OPEN: Cloudreach Event

[faderifting]

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.

Comments

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Camp Shady Fuckers

Kaisa is not, generally, one to fuss over her water. Despite that, she seems to suffer little from the sickness going around--A case of the sniffles and whisps at the edge of her vision are the extent she suffers. Perhaps her stubbornness was able to fend off both the Fade and her own traitor body. Ether way, she takes advantage of her relative health to try to help others. She isn't any form of healer, but fever and colds are things that are within her realm of ability.

She spends a lot of the time reporting to Teren and following her directions. When left to her own devices, she'll bustle around the camp, drawing water from the river and cooking food for the sick, dipping rags in snow for feverish foreheads, and generally doing what she can to help out. Feel free to bother her at any of these tasks, or call for her help.

Skyhold / Tavern

She's far more concerned with helping her fellow Wardens than the rest of Skyhold, but she can be spotted around Skyhold, mostly to fetch more supplies. Luckily, with the sickness raging, people are accommodating enough she hasn't had to try pushing her luck by using her Warden status to demand anything. How long that'll last is up to debate, but she'll let the higher ups decide what to do about that.

When she's not grabbing various supplies, she can be found taking a much deserved break in the Herald's Rest, sniffling into her beer. She doesn't complain, though. She knows that a runny nose is pretty damn lucky, all things considered. As for the spirits--She ignores them, rubbing her eyes and pretending they're just glossy distortions from sick eyes.

Dreams

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