War Table

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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

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.

[faderifting]

Spirit Research: Adelaide will encounter a frustrating lack of specificity when it comes to texts dealing with spirits vs demons. Many don't recognize a different between the two at all, and the majority of those that do are interested only in the theoretical and/or philosophical distinctions. There are plenty of texts purporting to reveal ways to remove spirits from people, animals, objects, homes, etc. but very few that claim to be able to cleanse a tainted spirit (though none contemplate that spirit still being within a living being when the cleansing is attempted).

Several she will immediately recognize as hogwash but a couple will provide suggestions worth trying. They will require trial and error and the collection of several rare herbs and minerals (which you are free to make up), as well as the deciphering of at least one complexly encoded formula. Of the rituals worth trying, they range from merely embarrassing to highly dangerous to both caster and subject.

Rift Research: Nobody really knows what happened with the Herald, but if she interviews enough people present at the Conclave she will find one who (convincingly) claims to have seen the Herald emerge from the Fade. What happened when the Herald died sealing the Breach is even more a mystery: the massive hole in the sky sealed, but then there was a flare of blinding light and the Herald was struck down. Corypheus's army attacked in the next moment, and so her body was not examined until it was found and returned to Skyhold for the funeral several weeks later, missing the hand that had held the Anchor. Reports conflict about whether she still had that hand after the flash of light or not.

Experimentation: With the caveat that fear of blood magic and mages' discomfort about the use of phylactery-like objects should keep these from entering common use and potentially stymying plots that are reliant on not being able to find people, we're find with Adelaide developing this device and having one for personal use.