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DELIVER A MESSAGE TO PROVISIONAL GRAND CHANCELLOR PASCAL
WHAT: The invasion of Orlais and emergence of Corypheus in Minrathous have together stoked what was previously steady but disorganized pressure to elect a new Divine into something more urgent, and it is increasingly likely that the College of Clerics will get its act together and convene to choose a successor in the foreseeable future. Seeker Pentaghast and Sister Leliana have both been approached about their potential candidacy, and both have decided unequivocally that they will not accept nominations while Corypheus remains a threat. They've asked the Chantry Relations team to deliver their joint refusal in person—both as a show of respect and as an opportunity to speak to the provisional Grand Chancellor directly and see what can be discovered about other likely successors.
WHERE: Val Royeaux
WHEN: Harvestmere
WHO: 2-4 project members, who may enlist outside assistance from one other character apiece but will be accountable for the behavior of whomever they take with them. This assignment could involve diplomacy, sneaking and snooping, or a mix of the two.

RECORD RIFTER ABILITY INFORMATION
WHAT: Per the agreement made with the Chantry, rifters who have abilities natives do not—and native mages who have abilities unknown to the Circles—are to have their names and those abilities recorded, and the records kept by both the Inquisition and the Chantry. The Chantry Relations project has been tasked with collecting this information, to the best of its ability.
WHERE: Kirkwall
WHEN: Harvestmere.
WHO: 2-4 project members. They may enlist the help of others, but project members must oversee and personally vouch for the accuracy of all information collected.

EVACUATE THE CHANTRY IN MONT-DE-MARC
WHAT: The town of Mont-de-Marc is just south of the Blasted Hills, and has taken in a great many refugees from that region as the Ander army has moved in and darkspawn attacks have increased. Their numbers are now too great to keep everyone fed and safe, but the roads are too dangerous for them to travel alone. An Orlesian army patrol attempted to make the journey to assist, but never made it, and Mother Hortense has now appealed to the Inquisition for assistance. This assignment has a 50% chance of failure, which will be rolled for on Discord!
WHERE: Mont-de-Marc, in the Blasted Hills, in Orlais
WHEN: Harvestmere.
WHO: 4-8 people. Open to all, but priority given to project members. Those who can fight and heal would be particularly recruited to help ensure the safety of the party and the evacuees.

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CHARACTER: Araceli Bonaventura y Castell
ASSIGNMENT: Deliver a Message to Provisional Grand Chancellor Pascal
DIVISION & PROJECTS: Diplomacy; Naval Presence, Chantry Relations
SUITABILITY & APPROACH: Trained bard and practiced at being stealthy as well as taking the diplomatic route as required which she's already done before for Chantry based work. She'd probably opt for outright diplomacy in the face of this then try to slide off from the main group to quietly poke around on her own if at all possible.
OTHER NOTES: n/a

WHAT: Deliver a Message to Provisional Grand Chancellor Pascal

WHO: Coupe, Araceli

HOW: This is fairly straightforward! Your characters will need to travel to Val Royeaux to politely deliver Seeker Pentaghast and Sister Leliana's joint message declining to be considered for Divine, which will include some additional niceties about being prepared to be of service to whomever is selected in everyone's mutual goal to end the threat posed by Corypheus. The Provisional Grand Chancellor will be disappointed—indicating their refusal will extend the process, as they were the most unifying candidates—but polite and make accommodations for your characters to join him and a few resident clergy for dinner. Your characters can also take advantage of an opportunity to eavesdrop in the halls or collect gossip. Altogether, they can acquire the following information about five significant contenders for the Sunburst Throne, with the plain text told to them openly over dinner, and the bold requiring deliberate eavesdropping and/or more direct snooping through documents.

Grand Cleric Gertruda of Tantervale: Think Mother Teresa: very strict conservative views, but best known for extensive philanthropic efforts among the poor that soften her image. She was one of the earliest and most vocal voices claiming rifters to be demons and the Inquisition to be a dangerous, rogue heretical organization defaming the memory of the original. The only statement she is presently willing to make publicly about rifters is that this is a decision for a Divine, and she will defer to her wisdom. She also seems to be moving more into the mainstream on the subject of the Inquisition--judging them as potential allies, if ones to remain wary of--but how much of this is political maneuvering (now that word of Cassandra and Leliana being approached has come out) and how much is her personally coming around is currently unknown.

Revered Mother Benedetta of Rialto: A reasonable person of genuine faith who doesn't hate anyone and wants to help them, but thinks the Chant is clear and should be followed to the letter so the Maker will return someday—meaning elves, dwarves, and Qunari need Andraste for their own sake and everyone else's, the traditional Circle system is ideal with perhaps some mild reform, etc. She is energetic and personally very charismatic, and she would likely be the clear frontrunner if she had been given another five or ten years' experience and wasn't so young, untested, and less well connected compared to the rest.

