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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] faderift2016-05-09 07:36 pm

OPEN: Bloomingtide Rifter Arrival

WHO: New rifters & helpful Inquisition volunteers
WHAT: Welcome to Thedas!
WHEN: Bloomingtide 7
WHERE: The Imperial Highway near Sulcher's Pass
NOTES: This log is slightly backdated, so it's safe to assume safe arrival at Skyhold and begin RPing there as soon as you're ready OOC. It is open to any characters who would have volunteered to go welcome the rifters, whose arrival sites can now be predicted, thank you Solas.


You were asleep—deeply or fitfully, for the last time or just resting your eyes for a moment—and then you were not. And wherever you were was not, anymore, replaced by nothing but the sensation of falling, tumbling into endless, bottomless nothing. If this were still a dream, you would wake before you hit the ground. You can't die in a dream, they say. In some worlds.

But there's no waking here, just a flare of green-white light and a jarring impact onto cold dirt and long grass. When your breath returns and the light's after-image fades from your eyes you will find yourself lying flat on stone, squinting up into sunlight and a shifting, blinding green tear in reality.

You are also not as you were: in the palm of your left hand there glows a narrow splinter of light the same sickly green as whatever brought you here. It aches, a bone-deep pain that gnaws even through all the distractions. Like the fact that you're being attacked. Surrounding you and the rift through which you arrived are five massive beings made of fire and molten, veiny flesh, rearing back to throw flames at anything that breathes. But mind your step, getting out of their way: the stone beneath you is the ruin of the Imperial Highway, elevated high enough that dropping off either side or the crumbled gap ahead will not be much more survivable than the fire.

Luckily, you are not on your own. Around you others are rising from the ground, equally confused, with the same green lights flaring from their hands. And help is already here—prepared, this time, unsurprised by your appearance, with armor and a few extra weapons to hand off if you've come empty-handed.


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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-05-19 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah." He smirked. "No. I mean maybe you'll respond to that, and hey, it's even true, but I mean...it's not really a name, is it? The Outsider." His head tilted at Void-Boy-God-Snake-Eyes. "You look kinda like a Steve. Joey? Jacob. Hm...I mean work the name if you want, but if you want to get a more normal-y name just in case..."
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[personal profile] extramural 2016-05-22 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"And what is 'normal'?" Normal to Church? Normal to the Outsider? Normal to Thedas? None would really make him blend in.

Though perhaps it would not hurt, to find an alias. It's never something he's needed in his world, but he's always been able to simply return to the Void in his world. That isn't an option here, and he may have to be far more like Corvo and Daud than he ever thought he would.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-05-23 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a question that sounds easy right up until he has to define it. Opens his mouth, closes his mouth. Huh. And here he is suggesting changes to a newbie who hasn't even been introduced to this world yet, just because he's hidden some of his history (for good reason)--maybe that's the wrong way to go. Maybe instead of trying to blend in, they should be who they are as loudly and proudly as they want.

It's a future goal, anyway. "Y'know what? Good point. You're the Outsider? Then fuck it, that's your name, don't wear it out. You got void eyes and float around creepily? That's just you, and anyone with a problem with it can fuck off. ...Still, people are definitely going to have a problem with some of you."
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[personal profile] extramural 2016-05-25 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"As they always do." His smile is crooked, somewhat amused. It had been interesting to watch Church work that out, and he wonders, idly, if it will change anything the man does himself. "I dare say that I am used to it."

He has no idea, of course, of the differences in scrutiny between those of his world and of Thedas. He also hasn't been stuck in the physical world before with no escape. But he'll adapt.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-05-26 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"So you normally poke your head out of Voidspace to spook people spookily? I mean, what does the god of the Void do, exactly?" yes, church, besides 'be creepy'
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[personal profile] extramural 2016-05-27 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I watch."

So- 'be creepy'.

"Sometimes, I offer abilities, or information, and I see what the individual in question does with them. Most people are predictable, but once in a while, someone takes me by surprise. They have potential."
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-05-27 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You just...hand out powers? To random people? For fun?"
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[personal profile] extramural 2016-05-29 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would not calm them random." But yeah, basically.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-06-04 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"...I don't suppose you could do that now?" Hey, look, it's worth a shot okay??
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[personal profile] extramural 2016-06-04 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
There's a pause and he looks down at his hands. Then he stares at Church for a moment, brow furrowing.

"... Apparently not."