War Table

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↞NAVIGATION—

THE WAR TABLE

Operations

• Characters may not participate in more than one war table operation at a time. 
• Sign-ups are first come, first served. After the minimum number of characters is reached, we'll wait approximately 48 hours to allow additional sign-ups before closing the operation and giving participants the necessary information.
• Travel time for operations outside of Skyhold can and should be OOCly condensed/handwaved for the sake of not RPing weeks upon weeks of roadside camping, but you're welcome to set scenes along the way as well. 
• Operations will not be GMed, but we're always happy to answer questions or provide additional details as requested.
• If you would like to suggest a war table operation--if your character is doing something other people should probably notice and investigate, their relatives are causing trouble, etc.--let us know on the Plot Request page.

Ferelden

The Secrets of Andraste: The team that investigated the ruins beneath and beyond the Temple of Sacred Ashes returned with ancient texts and artifacts. Adequately cataloging and translating these finds could help the Inquisition recover some of the political ground it has lost with the Chantry since the Herald's death. The texts, unfortunately, are written in an ancient runic script that no one in the Inquisition can fully translate. One scholar suggests that they are Alamarri, and the closest links are likely to be found among the Chasind Wilders. This operation requires four to six characters who will be absent from Skyhold for at least ten days. Those chosen will be told to equip for a fight but to try not to start one.

Orlais

The Chantry Remains: The Chantry's scattered condemnations of the Inquisition ceased--or at least ceased being publicly trumpeted--for a respectful period after the Herald's death, but the accusations of heresy and calls for the organization's disbandment have renewed. This operation requires three to five characters, with preference given to those who will not be immediately branded heretics as soon as they show their faces or open their mouths, who will be absent from Skyhold for at least five days.

Skyhold

Investigate Lyrium Theft: Small amounts of lyrium have been disappearing from the Inquisition's stores with enough regularity that it can no longer be considered a coincidence, and the Inquisition is looking into the problem. Those asked to help will need to be capable of discretion. This operation requires three to four characters who will need to remain in Skyhold for the seven days during the investigation.
 

INFO REQUESTS

If your character is investigating, experimenting, researching, normal-searching, organizing, exploring, polling, or anything along those general lines and you'd like mod input about what the results would be, ask us here! There's no form for this, just let us know what they're up to and what your question is and we'll get back to you. While requests and replies will generally be unscreened, please make sure to check whether results are IC public knowledge before assuming that your character is aware of them.

PLOT REQUESTS & IDEAS

We strongly encourage player plots, quests, missions, adventures and so on, especially ones that grow out of PC action. We are also always open to ideas if players have something in mind but feel for some reason that they can't run a prospective plot themselves. So that requests and answers can be screened, please use the form on the Plot Request page.

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Comments

OPERATION SIGN-UPS

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<b>Operation:</b> <b>Character:</b> Name (Journal)

Re: OPERATION SIGN-UPS

[eolasemah]

Operation: Investigate Lyrium Theft
Character: Sina Dahlasanor (eolasemah)

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[dreadinquisitor]

Operation: The Chantry Remains
Character: Maxwell Trevean (dreadinquisitor)

[nofury]

Operation: The Chantry Remains
Character: Maria Hill

[arlathvhen]

Operation: Investigate Lyrium Theft
Character: Beleth Ashara arlathvhen

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[judgemewhole]

Operation: The Chantry Remains
Character: James Norrington judgemewhole

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[nadasharillen]

Operation: Investigate Lyrium Theft
Character: Nari (nadasharillen)

[aestimo]

Operation: Investigate Lyrium Theft
Character: Emmeline Courtenay (aestimo)

[tactical_alert]

Operation: The Chantry Remains
Character: Malcolm Reed (tactical_alert)

Re: OPERATION SIGN-UPS

[seesobserves]

Operation: Investigate Lyrium Theft
Character: Sherlock Holmes (seesobserves)

INFO REQUESTS

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[liberalum]

Dorian will definitely be listing his research heavily towards Corypheus -- perusing books available in the library, going to great lengths to obtain new codices beyond Skyhold, writing to any trusted scholars back in Tevinter for more information, and so on. An indication of how far he could get would be great, and any other notes you can think of!

