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[agogenpc]

Sup guys! Here's where we're going to be going over ~secret info~ for the Royal Pain mission.

I was thinking the way we'd run this would be similar to a D&D sort of thing. I give you guys some scenarios. You tell me what your characters would do. If I think it's particularly difficult or risky, we'll do a skill check, but that'll probably be rare (unless you want to TRY for something particularly unlikely and REQUEST a skill check). I'll tell you what information your characters find, and they can relate it to the rest of the game as you wish. Sound good?

FIRST OFF all your guys' names will be absolutely impossible to pronounce for French people... except for you, John Neige. For Daenerys, it might be a good idea to just go as Dany, since the name Danielle exists, though it's very rare at this time in France. Ashitaka... well, people will probably assume Ashitaka is at least partially Chinese, so you can really do whatever. Basically: if you want to come up with names for your personas, lmk! Or if you wanna handwave it, that's cool too!

ALSO for the benefit of transparency, once this mission is over, we'll be making the post public so players can see everything that went down behind the scenes!

Comments

[northerndragon]

/thousand yard stare about that wedding. But, like, you know: in private. Publicly, he's just waiting to hear about messages he's tried to send out to his siblings, who live very far away. Strangely, Jean and Danielle seem closer than ever since around the time of Dany's network post.

Of the three of them, Jon is best suited to tail Colin: he's a strong guy who's also been hunting successfully his entire life (like, actual animals, in the woods, with his "father" and "brother"), and Colin is already explicitly avoiding Ashitaka. But Jon is also recognizable as a Tuileries guard, so he'd go with the Commander's decision as to whether he should be the tail or someone who hasn't been working in the palace should.

He's also sent video of the mystery key to the Commander. His best idea if a copy is needed is to make a wax or clay impression to bring to whoever she'd choose as a middleman, but that may not be necessary... the real key is right there, after all.

[Had to think briefly about whether or not it would occur to Jon to take an impression of a key, but 1. He watches smiths work in canon, and they are shown to be using molds and similar techniques, and 2. The doors in the show's version of Winterfell lock with keys.]

[agogemod]

Look, let the royals smash their barbie dolls together, ok. It's their right as divinely chosen leaders of men, or, like, whatever.

Colin acts like a normal soldier at almost all times, blending in, let's be honest, much better than Jon or Ashitaka or Dany do. He raises little suspicion, and always has good excuses and convenient explanations when things do get weird. However, sometimes he'll sneak away to just... stand there. Doing nothing. Careful, careful observation will find that he's blinking his eyes rapidly while he does this. In general, watching his eyes might reveal some interesting tidbits; sometimes he'll start blinking rapidly, or turning his head to survey entire scenes during his work, even if it seems like nothing should be drawing his gaze. It's easy to miss, but once you know it's there, it's hard not to see.

The Commander says a wax copy is a good idea if they can't find a matching lock nearby. What's the point of having a key if you don't know where the lock is? And judging from the king's study, he likes to keep all his toys in the same place. That said, the pictures are appreciated, and filed away carefully. Good work, team.

[northerndragon]

Colin is reported to the Commander as an almost certain Regency spy, unless she knows of a third group interested in this sort of thing.

They make the wax copy and get it out ASAP, and look around the King's study when they can for a place to use the key.

For the rest of it, waiting on coordination with anyone who needs coordinating with, I suppose.