Grand Cleric Clorentine of Montsimmard: The only one of the Mothers present in Val Royeaux, so your characters can make their own observations as well. In summary, she is the blandest person alive and not particularly clever in her own right, but insulated from the Chantry's sometimes-violent politicking by wealthy supporters and an assortment of younger and much more calculating Mothers and Sisters who have hitched their own ambitions to her and are determined to see her rise. She is considered moderate mostly because her views frequently shift and equivocate, and she doesn't really seem committed to anything in particular, likely because she is so easily swayed by those around her.

Grand Cleric Agathe of Cumberland: Medium progressive and notoriously cautious—like Justinia before her, she is unlikely to implement extreme reform regardless of her personal feelings on anything, but may take more widely palatable baby steps toward raising elves above their current station or reforming the Circle system. Extremely effective and intelligent as long as she does not have to charm anyone, but in interpersonal dealings she can be harsh and nakedly ambitious, which has not earned her many friends.

Grand Cleric Elise of Ayesleigh: An older, famously progressive Mother who has been a voice for reform for several decades now and proven herself a reliable ally of nonhumans, mages, and the poor. However, this has made her unpopular with many of the more staid Chantry clergy and officials, and there are unconfirmed but very plausible rumors that Elise has begun to exhibit forgetfulness, moments of confusion, and slips into heresy or fantastic thinking that go beyond the acceptable lapses of a very old woman and into the early stages of dementia.

None of these individuals will seem to be a clear front runner, though opinions in Val Royeaux will seem to tilt toward the more conservative end of the spectrum. Additionally, while the present Mothers will all be varying degrees of self-assured and regal, the general atmosphere among the administrative staff in the Grand Cathedral will be scattered, disorganized, and fretful, with a lot of circles under a lot of eyes and frequent uncertainty in response to any detailed questions about the Divine Election process, in particular from Provisional Grand Chancellor Pascal, who is possibly too young and inexperienced for the role he's been asked to play.

OOC NOTES: Your characters are welcome to bring up to two additional people, as long as those people are reasonable choices to take. We're relying on the recovery of these candidates' names so we can publicize them to the rest of the game and open the door to player plots that would influence each candidate's chances of election, so please try to have a report in by the end of the month. Keep in mind that: (1) you don't have to directly RP the assignment itself if you would prefer to just RP some discussion about it or something, and (2) your report does not have to include all of this information if you would prefer for your characters to not learn all of it and/or choose not to officially record it, for whatever reason. If there are other details they would make a particular effort to uncover, you can drop us an info request and we'll let you know what, if anything, they'd learn!

CHARACTER: Deacon
ASSIGNMENT: Record Rifter Ability Information
DIVISION & PROJECTS: Diplomacy; Chantry Relations
SUITABILITY & APPROACH: Brother of the Faith trying to get involved in things as per what his Revered Mother asked and so no one here might accuse him of anything. And you know best to know what the demons might be up to.
OTHER NOTES: Deacon's a side character, I understand if he's not eligible or at the bottom of the heap for this.

WHAT: Record Rifter Ability Information

WHO: Myr, Deacon

HOW: Your characters have been tasked with drafting the initial report and register regarding any mages or rifters who exhibit abilities outside the usual scope of Circle teachings. (This includes Circle mages who have since learned magic beyond what the Circles teach.) The required level of detail is fairly high-level—for example, "Solas: rift mage, Somniari, helped heal the Herald in Haven"—but including more details where feasible rather than the bare minimum could earn the Inquisition some brownie points for being (apparently) cooperative and transparent.

It's up to you how thorough your characters are in this endeavor, but it is something that could have IC consequences for both your characters and the Inquisition as a whole, if, for example, there are glaring omissions of magic or abilities that Inquisition members have used or go on to use in public without them being reported, since the Chantry has already heard rumors and gathered some information regarding all the weird shit the Inquisition seems to be getting up to.

OOC NOTES: Your characters can enlist additional help at their discretion. In addition to whatever IC conversations you do or do not want to RP, we would recommend an OOC survey to for those affected to summarize what abilities their characters have already openly exhibited and what abilities they would volunteer information about, etc., then just linking that information in the report rather than rewriting it all yourself. But you can approach it however you want—that's just our recommendation.

