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| Action Id: 2067 | Crisis: | Participants: Eirene, Mirari, Caelis, Vitalis, Marcos and Kia | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: April 20, 2018, 10:12 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Apostate |
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Silver: 75000 Economic Resources: 500 Military Resources: 400 Action Points: 125 |
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Action by Eirene
Eirene and the Phoenix Brigade split into units to perform basic health and welfare checks on the shavs. Tending to wounds, sickness, and disease. With as big a number as there are, they focus on those who look immediately sick or look at those who seem like potential soldiers for their army. Eirene travels with an armed guard per Calypso's command orders, and every unit is equipped with translators and at least two soldiers carrying highly polished mirrored shields to ensure there's no disguised weirdness.
They are doing honest health checks to make sure there's no carried diseases or health risks, and for military readiness, however, they are also looking for the following...
*A marking of a chained book behind the ear.
*Any common tatoos which mark anyone of a particular unit or organization i.e. the Shadowspeakers tribe.
*Disease or plague symptoms
Anyone displaying any of the above are noted and sent either to quarantine if genuinely sick, or sent to report to a recruiter for the military. They will make note of the suspicious ones for later review. Some of those sent to the recruiter will be perfectly normal shavs who do indeed show fine health. They will treat any injuries or maladies while they're out and about and go to anyone who they are referred to.
Action by Mirari
Mirari will be sticking very close with Eirene. When the Vulture of Southport goes somewhere dangerous, Mirari will be with her guards. She'll have some alchemical tools with her as well, to aid those who are doing medical work, but that is not her focus. Her focus is keeping Eirene as safe as she can.
Action by Vitalis
Lord Vitalis will travel to Southport with Lady Eirene Malvici and company to assist in the checking of the Shavs for odd symbols or tattoos by using his fluency in the language of the Lyceum's shavs combined with his natural charm to get them to open up to him, while using his knowledge of "weird shit" to take a close look for any sinister influences.
Action by Marcos
Marcos will be going along to help provide medical care and another set of searching eyes for the group. While checking over the Shav he'll make sure to listen to them as well as look them over hoping to gain insights from his 'patients'.
Action by Caelis
Caelis will travel south with her aunt Eirene to assist her in inspecting those who might be well suited to military training to repopulate the army while Eirene sees to the ill or injured.
Action by Kia
As someone fluent in Lycene shav and as someone who knows some medicine but is a trained apothecary, Kia will be wandering about, speaking with the people, making sure that those waiting in Southport get the proper medical attention and services they need. She will also be discussing with other shavs life as a prodigal, especially under the Malvici banner considering her tribe on the Cyrto Arch Islands was recently annexed as well.
Result
Under Lady Eirene Malvici, and using the flag of truce, a group of medics and healers ride out to offer their help to the assembled shav at the gates of Southport. It's a dangerous move, a risky one - but they are hoping to do some good will checkups. And hey, if they happen to scope small details like operational readiness, or proportion of cultists to "honest shav" well, that's really not why they're there of course, but they're not going to turn down that information. Mirari goes too, keeping a careful eye on the Vulture of Southport to make sure she is as safe as one woman and a crack team of soldiers can make her.
In talking to them, there's a lot of confusing information. There's a group with tattoos of glaives on their necks, who seem quite ready to fight, and there are others with no tattoo at all who also seem willing and able. And yet they're not fighting since everyone is under the flag of truce, and they honestly seem a little confused by this. They're pleasant enough though, grateful for the medical attention and willing to find common ground. It seems more like they just enjoy fighting than that they have a particular plan in place.
Kia spends the time marginally ill - something in the general area of her stomach just? ugh. It's just not right. It's worst around some of the shav that the others bow to in deference - and when she really looks at those bowing, they aren't bowing out of respect but out of fear. Meanwhile Vitalis is making friends with a group that calls themselves House Gray Raptor. They seem ready for battle, but they also don't seem very invested in whether or not that happens. They find common ground when talking about exploration though - Vitalis and the Raptors then proceed down the rabbit hole of adventure and exploring the great wilds of Arvum.
Caelis and Marcos go to together, scouting the weapons of war under the guise of Marcos looking for new patients. From everything Caelis can see, this army is extremely well equipped. They're more like an army of the Compact than a shav force, but she does notice that their armor is mismatched and confused, as though these are several forces merged together, not one united group.
Whatever they were expecting, one thing becomes clear: This is not the monolithic army they present themselves as being. Some may mean good and others may mean ill, but as with many things political, it's complicated.