Alfonso - 1199

[Rule Hound]

Downtime Operation Fuck Laibach (combined action Raetus, Nunzio, Alfonso)
Raetus is doing something to a bunch of rats, don't know what so that's why he's included in this action.

Take rats to Laibach via Trieste. I will travel the Free City (remember I am flesh crafted to look like someone else) and purchase some trade goods. Once that's done I will travel to Laibach and let the Rats quietly disperse as I sell goods.

Once that's done the military forces controlled by Nunzio (4) and myself (3) position themselves (sans uniforms) and kill as many people trying to leave as they can, people will be allowed to enter.

Requirements

• Animalism x 2 to call the rats. (Alfonso can herd them using Shadow play into a almost dead end cavern where they can be easily collected for modification) - met
• Raetus using his medicinal knowledge, uses several diseased mortals to determine a optimum disease to release in Liabach. He then infuses the Rats with little pockets of puss and such that is easily transferred by blood sucking insects or by contact to others. - met
• You pack the rats in cages and travel to Triest. - met
  How do you get there? - need info from Alfonso
  What is your method of travel?  - need info from Alfonso
  
• Resources x 2 & Commerce x 1 (skill) (to pose as a small middling trader and purchase items in Trieste to trade in Laibach) - met
• Militia x 3 - Alfonso. A very small portion of the militia can act as caravan guards to this "merchant" that Alfonso is posing as. Alfonso will have to give them the instructions before he has his appearance altered.  - need info from Alfonso
• Expend Strategos to blockade a trade route/increase banditry. - Alfonso. Personal presence is required to possibly profit personally from their banditry. If you are leading these forces who do you look like and if it is a stranger why do they follow him? - need info from Alfonso
  
• Militia x 4 - Nunzio (same as above if also posing as a trader)
• Expend Strategos to blockade a trade route/increase banditry. - Nunzio. Personal presence is required to possibly profit personally from their banditry. If you are leading these forces who do you look like and if it is a stranger why do they follow him? - need info from Nunzio
  
• Resources x 3 & Commerce x 2 (skill) - Nunzio (in addition to Alfonso. to pose as a mid size trading group/caravan and purchase items in Trieste to trade in Laibach) - optional need confirmation from Nunzio if he wishes to do this
  
• Influence Commerce x 2 - Nunzio. If you wish to make this caravan look really legit then you can arrange for many other traders to come with you and have a full scale caravan go to the Laibach Markets. Would make it almost impossible to determine that this caravan had anything to do with outbreak or to isolate the fake traders and then to narrow it even further to Nunzio and Alfonso. - optional need confirmation from Nunzio if he wishes to do this
  
• Influence Commerce x 2 - Nunzio. If you wish to make this caravan look really legit then you can arrange for many other traders to come with you and have a full scale caravan go to the Laibach Markets. Would make it almost impossible to determine that this caravan had anything to do with outbreak or to isolate the fake traders and then to narrow it even further to Nunzio and Alfonso. - optional need information from Nunzio if he wishes to do this
  

Result on Win:

• Successfully implant the disease in the markets of Laibach (-2 wealth, -1 happiness for a year)
• The more skill and influences put into this action the more difficult it will be for anyone to find out who did it. (if all the above requirements are met including optional then it would take some very good skills and downtimes to learn anything)
• Perform Banditry on the two major trade routes and kill /rob mortals that try to pass
• If personally present. Capture trade goods and slaves. Each participant personally there will get a +(militia level 3 or 4) Resource one shot card (can be used or traded at any point in the future). 
• Rumors will be spread about the danger of trading in Laibach and their roads

Bonus test:
outright win - Note. 4 downtime actions with suitable commitment to build own slave pens/bigger markets that would add a +1 wealth permanently to the domain. For each person who wins their bonus test they will receive a +1 downtime reduction card in the cost of building anything that would permanently increase a domain stat.

ST NOTE: This is a personal card and can be traded or sold. It does not have to go to their Dukedom. Remember. If someone personally spends a lot of time building something for their Dukedom on their own they can gain the Status Builder permanently granting them domain over the structure.

Each person that is going to Trieste to start their "trading mission" will need to perform a travel test also.

The ST's reserve the right if there are enough failures to deem the Caravan was attacked as part of the penalties. It would still get through unless there are some serious botches.


Nunzio tests: Nunzio - rock, paper, rock, scissors  (Loss, Win, Win)
Our tests Nunzio: Paper, Rock, Scissors
Alfonso tests: scissors, paper, rock, paper (tie, loss, win, Win)
Our tests Alfonso: scissors, scissors, scissors, rock 
Raetus tests: scissor, scissor, rock, rock, rock (Win, Win)
Our tests Raetus: paper, paper, rock, scissors, paper

Results

• Nunzio (-1 willpower, pick one penalty from list). Gain +4 one shot resource card & 1 downtime reduction card (usable building structure in a Duchy only - can be sold or traded, due to captured slaves)
• Alfonso (-1 willpower, pick 2 penalties from list). Gain +3 one shot resource card & 1 downtime reduction card (usable building structure in a Duchy only - can be sold or traded, due to captured slaves)
• Raetus - NO PENALTIES!!. Gain 1 downtime reduction card (usable building structure in a Duchy only - can be sold or traded, due to captured slaves)

Stay tuned there will be more information coming as our timeline progresses before game.


