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War Table
THE WAR TABLE
Operations
- Characters may not participate in more than one war table operation at a time.
- Sign-ups are first come, first served. After the minimum number of characters is reached, we'll wait approximately 48 hours to allow additional sign-ups before closing the operation and giving participants the necessary information.
- Travel time for operations outside of Skyhold can and should be OOCly condensed/handwaved for the sake of not RPing weeks upon weeks of roadside camping, but you're welcome to set scenes along the way as well.
- Operations will not be GMed, but we're always happy to answer questions or provide additional details as requested.
- If you would like to suggest a war table operation--if your character is doing something other people should probably notice and investigate, their relatives are causing trouble, etc.--let us know on the Plot Request page.
Ferelden
The Secrets of Andraste: The team that investigated the ruins beneath and beyond the Temple of Sacred Ashes returned with ancient texts and artifacts. Adequately cataloging and translating these finds could help the Inquisition recover some of the political ground it has lost with the Chantry since the Herald's death. The texts, unfortunately, are written in an ancient runic script that no one in the Inquisition can fully translate. One scholar suggests that they are Alamarri, and the closest links are likely to be found among the Chasind Wilders. This operation requires four to six characters who will be absent from Skyhold for at least ten days. Those chosen will be told to equip for a fight but to try not to start one.
Orlais
The Chantry Remains: The Chantry's scattered condemnations of the Inquisition ceased--or at least ceased being publicly trumpeted--for a respectful period after the Herald's death, but the accusations of heresy and calls for the organization's disbandment have renewed. This operation requires three to five characters, with preference given to those who will not be immediately branded heretics as soon as they show their faces or open their mouths, who will be absent from Skyhold for at least five days.
Skyhold
Investigate Lyrium Theft: Small amounts of lyrium have been disappearing from the Inquisition's stores with enough regularity that it can no longer be considered a coincidence, and the Inquisition is looking into the problem. Those asked to help will need to be capable of discretion. This operation requires three to four characters who will need to remain in Skyhold for the seven days during the investigation.
The Secrets of Andraste: The team that investigated the ruins beneath and beyond the Temple of Sacred Ashes returned with ancient texts and artifacts. Adequately cataloging and translating these finds could help the Inquisition recover some of the political ground it has lost with the Chantry since the Herald's death. The texts, unfortunately, are written in an ancient runic script that no one in the Inquisition can fully translate. One scholar suggests that they are Alamarri, and the closest links are likely to be found among the Chasind Wilders. This operation requires four to six characters who will be absent from Skyhold for at least ten days. Those chosen will be told to equip for a fight but to try not to start one.
Orlais
The Chantry Remains: The Chantry's scattered condemnations of the Inquisition ceased--or at least ceased being publicly trumpeted--for a respectful period after the Herald's death, but the accusations of heresy and calls for the organization's disbandment have renewed. This operation requires three to five characters, with preference given to those who will not be immediately branded heretics as soon as they show their faces or open their mouths, who will be absent from Skyhold for at least five days.
Skyhold
Investigate Lyrium Theft: Small amounts of lyrium have been disappearing from the Inquisition's stores with enough regularity that it can no longer be considered a coincidence, and the Inquisition is looking into the problem. Those asked to help will need to be capable of discretion. This operation requires three to four characters who will need to remain in Skyhold for the seven days during the investigation.
INFO REQUESTS
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PLOT REQUESTS & IDEAS
We strongly encourage player plots, quests, missions, adventures and so on, especially ones that grow out of PC action. We are also always open to ideas if players have something in mind but feel for some reason that they can't run a prospective plot themselves. So that requests and answers can be screened, please use the form on the Plot Request page.
REPARATIONS FOR REDCLIFFE
Participants: Bruce
Banner, Adelaide LeBlanc, SalvatoreThe group will find Redcliffe blanketed with snow and in exactly the condition described, although the villagers have made some progress in rebuilding. Several buildings on the outskirts of the village were partially burned or destroyed while the mages were using it as a stronghold during the war, and those mages who refused the Inquisition's offer and departed to join the Venatori did more damage as they retreated. The Inquisition's representatives will be offered a place to stay within Redcliffe Castle, which suffered minor internal damage and had some of its decor and valuable stolen.
Arl Teagan will be civil but suspicious and irate, partly out of irritation at having been personally ejected from his home and forced to go ask his older brother and the Crown for help, but the concerns he voices will primarily be about his people. He will be prone to referring to the Inquisition's mages and the former rebels/Venatori sympathizers as a single entity. However, like the Fereldan Crown, he is fundamentally sympathetic to mages and their desire for freedom, or at least fewer restrictions, and will not be overtly aggressive or offensive.
The villagers will be a mixed bag: the majority who remained in the village this long despite the rebel mages' presence have no fundamental problem with mages, but they will be tired, cold, and unimpressed with verbal apologies. Additionally, several families who left Redcliffe because of the mages' presence or the dangers of the surrounding war will have returned by now and be unhappy to see more walking around. Your characters may be directly approached by locals complaining about their lost animals, stolen belongings, and injured relatives.
Characters who play close attention may notice a boy following them whenever possible, watching from a distance, and averting his eyes whenever caught. If approached, he may be coaxed into admitting that his name is Calum, age ten, and he has developed magic. His mother, Annis, will attempt to intervene and stop the conversation. Your characters can choose to leave them be or pursue the matter further. Forcing the issue will confirm the boy is a mage and potentially dangerous, having already burnt one of the family's chickens to a crisp by mistake, but without the Circles in place, his mother does not know what to do with him.
ICly, since we've been horrendously late getting this information to you, you can time the mission whenever is most convenient for your characters. This can include forward-dating, backdating, or squeezing it into a pocket dimension that exists outside of time. (Please don't actually ICly create any pocket dimensions.)
If you have any questions or would like to know how NPCs might respond to particular acts by your characters, please reply to this comment to ask. When you have completed the Operation (and decided how to handwave the portions you do not RP), please reply to this comment with the following information:
This report can be written from either an IC or OOC perspective, whichever you would prefer. It doesn't need to be lengthy or overly detailed; its purpose is just to allow us to keep track of characters' actions and incorporate their effects into the world state and future plots.
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PARTICIPANTS: Salvatore, Bruce, Adelaide
LOG: Log
REPORT:
Commander Cullen & Advisors,
Upon our arrival at Redcliffe we made our way firstly to Arl Teagan. The Mage Salvatore spoke with him, and as is his custom was respectful, contrite, and empathetic to the wrongs suffered by he and his people in what the Mages had done. Apologies were made and reparations offered beyond the funds for rebuilding. Bruce tended to those injured or ill that were not comfortable with magical healing, I myself treated as many as possible with magic and Salvatore assisted one or the other of us, going about to be present and pleasant. There was a young boy (Calum) that followed us at a distance for some time- at first we thought it mere curiosity but upon approaching him he admitted why he had been watching us. He had developed magic and without the circles to be sent to- he and his mother (Annis) do not know what to do. He had already burned one of the family's chickens to a crisp-
After some deliberation the best option we came to was bringing Calum and his family to Skyhold where he could be taught control and mentored properly. It has taken some coaxing but they will be joining us on the return trip and Calum shall be granted a personal mentor until he has caught up with the rest of the students and apostates in Skyhold. I take personal responsibility for whatever comes of him.
We hope these actions are to the Inquisition's satisfaction.
- Councilor LeBlanc