MAGE REBELLION JOB BOARD

[wythersake]

WHAT

This is a collection of tasks that can also be claimed and RPed, to advance the IC goal of mage rights. I’ll submit a report summarizing what we get done every few months.

These will gradually impact the setting if RPed, but also have the potential to backfire on both mages and the war effort. They are not officially sanctioned, and may have IC consequences if attached to Riftwatch. 


HOW

You can RP about them with anyone you like, in whatever way you like. You can play out the task itself, something related to it, or just use it as conversation fodder.

Isaac won’t personally involve characters who weren’t on this announcement. OOC, I don’t care. The more the merrier!


NOTES

• You don’t have to be in the division listed. It's just for organization.
• You don’t have to involve the additions, and you can come up with your own approach. They’re only OOC brainstorming.
• If you play something that requires more info or would have bigger impacts on the setting, submit it to information, or plot requests.

Generally, the more extreme an action, the more likely that you should give the mods a heads-up.

Comments

CLAIM FORM

[wythersake]

Reply to this comment. There's no timeline on these, but toss it back if you decide you're no longer interested.

<b>CHARACTER(S):</b> <b>TASK:</b> <b>THREAD LINK:</b> Edit this in when you start tagging.

Re: CLAIM FORM

[portalling]

CHARACTER(S): Stephen Strange
TASK: Research, I) Look into Harrowing alternatives, and coming-of-age rituals for mages outside of the Circles (Dalish, Chasind, Avvar, Imperium, etc).

THREAD LINK: wip

[wythersake]

CHARACTER(S): Isaac
TASK: Gather evidence of late-in-life magic acquisition.
THREAD LINK: Report here

[exequy]

CHARACTER(S): Kostos & Company
TASK: "Seek out the sites of former Circles and significant Rebellion battles. Survey what spirits are attracted, and document what they remember."
THREAD LINK: Here!

[wythersake]

CHARACTER(S): Isaac
TASK: "Survey lyrium supply lines. Identify the routes that would most suffer from disruption."
THREAD LINK: TBA :^)

Re: CLAIM FORM

[corpsestuff]

CHARACTER(S): Emmrich Volkarin, will try to rope in a couple others
TASK: Sort through the recovered Circle artifacts.
THREAD LINK: To come.

DIPLOMACY

[wythersake]

I) Develop a list of wealthy or influential families that would be affected by the reintroduction of Circle mages into their inheritance schemes.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Locate families that would be positively affected by more heirs. Foster their connections with lost children.

Shady - Locate the rivals of families that would be negatively affected by more heirs. Convince them to support mage inheritance.

Extreme - Locate those mages who'd stand to inherit, and help get rid of their competition.

II) Collect information on prominent Chantry clerics. Who are among the most and least conservative? Are there any factional fractures?

Optional adds:

Moderate - Identify potential threats to liberal clerics and their reputations. Offer your assistance.

Shady - Dig into the history of conservative clerics, and their personal relationships. Encourage in-fighting.

Extreme - Plant evidence to connect hardline clerics to unsanctioned activity and abuses.

III) Speak with retired Templars about their time in the Circles and the war. Document abuses.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Curate a list of Knights who ex-Templars have personal connections to. Encourage them to express regrets about their time in the Order.

Shady - Seek out those vulnerable to lyrium dementia. Edit their stories to highlight or include abuses.

Extreme - Seek out those actively in lyrium dementia, and provoke them to attack you.

IV) Interview those displaced by Venatori attacks on cities. Evaluate their attitudes towards mages, and their current needs.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Arrange for some of those needs to be met by mages.

Shady - Identify what portion of city budgets is being allocated to the Chantry. Convince them to shift some to helping the displaced.

Extreme - Plant evidence of Chantry embezzlement and corruption in that budget. Agitate the displaced around this point.

RESEARCH

[wythersake]

I) Look into Harrowing alternatives, and coming-of-age rituals for mages outside of the Circles (Dalish, Chasind, Avvar, Imperium, etc).

Optional adds:

Moderate - Compile a list of the pros and cons of these alternatives, present it to Circle mages outside of Riftwatch.

