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| Action Id: 3295 | Crisis: | Participants: Yasmine, Violet and Harlex | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: April 13, 2019, 12:15 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Apostate |
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Silver: 50000 Economic Resources: 500 Military Resources: 100 Social Resources: 1000 |
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Action by Yasmine
When news reached Yasmine that there were massive purges happening against the prodigals who called the Oathlands their home, the Ravashari dancer was aggrieved and incensed for her people, the Ravashari, who were among those being hunted down and eradicated by houses who blame them for dark and terrible things.
She later came across the information that the purges were happening in part because of a few members of the Ravashari clan happened across information of some kind that they attempted to use to blackmail different leaders from Houses such as Beaucage, one of the loudest voices who are lobbying for their extermination in hopes for wiping out any evidence. She knows the Ravashari were hired to help track things down for a specific individual, who traded for old house secrets going all the way back to the reckoning. Little puzzle pieces, to find things; ancient rings or weapons, or something along those lines.
Yasmine enacts a plan to secure the most direct routes leading from Arx to the Oathlands along the Great Roads under the auspices of House Champagne, hiring out mercenary groups to bolster protection of exports and imports vital to Arx. She also employs Ravashari prodigals with generous coin to negotiate and barter immunity from hostile shav'arvani where the roads cut through their territories. While all this is done to expand the name of House Champagne as a premiere merchant house, it is also to ensure these routes will be safe to evacuate prodigal survivors fleeing for their lives can be safely transported away from the Oathlands into the Crownlands with hopes that the clan members of the Ravashari who were employed by the Prodigal might be among them, and willing to share their information with promise of safety and immunity from House Beaucage and others who sought to snuff them out.
Action by Harlex
Captain Harlex Valtyr along with Scarlet Company of the Crimson Blades set out to establish safe trade routes for these merchant caravans, dissuading hostile shav'arvani from raids and dealing with them if their presence isn't enough of a deterrent. The mercenary-captain is well aware of the subtle attempt to ensure these routes lead to safe evacuations of prodigal survivors fleeing the Oathlands and special care is taken to help them blend in until sanctuary can be reached until that auspice of making sure the import and export business of Arx is not disrupted by the on-going crisis along the Great Road.
Action by Violet
Violet has assigned Harlex to front this effort, but she is still there going over maps. Reviewing reports. And sending suggestions or orders she feels are appropriate. Indeed she sends extra units to make sure that the roads, but more importantly the people, are kept safe. The borders around House Beaucage have random patrols and scouts set. This is to allow their units reaction time via trained messenger birds. They are to keep their eyes and ears open for information, and carry bribe money and items on them, for the Shav in the area. The Shav, unless threatening or directed by Rivenshari, are left alone and diplomacy is always tried first in encounters.
Result
It's remarkable how much House Champagne is able to accomplish under Yasmine with the sellswords she hires. The Crimson Blades are able to secure most of the roads around Riva and leading from there to Pridehall, with an immediate drop off in violence. At least three separate times, the Crimson Blades encounter raiders who were almost certainly Beaucage men looking to ride down prodigals, but back off when challenged by the Blades, and in one notable occassion, the hired sellswords that Yasmine employed actually rescue a group of knights of solace beset by raiders, winning immense approval from the Faith of the Pantheon.
In addition, Ravashari go to work for Yasmine in talking down different Abandoned groups and buying them off, and attacks almost stop entirely between Pridehall and Riva. That might not hold true in the long term, but many associate House Champagne as their one friend in the Compact. Some information flows back, about Marcel Beaucage and his son, Trevor Beaucage, who was 'killed by Abandoned' that started the purges. Apparently, Trevor had hired Ravashari to find a place called 'the Vault of Thorns' which legend held was filled with treasure, dealt with Abandoned extensively to access it, and murdered many of the individuals that helped him find it including a Scholar of Vellichor to help cover his tracks. They aren't sure how Trevor died exactly- it was assumed he died due to Abandoned, particularly the tribe called the Keepers of the Thorns near that vault, but they were all massacred by his men who were found dead with some ancient tomb open and empty.