[ CLOSED ] MISSION: THE STILL RUINS

[fleurdesel]

WHO: Adelaide, Galadriel, The Outsider, Korrin, Malcolm Reed
WHAT: Exploring The Still Ruins
WHEN: Bloomingtide 19
WHERE: The Still Ruins
NOTES: Demons, Research, Ancient Tevinters, Canon Typical Violence, Sass, etc.

The Courtyard is empty by the time they arrive. Stray crates and casks, abandoned weapons and books litter the ground. More recent signs of Venatori activity where recent is a relative enough term. Within, adjacent to the gate there's a table stacked with books, a note tucked into the pages of one left half open, exposed to the elements. Morven, Alexius has failed. The work here thus becomes all the more vital. Secure the site at all costs. The Elder One will not tolerate another mistake on our part. -Servis In the main chamber- Tevinter mages in antiquated robes are frozen, caught in combat with demons while a strange rift hovers in the center of the room. Stones that had tumbled from the rafters are locked in place, solid and unmoving even when pressed against- crackling light from the mage's fingers in defensive spells remain still. Littered about are notes, scraps of research and manuscripts on how this came to be.

Comments

[fleurdesel]

"Please don't kick the demons, Rinot." That she has to say it at all- that she manages to say it in an almost dull, bored drawl much as she would chastise a student for poking a Tranquil-

Her life has become very strange and only seems to grow stranger still the more she works with the Inquisition.

"We do not know how the spell holds- or if they'll remember what happened while they were frozen." Idly, she snaps her fingers in front of the eyes of one of the mages- but nothing. Not a twitch. Not even breathing. Locked in a moment.

[laurenande]

"Then perhaps dispatching the demons is not so terrible an idea," Galadriel suggests as she regards a despair demon far too closely for comfort. "If they are aware, being trapped like this would be a terrible torment. If they are not, well--a swift death would be a kindness, in any case."

She reaches out and runs a careful hand along the hood of the demon before her. It is difficult to study such things when they were frozen, fabric was hard to tell from stone when time was not involved, but she's never seen one so clearly nor for so long.

"That is, assuming we can damage them at all."

[gatheringstorm]

"Just checking. Beside, don't tell me you never wanted to do that to a terror demon for that damned phasing trick of theirs." The amount of times they'd had her flat on her back as a result? Yeah, she feels entitled to one kick.

Pausing to watch Adelaide examine one of the mages and Galadriel with that demon, she grimaces at the sudden thought. "Maker...can you imagine being conscious and aware all this time and not being able to do a damned thing? That would be beyond horrific."

[fleurdesel]

"I do not know that attempting to harm them with a blade would do any good- and I am reluctant to add any more magic to the mess until we know what it is that went wrong." The slightest tip on the scale could lock them here along with the rest-

Or free everything and have the roof falling down on their heads.

"I had a nightmare like that, once. Remarkably similar to what I hear of possession and twice as horrifying for it."

[gatheringstorm]

Grimacing, Korrin sighs and nods. She's had much the same nightmare, though it's not a topic she wants to continue. "Alright, I get it, be careful. I just hope we don't regret trying to take them out while they're still." She casts a temped look at the terror demon, but keeps to her word, glancing down the hall. "Further in, then?