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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.
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-04-28 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right ... James," she agrees a little reluctantly, feeling rather odd addressing a human so far up the Templar chain of command on such familiar terms. She's a little irritated with herself for it -- she's come here to argue for equality, but then doesn't feel right taking it when it's offered to her. She's just seen too much to keep her from being cynical, always expecting a catch.

"I was wondering if you could tell me a little about your routine over the last few days. Where you've been, what you've eaten and drank, if you've encountered anyone coming into Skyhold from outside recently. I'm trying to see if there's a pattern between the people who are sick and eliminate factors that they share with those who are well."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-04-28 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
He arched an eyebrow at her, before he stated simply, "Or just Norrington, if you want to keep it more formal." After all, he wouldn't want to be taking liberties, not after one conversation.

"I've kept the same routine around Skyhold as I usually do - early morning drills with my people. Bath, then breakfast, then training the recruits in fighting demons. Usually try to grab something to eat between there and then, then paperwork in the afternoon. Afternoon drills, then dinner and socializing if I have a mind to. I didn't - I kept to my rooms and read."

He thought about it. "In the morning I usually have a hardboiled egg, some bread, and some tea ... but they were without tea so I went without. Lunch was bread, cheese, some chicken and some wine. I had some water in my room that I fill up at the beginning of the week, and drink from that barrel, so I had some of that in the afternoon while I was doing paperwork. Dinner was some sort of green ... vegetable thing that the Cook made, with some venison, and wine. All I can tell you about the vegetable thing is that it was actually fried."
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-05-01 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Eirlys listens intently, mentally checking each point off the list in her head and thinking resentfully that questioning potentially hundreds of people like this is one time when being able to read would come in very handy indeed. What was striking here? He'd bathed, and there was certainly a link between cleanliness and getting sick less. Even with his relative isolation in the afternoon and evening, though, there was enough interaction during drills and training that if it was passed through the air he'd have been in contact with enough people to risk that. That just left... "The water," she says quietly, thoughtfully. "You managed to go an entire day without drinking out of the water supply, other than that which you'd filled up beforehand."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-05-03 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"I ... " He frowned for a moment, then arched his eyebrows. "No, I did not take a sip of freshly drawn water. In fact, I haven't really had any water since then. Wine, for the most part ... I've felt nothing but damp and it keeps off the chill."
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-05-03 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"You should watch how much wine you take, it's been my experience that too much of it leads to gaining weight and a weak heart in old age." She shakes her head to dispel the tangent she's in danger of going down, knows it's not important right now. "I wonder how many of the others unaffected have managed to avoid the water? I know I've had some of it myself, but I'm sure the water I grew up drinking was tainted by worse things so I've a higher resistance."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-05-04 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"I do not think gaining weight is ever really a problem for a templar. Nor is old age." Is his wry reply, before he looks more thoughtful. "You know - I am not sure ... but I do know that the ones in my troop who were struck ill did have water right after our session."
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-05-09 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Eirlys smiles sadly. "Perhaps not, but I would be remiss in my duties to not offer the warning. Though in your line of work growing old and fat is something I would wish you wholeheartedly." She nods thoughtfully, thinking they may definitely be onto something here. "The water, then. It's odd that it should only become a problem now; I fear some enemy of the Inquisition may have poisoned it."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-05-11 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I believe that is the kindest, if not the oddest, wish for my continued health I have ever heard. Brava." Is his wry response, even while his lips quirk up at one corner. Another frown, "All the water comes from a spring, below Skyhold itself. How could they have gotten in to poison it without us knowing?"
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-05-11 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Her smile widens just a little. "I'll have to find an excuse to send you more conventional wishes." She pales a little as she thinks of the possible explanations. "I really don't know. Perhaps they've been here all along, so we wouldn't expect them to poison it if they went down there. Or, given some of the symptoms, they may have used magic."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-05-12 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Most certainly. I could use them." His smile flickers, then moves into a more familiar frown - but this one is concern. "Do we have access to the water source? Would we be able to travel down to see if it has been tampered with?"
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-05-15 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know, but there must be someone that does." Being so high up in the mountains, Eirlys wouldn't be surprised if the water came from an underground stream with no source they could get to, which wouldn't help them one bit. "If nothing else, someone could check the main wells and water barrels for signs of poisoning."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-05-16 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
James nodded his head, before he looked over at her, "Let the healers know that I will commission a few men and women, go take a look at everything."
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[personal profile] ancarrow 2016-05-17 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I will." She's pleased with herself for making the connection, and trying very hard not to let it show, knowing how unbecoming pride is. "Thank you, Ser... I mean, James. Hopefully this will begin to solve things."
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[personal profile] judgemewhole 2016-05-17 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"You are quite welcome ... and I hope it does too. I hope to have some news for you soon." He stated, smiling at her hopefully in turn.