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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

PLAYER: k2
CHARACTER: Cedric
DIVISION: Diplomacy
ASSIGNMENT:

The People of the Silent Plains are in need of supplies. Partner with Marcher troops to capture and oversee the division of Imperial supply wagons between the Southern front and the People of the Silent Plains.

Cedric & his accomplices will be invited to assist by the People of the Silent Plains, who have some complaints about the balance of power between them and the Exalted March troops. Their scouting has led to the discovery of the supply caravan's route and other details needed for the attack, but they lack the manpower to pull it off alone. The last time they did this, though, they got less than what they considered their fair share of the supplies, leading to a current shortage bordering on a crisis. They're counting on Riftwatch to help tilt the scale further in their favor. On the other side of this argument, the Marchers will argue that they put up more manpower and take greater risks for these joint endeavors—they provide footsoldiers, and more of them, while the People are smaller in number and more often ranged fighters and scouts who stay out of direct danger. Riftwatch won't have enough sway to dictate the division of the loot, but it may be able to tip the scale toward the People, convince the People to be content with a limited share, or both at once.

You're free to invent NPCs and add other complications to this as you see fit: they might discover something particularly useful to the war in the caravan that the two sides are both desperate to have, the disagreement between the two sides might come to blows, a hungry local village in need of some help might also enter the equation, etc.

If you need more information, let us know! Submit a report by October 2, or else come back to let us know there's a delay and whether you need an extension or would rather give the assignment back.

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