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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] faderift2016-04-17 01:31 am

OPEN: Cloudreach Event

WHO: Anyone at Skyhold
WHAT: Cloudreach showers bring weird shit.
WHEN: Cloudreach 15 onward
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: For information about the illness, its effects, and its cure, please make sure to also read the OOC Post.


This high in the mountains, snowstorms are to be expected. But this one is large and lingering, hanging over the valley and the fortress for days. In Skyhold, with its eternal spring, the snow becomes rain before it hits the ground, leaving inhabitants and visitors to wade through puddles and mud in the courtyards. In the valley, snow and ice accumulate under cloud cover—and worse, when the clouds finally thin, a whole winter's accumulation of snow begins to melt in the sunlight.

Within a day, the ground is sodden and mucky enough to give the survivors of the Fallow Mire (or Ferelden in general) unpleasant flashbacks, and those who live in tents are issued additional hastily-constructed wooden pallets to raise their floors above the mud. It is worse outside the fortress: streams and rivers have overflowed their banks, rapids run twice as fast as normal, and flash flooding has made even road travel treacherous.

On Cloudreach 17 a mudslide buries the pass into Skyhold from the west, and on the 19th a sheet of snow loosened from a mountainside collapses into the shadowed passage from the east. An Inquisition supply caravan is caught in the latter, scattering wagons and goods across the hillside and leaving a dozen people and horses in need of rescue and medical care.

Healers may find themselves stretched thin, as in addition to the usual rash of blisters and sniffles that come from days of rain and flooding, an illness begins to sweep through Skyhold's ranks from around the 16th onward. It's marked first by climbing fever, then by flashes at the edges of vision—green light and jagged formations that aren't there, beings of light and shadow gathering around people or clustering in corners—and distant voices, coherent for brief moments if you're quiet and still and not trying too hard to listen.
singularwill: (Sol 3 - Amused)

Healing Tents

[personal profile] singularwill 2016-04-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It was Compassion, that drew him to her. Not that he wouldn't have come, regardless - he had intended to speak to her about the strange disease - but it was Compassion that he noticed, first, as he approached.

It was politeness, however, that ensured he didn't mention it.

"I hope you are not working yourself ragged, Councillor."
fleurdesel: center, serious, tired (So you see this isn't right at all)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2016-04-21 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
"No more than usual, Solas." There's a slight pause before the name- as far as she is aware there is no proper title that he ought be given and when speaking with an expert on a point of study proper respect ought to be given. And yet she had no means of offering it save to stop grinding the poultice in her hands for the moment and offer him her full attention.

"How are you faring?" Everyone either ill or gathering up spirits as though they were handing out candy- for someone sensitive to such things she'd expect him swamped.

Perhaps they simply didn't care for the tent.
singularwill: (Sol 9 - Listen)

[personal profile] singularwill 2016-04-24 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"A slight touch more than unusual, I think," He murmurs, examining her face, but he doesn't press the point further. Instead, wordlessly, he steps forward to help her.

"I am surprisingly well, all things considered. I have not fallen ill, which I am thankful for, and the spirits are quiet. Perhaps I spend too much time in the Fade, and they are interested in far more unique creatures than I."
fleurdesel: right, work, serious, (Picking at the puzzle)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2016-04-25 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I had wondered after that. Most seem to be attracting them now that they are aware, but it is oddly silent around you." None of the spirits speak after him. Even Compassion is oddly quiet- though that might be their preoccupation with their patients.

Of which there are many. They've lost none to the fever just yet but- negligence would lead to loss and they must remain vigilant.
singularwill: (Default)

[personal profile] singularwill 2016-05-02 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)

"I speak with them often, in the Fade. I am no mystery."

His work as a healer is obviously not something he has spent his lifetime perfecting, but he is proficient and competent enough, and makes sure to be useful and stay out of her way.

"This illness, however, is. I have not seen anything like it."