private to pirates.

[exequy]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Colin, Kostos, Myr
RECIPIENT: Pirates
WHAT: Business deals
WHEN: Nowish
NOTES: It doesn't actually make sense for this conversation to happen via crystal instead of in a back room somewhere but for ease of threadjacky conversation we're ignoring that! People are elsewhere and can't talk in person, for some reason. Also if you want your character to be involved in this conversation and think that they would/should/could have been invited to it, we can almost certainly add you in! Just ask someone first.

Serahs-- If you’re hearing this it’s because we--myself, Colin, and Kostos--spoke to you previously about a proposition we’d like to make you, on behalf of the south’s mages. You may be aware that the Inquisition agreed to return any property recovered from the Circles directly to us when the war’s over.

[A brief pause.] We’d like to see it remains in our possession--or at least out of anyone else’s hands. [The Chantry’s. Say the Chantry’s, Myr.

...nah.]

[Colin’s voice lightly mutters,] So we’re...asking.

We need a place to put it and a way to move it there, [ Kostos cuts in, ] and we need to know what the cost would be. Some of it could be dangerous, if the people handling it are stupid, but the majority would be books. Some art. Money. If we're all executed, you can keep it.

Comments

[faithlikeaseed]

And we might more feasibly offer that sort of help--especially if it can be accomplished through subterfuge rather than a direct assault.

What sort of things would we be retrieving? [And then because he's read way too many adventure novels and at least one jailbreak,] Have you got anyone still on the inside?

[sclavus]

No idea. Nothing's gone in or come out of that island since the rifts open and the Venatori showed.

We'd be looking to retrieve ships, people, weapons. Coin. The vessel I captained was a Man-o-War left behind somewhere in those waters.

[faithlikeaseed]

Ah. [So Max's assayed "they could be distracted and then we could attack," ... is beginning to sound a great deal less feasible. At least without more information.

He's quiet for a moment, thinking.]

Then we'd need more current intelligence before we went out against them, I'd think--or even make any promises of what we might achieve.

[sclavus]

We can send scouts.

Those of us here know that island and the surrounding area better than any Venatori on it now. One or two of us could get in and out without detection.