MOD POST ↠ FALSE GODS PLOTTING POST, PT 1

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PLOTTING POST: FALSE GODS, PT 1

The first plot log for time travelers and their future friends has been posted. Only part of that log is currently available. This is a plotting post for their escape from Kirkwall, which will take place IC in five days. Since there are so many characters involved, we're providing an outline of the escape plan rather than GMing it from beginning to end, and players can play the portions of it that they want to play. We'll post additional top-level comments in that log for the escape once there's been a little time to plan it here.

A general outline of the escape:

1. An NPC who drags characters away for presumably torture will instead deliver information to one or more of the imprisoned PCs. In addition to information, the NPC will give someone keys to the cells for the characters who are in the communal prison area and one of the confiscated sending crystals to facilitate reaching outside help. This will be GMed.
   
   
2. Once the characters from Step 1 have returned and passed around the keys so everyone is out of their cells, there will be an open log for getting past the guards in the dungeon and finding a place to hide for a few hours.
   
   
3. While hiding, the team will cook up a Cunning Plan. They'll also be able to reach out to non-imprisoned characters who may be able to help--any spies, infiltrators, saboteurs, etc., currently in Kirkwall--using the crystal. This will mostly be handwaved.
   
   
4. The Cunning Plan could include retrieving any other imprisoned characters in other areas of the Gallows, going after traitors to drag them home to face justice, creating diversions in the city to draw troops away from the Gallows, etc. This will be a free-for-all; it won't be GMed, so you can group off to play parts of it on your own, running into as much or as little trouble along the way as you'd like.
   
   
5. Everyone who lives through this and wants to go back to Ferelden will rendezvous in a cave on the Wounded Coast and catch a boat to safety. (Characters are also welcome to escape into the mountains or find their own way back to Ferelden later.)

Use the top-level comments below to plan how you want your character to fit into this!

Comments

QUESTIONS

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As always.

NPC LOG

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Comment here if you're interested in your character being given information and keys by the NPC. We'll RNG for a maximum of two PC participants.

RESCUES

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This is for organizing rescues to make sure no one who needs to escape Kirkwall gets left behind! Comment here if your character is NOT in the communal cell area and needs someone to come get them. This includes characters held in isolation and characters who are not being held at all and may need to be persuaded/kidnapped.

If your character can be the one to rescue one of the characters who needs it, reply to them to plan that out.

DIVERSIONS

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If your characters would like to create diversions/chaos or otherwise facilitate the escape, comment here! Or reply to other people and arrange to help them with their chaos.

MISCELLANEOUS

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If your character would help (or requires help) in a way not listed above, comment here and we'll figure it out.

[serannas]

What steps would the Tevinters have taken to stop Ellana from using her magic?

[doneisdone]

There's a chance Teren might know someone or they might know her, from past shady stints! She'd be good for this kind of thing, also because she's skilled at keeping her mouth shut.

[faderifting]

There's a heavy Red Templar presence wherever mages are kept imprisoned, as well as other mages capable of dispelling their fellows and equaling them in power. If you need something beyond that, they could use magebane.

[serannas]

Nah, that works! I wanted to know if her magic could be available to use if they need it during their escape, or if she was magebaned.

[onlyhymns]

Cade does not need to be rescued (or like. he does, but wouldn't admit it), but is available to either block or facilitate any attempted Beleth rescues. Depends on who it is and how she reacts!

Basically look you can fight and/or yell at Cade and/or bargain with him

[extramural]

Are the cells locked with regular locks? And does magebane work on Rifters with magic? (The Outsider can magically open normal locks so)

[faderifting]

Magebane does work on them, as do Templar abilities, which at least two of the four nearby guards will have.

[extramural]

i saw EVERYTHING

GUESS THE OUTSIDER IS TAKING A NAP

EDIT: Thought of another question! Would this also do anything to innate abilities like his strength/agility?

[circleprodigy]

I believe Inessa and Ciri were going to help in this regard! Inessa will follow Ciri's lead on this, but she's ready to cause some devastation.

[faderifting]

It will work on any ability that is superhuman (or superelf etc.). Since Rifters are physically Thedosianized, abilities that are superhuman—even if they're physiological in the Rifter's canon—are tied to the Fade here. But once they've initially escaped there should be plenty of time during the planning period for the magebane to wear off and let him return to form.

[extramural]

... this makes me wonder if his eyes should be not-black, since in canon they're black because he's tied to the Void (THANKS FOR TELLING ME THAT LATE, DEVELOPERS). Since this is a cosmetic thing, can I fiddle with it at will?

[faderifting]

If they're tied to magic then it's likely they would revert to having whites while he was affected by magebane or Templars. But it's not really something we're going to fuss over either way.

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You're the best.

[sulena]

YES INDEED! Ciri and Inessa are going to help by blowing themselves and Darktown up so huzzah for diversion devastation.

[arlathvhen]

OKAY SO I have a brand new plan which is: Alan, at one point or another, finds out about the plans the others are making, and lets Beleth know that shit is going down. She and Cade end up deciding that they ought to take this final chance to go back to the Inquisition (and by that I mean Beleth decides and drags Cade behind her).

They end up using their Insider Knowledge to the good of the Inquisition, in exchange for being allowed to go back to Orzammar. When Merrick shows up to rescue Beleth she politely suggests he help wreck Venatori shit.

What they do and other people's reactions are totally up in the air, this is just what she's gonna be doing.

Re: DIVERSIONS

[not_the_question]

The Doctor thinks he'd be good at this buuuut... Sonics don't work, so he'd pretty much be left with his yo-yo and anything else he can find lying around.

[not_the_question]

(Sorry if these questions seem basic, I'm trying to get caught up, but still mostly canon-blind.)

Others have mentioned Magebane, would it have been given to all prisoners as a precaution? (Makes a difference for the Doctor's rapid healing abilities and how injured he is at different points of the rescue.)

Also, what happens to people with Shards? (or what happens to the shard?)


(Thank you! This is an awesome plot!)

[sulena]

For ideas, Saoirse is a former mage from the Kirkwall Cirlce so maybe there is a familiar face wandering around??

[faderifting]

Don't apologize! It's what we're here for!

Whether or not the Doctor was given magebane would depend on whether he was putting up a fight that appears magical. Magebane is a concoction that cuts off magical energy, so if he was acting like a mage, they might use it on him. If he wasn't, they might drug him with something else just to stop him from struggling, if required.

Nothing in particular will happen to the anchor shards at this point. They'll continue their usual glow and occasional flare of harmless energy, but they won't change. This will be an obvious contrast to some of the anchored characters in the future, whose anchors will have grown and gotten more unstable!

[not_the_question]

Great! Thank you!