CHARACTER: Myrobalan Shivana
ASSIGNMENT: Equal preference on Record Rifter Ability Information & Evacuate the Chantry in Mont-de-Marc
DIVISION & PROJECTS: Research; Chantry Relations & Rifts & the Veil
SUITABILITY & APPROACH: Myr can fight!! He can fight better now that he's got eyes again!! And would be itching to prove that, BUT ALSO he's very personable and good at trying to work with/working with people who might otherwise be difficult & not budge on something. Also likes rifters a great deal & is decently okay at systematizing things.
OTHER NOTES: whispers, good cop-bad cop with deacon

WHAT: Record Rifter Ability Information

WHO: Myr, Deacon

HOW: Your characters have been tasked with drafting the initial report and register regarding any mages or rifters who exhibit abilities outside the usual scope of Circle teachings. (This includes Circle mages who have since learned magic beyond what the Circles teach.) The required level of detail is fairly high-level—for example, "Solas: rift mage, Somniari, helped heal the Herald in Haven"—but including more details where feasible rather than the bare minimum could earn the Inquisition some brownie points for being (apparently) cooperative and transparent.

It's up to you how thorough your characters are in this endeavor, but it is something that could have IC consequences for both your characters and the Inquisition as a whole, if, for example, there are glaring omissions of magic or abilities that Inquisition members have used or go on to use in public without them being reported, since the Chantry has already heard rumors and gathered some information regarding all the weird shit the Inquisition seems to be getting up to.

OOC NOTES: Your characters can enlist additional help at their discretion. In addition to whatever IC conversations you do or do not want to RP, we would recommend an OOC survey to for those affected to summarize what abilities their characters have already openly exhibited and what abilities they would volunteer information about, etc., then just linking that information in the report rather than rewriting it all yourself. But you can approach it however you want—that's just our recommendation.

CHARACTER: Galatea Lourdes
ASSIGNMENT: Equal interest in delivering the message / evacuating the chantry.
DIVISION & PROJECTS: Scouting | Chantry Relations
SUITABILITY & APPROACH: Good at killing things, following orders in a combat situation, being a Good Chantry Girl as long as you overlook that slaughter it was like one time and they were super rude.

WHAT: Evacuate the Chantry in Mont-de-Marc

WHO: Galatea

HOW: When we rolled for the success of this mission, we got a 6 out of 100, where 50 was the threshold for success, so it is not going to go well! But first, Galatea and her team will be able to successfully reach the Chantry as long as they exercise reasonable caution, albeit with at least one close call with Ander scouts that delays them a few hours.

Once they've reached the refugees they'll discover two things: first, that about half of the refugees, convinced no one was coming for them and spooked by a stray darkspawn that attempted to get into the Chantry, have already left; second, that many of those remaining remained because they were old, young, or sick, or injured. Mother Hortense will have remained behind with them but lost several of her answering Sisters and the Chanter to the first departing group.

Unable to use the roads, the team will have to attempt to guide the refugees through the hills and scrubby wilderness bordering Orlais' western deserts without attracting notice, which will require staying quiet, keeping low, and not using lights in the dark. Some of the refugees will admit—honestly—that they can't make the journey and turn back to Mont-de-Marc after about an hour, accompanied by an elderly Sister.

The real disaster will occur not long afterwards, when the party will come upon those who left before the Inquisition team arrived—nearly all dead, and unreachable, as they're surrounded by darkspawn, who appear to be eating a couple of them and hanging a few others from the trees. The civilians traveling with the Inquisition will panic at the sight and, despite the best efforts of Galatea and her team, some will attempt to run to their aid and be immediately cut down by darkspawn, while others panic and scatter or try to turn back to Mont-de-Marc.

Attempting to bring them back, if they do, would only draw more attention and cause a group of darkspawn break off from the main pack, forcing the team and the remaining refugees to quite literally run for their lives. Allowing them to go while keeping those who remain quiet would go better and at least get them more of a head start. Regardless, the darkspawn—either dagger-wielding shrieks or hurlock archers, all capable of seeing in the dark—will pick off at least a straggler or two before finally giving up after a couple miles.

The remainder of the journey will not be easy but will be uneventful, barring any corruption in those who had close encounters with the darkspawn, and the team will ultimately be able to escort the remainder of the party—roughly half the number that they set out with from Mont-de-Marc—to safety.

OOC NOTES: Galatea is the only character assigned to this, but she can bring up to seven people with her, and if you have fewer people than that you're welcome to fill out the party with NPCs from Skyhold as needed, especially if you make them endearing and then kill them. Keep in mind that you also aren't required to RP the action of this and can RP the aftermath or discussion of the aftermath if necessary. If you would like the mission to go badly in ways not described here then that's likely fine, just check in with us about it!

