smuggling ties. She'll know which strings to pull and may already be aware of of some of the movements of the slave operation. Oh yes, and Orlesians hang slavers--Isabela will make a particular note about that. And did we mention she has ships of her own? And crews at her command? She could arrange to intercept the shipments. And HELLO, HE'S A DUELIST? ISABELA LOVES TO DUEL PEOPLE AND IS ALSO AN A+ DUELIST.
Notes: Technically one of Leliana's agents anyway. She insists she didn't lie about Anders, she simply didn't do anything to give away his presence. Leliana might not have forgiven her, but Isabela brings some strong assets to this ploy.
no subject
Character: Beleth
Class/Specialisation: Rogue / Archer / Bard
Particular Qualifications? She's a trained archer, currently training as a bard, is a sneaky sneak elf, and good at charming people.
Notes: She's one of Leliana's bardling spykids, proved herself during the soiree, and wants to continue showing that she's capable. Also she really wants a vacation and going to Antiva and taking down slavers sounds lovely.
no subject
Character: Araceli Bonaventura
Class/Specialisation: Rogue / Duelist (sort of) / Bard
Particular Qualifications? Basically would have the duelist spec but with rapiers rather than daggers with parkour bonus, A+ stealth and rogue skills as expected of a thief, speaks a language that's very similiar to Antivan (Zevran can vouch for that one), known to be very pro-personal freedoms and previously went to Antiva to help rescue Zevran
Notes: Bard in training, proved herself at the soiree, and Leliana knows that she's a queensguard back home with parkour bonus
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Character: Ariadne
Class/Specialisation: Spy/Thief
Particular Qualifications? She's a parkour princess. Her heightened sense of hearing allows her to hear from great distances and detect things like pulses and fluctuation (lie detector). She has talons that can cut through most surfaces. She's also incredibly cute and easily dismissed.
Notes: Cole has been urging Ariadne to get involved with Leliana for some time. He would vouch for her (something we could possibly play out beforehand? idk)
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Character: Teren von Skraedder
Class/Specialisation: Rogue/shady individual
Particular Qualifications? Leliana would likely know that she worked as a spy for a long time and is good at information gathering for the ends of... whatever her employer wants, pretty much. She's good in combat as well (dual-wield, two stilettos) but her strength is in subterfuge.
Notes: She would probably want a cover story for why she's going along, since she doesn't want everyone and their brother to know that she's not just a seamstress/Warden.
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Character: Solas
Class/Specialisation: Rift Mage
Particular Qualifications? Always happy to kill anyone who is enslaving anyone
Notes: actual apostate hobo
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Character: Korrin Ataash
Class/Specialisation: Mage/Knight-Enchanter/fledgling Rift Mage
Particular Qualifications? She's been to Antiva before, both to rescue Zevran and many times before then. What she lacks in subtlety/diplomacy, she might make up for in knowledge.
Notes: So very pro-freedom.
no subject
Character: Fenris
Class/Specialisation: Warrior/Hitting things really really hard/Using his lyrium infused abilities to scare the shit out of everyone
Particular Qualifications? He's been chasing down slavers for quite some time according to canon. He will want any excuse to chase down more
Notes: Anders deserves everything he gets.
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Character: Sera (Maria loves you, babe, but it's hard stealthing in all that armor)
Class/Specialisation: Thief/Tempest
Particular Qualifications? A burning desire to embarrass all Nobles and slavers and to rescue the little people?
Notes: Fire! Bees! Elaborate scavenger hunts! Also Friends of Red Jenny.
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Character: The Iron Bull
Class/Specialisation: Warrior/Reaver
Particular Qualifications? He's a whole lot of muscle, and tactically pretty savvy. He's also got an axe to grind when it comes to Tevinter slavers.
Notes: Ben-Hassrath, remember?
THE TEAM.
The noble RNG has spoken!
I will write up a little sub comment to this for each character with a couple of ideas for why/how Leliana approached them, and we can also crank out ideas for any side focuses that she might have given your character, if I can think of anything of the sort or if you have something you’d like them to be able to do in Antiva that can work around the mission.
From Leliana’s people:
Araceli, Beleth, The Iron Bull, Zevran
From Other People Who Are Also Cool But Not Quite As Cool:
Ariadne, Legolas, Teren, Solas
No pressure on being surrounded by a sea of rogue types, Solas and Bull, I’m sure you’ll do Just Fine.
I’ll post some more comments with some info on the npcs and scenarios for plotting below.
