INTEREST CHECK: if you want me, just whistle.

[elegiaque]

𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔪𝔢, 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔢

WHAT
As new housing options become available for those affiliated with the Inquisition, Lady Vauquelin (along with the Duke de Coucy, and Morrigan's Kieran) will be relocating to a Hightown home where she will make her base. At roughly the same time, an increase in missing elves from the Kirkwall alienage will be becoming noticeable to anyone who cares to notice - though, who cares to notice some more missing elves, right? Certainly not Gwenaëlle, noted asshole; but increasingly suspicious behaviour of her Hightown neighbour will draw her attention, eventually requiring the aid of the Inquisition in investigating the increasingly likely prospect that the man next door is a Tevinter slaver acting as a spy for Corypheus. The ideal outcome? His living capture, a boon to the Inquisition and a PR opportunity to prove that they will work thoughtfully and methodically and without upending Kirkwall.

So try not to upend Kirkwall in the process.

See THIS POST for the full introductory breakdown and signups. Signups to investigate missing elves are CLOSED; signups to investigate shady Hightown dudes are still open.

CHECKING IN
HELLO THERE, LET'S BRAINSTORM. I'm checking in to see if there's still interest in continuing this plot and what would best enable people to do so! The way I've set it up is aimed at people figuring out what they want to do & how their characters will proceed, and I can provide information and assistance based on that; how it moves forward depends on what people choose to pursue and how they proceed.

If you're still interested, what would you like from me in order to move forward? What appeals to you about the plot, what works for you, what would you like your characters to do? Let us brainstorm.

THAT'S A LOT OF COMMENTS, WHAT'S THE HAPS

QUICK LOOK:

team yakety stealth (ellana, yngvi) pursue suspicious individuals to gather intelligence.

team kindergarten cop (myr, kit, sina) rescue some abandoned children, what the fuck happened here.

team the watch books (wren) will begin hightown adventures.

to be added to as plans firm up.

Comments

[limier]

i'm still in, someone's probably been asking moderately nosy questions of the servants about how they've all been settling in (which i'm sure is earning just tons of goodwill with people paid well not to gossip who are worried about being fired)

i know the hightown stuff was going to come in a little later, so if it's time to start pursuing that or you'd prefer to wait on it, just lmk. -b she's probably heard dick-all about missing elves and is unlikely to unless yngvi or saoirse mention it.

[elegiaque]

gwen's staff is gently stressed to fuck bc a. they're getting pretty generous pay but b. she's been moody and high maintenance and has generally seemed ready to fire half of them at any moment for inconsequential preference things about how the house gets run. as of this publication no one has actually been fired, and a couple of them have figured out how she prefers certain things to be done, but that process has not involved any 'being told', so that's fun. so that's the bulk of her household staff murmurings, no one explicitly complaining but everyone a little bit on edge.

BUT SINCE IT'S BEEN A MONTH BASICALLY, she's had the house a while, she's settling in, some of them might have mentioned that the odd comings and goings wrt the Inquisition don't draw as much attention when her neighbour is in and out at all hours, too, merchants, you know, having things delivered and whatnot, probably trade secrets is why it's so late, but also someone saw gwen trying to see over the wall out one of the upstairs windows.

[limier]

briefly debates the merits of sending a letter to ask the main household how they do it, decides she'd rather not burn their CR to the ground and salt the ashes, probably tries to corner yva at some point to be like so.......is this normal or..........

but gwen bitch you're gonna fall out a window!! quietly makes inquiries about what merchant mostly sells, along with other hightown notables, under the guise of looking solicit donations for the chantry memorial-garden-forest. this is like 50% of the actual goal, anyway. the other half is "if she falls out of the window will someone notice and call for a healer"

@everyone - if anyone wants a hightown adventure, hmu and they can go on one together

[elegiaque]

inquiring with yva will tell her (mostly in the gaps between what she says and the blatant attempts to cover it up with Being Superior To All This and Loyal To Her Lady) that yva had never met gwen or been around her prior to being yanked from chambermaiding to replace the deceased mistress baudin and has very little insight into what "normal" is for her due to the fact it's basically been nonstop upheaval of one kind or another since she arrived, and gwen has been blatantly and purposefully shutting her out past the absolute bare minimum of her job. a lot of the things she'd expected to be doing, gwen doesn't want her around for.

HOWEVER, as a chambermaid she answered to mistress baudin until the housekeeper was sent to replace the first lady's maid (katell, an elf, now works for the inquisition), and is the source of some of the quiet corrections to how things are being done.

ALSO DEFINITELY HAVE A HIGHTOWN ADVENTURE, i think it'd be good to start poking that bear.