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[hassaran]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Yseult
RECIPIENT: All members of the Hostile Powers project
WHAT: Talking about the project's current goals and how to help work toward them
WHEN: Now
WHERE: In your ear
NOTES: N/A

Hello. [ a female voice, and a crisp Marcher-ish accent ] You're receiving this message because you're a member of the Hostile Powers project. If we haven't spoken before, my name is Yseult and I assist with leading this project. Kostos Averesch, the project leader, has asked me to reach out to all of you to talk about the work we'll be focusing on in the coming months.

We've settled on three goals that we'll all be working toward until further notice. The first is destabilizing the hold that Corypheus and his allies have on Tevinter and on the Anderfels. If we can make them less secure in their power at home it will affect their ability to continue pushing the invasion forward.

The second is to improve our understanding of our enemy's tactics. We need to know more about the forces that Tevinter and the Anderfels have in the field, how they fight, how they are supplied, and who leads them, so that we can be better-prepared to combat them in the future.

Finally, we know that our enemy has agents across Thedas. Some work covertly as spies, gathering information while pretending to be disinterested or even on our side. Others may openly advocate positions that help the enemy. We need to identify these agents wherever they are so that we can then either neutralize them or use them to our own advantage.

Achieving these goals will take a great deal of work from us all. Averesch and I are interested in hearing your proposals for how to approach these goals. If you're not sure what we should do, we'd still like to hear from you about any skills, information, or connections you have that might be useful. This will help us ensure we are directing each of you toward the work where you can be the most help.

If you have questions, or would prefer to discuss privately, you may contact us via crystal or in the project office at your convenience.

Comments

[wont_be_me]

I was on a spaceship with the entire galaxy at my fingertips before I was dumped here. This place is extremely boring.

[ So amuse her or she's going to start lighting the town on fire, I guess? ]

[hassaran]

What sort of work are you willing to do simply to avoid boredom?

[wont_be_me]

[ it would be too self-aware for her to admit she's an adrenaline junkie and a psychopath, wouldn't it. ]

It's not work if I'm having fun.

[ Shut up Carla. ]

[hassaran]

[ She doesn't really need to say it. ]

What did you do before you came here?

[wont_be_me]

Lie, cheat, steal.

[ SHRUG. ]

I was mentored in counterfeit art, but I can do money, jewelry, watches, signatures, whatever else... I like little details. Recreating them, remembering them, manipulating them, manipulating people. I like codes and ciphers, systems, mechanisms.

I am a wanted criminal out in space. I killed some of my bounty hunters, I have killed others for bounties.

[hassaran]

For what crimes were you wanted?

[wont_be_me]

I sold some art to some alien royalty.

[ And then the real thing appeared. Very inconvenient. ]

And then I did not choose to stand for my crime. Hence the bounty hunters. Some of which are now dead.

[ :) ]

[hassaran]

[ she doesn't seem even the slightest bit trustworthy, but so it goes. ]

We've work for a forger if you come to the office tomorrow. We've intercepted encoded communications from an enemy agent, and it would be useful to substitute our own replies. It's all low-level but it will be a good test.

[wont_be_me]

[ She is not trusthworthy, in the slightest. ]

I would love to.

[ IS IT PUZZLE O'CLOCK. ]