Reparations for Redcliffe: Arl Teagan of Redcliffe has sent the Inquisition a politely irritated letter concerning the state Redcliffe was left in by the rebel mages, including damaged buildings, destroyed crops, and several injured villagers. The Inquisition has agreed to pay for repairs but would also like to send mages to the village to survey the damage and deliver the Inquisition's apologies in person. This operation requires three to five characters, with preference given to mages, who will be absent from Skyhold for at least five days.
Participants: Bruce Banner, Adelaide LeBlanc, Salvatore
The group will find Redcliffe blanketed with snow and in exactly the condition described, although the villagers have made some progress in rebuilding. Several buildings on the outskirts of the village were partially burned or destroyed while the mages were using it as a stronghold during the war, and those mages who refused the Inquisition's offer and departed to join the Venatori did more damage as they retreated. The Inquisition's representatives will be offered a place to stay within Redcliffe Castle, which suffered minor internal damage and had some of its decor and valuable stolen.
Arl Teagan will be civil but suspicious and irate, partly out of irritation at having been personally ejected from his home and forced to go ask his older brother and the Crown for help, but the concerns he voices will primarily be about his people. He will be prone to referring to the Inquisition's mages and the former rebels/Venatori sympathizers as a single entity. However, like the Fereldan Crown, he is fundamentally sympathetic to mages and their desire for freedom, or at least fewer restrictions, and will not be overtly aggressive or offensive.
The villagers will be a mixed bag: the majority who remained in the village this long despite the rebel mages' presence have no fundamental problem with mages, but they will be tired, cold, and unimpressed with verbal apologies. Additionally, several families who left Redcliffe because of the mages' presence or the dangers of the surrounding war will have returned by now and be unhappy to see more walking around. Your characters may be directly approached by locals complaining about their lost animals, stolen belongings, and injured relatives.
Characters who play close attention may notice a boy following them whenever possible, watching from a distance, and averting his eyes whenever caught. If approached, he may be coaxed into admitting that his name is Calum, age ten, and he has developed magic. His mother, Annis, will attempt to intervene and stop the conversation. Your characters can choose to leave them be or pursue the matter further. Forcing the issue will confirm the boy is a mage and potentially dangerous, having already burnt one of the family's chickens to a crisp by mistake, but without the Circles in place, his mother does not know what to do with him.
ICly, since we've been horrendously late getting this information to you, you can time the mission whenever is most convenient for your characters. This can include forward-dating, backdating, or squeezing it into a pocket dimension that exists outside of time. (Please don't actually ICly create any pocket dimensions.)
If you have any questions or would like to know how NPCs might respond to particular acts by your characters, please reply to this comment to ask. When you have completed the Operation (and decided how to handwave the portions you do not RP), please reply to this comment with the following information:
This report can be written from either an IC or OOC perspective, whichever you would prefer. It doesn't need to be lengthy or overly detailed; its purpose is just to allow us to keep track of characters' actions and incorporate their effects into the world state and future plots.
REPARATIONS FOR REDCLIFFE
Participants: Bruce
Banner, Adelaide LeBlanc, SalvatoreThe group will find Redcliffe blanketed with snow and in exactly the condition described, although the villagers have made some progress in rebuilding. Several buildings on the outskirts of the village were partially burned or destroyed while the mages were using it as a stronghold during the war, and those mages who refused the Inquisition's offer and departed to join the Venatori did more damage as they retreated. The Inquisition's representatives will be offered a place to stay within Redcliffe Castle, which suffered minor internal damage and had some of its decor and valuable stolen.
Arl Teagan will be civil but suspicious and irate, partly out of irritation at having been personally ejected from his home and forced to go ask his older brother and the Crown for help, but the concerns he voices will primarily be about his people. He will be prone to referring to the Inquisition's mages and the former rebels/Venatori sympathizers as a single entity. However, like the Fereldan Crown, he is fundamentally sympathetic to mages and their desire for freedom, or at least fewer restrictions, and will not be overtly aggressive or offensive.
The villagers will be a mixed bag: the majority who remained in the village this long despite the rebel mages' presence have no fundamental problem with mages, but they will be tired, cold, and unimpressed with verbal apologies. Additionally, several families who left Redcliffe because of the mages' presence or the dangers of the surrounding war will have returned by now and be unhappy to see more walking around. Your characters may be directly approached by locals complaining about their lost animals, stolen belongings, and injured relatives.
Characters who play close attention may notice a boy following them whenever possible, watching from a distance, and averting his eyes whenever caught. If approached, he may be coaxed into admitting that his name is Calum, age ten, and he has developed magic. His mother, Annis, will attempt to intervene and stop the conversation. Your characters can choose to leave them be or pursue the matter further. Forcing the issue will confirm the boy is a mage and potentially dangerous, having already burnt one of the family's chickens to a crisp by mistake, but without the Circles in place, his mother does not know what to do with him.
ICly, since we've been horrendously late getting this information to you, you can time the mission whenever is most convenient for your characters. This can include forward-dating, backdating, or squeezing it into a pocket dimension that exists outside of time. (Please don't actually ICly create any pocket dimensions.)
If you have any questions or would like to know how NPCs might respond to particular acts by your characters, please reply to this comment to ask. When you have completed the Operation (and decided how to handwave the portions you do not RP), please reply to this comment with the following information:
This report can be written from either an IC or OOC perspective, whichever you would prefer. It doesn't need to be lengthy or overly detailed; its purpose is just to allow us to keep track of characters' actions and incorporate their effects into the world state and future plots.