ASSIGNMENT: Bartrand's Folly CHARACTERS: Inessa and Merrill DETAILS: On entering Bartrand's Folly, the team will discover that it's still very much overgrown with red lyrium. Probably too much to successfully destroy, in fact. There will be signs of recent smuggler activity, with all the hallmarks of an operation to cart out red lyrium (though in small quantities based on the tools and chipped away bits) through the Deep Roads. It's up to the players if you'd like to encounter these smugglers and deal with them, or have them be gone. In this area there are also a few rock wraiths that have been feeding on red lyrium. They are weaker versions of the ancient rock wraith Hawke and company faced off against, with a few of the same abilities, but weaker, and they will attack on sight.
Despite these obstacles, the thaig is still well intact and several characters may find things of interest beyond their mission. Should you choose to take advantage of this, your characters can take detailed notes or make sketches of the thaig's unique features or possibly excavate some uninfected statuary or artifacts that could be used by the Inquisition in future diplomatic efforts with the dwarves. Other things to be decided on by the team include: (1) whether or not they should collapse/seal tunnels to stop the smugglers and provide only one entrance to the thaig from the surface which the Inquisition will have to guard, (2) whether or not they should collapse every possible tunnel to the thaig to ensure that no one can access the red lyrium within, but cutting off access to a primeval thaig that contains history unknown to the dwarves, (3) capturing/interrogating the smugglers then and there to see if any information on contacts or red lyrium shipments can be found. Feel free to add plot twists or complications of your own to the mission.
OOC: Any part of this assignment can be RPed out (or all of it!). The important thing is just that some part is done ICly for the Red Lyrium Project. You can open this up to a total of four more people if you choose to. A report needs to be submitted to the project's page by the end of the month. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me!
ASSIGNMENT
CHARACTERS: Inessa and Merrill
DETAILS: On entering Bartrand's Folly, the team will discover that it's still very much overgrown with red lyrium. Probably too much to successfully destroy, in fact. There will be signs of recent smuggler activity, with all the hallmarks of an operation to cart out red lyrium (though in small quantities based on the tools and chipped away bits) through the Deep Roads. It's up to the players if you'd like to encounter these smugglers and deal with them, or have them be gone. In this area there are also a few rock wraiths that have been feeding on red lyrium. They are weaker versions of the ancient rock wraith Hawke and company faced off against, with a few of the same abilities, but weaker, and they will attack on sight.
Despite these obstacles, the thaig is still well intact and several characters may find things of interest beyond their mission. Should you choose to take advantage of this, your characters can take detailed notes or make sketches of the thaig's unique features or possibly excavate some uninfected statuary or artifacts that could be used by the Inquisition in future diplomatic efforts with the dwarves. Other things to be decided on by the team include: (1) whether or not they should collapse/seal tunnels to stop the smugglers and provide only one entrance to the thaig from the surface which the Inquisition will have to guard, (2) whether or not they should collapse every possible tunnel to the thaig to ensure that no one can access the red lyrium within, but cutting off access to a primeval thaig that contains history unknown to the dwarves, (3) capturing/interrogating the smugglers then and there to see if any information on contacts or red lyrium shipments can be found. Feel free to add plot twists or complications of your own to the mission.
OOC: Any part of this assignment can be RPed out (or all of it!). The important thing is just that some part is done ICly for the Red Lyrium Project. You can open this up to a total of four more people if you choose to. A report needs to be submitted to the project's page by the end of the month. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me!