[ CLOSED ] WAR TABLE: INVESTIGATE COMTESSE DE VELONEY

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WHO: Herian, Anders, Issana, Velanna, Pam, Malcolm
WHAT: A series of disappearances in the Orlesian countryside has culminated in the vanishment of some of the Inquisition's own scouts. A team has been sent to investigate the estate of one Comtesse Eléonore Vaillant de Veloney.
WHEN: Over the span of 4 days in the 2nd week of Harvestmere.
WHERE: Estate of Comtesse Eléonore Vaillant de Veloney
NOTES: Trauma, gore, dark themes, homicide, pretentious wine usage, other things not labeled as to avoid spoilers.

Welcome to the Estate

It is a terrible misfortune, all these disappearances- but with a civil war on and all this strange Venatori and Red Templar activity- with the rifts in the countryside? People simply not appearing where they ought is a sad reality. Nothing to be done for it. That such an esteemed noblewoman has found herself unjustly accused simply due to her wealth and prosperity? Cannot stand. Comtesse de Veloney invited the Inquisition herself to investigate her manor and put the matter to rest- they are to be afforded all the cooperation and respect imaginable.

Even the mages. Even the elves.

They are met at the gate by a veritable delegation of footmen led by the Gardener and Tanner to see them inside and out of the stormy, dreary weather. Packs are secreted off to rooms (a lovely set of suites in the east wing if the Steward does say so herself), baths drawn (The Comtesse insists, it's been just dreadful and they've come all this way), and a lavish banquet prepared.

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Inessa's news:

She's found a secret passage behind a bookcase in the study. It leads to a door with a very strong lock. It's not something she can overcome on her own, not without alerting staff. So, is anyone good at lockpicking?

Margret's information, namely that the Comtesse's serving girls who are educated and married off have not been seen or heard from since that point, any of them. The Comtesse herself seems to be from the Imperium, and left due to her non-mage status. According to Ophelia, via Margret, there is a pattern in which the girls sent away are the larger ones and they wonder if chubbiness is 'in' these days because of it.

Ophelia herself is up next to be sent off, though the Comtesse is not happy with her. Apparently, she's stopped eating so much and seems to fear getting married. She was supposed to be sent off three times by now, and in two days her carriage is supposed to come for her.