WHEN: You can set it IC whenever you want! OOC, try to have a report done by the end of November.
HOW: Yseult and a team of her choosing will visit three relatively accessible Tevinter cities, not yet overtaken by the Venatori or decided in their allegiance, with a particular focus on attempting to acquire information about the Black Divine, Urian Nahalias, by visiting—openly or not—three Grand Clerics known to have ties to him.
In Marothius (for which we rolled a 28 out of the required 25/100 for success), the Grand Cleric will be outwardly friendly and willing to talk. He's a very old man, amiable and frank because he's going to die soon anyway and he'd rather (he'll be happy to explain) be assassinated than die attempting to shit. He'll also be happy to explain that, while he knew Nahalias well when he was a boy—complete with adorable anecdotes about his precocious tendency to cause trouble and then evade any punishment—he has not had direct contact in years and does not know what mind he may be in now. His personal opinion will be that Nahalias must be aware that no one, even Corypheus, can restore what Tevinter has lost, and in that case surely he won't genuinely support him. While he might have had more anecdotes and information to provide, the visit will be cut short by the arrival in the Chantry of a suspiciously watchful pack of well-dressed men.
In Perivantium (for which we rolled a 68 out of the required 50), the Grand Cleric will be absent, and his underlings will be vague and wary of talking to anyone, but also not interested in murdering them or turning them in. They will overall seem to believe they're being watched, essentially, wherever their personal sympathies lie. One of them will provide some subtle and plausibly deniable assistance by indicating where to look for more information—maybe by talking about making sure a particular door is locked when he knows he's being listened to, maybe by yawning and pointing while he stretches his arms, however you want to handle that—but acquiring it will require a late-night break-in in the opulent and never entirely empty Imperial Chantry.
Once that has been pulled off—successfully, but not too easily—the team will be able to acquire correspondence sent to the Grand Cleric from the Black Divine. All of it will be encoded, but also immediately decipherable, due to some work already done by the project. The correspondence will show that the Black Divine has been soliciting his subordinates for details, numbers, and their personal opinions on the military strengths of their respective cities, asking for news on how their local leaders are responding to the coup, and otherwise soliciting buckets of information. The last piece of correspondence will be an order to report to Minrathous.
In Carastes (for which we rolled a 15 out of the required 75, whoops), the team will barely have barely arrived before the Grand Cleric and other clergy at the Chantry will turn on them and make a very good attempt at barring their escape from the building pending the arrival of the same watchful men from Marothius. A keen eye might notice a red crystal affixed to one wall in an office, though it will look like a decoration rather than anything very important. (Several of those involved will be mages, but not all.) You can play the evasion and escape scene of your dreams on the way out! But the only real information that will be acquired is that Carastes' Grand Cleric is on Corypheus' side—which, coupled with the Grand Cleric's purportedly close relationship with the Black Divine, may be particularly worrisome in that respect.
OOC NOTES: Yseult can bring up to three other people of her choice along with her. If anyone wants to go off-script or investigate something other than the Chantries, they'll need to put in separate info or plot requests!
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
WHO: Yseult
WHEN: You can set it IC whenever you want! OOC, try to have a report done by the end of November.
HOW: Yseult and a team of her choosing will visit three relatively accessible Tevinter cities, not yet overtaken by the Venatori or decided in their allegiance, with a particular focus on attempting to acquire information about the Black Divine, Urian Nahalias, by visiting—openly or not—three Grand Clerics known to have ties to him.
In Marothius (for which we rolled a 28 out of the required 25/100 for success), the Grand Cleric will be outwardly friendly and willing to talk. He's a very old man, amiable and frank because he's going to die soon anyway and he'd rather (he'll be happy to explain) be assassinated than die attempting to shit. He'll also be happy to explain that, while he knew Nahalias well when he was a boy—complete with adorable anecdotes about his precocious tendency to cause trouble and then evade any punishment—he has not had direct contact in years and does not know what mind he may be in now. His personal opinion will be that Nahalias must be aware that no one, even Corypheus, can restore what Tevinter has lost, and in that case surely he won't genuinely support him. While he might have had more anecdotes and information to provide, the visit will be cut short by the arrival in the Chantry of a suspiciously watchful pack of well-dressed men.
In Perivantium (for which we rolled a 68 out of the required 50), the Grand Cleric will be absent, and his underlings will be vague and wary of talking to anyone, but also not interested in murdering them or turning them in. They will overall seem to believe they're being watched, essentially, wherever their personal sympathies lie. One of them will provide some subtle and plausibly deniable assistance by indicating where to look for more information—maybe by talking about making sure a particular door is locked when he knows he's being listened to, maybe by yawning and pointing while he stretches his arms, however you want to handle that—but acquiring it will require a late-night break-in in the opulent and never entirely empty Imperial Chantry.
Once that has been pulled off—successfully, but not too easily—the team will be able to acquire correspondence sent to the Grand Cleric from the Black Divine. All of it will be encoded, but also immediately decipherable, due to some work already done by the project. The correspondence will show that the Black Divine has been soliciting his subordinates for details, numbers, and their personal opinions on the military strengths of their respective cities, asking for news on how their local leaders are responding to the coup, and otherwise soliciting buckets of information. The last piece of correspondence will be an order to report to Minrathous.
In Carastes (for which we rolled a 15 out of the required 75, whoops), the team will barely have barely arrived before the Grand Cleric and other clergy at the Chantry will turn on them and make a very good attempt at barring their escape from the building pending the arrival of the same watchful men from Marothius. A keen eye might notice a red crystal affixed to one wall in an office, though it will look like a decoration rather than anything very important. (Several of those involved will be mages, but not all.) You can play the evasion and escape scene of your dreams on the way out! But the only real information that will be acquired is that Carastes' Grand Cleric is on Corypheus' side—which, coupled with the Grand Cleric's purportedly close relationship with the Black Divine, may be particularly worrisome in that respect.
OOC NOTES: Yseult can bring up to three other people of her choice along with her. If anyone wants to go off-script or investigate something other than the Chantries, they'll need to put in separate info or plot requests!