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

[aggregiopavali]

"Why don't we get you settled somewhere safe so that when you wake up, it will all be fine." The fever was worrying him, and he would take her straight to the healers - if they weren't swamped with everyone else who had this. And given by how flustered they looked - that was very likely. Ah well, he could look after Bethany if he had to.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

"I would like that ... sleep. Sleep without having to fall into the Fade." She sighed softly, as she pressed her face into his shoulder again. "I am so hot. I need Teren's tea. Her tea makes everything better."

[aggregiopavali]

"Sleep is good." He glanced down at her, stroking her hair softly in an attempt to calm her. Something he would never normally do, but this episode had him scared. "Where is Teren's tea?" he asked, trying to remember if he knew the name.

[sunshinethroughgrey]

"In the Warden camp, down below Skyhold." She murmured, wavering on his arm. She tipped backwards a little, before trying to hold on.