War Table

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WAR TABLE

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 periodically develop assignments to send other characters on to help accomplish the group's goals.

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HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1. Read! Available assignments are listed below.
   
   
2. Sign up! Use the sign-up form at the bottom of the page to sign up for assignments. If assignments have more potential participants than allotted space, RNG will generally be used to fill the spots, but some adjustments might be made for fit—for example, if a plot clearly requires diplomacy skills, and only one character signs up who has any diplomacy skills, that character may be guaranteed a slot and the remaining slots will be chosen by RNG.
   
   
3. RP! Once you have your assignment, work with the other people on your team to decide what parts of it you want to play out, then get to it. If you need additional information or want to know what will happen if your characters make a choice not covered in the write up you've already received, feel free to submit an info request.
   
   
4. File a report! After RPing the assignment (or enough of it to know how it's going to end), post a report to therookery so everyone knows what happened and your efforts can be acknowleged, followed up on, or incorporated into future game events.

If you have your own ideas for plots pertinent to divisions or projects, 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 ideas for assignments, or have your character propose ideas ICly to their leaders. And if you want to get involved in running a project or division, check the leadership roles list for vacancies in division or project leadership slots.

CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS

Assignments will generally be given to a maximum of 2-4 characters, who will be responsible for RPing them and filing a report and will be eligible to receive the 5 bonus AC points for doing so. Unless otherwise noted, sign-ups are due by the end of the day (U.S. time) on February 22, 2020, and reports are due by March 30, 2020. High-priority assignments, marked by highlights, may lead directly into other assignments or affect upcoming mod plots and may have different deadlines as a result.

General Assignments

THE HEART OF THE MATTER (DIPLOMACY): The Merchant-Prince Daniello Bassadoar, up until recently, supported the Inquisition, but he has abruptly turned towards neutrality. We need to figure out why. Diplomacy has gotten their hands on a large shipment of books; your mission is to accompany this shipment and, while in Bassadoar's home, find out what happened to dampen his enthusiasm. The best team will be made up of people who can chat about books (especially romance novels) for hours.

DRAMATICAL CATS, DIPLOMATICAL CATS (DIPLOMACY & RESEARCH): Pieces of jewelry made from the glass of Eluvians were briefly all the rage during the Storm Age. A very prominent collector of such vintage pieces, Madame Hortense Keating, recently moved to Starkhaven to be closer to her son, a local merchant. Although she is not very fond of Riftwatch, she is very, very fond of certain musicals-- and is now too old to comfortably attend the theatre. A performance of the musical Les Chats by Riftwatch members will earn her friendship and access to the collection, including all-important authentication papers that will allow Riftwatch to rule out pursuing Eluvians confirmed broken—or discover fakes and confirm new leads.

THE BEST SHADE PLANS (FORCES): A contingent of the enemy force in Orlais is rumored to be making moves toward the Orlesian front line's flank, thanks in part to the broken blockade at Val Chevin enabling the Anders and Venatori forces to finally begin resupplying the occupation force directly. While Orlais' fighting force is deploying its own rag tag force in answer, a prominent art historian from Val Royeaux has written Riftwatch begging that they assist with rescuing a collection of paintings from notable Steel Age portraitist, Solène Portier, which currently is being kept in the collection at Château de l'Orfort and lies in the path of the two opposed forces.

IN THE NICK OF THYME (FORCES): The explosion of refugees coupled with uncertainty surrounding the prospect of shipping safely into the west Waking Sea thanks to the collapse of the Orlesian blockade has caused massive shortages in Cumberland and the surrounding countryside. Riftwatch has gotten word that the Tevinter powers in occupied Val Chevin have prepared a shipment of desperately needed supplies which it intends to send to a refugee encampment West of Cumberland in a bid to curry good will with the rabble their neighbors. Riftwatch is to assault and take control of the caravan and deliver aid to the refugees themselves.