I can also narrow this down if necessary, just Dorian's net being cast is rather broad, if biased towards his knowledge of Tevinter history.

[mythalenaste]

Pel's continued research into veilfire runes was approved by Cullen, and now she needs to find other known locations of these runes around Ferelden and Orlais. She'll be requesting information, obscure sources including anything about elven ruins and veilfire runes, and asking about word-of-mouth from other areas of the map, writing to other Dalish clans. She's hoping to lead an excursion when she has some leads on locations.

[noleechesneeded]

Simon is working on a treatment for River to make her a bit more stable, and right now is starting out small with herbal sedatives and the like. In the near future he'll start trying to make something more drastic, something to temporarily weaken her link to the Fade in order to quiet the voices she hears (hopefully opening one or both of them up to be able to participate in missions outside Skyhold). I'm imagining it would essentially be a weak and temporary sort of Tranquility in a bottle, and I wanted to get your input on whether or not that would even work or how long it would take, what sort of materials he'd need, etc etc.

[aceso]

I know I'm still in the middle of missions that will reveal more about red Templars so I may be jumping the gun here, but after the Mire quest (A Little Down in the Mouth) and Scouting Emprise du Lion, Christine wants to research red lyrium as much as she can from the academic point of view, since she doesn't want to get a case of the deads by physically being near it.

So! She wants to research, specifically if there are any instances of red lyrium existing before the events in Kirkwall with Meredith and her scary ass sword. I'm thinking of her doing a bulletin board message to ask for info, but she also wants to scour the Skyhold library and make requests of other libraries in Thedas. If all that is a bust and there are literally no written records, then she would move steadily on to Phase 2 and make a request through the proper channels (the advisers, I'm assuming) that they get volunteers to study this stuff. I want to coordinate with Varric's player so she at least has an idea of the lengths a person has to go to to study it safely like the people he hired, and I'm assuming the volunteer(s) would be a dwarf since even though Tranquils can work with lyrium, they really don't have much regard for their own safety and would volunteer, which Christine wouldn't want.

Basically the red Templars are stronger with new abilities and the Inquisition needs to learn how to fight against them. Can a regular Templar on regular lyrium negate their abilities like the spitting red lyrium from their hands bit? Can any magic cut down their speed and endurance? Who knows? I know in game you get a bonus against them if you collect their bows and other things, so this would be along those lines, only going further, like when Dagna uses Maddox's tools plus red lyrium to make a rune to destroy Samson's armor.

To sum up:
Phase 1
- any books in Skyhold's library on red lyrium existing out in the world before Kirkwall?
- any books on that she can send away for?
Phase 2
- any chance of studying a piece if the proper safety measures are in place first?

Re: INFO REQUESTS

[nadasharillen]

Nari is looking to get ahold of some paints, either by making them herself or acquiring them through trade. How should I go about this?

[aceso]

I was wondering if it was possible to pull some of the information given by this person to use when Christine and her team of Red Lyrium/Red Templar investigators finally get their hands on a Red Templar to study.

Also, Rems has offered up Harding's NPC scouts to help with this project, so I was wondering if we could move to the next step where Chris asks the higher ups if they can bring in red lyrium to study, because Harding's scouts could do that.

[easternseaqueen]

Isabela is sending out feelers for books on magic, the Fade--anything that can help solve the mystery of the Rifts. It's a favor for a friend if she or any of her crew can recover some.

[mythalenaste]

Pel is going to put out feelers for any local rumors surrounding the Temple of Dirthamen, writing local clans and mayors and the like.

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[sunshinethroughgrey]

So clearly, this will be close to the bottom of the information pile, but Bethany will be looking for volumes of books on griffons, where they might have been found, and how the Wardens would have trained them.

Two For One

[fleurdesel]

Research: Adelaide is researching (on the down low) spirits, possession, and the sliding scale of spirit to demon and if there's a way to reverse the process once a spirit is tainted. More overtly she's researching the shards and their effect on the rifts- as it's very new there isn't anything in writing about it but any accounts she can find about what happened with the herald would be in her area of interest.

