OOC Plotting: The Least of His Children Player Plot

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Team Grifter
Felix
Norrington
Kaisa
Anders

Team Thief
Nathaniel
Fenris
Araceli
Inessa

For all of the above, this is a plotting post for the plot as described here to rescue a Tevinter slave who was a Denerim resident.

Draft post is here.

Comments

Questions

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Plottingz!

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Team Thief: Finding and entering the vault

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Ideas for how to break in:

-Go on a day when Valerius has some laborers coming in to do work on his house. Cancel his appointment with them and pose as the laborers.

-Break in to the wine cellar, which is unguarded, and somehow (magic?) bust through a wall into the vault.

-Get a monkey. Teach the monkey how to steal keys. Have the monkey steal the...no wait, that's no good. Monkeys hate keys. Never mind, then.

[circleprodigy]

Inessa can definitely use magic to bust through a wall. This is her mage skillset below, if that helps with planning. She'd be pretty open about what she can and cannot do.

Winter: Winter's Grasp (Winter's Chill), Fade Step (Energizing Step), Wall of Ice (Ring of Ice), Ice Mine (Chilling Array), Blizzard (Winter Winds)
Spirit: Barrier (Energetic Defense), Dispel (Transmute Magic), Revive (Life Ward)
Rift Mage: Stonefist
Heal: Heal
Hex: Vulnerability Hex, Affliction Hex, Misdirection Hex

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Can she do it quietly?

[circleprodigy]

Relatively quietly, at least. It's going to make noise no matter what, but striking at the right spot could mean a lot less time spent on getting it down and less time for them to be noticed.

now with the right journal

[foxsays]

Since Araceli has never had the skills to bust through a wall, she would probably be more down with the labourers plan.

If there was another way that didn't involve busting through a wall for the vault she'd be down but noise is absolutely your enemy as a thief unless you're using a source of noise elsewhere as a distraction.

(Sorry Team Thief but she was a really goddamn good thief for years okay.)

wrong journal, fight me

[gatheringstorm]

Inessa has a mabari that can happily serve as a distracting source of noise! Just a thought.

[mythalenaste]

Well, if they go in dressed as contractors, it will need to be before Team Grifter gets there, and they'll either need an excuse to go in the vault or they will need to get the guards out.

Plant bees in the floorboards?

[circleprodigy]

Sera would be so proud.

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We're going with bees in the floorboards, then!

Team Grifter aka Team Leverage

[judgemewhole]

James would like to state he's there to stand around and look armed and bored.

So ... why is he there standing around looking bored, team? What is their particular angle?

[justice_is_blond]

They're there doing schmoozing stuff, servants of Felix while he while he "falls in love," so maybe they're there to supposedly see about buying some of the Magister's nicer wines?

And then Kaisa, Norrington, and Anders are just along as his entourage, so Norrington could easily be bodyguard with the standing around and looking bored, Anders could be there as staff healer, which likely wouldn't be too unusual in the Imperium, and then Kaisa... we'd need a role for her, whatever her player wants.

[blightedson]

Norrington as a bodyguard would be pretty awesome okay.

Felix in general is going to have to settle into this role a bit, so people helping him before hand would be kind of needed. He'll pull it off eventually, but at first he's going to be kind of... weird ... about being back in Tevinter.

Once it starts though, it makes sense that Norrington is the bodyguard, Anders is the healer, and Kaisa is some kind of servant? Felix is supposed to be playing dumb but rich so having high level members of his staff around would be like a sign of wealth.