MOD POST ↠ PLOT ASSIGNMENTS

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ASSIGNMENTS: FALSE GODS, PT II

For the second leg of the Future AU plot, we’re going to experiment with another method of plot delivery: individual assignments. Assignments are similar to our War Table Operations, but rather than assembling a group, we’ll assign an objective to a single character. Here’s how it will work.

FIRST, you sign up below if you’re interested in an assignment. The deadline is 11:59 PM EST on February 20. For sanity’s sake, we’re currently capping this at five participants. (Those five participants will be able to involve additional characters if they choose! Keep reading.) We’ll RNG if necessary. We’ll also prioritize Future AU characters who did not participate in the Kirkwall escape. We’ll only give assignments to the TTT or Kirkwall escapees if we have leftovers.

SECOND, we match our list of objectives — events or intelligence that would contribute toward the plot — to the list of characters, tailoring the method of accomplishing a given objective to the character's skills. We give you a very brief description of what your character needs to do. Assignments will be screened, so you’ll be the only one who knows what’s up and will be able to surprise other players if you want.

For example, if for important plot purposes we need the Inquisition to know that the Nug King exists, and your character is an expert at digging holes, we may assign that character to dig a latrine that inadvertently opens up a tunnel to the Nug King’s lair. On the other hand, if your character speaks Nug, we may ask them to trace his location based on rumors from local Nug Gossips.

Depending on the assignment, there may be some other requirements. We might specify that your character isn’t allowed to fail at the assignment because it will derail the whole plot if they do, or that the information your character acquires is required to be reported to the advisors or made public knowledge.

THIRD, your character does the thing. Except in special circumstances, these will be IC orders — someone higher than them in the chain of command (or whoever is paying them, if they’re freelancers/allies rather than Inquisition members) will have given them the assignment directly. It will be their IC responsibility to get it done, either alone or with a team they put together. You can (1) put up an OOC post to invite people to sign up to assist your character; (2) invite other characters to assist individually based on their skill sets or relationships; or, (3) have your character complete the task alone or with NPCs and instead focus on RPing the aftermath.

To return to our Nug King example, if Bob is assigned to find the Nug King, Bob's player can treat it like a full player plot with sign-ups if Bob's player would like. Or Bob can just bring his friend Charlie. Or Bob can go alone and his player can skip RPing the actual discovery of the Nug King altogether, focusing instead on reporting breathlessly to the crystal network that he has found the Nug King or his triumphant return home with the Nug King in a cage.

FOURTH, you come back within one month of the date the assignment is received and provide a link to at least one AC-length proof that the assignment was RPed about, in some capacity, with at least one other player’s participation, and that it fulfilled any OOC requirements we gave you. (E.g., if we said information had to be reported to the advisors, we’ll need to see that report on the advisors’ report page, which we will link you to if that’s a requirement.)

Barring an OOC emergency, failing to follow through on an assignment will mean being last priority in mod plot sign-ups for two months.

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Again, this is an experiment, so if it sounds like the worst plan you’ve ever heard of, have no fear! We won’t continue doing plot this way if it doesn’t work. And if it does work, it will be mixed in with our usual open plot logs and more traditional team-based mod plots.