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<blockquote data-quote="Ajar" data-source="post: 6250543" data-attributes="member: 85901"><p>We've been doing the planning montage for the last few weeks. We're going a bit faster than one montage week per real week, but not much faster...</p><p></p><p>Still, their plans are coming together. </p><p></p><p>[spoiler]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Week 1</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bela - History to look through files and learn about business from studying professional criminals. Cover identities. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Vesta - Investigation of kinds of events going on at each destination city when the train gets there. Contingencies. Success. I <strong>need to clarify what these events are and what cities they're in.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Murdok - Shows up at police grunt work, bitching about how she thought things would be different under Delft. Secrecy. Success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Viveen - Attempts to find common pilgrimages that might put a religious type on the train. Secrecy. Failure. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Reginald - Reginald hints to Hans Weber that they may be dispatched to a ziggurat in the near future. Secrecy. Success. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Week 2</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Reginald - Ridealong on the train to Bole as an inspector, studying the construction of the cars and looking for spots that contraband could be placed. Contingencies. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Murdok - Obtained more detailed maps of the Avery Coast, geography around cities on the route. Contingencies. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Vesta - Attempts to request the Impossible to take them out to sea as a ruse, where they later meet up with their ship. Level 6 favour, prestige 5 with Risur, fulfilled in a day -- no problem. Cover Identities. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Viveen - Goes to talk with Heward Sechim. If they're going to pose as businesspeople scouting for new factory locations. Cover Identities. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bela - Goes to talk to the Skyseers about portals, providing more cover for their cover story of going to investigate another seal. Secrecy. Success.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Week 3</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Reginald - Goes to dinner with his posh aunt and her friends to learn more about the railroad and how posh travellers travel. Cover Identities. Success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Vesta - Spends time with eldest brother Belaver trying to investigate their family tree and see if any relations live near any of the stops. Contingencies. Success. Relation lives somewhere near Vendricce, <strong>eladrin assassin.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bela - Falsifies paperwork to ensure nobody picks up on the fact that they aren't doing their normal jobs. Secrecy. Success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Murdok - Takes Rock Rackus out for drinks and suggests that he perform somewhere along the route. Contingencies. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Viveen - Using the knowledge she gained from Heward to try and coach other party members on factory construction. Cover Identities. Failure. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Week 4</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Viveen - Archer montage! Practicing her train fighting moves in secret. On trains. Secrecy. Failure. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Vesta - Works to obtain false passports for the party's cover identities. Cover Identities. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bela - Creates a paper trail for the false identities - e.g. correspondence between Murdok and false people who may own land where she would want to site a factory. Cover Identities. Success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Reginald - Obtains clothing, accoutrements for the cover identities. Tooth & Claw guidebooks. Cover Identities. Success.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Murdok - Works on logistics with Rock Rackus. How to ship their pyrotechnics without it all exploding, etc. They want to perform in Nalaam. Because Vegas, baby! Vegas! Contingencies. Success. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Week 5</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Viveen - Quizzes people on cover identities. Cover Identities. Failure. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bela - Quizzes people on cover identities. Cover Identities. Failure. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Reginald - Obtains clothing, accoutrements for cover identities. Cover Identities. Success. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Vesta - Spends some time communing with Xambria about how to pass as a scholar. Free success in Cover Identities. Also does paperwork. Secrecy. Success.</span></p><p>Murdok...</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Identities:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Scholar - Vesta</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Bela - Transporter</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Murdok - Factory Owner</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Reginald - Dilettante</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Viveen - Reginald’s bodyguard on his drying out tour</span>[/spoiler]<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">They've come up with some pretty cool ideas so far. I gave Vesta a free success in working on his scholar cover identity, since he has Xambria in his head. They've convinced Rock Rackus to play Nalaam, and are working on helping him get his gear over there -- Murdok used her Dungeoneering skill to assist Rock and his people with the careful packaging of their fireworks so that they don't all explode on the way over. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">So we're in week 5, and Murdok decides she wants to look up Dr von Recklinghausen and see if he can arrange to meet them along the route. Given the presence of Andrei on the train, this seems like it could mess things up. [MENTION=63]RangerWickett[/MENTION]?