Inquisitive Agency

Source: Eberron: Forge of the Artificer, page 49. Creator: Wizards of the Coast / D&D Studio.

Quick Reference

Field	Value
Facility type	special
Required level	13
Space	roomy
Hirelings	1
Bastion order	research
Prerequisite	None.

Rules Text

This facility is an office for an inquisitive agency—either the headquarters of an agency you control or a branch office for a larger agency (such as Middle Dura or Karr’Aashta’s Investigations, both of which are discussed in chapter 4). Its one hireling is a secretary who maintains an extensive directory of useful contacts and helpful agents.

Research: Information Gathering

When you issue the Research order to this facility, you commission the agency’s secretary to gather information from contacts and agents regarding a specific individual you designate, assembling a comprehensive picture of that person’s activities during the previous 7 days and over the course of the next 7 days, within 10 miles of your Bastion. Unless the DM deems that certain information is beyond these agents’ ability to uncover, you learn the following information:

• Where the person is and has been staying

• What they’ve spent money on

• Whom they’ve met with

• Where they’ve shown identification papers to the authorities

If your Bastion is mobile, it takes time to establish this network of agents in a new place. When your Bastion is traveling, you can’t issue the Research order to this facility. After it arrives at its destination, the first time you issue the Research order, this facility’s hireling spends 7 days establishing a new network, after which you can use the Research order normally.

Balance Notes

• Compare this facility against other 13-level facilities before allowing homebrew upgrades.
• Keep the listed Bastion order as the primary action loop; additional benefits should usually be narrative, temporary, or gated by downtime.
• If this facility grants creatures, information, resources, crafted items, or empowerment, keep those outputs tied to Bastion turns rather than free adventuring actions.

Links

• Parent index: Bastions Index
• Source index: 00 - Eberron Forge of the Artificer Index