faderift | openish | diplomacy meeting

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).

Threaded | Flat

D'accord. You're a donor. You hear about this— [ with a gesture toward the shattered window and, beyond it, significantly less tower than there used to be ] —what do you want to hear next to be convinced we are not a bad investment?

Couple warehouses got knocked in during the battle. Owner claims folks made off with the goods - blaming Darktown -

[ seems they were busy getting crushed to death at the time, but shit rolls downhill ]

Guards figure it's a lost cause. He's hopping mad. Could be an in for - I dunno, something.

[ Unnecessarily checking a list: ]

The Templars are sending a knight to work with the City Guard on dealing with magical threats. Here and elsewhere. We should probably reach out to whoever they are sending here, though. Try to—

[ Not look like a magical threat. ]

—set up a formal channel for communication if there are concerns.

I've a number of merchants I could write to, asking for extra supplies to help us through this tight patch. How should I bribe them?

attack spin.

attack looting;

templar residency.

Oh no the contacts