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WAR TABLE

To claim a War Table assignment for your character, reply to the appropriate division below with the name of the assignment you want. You can claim one assignment at a time. This is per player, not per character. To claim a second assignment for the same or a different character, you need to either post a report for your first assignment or reply to the information to let that division head know you need to give the first assignment back.

OOC DETAILS

REPORTS & DEADLINES: The information you receive will include a deadline to file a report. The deadline will generally be a month away from the date you receive the information, so you should wait to claim an assignment until you have time to get started on it right away and anticipate being able to establish an outcome and post a report within a month. (You don't have to finish RPing everything in a month. Backtagging after posting the report is fine.)

The character who claims the assignment is the one in charge of the mission in the field and responsible for the report. Delegating the report to another character IC is fine, but it will remain your job to make sure it is posted on time. Put it on your calendar or in your task app or whatever else you use to make sure you don't forget.

If you aren't able to post a report by the deadline, reply to your info comment to tell the assigning division head what's up. If you've started RPing about the assignment but need a bit more time to establish a conclusion or write the report, you can request an extension. But if you don't have RP already underway as of the deadline, you'll have to give the assignment back for someone else to claim.

Many assignments are steps in longer chains of events, and leaving them in limbo for extended periods of time will bring other plot plans to a halt. So if you neither file a report nor reach out to the division head by the deadline, what happens with your assignment will be left to the division head's discretion. Depending on what has been visibly RPed so far, they may treat it as an IC failure to file the report on time (and react IC accordingly), or they might decide that the mission ultimately failed–everyone tried their best but they just couldn't reach the prisoner, for example, so someone else has to try a different way in–or they might put the assignment back up for someone else to claim without addressing the previous claim at all.

RP REQUIREMENTS: Unless otherwise noted, assignments can be RPed at whatever scale you feel is appropriate for the assignment and the complications you've added yourself. That includes:

Taking along one or two other characters for a single thread focused on one scene from the mission.
Expanding missions into big plots with sign-up posts, multiple parts, NPCs, dice mechanics, etc.
Handwaving the mission itself and RPing the preparation or aftermath, such as your character worrying about whether they'll have to kill someone, coming home injured, or reporting in-person to the division head (which does not replace the need to file a report on the comms for everyone else).
For relatively simple meetings with an NPC or letter writing campaigns, epistolary RP in the form of just writing the report summarizing how your character's work has gone.

And probably anything else you can think of. As long as there is some form of IC writing about the mission on the IC game comms or character inboxes, that is RPing about the mission and will count.

EXPANSION: The information you're given for a mission will generally not be as in-depth as previous war table write-ups. It's designed to be a starting point. Once you've received it you can expand on it with your own NPCs and location details. You can also add complications and obstacles and mechanics, as long as you're not changing the objective you've been given or adding things that contradict the info provided. It is totally fine to, for example, take a mission to meet with an ally and decide your characters will get lost in a forest on their way there. You can focus on RPing the forest adventure rather than the meeting and just include the meeting results (“arrived two days late covered in sticks and mud, but the merchant was very gracious” etc.) in your report.

You don't have to do your own plot request for your expanded form of the mission unless:

(1) You want to add something that would have a wider plot or reputation impact than just succeeding or failing at the assigned mission objective. Here are some examples of the sorts of thing that would need a plot request:

If your character is being sent to meet an ally, and you decide that actually your character is going to accidentally burn down a whole town while trying to meet with this ally
Your character is being sent to meet an ally, and you decide that the ally's maid is Calpernia in disguise.
Your character is being sent to meet an ally, and in the process you'd like them to discover that someone has betrayed Riftwatch and given up all of Riftwatch's allies in Minrathous to the enemy.
Your character is being sent to meet an ally, and in the process you'd like them to uncover clues to the location of a Gate.
Your character is being sent to meet an ally in Rivain, and you'd like them to encounter an enemy military camp in this currently-neutral country.

(2) You want to introduce non-canonical magic, enchantment, or status effects. For example, there are canon hallucinogens (blood lotus) that characters can encounter if you want to add people crossing a swamp full of pollen and having a hallucination interlude to your mission. But there is not canonically a mushroom that compels people to tell the truth, so to do something like that, you'd need to check with us first.

If you aren't sure whether your expansion requires a plot request or not, you can drop us a quick question about it in mod contact or the mod questions channel on the Discord and we'll let you know.

FAILURE: Failing at these assignments ICly is acceptable and maybe even good! You can choose to have your characters get their asses kicked or add mechanics that make failure possible. If failing at the main objective isn't an option for OOC reasons–such as if the division head has other time-sensitive plans that hinge on this specific task being achieved first–that will be noted in the info you receive. Otherwise you should always feel free to RP failing at some or all of the goals of the mission.

CLAIM FORM

To claim a mission, you can reply to the comment for the appropriate reporting division with this form. (The reporting division is the division that the assignment is tagged with on the War Table, which may not be your character's division. Reply to this division's comment regardless of what division your character is in or how they would approach the assignment, because that's the division head who has more information to give you.)

—NAVIGATION↠

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

All yours! Cosima would highlight the public report regarding the prior mission during which the intel that Venatori researchers are focusing on Old Gods-related materials came up. The specific rumors about Razikale were flagged during later routine correspondence with some of Riftwatch's academic contacts. As Tavi hasn't chosen a division yet, Cosima expects he'll be reporting directly to her for the duration of the mission, but is aware that this mission may include diplomacy and/or scouting-adjacent tasks. (ICly, Cosima would love them to not make this a combat mission, though OOCly if you want to beat someone up and take the book, we can deal with those consequences.)

Some resources:

The two researchers are still in custody, though note you need to contact the mods if you want to draw on this resource. They may or may not have any ideas about this specific text; Cosima would make clear that this info didn't come from them, but rather larger-scale data about Corypheus' plans. (Also note they've been in custody for over a year, so their knowledge is not the freshest at this point.)

Cosima has pulled a text or two related to Razikale from the Gallows library as a starting place; you should feel free to find some clues in them or not as you like. As this is a research task, if you want a National Treasure-style montage of digging through old tomes and going to other libraries or archives, go for it.

On the other hand, if you want to do some wheeling and dealing, you might consider reaching out to some academics at the University of Val Royeaux or elsewhere. Feel free to make up your own NPCs if you'd like. If you'd optionally like to handwave Julius putting them in touch with his ongoing contact there, she's more likely to introduce them to someone else than be much help directly, but she will certainly make the introduction. (Julius would lightly ask that they not annoy her or get her in trouble.) You can also encounter Lucrèce Langlois if desired; she is a senior lecturer in the history department and will be busier than Fioranati but possibly more directly useful. If you need more info on either Fioranati or Langlois, let me know.

If you have a fully different idea for how you'd like to pursue this, feel free! If you'd like to secure a copy of the book, that's on the table, but if you'd like to fail or set up a mixed success (confirm the book exists but without getting your hands on it, for example), that's also fine. The book is rare, but is not magical.

I'm available if you have questions or need support OOCly, but happy to see what you come up with. Please file a report by April 15 (or alert me if that's a problem).

Look at us meeting deadlines.

Hell yeah, gold star for you two.

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