Experimentation:

SO I was wondering if she couldn't, in light of members of the inquisition going missing and others getting kidnapped, put in the research and experiment with making something that is similar to but not quite a phylactery. A little blood in a pendant that'll glow in time with the person in question's heartbeat when a phrase is uttered and can be used with a map via pendant scrying to give a general 'that a way' idea of where the person is. Since she's working from the ground up it'd take a lot of time, effort, and work to figure out how to create it and since it's Adelaide she'd only manage the one with her own blood in testing before she attempted to pitch it to anyone.

Anchor Leash

[aintwejust]

What with the upcoming crackdown on rifters one way or another Malcolm is going to duck out and head up north. He's not a rifter but he does have an anchor shard in his hand and sees that as reason enough to bail. How would the anchor leash work/feel/effect him as he's trying his damndest to get out of dodge?

[aceso]

Back again since the first set of Emprise missions is wrapping up and I think there was talk of a second round. Since this is red lyrium central right now, I was wondering what will be happening with that in regards to Christine's research. Right now, I've just been saying in threads that Christine will let interested parties know more after she's requested red lyrium for study from the advisers. Oh, and also she was walking around Emprise, mapping out red lyrium spikes in the ground so most could be destroyed, but also so some could be salvaged for study if she got that request approved. I'm just wondering if there's anything more I should have Christine be doing, because I'm not sure exactly how it will work, like if the lyrium will be allowed in Skyhold and what have you. Pretty much all I have to go on canon-wise is how Dagna handled studying red lyrium and that was kind of vague.

[mythalenaste]

Pel has been given the go-ahead to write letters to Kal-Sharok's shaperate and Paragon Elect asking about the Lights of Arlathan. Her query is about whether any of the Lights made it to Kal-Sharok, though she carefully avoids mentioning Kal-Sharok's destruction of Cad'halash, saying instead that she has heard that Kal-Sharok was involved in some clean-up after the thaig's ruin.

If the letters go unanswered for long, she will write more letters until she is answered.

Does she learn anything new?

WAR TABLE ARCHIVES

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THE CULT OF ANDRASTE

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The Cult of Andraste: The Temple of Sacred Ashes--now ruined--was built on an older ruined temple that was once guarded by cultists and a dragon, and many of the underground passageways remain unexplored. The Inquisition is sending a small team to scout the passageways for two reasons. First, there is a theory that Corypheus and whomever else was responsible for the explosion at the Conclave may have used these tunnels to approach unseen. Second, the Inquisition needs funds and resources, and there is a strong likelihood that the tunnels contain relics of value. This operation requires 2-4 characters who will be gone for at least three days.

Participants: Maria Hill, Nerva Lecuyer, Twisted Fate, Dorian Pavus

Characters may encounter deepstalkers and giant spiders, but otherwise the first half of the excursion into the ancient temple ruins will be fairly quiet. During the first half of the inward journey, they will discover signs that others had recently traveled through the passages, including a sizeable abandoned camp site in one open chamber with provisions, bedrolls, and other supplies left untouched. Some spare battlemage armor left at the site will bear Grey Warden insignia. It will be very stylish and probably in someone's size.

Exploring deeper--following strange breezes to their sources, wrenching or bashing open some ancient doors and hollow wall panels, that sort of thing--will reveal passageways that have been untouched for hundreds of years, with unintelligible runes written on the walls. The team will also find a number of ancient artifacts, including illegible texts barely holding together, jewelry and other personal effects of Alamarri design, and bones in the oldest and most delicate stages of deterioration. While exploring, they may glimpse ghostlike human figures at the edge of their torchlight; one in particular will stand and watch them for extended periods of time but vanish if approached. Should they choose to remove any of the artifacts, they will be attacked by eight ash wraiths on their way back out of the temple.

ICly, the characters cannot leave before Haring 5, when the majority of the Inquisition's forces will have returned from the Fallow Mire and had time to regroup. OOCly, you may begin before or after December 5 and back- or forward-date accordingly.