TULIPGIT TO QUIT (RESEARCH): Bartolo Nuño, an Inquisition ally, has taken to tulip breeding—as have most of the nobles in Antiva, most of them betting huge fortunes on tulip futures, while Nuño has only pursued it as a side-hobby to dog breeding. However, his latest batch of bulbs has been rumored to be extremely promising and bidding on them likely to be both record breaking and just the thing to lift Nuño’s lackluster fortunes.However, a blight (small b) has begun effecting tulip bulbs, some of Nuño’s included. Find cures for the blight or at least make Nuño’s immune, and earn his unending gratitude and financial assistance for Riftwatch and the Inquisition.

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE THE ANDERS (SCOUTING & DIPLOMACY): A team is tasked with sneaking Revered Mother Adalberta of Perendale into the Anderfels to meet with Chantry leaders in Hossberg. As a native Ander who trained in Hossberg, it's believed that Adalberta's personal connections will help her accounts of the invasion be believed and convince the local Chantry leaders to help spread the truth and support resistance. Unbeknownst to the Revered Mother, the team is also smuggling a recently-retrieved eluvian into the city to facilitate future work.

UNCROSSING THE CROSSROADS (SCOUTING): Eluvians have been used sparingly so far, but obviously represent a powerful resource if they could be used as shortcuts into useful places. Teams will be sent into the Crossroads to explore different sections, map the eluvians they find, and determine where those eluvians spit them out, in hopes of discovering secret routes behind enemy lines.

Project Haven

IN THE ENEMY'S GRIPPE: While much of Nevarra's ecclesiastical wealth lay in its necropoli, the Chantry in Nevarra City also housed a number of artifacts related to Lord Hector of Nevarra, whose alliance with Andraste drove Tevinter from the city in -180 Ancient. Riftwatch has received a tip that these relics may be passing through a Chantry in the village of Doman for verification and repacking, before they disappear up the Imperial Highway forever. Thanks to a convenient tributary of the Minanter River, approaching the village looks like a soggy but not impossible affair. However, the Chantry itself has been converted to an infirmary for enemy soldiers struggling with the grippe; getting in and out without attracting attention will not be easy. A team will be sent to recover what relics they can using whatever method and means they deem necessary.

Project Jeshavis

JOIN THE NAVY, THEY SAID...: A team is to be sent to "join" the lowest ranks of the Orlesian Navy at Val Royeaux under the "command" of their contact Lieutenant Armand de Vereux to glean information from the often overlooked rank and file—clerks, cook's helpers, deck swabbers, cargo loaders, etc—about the sabotage of the ships forming the blockade at Val Chevin. Once they feel they've got substantial enough information to lead to something else, they're to give the Lieutenant a good reason to discharge them from service.

Project Sashamiri

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRACONOLOGY EXPERT: Now that the project has established that Corypheus’ dragon started out a regular, non-nightmare dragon, it seems useful to establish how it was corrupted with red lyrium. It seems likely that some expertise was required to get that close to a high dragon without, you know, dying; tracking down who that expert might have been seems a useful step toward working out how the transformation was done in the first place. A small team to research a list of possible suspects and track down their current whereabouts (and/or their mysterious disappearances).

SIGN UPS

To receive an assignment, reply to this entry with the following form during the sign-up window. If you're interested in multiple assignments, you can do as many sign-ups as you want, but please specify in the notes the maximum number of assignments you're interested in receiving and what your order of preference is, so we don't give you eight assignments when you only really have time for two.

<b>PLAYER:</b> Which player? <b>CHARACTER:</b> Which character? <b>ASSIGNMENT:</b> Which assignment? <b>IC NOTES:</b> Does your character have relevant skills—for example, if the assignment indicates a need for diplomacy, are they capable of that? If they aren't capable of it, can they offer something else, like serving as a bodyguard, that would justify them being sent anyway? Have they done previous work on the assignment's subject? Etc. <b>OOC NOTES:</b> Order of preference and maximum number of assignments you'd like to receive, if you're signing up for more than one; availability notes; anything else you feel is relevant.

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