Your character has been assigned to DEAD OF KNIGHT.
The characters assigned to this task are: Alexandra, Norrington, and Six. You're welcome to say they volunteered for this, or were ordered to it as part of their Inquisition duties.
No character will be given lead.
You can bring up to three more characters if you’d like. Coupe is also available to pad out the numbers, just let me know within the next few days.
Coordinate OOC to file a single report on the Forces Page by November 10th. Not filing a report will result in an automatic critical failure.
You don’t have to thread the whole thing, just RP about it in some capacity — ex: Logs before or after the mission, network threads, etc.
SUMMARY:
Upon arriving at the front, Alexandra and Six will find that Dame Ines has died within the past day, seemingly of poison. The atmosphere is tense, and as foreigners, the party will be tersely-received.
Preparations to burn the body are already underway, so if Alex wants to examine it she’ll need to do some very fast talking — the bulk of the soldiers are Andrastian, and those that aren’t still have strong feelings against corpses, especially this close to the Nevarran border. There will be resistance, and likely some outrage at any suggestion of post-mortem incisions.
If she does succeed, Alex will find an excess of blood in the stomach and esophagus, with eroded mucous membranes and blackened tissue. This seems to support poisoning, though it will be impossible to correlate to any that Alex might be familiar with.
Dame Ines was not well-liked. There are a few suspects, and none have an alibi:
Ines’ two lieutenants — one a childhood friend (and amateur herbologist), the other her former fiancee (and amateur naturalist). While both claim grief for her death, they’re more interested in bickering over the future of the company. Each believes they ought to have been promoted over Ines, who was less experienced. They also each believe that the other poisoned her and tried to frame them for it. They claim the manner of death as proof. After all, if they'd actually killed her, why use the byproduct of their specific hobbies, instead of waiting for the cover of battle?
The bulk of the troops are conscripts, many of whom have been previously pressed into service. There are rumblings of anti-Imperial sentiment. Investigation will reveal a former Freeman among the ranks, who once discovered will passionately describe the abuses of the Chevaliers upon the peasantry. He waited on Ines' meetings directly, and had access to her personal effects. If reported, he'll be hanged.
An Ander spy has infiltrated the company as a cook. She's described as 'warm' and 'kind' by the soldiers, who will take poorly to any suspicion of her. Encoded correspondence can be found among her personal effects, describing visitors to the camp. If reported, she'll be hanged. If she catches on to the party first, she'll try to separate and pick them off individually.
You rolled an 18 out of 100, so regardless of the party's choices or suspect, the situation will deteriorate badly — with a group of soldiers deserting into the countryside, and the remaining troops split between loyalties to their lieutenants.
The latter will kick the party out, claiming that the Inquisition’s presence is divisive. They refuse to discuss reinforcing Ghislain until they can regain control of the lines. It’s unclear whether they can do so before the Anders notice, and take advantage of the disarray.
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The characters assigned to this task are: Alexandra, Norrington, and Six. You're welcome to say they volunteered for this, or were ordered to it as part of their Inquisition duties.
SUMMARY:
Upon arriving at the front, Alexandra and Six will find that Dame Ines has died within the past day, seemingly of poison. The atmosphere is tense, and as foreigners, the party will be tersely-received.
Preparations to burn the body are already underway, so if Alex wants to examine it she’ll need to do some very fast talking — the bulk of the soldiers are Andrastian, and those that aren’t still have strong feelings against corpses, especially this close to the Nevarran border. There will be resistance, and likely some outrage at any suggestion of post-mortem incisions.
If she does succeed, Alex will find an excess of blood in the stomach and esophagus, with eroded mucous membranes and blackened tissue. This seems to support poisoning, though it will be impossible to correlate to any that Alex might be familiar with.
Dame Ines was not well-liked. There are a few suspects, and none have an alibi:
Ines’ two lieutenants — one a childhood friend (and amateur herbologist), the other her former fiancee (and amateur naturalist). While both claim grief for her death, they’re more interested in bickering over the future of the company. Each believes they ought to have been promoted over Ines, who was less experienced. They also each believe that the other poisoned her and tried to frame them for it. They claim the manner of death as proof. After all, if they'd actually killed her, why use the byproduct of their specific hobbies, instead of waiting for the cover of battle?
The bulk of the troops are conscripts, many of whom have been previously pressed into service. There are rumblings of anti-Imperial sentiment. Investigation will reveal a former Freeman among the ranks, who once discovered will passionately describe the abuses of the Chevaliers upon the peasantry. He waited on Ines' meetings directly, and had access to her personal effects. If reported, he'll be hanged.
An Ander spy has infiltrated the company as a cook. She's described as 'warm' and 'kind' by the soldiers, who will take poorly to any suspicion of her. Encoded correspondence can be found among her personal effects, describing visitors to the camp. If reported, she'll be hanged. If she catches on to the party first, she'll try to separate and pick them off individually.
You rolled an 18 out of 100, so regardless of the party's choices or suspect, the situation will deteriorate badly — with a group of soldiers deserting into the countryside, and the remaining troops split between loyalties to their lieutenants.
The latter will kick the party out, claiming that the Inquisition’s presence is divisive. They refuse to discuss reinforcing Ghislain until they can regain control of the lines. It’s unclear whether they can do so before the Anders notice, and take advantage of the disarray.