Using the Perditus shouldn't be a problem - adding in some more back history for them isn't a bad thing.
Also, if the ship has no name, you risk me calling it the "Savage Chicken", because I read far too many webcomics.
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As far as the internal factions of the Inquisition, Alyx really knows pretty little. Her familiarity with the name Perditus, last night, was down to having fleshed out a few of the details of what had happened during the "training period" Ruaridh had allocated before our last adventure. (Novus' progression to "Grammaton Cleric" - Not the actual title, but I do think that has Grammaton in it somewhere... - was at least partly RPed, but it was left rather up to others how their version of events went.)
I decided that somewhere amongst the events, there had been at least some meeting with Gala, who being the kind of person she is, responds to reading Alyx's full title - which, at its most ridiculous, details her relationship to the family patriarch (her grandfather), naming him and her father in full (who both have four forenames and in her grandfather's case an extended honorific) for a total of 27 words - with as long winded as she could make her own name, which she does mostly by adding "Inquisitorial agent under Inquisitor Lyra Joandra Rhodes of the Ordo Perditus Carthaxian" seeing as the rest is just "Cymone Regin".
(Alyx was not hugely impressed by this joke.)
Alyx never really got any big explanation for that beyond perhaps guessing something from its High Gothic root (but she was at least paying attention), so last night added some more context for it.
She's using what chances she can to sound "in the know", because she's got a bit of gambit going to get the people they're assigned to stop omitting things because they're dumbing the details down or think it's beyond her pay-grade - which, if it works, snowballs as she can then con her next handler a little more convincingly. Her hope here is that being a little better informed might make the difference between life and death.
This kind of thing is sort of second nature to her - being a noblewoman, subtle suggestion and manipulation are something she's seen a lot of over her years.
This makes choosing which rank she'll take next really difficult - the Freeblade option plays a lot into her nobleborn side, but:
a) she's not really all that keen to play this up, seeing as the other characters mostly don't know.
b) probably not going to go great, as it's a Fellowship based upgrade tree, a stat she's not great on and can only upgrade at exorbitant expense. (And on a 4th wall level, a bit useless, given Ernst would still be better than her and thus taking the tests for us.)
c) the Death Adept choice works too - given her circumstances, martial prowess is not going to go amiss.
In any case, I should probably buy her things like Charm and Deceive, even if its through elite advances, as it does have some tie in to her identity.
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As for Alyx's current assessments, she's a little anxious about the ship Fabian has lent them (but would be even more so if she knew her assessment of its value is short by several orders of magnitude). The implications of the sheer level of resources he's investing means he's one or more of:
- Totally insane
- Highly overconfident in, or overestimating, our ability.
- Really desperate.
None of those things are a good sign.
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I shall also add that we're not great with our shopping trips. That was sort of "Oh yay, we get to buy things! Uh... who actually needs something?" It didn't help that what was in the package Lyra sent Alyx meant that half of what I had previously been musing over became highly redundant.