I'm open to being as flexible as possible, and Leliana will entrust determining tactics to her people and the others involved, feel free to brainstorm whether teams will split up or all approach the Merchant Prince's estate :]b
ARACELI & BELETH
This would be part of the whole "be bards that support each other instead of ruining each others lives" thing, building rapport and working together in the field. She'd particularly ask them to gather as much information as they can, and also be interested in hearing their assessment of the different team members (I don't actually expect you to write all that up unless you really want to okok)
She'd probably contact them both via note, unless you'd sooner she gets in touch in person
also if you have time buy yourselves on more sheet music in Antiva ok
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ZEVRAN
Obviously one of the greatest sources of knowledge on Antiva, however her offer is very much an offer rather than an order, because one of his more recent stints in Antiva was hideous, and she doesn't want to make his life terrible. She also has Suspicions that Oleastro may have documents that further shed light on the information found when Zev was rescued, which she will tell him.
ALSO she will ask that he pick up the finest Antivan brandy he can while he's there okay he's known her forever and probably saw her get shitfaced on the stuff once in the Blight it'll be Fine
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THE IRON BULL.
She will mention the chefs to him being a boon for morale and that she has heard rumours about them, but they are a guarded secret of Oleastro and potentially also trapped. She doesn't know they are tal vashoth though, ah.
LEGOLAS
1. she thinks Galadriel is A+ okay
2. this would be very much an invitation delivered in person, to see if he would be interested in seeing some of the work the Inquisition do and kicking some slaver butt and freeing slaves in the process
3. note to self we will thread this later okay DON'T FORGET SELF
4. also archery is great and they need some ranged sorts c: hi bro
SOLAS
also lbr she'll just yell down to him from teh rookery and they can fly through the air and brofist
these comments are getting progressively worse oops
but no seriously I think because they are so likeminded in terms of FREEDOM and because he was with her on the FREE GALADRIEL front and all Leliana would be very interested in welcoming Solas back to the world of missions after his absence and would also like to have a mage on the team, since it is so very rogue heavy. She'd probably go and see him in person :]b totally free to thread the recruitment convo if you like or handwave whoo
Re: SOLAS
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maybe they need like a fireman's pole so she can get down to chat with him fast
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Gavin did it - Korin caught him
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ARIADNE
She probably wouldn't have any special assignments or instructions for Ariadne since it's their first time working together but she be interested in knowing her thoughts after, and such.
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TEREN.
1. note to self, threading the recruitment
2. possible cover story for Teren that since she is a seamstress she could be going along lest they need someone to infiltrate as a servant, or because they had to move fast on the mission and maybe that calls for an actual seamstress who can also fight people let's brainstorm ok
3. GATHER ALL THE DOCUMENTS
3a. possibly consider how badly they can threaten to fuck shit up for Fortier/gather incriminating documents and evidence for Josephine to throw at his face
THE MERCHANT PRINCE.
Not one of the Venatori, but Leliana's intel indicates he has been working with them and trading slaves, sending many of them to the Venatori.
• Can be captured or killed, depending on IC shenanigans
• Linked to Lord Enzo
Things to do:
• Free the slaves (required by Leliana's orders)
• Recruit the Legendary Chefs (three tal-vashoth, THEY CARE ABOUT FOOD and aren't thrilled about working for a slaver but they are also sort of stuck) - this is optional but would be amazing
• Discover documents and clues. Amongst these is a cipher! Clues will contain information about a location and some Venatori related things, I can disclose this or keep it a surprise for the log itself, depending on preferences??
If you have questions or thoughts on how your character would interact with/react to Oleastro (and whether they'd want him dead or alive) and what things they'd be interested in doing/how they'd want to go about it, note them here! Plotting and brainstorming yes :]
THE ORLESIAN.
Requested brought back alive by Josephine, so this NPC can't die and does need to be apprehended and brought back to Skyhold.
• By reputation has enough money to make the Chantry blush, and the funds he could provide would be a major boon for the Inqusition
• Vocally anti-Inquisition, turned down Josephine's invitation to come to the soiree
• Not actually involved in the slave trade, but such an accusation would greatly damage his reputation
• Family fortune largley based in property, but has been seeking """""investments""""" opportunities - take that as you will.
Regardless of the exact events with the Merchant Prince he will ninja off a balcony, down some ivy, and do a runner. He is master duelist so someone(s) will need to restrain his butt. (He has an objectively glorious butt and hair worthy of a herbal essence commercial.)
If you have particular thoughts on how your character would interact with/react to Fortier, if they would like to be in the group that goes and chases/duels/apprehends him somehow, reply here!
OTHER STUFF???
I should probably make some stuff about the estate eh