openish | diplomacy meeting

[cozen]

WHO: Diplomacy Division
WHAT: A meeting (or a consolidation of several theoretically daily/weekly meetings)
WHEN: Nowish
WHERE: Diplomacy work room, Gallows
NOTES: See belowww.

There's no one sitting at the head of this meeting, but no one has the time to spend arranging the chairs in a careful egalitarian circle, either. For the most part the chairs remain at the desks, and the occupants are tasked with angling them this way or that to create a wobbly polygon with everyone facing vaguely center. There's coffee. There's more than one person, probably, taking accurate notes, because this is Diplomacy. There's a pleasant breeze through the busted window that occasionally turns into a paper-rustling gust. And there's work to do.

OOC | Tag this like a network post even though it's happening in person—action spam, threadjacking, branching conversations, no tag order. Make new top-level comments for new agenda items/conversation topics. Anyone can add a new thing. Please add new things. If anyone who isn't in Diplomacy wants to drop a problem/scenario as a top level (like "P.S. Bob made some nobles angry and that needs to be addressed") for everyone to talk about, please do that.

Also, mod hat: when inventing things our characters are doing or have done in the background, we're limited to little things. If something is significant enough to require a plot request, we can't say we're already doing it! But we can propose/strategize for future plot-request-sized efforts (and then do plot requests).

Comments

[cozen]

I like it. Maybe not the offering to let them look part—I mean, it's the city's property, and if they ask of course we should open the door for them. But we have gone this long without regular inspections. I think we should approach like we assume we have earned more trust than that, and let them disabuse us of that notion if they feel the need, ouais?

Maybe you should go, Ser Cedric. You and one person who is not a Templar. People like Gela, too.

[sprent]

(Sighing,) It's true! Everybody loves me.

[dissolving]

[ a sideways smile: people do like gela. that fact is currently saving them all from an earnest defense of the surveillance state. ]

I'll see if anyone knows who we're sending.

[ definitely a marcher. hopefully not a kirkwaller. but if two nevarrans aren't the most reassuring welcome, ]

Can ask 'em them about that running ghost. Something harmless, city-side, so they know we're not shutting them out.

[altusimperius]

The Templar Order is sending someone here? On what grounds?

[irritably,] wasn't the Revered Mother enough?

[sorry Cedric you're still very handsome]

[cozen]

Not only here. And not to us. To the city guard, here and in other places. To assist and train so people are more prepared to deal with local issues while the Templars are focused on the March—that is what we've been told.

[altusimperius]

Local issues being the running ghost, and the like?

[And not The Gallows full of mages.]

[dissolving]

[ the running ghost, sure. and that village on fire, and - ]

Venatori hit half a dozen cities. Folks gotta be prepared.

he's been here the whole time

[overharrowed]

[Looking up from the notes that are for sure the reason he's been quiet up until now:]

If the Templars are sending a representative to the city watch, should we reach out to the Inquisition mages and see if they want to do the same? It's not as if there's only one way to handle magical threats, and I doubt the watch will turn down the extra help.

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[dissolving]

'S a good idea. Way I heard it, they're sending folks too hurt for the front. Inquisition has the same problem. Or,

[ carefully: ]

Might be folks in the city'd step up. If we asked.

[ apostates, for whatever that means any more. if they want it to mean something other than didn't join the fight,

well. ]

[overharrowed]

I don't see a reason it couldn't be both. It would send two different messages. Anyone in the city knows we're here and lived through the attack; an invitation might encourage them, but they may not fully need it. Someone from outside shows ... balance, a bit. It looks less like someone sent to look over our shoulders and more as if we have multiple allies to call on in time of need.

[And if Cedric's point about affiliation is still true, well, all the more reason to dilute things a bit.]

[dissolving]

Reckon you're our best contact for both, Enchanter.

[ a reputed moderate (if you haven't heard on the boyfriend), and known in the inquisition. fereldan, like half the locals, like the head of the watch. ]

Y'think it makes sense to keep separate meetings?

[ people talk more in confidence. might be better to hear what's going on. but if they're meant to work together, ]

[overharrowed]

Probably best not to give the appearance of micromanaging. I think it will somewhat depend on the temperaments of the particular individuals we end up with. Unless anyone feels differently, of course, but maybe see who we have before we make a firm decision.

[dissolving]

Alright. Let y'know if I turn up anything before they get here.

[ phew. that he'll need to find some other excuse to take long walks with just gela is, you know, a problem for another day. ]