CHARACTER: Coupe
ASSIGNMENT: Evacuate Chantry, Deliver a Message (Equal preference)
DIVISION & PROJECTS: Forces; Chantry Relations & Red Lyrium
SUITABILITY & APPROACH: Hits stuff good. Inclined to sneaking in theory and not practice, better at being distracting while other people sneak.
OTHER NOTES: shruggy man

WHAT: Deliver a Message to Provisional Grand Chancellor Pascal

WHO: Coupe, Araceli

HOW: This is fairly straightforward! Your characters will need to travel to Val Royeaux to politely deliver Seeker Pentaghast and Sister Leliana's joint message declining to be considered for Divine, which will include some additional niceties about being prepared to be of service to whomever is selected in everyone's mutual goal to end the threat posed by Corypheus. The Provisional Grand Chancellor will be disappointed—indicating their refusal will extend the process, as they were the most unifying candidates—but polite and make accommodations for your characters to join him and a few resident clergy for dinner. Your characters can also take advantage of an opportunity to eavesdrop in the halls or collect gossip. Altogether, they can acquire the following information about five significant contenders for the Sunburst Throne, with the plain text told to them openly over dinner, and the bold requiring deliberate eavesdropping and/or more direct snooping through documents.

Grand Cleric Gertruda of Tantervale: Think Mother Teresa: very strict conservative views, but best known for extensive philanthropic efforts among the poor that soften her image. She was one of the earliest and most vocal voices claiming rifters to be demons and the Inquisition to be a dangerous, rogue heretical organization defaming the memory of the original. The only statement she is presently willing to make publicly about rifters is that this is a decision for a Divine, and she will defer to her wisdom. She also seems to be moving more into the mainstream on the subject of the Inquisition--judging them as potential allies, if ones to remain wary of--but how much of this is political maneuvering (now that word of Cassandra and Leliana being approached has come out) and how much is her personally coming around is currently unknown.

Revered Mother Benedetta of Rialto: A reasonable person of genuine faith who doesn't hate anyone and wants to help them, but thinks the Chant is clear and should be followed to the letter so the Maker will return someday—meaning elves, dwarves, and Qunari need Andraste for their own sake and everyone else's, the traditional Circle system is ideal with perhaps some mild reform, etc. She is energetic and personally very charismatic, and she would likely be the clear frontrunner if she had been given another five or ten years' experience and wasn't so young, untested, and less well connected compared to the rest.

Grand Cleric Clorentine of Montsimmard: The only one of the Mothers present in Val Royeaux, so your characters can make their own observations as well. In summary, she is the blandest person alive and not particularly clever in her own right, but insulated from the Chantry's sometimes-violent politicking by wealthy supporters and an assortment of younger and much more calculating Mothers and Sisters who have hitched their own ambitions to her and are determined to see her rise. She is considered moderate mostly because her views frequently shift and equivocate, and she doesn't really seem committed to anything in particular, likely because she is so easily swayed by those around her.

Grand Cleric Agathe of Cumberland: Medium progressive and notoriously cautious—like Justinia before her, she is unlikely to implement extreme reform regardless of her personal feelings on anything, but may take more widely palatable baby steps toward raising elves above their current station or reforming the Circle system. Extremely effective and intelligent as long as she does not have to charm anyone, but in interpersonal dealings she can be harsh and nakedly ambitious, which has not earned her many friends.

Grand Cleric Elise of Ayesleigh: An older, famously progressive Mother who has been a voice for reform for several decades now and proven herself a reliable ally of nonhumans, mages, and the poor. However, this has made her unpopular with many of the more staid Chantry clergy and officials, and there are unconfirmed but very plausible rumors that Elise has begun to exhibit forgetfulness, moments of confusion, and slips into heresy or fantastic thinking that go beyond the acceptable lapses of a very old woman and into the early stages of dementia.

None of these individuals will seem to be a clear front runner, though opinions in Val Royeaux will seem to tilt toward the more conservative end of the spectrum. Additionally, while the present Mothers will all be varying degrees of self-assured and regal, the general atmosphere among the administrative staff in the Grand Cathedral will be scattered, disorganized, and fretful, with a lot of circles under a lot of eyes and frequent uncertainty in response to any detailed questions about the Divine Election process, in particular from Provisional Grand Chancellor Pascal, who is possibly too young and inexperienced for the role he's been asked to play.

OOC NOTES: Your characters are welcome to bring up to two additional people, as long as those people are reasonable choices to take. We're relying on the recovery of these candidates' names so we can publicize them to the rest of the game and open the door to player plots that would influence each candidate's chances of election, so please try to have a report in by the end of the month. Keep in mind that: (1) you don't have to directly RP the assignment itself if you would prefer to just RP some discussion about it or something, and (2) your report does not have to include all of this information if you would prefer for your characters to not learn all of it and/or choose not to officially record it, for whatever reason. If there are other details they would make a particular effort to uncover, you can drop us an info request and we'll let you know what, if anything, they'd learn!

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