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WAR TABLE (DEFUNCT)

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Thedas is a big world with a lot to do, and the war against Corypheus has about a hundred fronts, so between major mod events, plot progression takes the form of player plots and plots that originate from divisions and projects. These smaller plots can be anything from negotiating agreements with foreign dignitaries to infiltrating enemy operations to escorting shipments of pedigree nugs through a haunted forest as a favor to an ally. Some of them will directly influence the overarching mod plot; others may just be fun.

Players whose characters lead the divisions and projects IC facilitate plot efforts by setting the agenda for each group's work—they identify the main objectives the team will be focused on and sometimes develop specific plot assignments to accomplish the group's goals.

CLICK HERE FOR THE CURRENT PLOT CYCLE.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1. Read! The divisions and each project have separate comments below explaining what they'll be working on over the coming months. Read up on the ones your characters belong to and think about how they'd contribute. (If your character hasn't joined any division or project, you can join a division by updating your character's info on the taken list or join a project by filling out the form on the corresponding project page.)
   
   
2. Contribute! Use the provided forms to document the ways your character will be contributing to the objectives—or if there's something else they intend to pursue within the project's scope that isn't covered by those objectives. These can be simple things that will occur in the background of your other RP, like "John is going to research dwarven etiquette to assist the team going to Orzammar," or they can be bigger things that warrant a player plot, like "John is going to assassinate King Bhelen." IC leaders will reply to let you know if their characters wouldn't approve of what yours are doing or to help you if you need help. (You can also reply to other players' comments if you have something to add or suggest, but we recommend making separate OOC posts or using the CR meme for pure brainstorming sessions.)
   
   
3. RP! If your characters are doing background work, like research or the types of mini-plots we specify don't need plot requests, you can get straight to it (or submit an info request if needed). If your characters are doing something that does warrant a plot request, submit one, and then play it out after we've gotten back to you.
   
   
4. File a report with the appropriate project or division after a significant plot has been completed. You don't need to do these for research or the kinds of minor plots that don't require plot requests. But reports allow everyone to keep up what's going on in the game—because there is usually a lot—and respond to, reward, or build on your character's efforts in the future. If you negotiate a treaty but don't file a report about it, we'll generally assume that it hasn't happened. And remember that folks who run player plots get bonus AC reward points once a report is filed!

If you have your own ideas for plots pertinent to divisions or projects outside those covered by objectives, or for personal plots that don't fit into any of these boxes at all, you're always welcome to separately submit player plot requests! You can also donate ideas directly to IC leaders or other players if you have plot ideas but would rather not run them yourself. And if you want to get involved in running a project, check the leadership roles list for vacancies in division or project leadership slots.

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ASSIGNMENT DETAILS

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WHAT: The Slave Situation

WHO: Hanzo, Kitty, Max, Connor

WHEN: You can set it IC whenever you want! OOC, try to have a report done by the end of November.

HOW: As stated, the team will travel to Val Dorma, under cover. Precisely what that cover is will be up to you—in addition to the obvious "wealthy Tevinter and accompanying slaves" cover, individuals in other countries practice slavery more quietly even though it's been outlawed and could be visiting to purchase slaves or do other business, or could not have slaves at all but servants who would wind up mingling with slaves in a Tevinter household, etc. They have a specific inroad with an Inquisition-friendly, wealthy Soporati merchant in Val Dorma who will not be very helpful on the spy front, having no talent for subterfuge and no knowledge of her own, but will allow them to stay in her fancy second house, providing a relatively secure place where they can discuss plans and let their covers slip without being constantly on guard.

The following information can be acquired in the following stages:

Engaging slaves in casual conversation will be enough to show that there's absolutely no unity of opinion: some say the name of Calpernia (known to be one of Corypheus' lieutenants) with a sort of respect bordering on reverence and believe she intends to free them all, others don't care whether there's real potential for freedom or not because they think freeing them all would be chaos and get them all killed, others are convinced she'll do no such thing and it's all a ploy to keep them working until it's too late, and others will have every shade of opinion in between those three major categories.

With regard to the Inquisition, opinions will be similarly varied, but overall trending toward either the negative or neutral-for-lack-of-knowledge: information about the Inquisition inside Tevinter, especially among a population of people who can't read, has been scattered at best, and the organization's tendency to be wherever the trouble is has translated into a reputation for being the cause of it. The most common fear that might be casually alluded to in conversation is one that the Inquisition's involvement would stir Tevinter into war and get everyone killed.
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Eavesdropping on (or insinuating oneself via friendship over a few days) into easily noticed but private meetings and discussions will allow identifying a few people who seem to be ringleaders and intentionally trying to sway people toward two major courses of action: an elven woman named Vasilia is advocating supporting Calpernia and using their access to everyone's homes and businesses to inform on masters and anyone else who isn't supporting the new regime, while the human Tessaria and elven Solvarin are attempting to hatch a plot for a group of slaves to trade information to the Inquisition in exchange for being extracted from the country.

Dedicated tailing/spying or direct contact with Vasilia will show nothing else suspicious about her—she sincerely believes Calpernia will elevate the slave population, and is also a patriot despite her status and a contentious relationship with her master, uninterested in being rescued by the outside world rather than made an equal in her own country.

Dedicated tailing/spying or direct contact with Tessaria and Solvarin will reveal a bit of a split: Solvarin is older, more measured, and the one interested in trading information for an escape for himself and his loved ones, while Tessaria is deferring to his pessimism but is also younger, more ready to start fires, and in possession of a small stockpile of shitty weapons she's rescued from being discarded and partially repaired using skills picked up from her master, a blacksmith—who is also, according to her, a very nice man who's done her every kindness short of freeing her and is among a number of free Soporati citizens who are not here for what either Corypheus or Calpernia are selling and might be relied on to help oppose them and to shake up Tevinter's class system, though their interest might not uniformly extend to freeing slaves.

As the goal is just to gather information, the team won't have the authority to make any promises or offer any deals, at this juncture, on the Inquisition's behalf.

OOC NOTES: The team can bring up to four other people with them—so one person apiece—as long as those people are reasonable selections for the mission and won't make anyone look stupid for allowing them to go. As long as the cover story is reasonable and everyone keeps their heads down outside of that house, they'll be able to pull it off—but if you do want things to go wrong, that's also fine! Just check in with us about it before you decide to end in an escape scene or something. And if you want to pursue anything on the side, make sure you drop an info request or a plot request so the mods (hi) can give additional information. And, lastly, as a reminder, if you do anything at all to make the master/slave relationship seem sexy, we'll murder you!