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ajar, post: 6250543, member: 85901"] We've been doing the planning montage for the last few weeks. We're going a bit faster than one montage week per real week, but not much faster... Still, their plans are coming together. [spoiler][FONT=Arial][B]Week 1[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Bela - History to look through files and learn about business from studying professional criminals. Cover identities. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Vesta - Investigation of kinds of events going on at each destination city when the train gets there. Contingencies. Success. I [B]need to clarify what these events are and what cities they're in.[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Murdok - Shows up at police grunt work, bitching about how she thought things would be different under Delft. Secrecy. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Viveen - Attempts to find common pilgrimages that might put a religious type on the train. Secrecy. Failure. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Reginald - Reginald hints to Hans Weber that they may be dispatched to a ziggurat in the near future. Secrecy. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][B]Week 2[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Reginald - Ridealong on the train to Bole as an inspector, studying the construction of the cars and looking for spots that contraband could be placed. Contingencies. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Murdok - Obtained more detailed maps of the Avery Coast, geography around cities on the route. Contingencies. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Vesta - Attempts to request the Impossible to take them out to sea as a ruse, where they later meet up with their ship. Level 6 favour, prestige 5 with Risur, fulfilled in a day -- no problem. Cover Identities. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Viveen - Goes to talk with Heward Sechim. If they're going to pose as businesspeople scouting for new factory locations. Cover Identities. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Bela - Goes to talk to the Skyseers about portals, providing more cover for their cover story of going to investigate another seal. Secrecy. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][B]Week 3[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Reginald - Goes to dinner with his posh aunt and her friends to learn more about the railroad and how posh travellers travel. Cover Identities. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Vesta - Spends time with eldest brother Belaver trying to investigate their family tree and see if any relations live near any of the stops. Contingencies. Success. Relation lives somewhere near Vendricce, [B]eladrin assassin.[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Bela - Falsifies paperwork to ensure nobody picks up on the fact that they aren't doing their normal jobs. Secrecy. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Murdok - Takes Rock Rackus out for drinks and suggests that he perform somewhere along the route. Contingencies. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Viveen - Using the knowledge she gained from Heward to try and coach other party members on factory construction. Cover Identities. Failure. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][B]Week 4[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Viveen - Archer montage! Practicing her train fighting moves in secret. On trains. Secrecy. Failure. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Vesta - Works to obtain false passports for the party's cover identities. Cover Identities. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Bela - Creates a paper trail for the false identities - e.g. correspondence between Murdok and false people who may own land where she would want to site a factory. Cover Identities. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Reginald - Obtains clothing, accoutrements for the cover identities. Tooth & Claw guidebooks. Cover Identities. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Murdok - Works on logistics with Rock Rackus. How to ship their pyrotechnics without it all exploding, etc. They want to perform in Nalaam. Because Vegas, baby! Vegas! Contingencies. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][B]Week 5[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Viveen - Quizzes people on cover identities. Cover Identities. Failure. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Bela - Quizzes people on cover identities. Cover Identities. Failure. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Reginald - Obtains clothing, accoutrements for cover identities. Cover Identities. Success. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Vesta - Spends some time communing with Xambria about how to pass as a scholar. Free success in Cover Identities. Also does paperwork. Secrecy. Success.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT]Murdok... [FONT=Arial]Identities:[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Scholar - Vesta[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Bela - Transporter[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Murdok - Factory Owner[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Reginald - Dilettante[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Viveen - Reginald’s bodyguard on his drying out tour[/FONT][/spoiler][FONT=Arial] They've come up with some pretty cool ideas so far. I gave Vesta a free success in working on his scholar cover identity, since he has Xambria in his head. They've convinced Rock Rackus to play Nalaam, and are working on helping him get his gear over there -- Murdok used her Dungeoneering skill to assist Rock and his people with the careful packaging of their fireworks so that they don't all explode on the way over. So we're in week 5, and Murdok decides she wants to look up Dr von Recklinghausen and see if he can arrange to meet them along the route. Given the presence of Andrei on the train, this seems like it could mess things up. [MENTION=63]RangerWickett[/MENTION]?[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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