Shady - Find an Unharrowed mage, and test one of these methods directly. Compare it to a Harrowing.

Extreme - Convince a non-circle mage to undergo Harrowing, and make sure that it’s a Bad Time. Encourage them to agitate for how awful and unhelpful of an experience it was (or do it yourself, if they don’t live).

II) Examine the theological justifications for and against blood magic as used by the Chantry and Wardens.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Compose an argument that phylacteries represent an unacceptable use of blood magic under Chantry law.

Shady - Look into the Wardens' use of blood magic, and compare phylacteries to the Joining ritual. Argue that mages could be corrupted similarly.

Extreme - Prove that. Taint a phylactery, and see what happens.

III) Gather evidence of late-in-life magic acquisition.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Examine historical numbers of mages, and whether magic is growing more common.

Shady - Research cases of mages in hiding, who were later outed. Alter the evidence to suggest that their magic was acquired much later in life, or could have come on them at any time.

Extreme - Make a case that anchor shards represent a form of magic acquisition. Push for all anchor-bearers to be recognized as mages.

IV) Sort through the recovered Circle artifacts.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Examine the potential damage of artifacts falling into the wrong, non-magical hands. Establish a system to secure and check on them.

Shady - Give an artifact to the Chantry for safekeeping, then make sure that keeping isn't safe. Document the fallout.

Extreme - Do some damage with an artifact. Plant evidence that the Chantry is fencing Circle property to shady characters to fund the Exalted March.

SCOUTING

[wythersake]

i) Seek out the sites of former Circles and significant Rebellion battles. Survey what spirits are attracted, and document what they remember.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Make a case for using spirits as historical record to friendly academics.

Shady - Try to warp these spirits' point of view by sharing your own experiences and big feelings.

Extreme - Provoke peaceful spirits into demoning out, and use the presence of demons as evidence of how bad stuff was.

II) Make friends with civilian mages in Tevinter. Identify their fears and desires around the war.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Work on propaganda that discourages military involvement.

Shady - Help them flee South to start new lives.

Extreme - Help them flee South to start new lives. Agitate xenophobia around Tevinter as a point in favour of Southern mages, who aren't moving in to take normie jobs.

III) Survey lyrium supply lines. Identify the routes that would most suffer from disruption.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Arrange mage protection for these routes directly with lyrium sellers, while the Chantry is busy with the March.

Shady - Siphon off the top of those supplies. Sell or stockpile the lyrium to fund Rebellion activities.

Extreme - Fuck with the routes directly.

IV) Find a way to access the Chantry’s lists of mages and phylacteries.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Compare pre-war paperwork, and look for discrepancies to compile a list of the assumed dead and missing.

Shady - Identify and track down survivors who may be in hiding. Encourage them to act as contacts for the Rebellion.

Extreme - Destroy / alter those records.

FORCES

[wythersake]

I) Find a location damaged by magical fighting.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Complete magical repairs on a damaged structure. Look hot doing it.

Shady - Set magical traps on a damaged structure, and lead enemies into it.

Extreme - Make it look like the Venatori set those traps. Lead a conservative Chantry official into it.

II) A group of former Circle mages is going after ex-Templars for alleged past abuses. Deal with it.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Convince them that would be a bad idea, and prevent further bloodshed.

Shady - Help them kill those ex-Templars and cover it up.

Extreme - Help them kill those ex-Templars, and make it widely-known.

III) Train mages to fight without magic.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Encourage cross-training between mage soldiers and the March.

Shady - Identify weaknesses in common Templar fighting patterns. Develop non-magical techniques to combat these.

Extreme - Train and arm apostates. Encourage them to attack Chantry officials traveling through the area.

IV) Explore the possibility of weaponized abominations.

Optional adds:

Moderate - Identify the conditions that make an Abomination more likely in battle, and come up with ways to prevent this among troops.

Shady - Encourage conditions that would provoke abominations in Tevene camps.

Extreme - Identify the conditions necessary for a mage to actively attract a demon and trigger possession. Determine whether there are circumstances under which this should be considered (ex - cornered in battle, a walking bomb, etc).