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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] faderift2016-07-07 10:54 pm

You can't concern yourself with bigger things

WHO: New rifters & their helpful rescuers
WHAT: People fall out of a rift and get attacked by stuff, it's pretty old hat by now (sorry Jefferson).
WHEN: Solace 7
WHERE: High in the Frostbacks, within a day of Skyhold.
NOTES: This log is open to any characters who would have volunteered to go welcome the rifters, whose arrival sites can now be predicted, thank you Solas. Rifters are also welcome to begin RPing at Skyhold as soon as they are ready.


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.

In this world, something has definitely died. But not you; not yet. When the afterimage left by a flare of too-bright, greenish light fades, you will find yourself in a pile of bones, stripped by teeth and weather, bleached almost as white as the snow that covers most of the rocky, mountainous terrain around you. Beneath its threadbare blanket, it's easy to pick out heaps of earth and stone and debris arranged in a rough ring-shape on the ground around you and the rift that just spat you out. Almost like...a nest? Whatever might once have lived here, it must have been very large, because the bones scattered about are the size of large livestock, at the least. Some of the bare rocks show what look like marks from very large claws, and where snow doesn't cover, the stone looks suspiciously scorched. There are no recent tracks, but maybe that's a good thing.

Less good: the cluster of demons that is emerging from the rift to take over the job of killing you. Some are tall, spindly stick-things with too many eyes, some hunched and hooded with no eyes at all, others mere wisps of greenish light. None look friendly or familiar. Also unfamiliar is the narrow splinter of light the same sickly green as whatever brought you here that now glows out of the palm of your left hand. It aches, a bone-deep pain that gnaws even through all the distractions. Hopefully you can set it aside enough to pick up a bone club and get to work in self-defense, because there is no immediate sign of road or path or settlement anywhere to be seen.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-07-18 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Magic is everywhere, and it's fucking annoying to people who have never had to deal with magic before." Wave. Hi. Like himself. Where all the tech at, bros?

"Okay, cool, I mean, if you said you didn't know which end of a sword was the pointy one, I'd still be fine with that, but this makes things a liiiiittle easier. And yeah. Yeah, those things have all gotta go. We got fucking rad mages who can barbecue things pretty well, so, y'know, I kinda tend to leave the worst for them." What, battle-bred mages gonna battle, apparently. "Still. Yeah, gist of it. Fight 'em 'til they're gone and they kinda dissipate into nothingness."
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[personal profile] sheriffing 2016-07-21 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Mages?" At some point someone's going to have to tell her what those are. For now, she can tell that fucking rad isn't a part of their actual description, and that there's magic involved. Sounds like she came into a world that's no better off than the remains of the Enchanted Forest during her last stumble into a portal.

Except back then, she had Mary Margaret to help her navigate this, and right now, it's looking like she's on her own. "Alright, so we fight. And when they're gone?" What's the plan? She doesn't know where the hell any of these people came from, but considering they're pulling out all the stops for a rescue, she needs to know where to go if they get separated.
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[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2016-07-22 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"When they're gone, rift gets sealed up, we take you guys back to our mountain fortress in the middle of nowhere and get you settled in. Maybe you get an angry woman demanding you join the Inquisition. Just call her names, that's what I always do." Yeah, and how's that working out for you, Church? At least it wasn't the name calling that almost got his head cut off, and sure, things with rifters seem to have calmed down some since Galadriel's been released, but...eh...

"Pseudo-military independent peacekeeping force kinda deal. Mostly legit. Probably won't let you do anything fun and shiny unless you pledge allegiance though. Oh, spoilers: this world is kind of on the brink of tearing itself apart. So. Good times."