Penalty options for failing quest test

• Gaining 1 Beast Trait
  
• -2 Militia for a year
  
• Gaining a Derangement for the game (or 2 derangement traits if you have one – ST discretion)
• Gaining 1 Derangement Trait (if you have a derangement)
  
• Losing 15 minutes of game time
  (Due to entering a fugue/vision state - ST's will tell you when it happens)
• Militia man captured. Need to find a way to silence him.
• A few rats escaped
• Taking 3 points of lethal damage
  
• Down 1 Willpower
  
• Taking 1 points of Aggravated Damage
  
• Influence reduced by 1 until you perform a trivial favor for your influence (Nunzio only)
• Only acquire enough components for 2 rituals not 3 (only if this is your quest)
  
• Minus 2 penalty to one attribute for 1 game

[Rule Hound]

TIMELINE
October

• Alfonso leaves Trento for Trieste
• Nunzio Leaves Trento for Trieste (or just with his forces)
• Isis and Balaam Leave Trieste and head into Laibach
• Alfonso Militia x 3 leaves Trento to set up road block and perform banditry on Laibach
• Nunzio Militia x 4 leaves Trento to set up road block and perform banditry on Laibach

November

• Alfoonso heads to Laibach to drop rats (end of November start of December he returns to his troops)
• Isis and Balaam meet up with Gunner and begin searching for clues speaking to locals, looking into the wandering invaders (zombies from before) and the disappearances.
• Forces hijacking and killing people who try to leave Laibach

December

• Isis, Gunner and Balaam receive word of a sacrifice found dumped in a well just outside the city and go to investigate
• Forces hijacking and killing people who try to leave Laibach

January

• Forces hijacking and killing people who try to leave Laibach
• No leads only horrifying visions of the body being tortured by some unknown person and the organs being cut out while the victim is alive

February

• Forces hijacking and killing people who try to leave Laibach
• Isis, Gunner and Balaam head to area where Gunner was attacked. They can not turn up anything. To overgrown and covered in snow. End of February they manage to come upon the clearing where Gunner found the bodies and Galahad was taken and begin uncovering snow and thoroughly searching around

March

• Gunner seems to get a scent but can not pin it down
• Balaam hears the buzzing that surrounds the Meatery
• Isis gets hit with a vision. She sees Galahad come dashing into the clearing as if driven. Then the vision changes to be from his eyes. She witnesses the baby being cut from it's mothers womb. Flash, with a quick slash of the knife she feels the fluids from the severed umbilical run down her hands. Flash she sees her transparent hands trying to sooth the baby as the wagon rumbles off. For how long she does not know but she is lost in trying to touch and soothing the screaming baby in the back of the wagon. Flash, she is looking at the wagon, the baby is taken from the back and carried into a door. She hears the buzzing of thousands of flies. She almost recognizes the place (insert description of meatery here)
• Forces hijacking and killing people who try to leave Laibach
  

April

• Time to head back. Will continue search after gathering. Some good information to pass on to those there.
• Does Gunner travel with them or depart?
• If he departs as he is circling over the woods he notices that Isis and Balaam are heading towards a group of men who are hidden in the woods about.
• Nunzio and Alfonso - "They see two nondescript travelers heading towards them from Laibach" what do they do?
• If they begin combat Gunner is able to swoop in and join. He reaches it just as it begins. He has the opportunity for surprise if he asks.
• IF they attack both Balaam and Isis will recognize one of the leaders as the one who cut open the sacrifice

[Rule Hound]

Time passes, your forces have had great success no one has managed to get past you on this road leaving Laibach and the troupes are in high spirits with their gains.

The few prisoners you have taken report troubled times with the slave markets suffering due to spreading diseases.

Late one night about a month before the coming gathering you hear the call of a night thrush from your sentries. As you come on the scene you see 3 of your men step out in front of two lone travelers and the other 3 of the night watch slip out behind them. A strange time for two nondescript travelers to be literally walking down the road. As you watch you see one startle the other looks up and you notice Father Balaam's face in the moonlight.


What do you do? You are several rounds from reaching them and engaging if you desire. But so far your forces are still talking/threatening Balaam so you have time.

The other figure is slight of build though the cowl of the cloak is up you are pretty sure it is a female.



Sorry about the delay, life is a bitch.
Anyways here is what we do.

1. If we can run this as an actual scene, we'll attack. I have about three reasons to kill him and now is the perfect opportunity, but only if its an actual scene are we willing to press forward with this.

2. If that is not possible we signal a retreat and slip away.


OK Time Freeze I will run the scene at game before the start of the night so 18:15ish.

[Rule Hound]

Penalties Chosen:

-1 willpower, 1 Aggravated Damage, 1 Beast Trait