Hard in Hightown: Trouble in Skyhold is a war table operation in Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Acquisition[]
Available after completing war table operation Hard in Hightown: Unsavory Parallels and the main quest Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts or Here Lies the Abyss.
Operation text[]
Copies of Hard in Hightown and Hard in Hightown 3: The Re-Punchening sit side by side on the table along with a note:
Found several similarities to events in Varric's book, but all are slightly off. Dead magistrate was not in his home. Man found murdered in locked room was a comte, not magistrate. Executors did not send warning note directly to Donnen. Obviously, object of plot is Sword of Hessarian, not a penny-dreadful author.
Close look at the rip-off book shows numerous grammatical and spelling errors that seemed random at first, but ciphers believe might contain coded information.
Killer and author are clearly linked. Either the murder investigation or the code might lead us to a target.
Advisor suggestions[]
Josephine - N/A[]
Not participating in this mission.
Leliana - 4:00:00[]
Someone got in and out of Skyhold without being seen. The cipher in the book might lead us to them.
Cullen - 3:12:00[]
We should follow up on the murder investigation. The book is just a work of fiction.
Results[]
Leliana[]
Nightingale,
Two points:
- That book is abysmal, and the entire code-breaking department wants to ritually set it on fire.
- The message is double-encrypted. The message in the "mistakes" is in a Merchant's Guild cipher. We have not yet broken the guild's code.
Scrivener
Cullen[]
Commander,
The Kirkwall guards don't particularly appreciate our being here, but they're not willing to turn us away, so I'll call that a small victory.
None of the Magistrate's neighbors saw anyone entering or leaving his estate on the night of his death. There were no footprints and no signs of forced entry.
The guards suspected a Coterie hit, but the knife found in the Magistrate's back was very expensive, not a disposable weapon. Argent thinks this wasn't a professional kill. We're checking into the knife's origin now.
Rewards[]
Leliana[]
Sigil of the Greater Mistral with Trespasser- Unlocks war table operation Revenge of the Merchants Guild
Varric Slightly Approves
Cullen[]
- Sigil of the Greater Mistral with Trespasser
- Unlocks war table operation Hard in Hightown: A Dagger in the Back
Varric Slightly Approves
Notes[]
- Completing the operation with Leliana eventually leads to Ornate Bianca Grip Schematic and more Varric approval.
- Completing the operation with Cullen eventually leads to Firm Bianca Grip Schematic and more Varric approval.
