[CLOSED] PLAYER PLOT: The Ashes Underneath His Nails

[amygdalae]

WHO: Jim Kirk, Hermione Granger, Adelaide Leblanc, Herian Amsel, Anders, Inessa Serra, Raylan Gibbs, Ciri
WHAT: The Inquisition sends a group of agents to uncover the truth behind a string of mysterious disappearances.
WHEN: Kingsway 1st - 8th
WHERE: Emprise du Lion
NOTES: Plotting post is here - feel free to post in there still for queries and concerns and further stuff where needed. Warnings for blood, violence, talks about death, experimentation horror, abomination-related stuff etc and eventual on-screen child death. ALSO no tag order - just respond when you feel like you should and I'll try to hit it back if it feels appropriate!!

QUICK JUMP LINKS TRAVELLING TO FROMAGE & FROMAGE GENERAL THREAD ROUTE INVESTIGATION SEEKRIT CAVE ENTRANCE INTO THE SEEKRIT CAVE CAVE INVESTIGATION - LEFT TEAM CAVE INVESTIGATION - RIGHT TEAM KID ABOMINATION THREAD BACK TO SKYHOLD

(—he remembers the chill of the frost and snow biting at bare skin, its usual pure white now tinged a horrid pink from the blood on his hands. He's far away from them now, the danger and the pain and everything else, but the blood will forever be on his hands no matter how much he tries to wash it away. His father had been right all along. He truly was a monster of the greatest kind.)

QUEST: THE ASHES UNDERNEATH HIS NAILS (PART I) The message had come swiftly, the letter itself hastily written with a shaky hand. The request itself was simple; a plea for help from a village at the outskirts of Emprise du Lion, whose people have been mysteriously disappearing over the last few weeks. Considering the ongoing civil unrest that's still transpiring in Orlais the Inquisition made its decision to send out a team of agents to look into this message and see exactly what was going on. The eight agents tasked with the mission were given enough time to prepare for the trip ahead. They would all meet up first at the Inquisition camp set within the Emprise and from there travel for about a day until they reached where their destination was - Fromage, a quaint little village that rested at the outskirts of the area. From that point on, it was up to the agents of the Inquisition to solve this ongoing mystery. The mission: to discover the truth behind these disappearances - and to stop it, if possible.

Comments

[amygdalae]

Contrary to what everyone seems to be assuming, the strange shadow hides... nothing disturbing, really. What is there is apparently some sort of secret compartment carved into the walls itself that was clearly made to hold something.

--but whatever that something is, its impossible to know now - its been apparently cleaned out as well, like the majority of this room.

[justice_is_blond]

He waits a few moments despite not immediately seeing anything dangerous. Better to be safe and all that stuff. Nothing comes at him, or anyone. Feeling a little silly for his worrying, Anders leans in to examine the secret compartment, looking for any markings that may give something away.

"There at least used to be something here," he calls to the group. "Is anyone else finding anything?"

[bookish_lioness]

Hermione has been hanging back in the room, still not entirely recovered from the fights leading up to all this. She's too stubborn to say as much, though, so she'll use the premise of spotting books on a shelf as an excuse to carefully walk over and set herself on the floor, masking a wince as she brings one of the books down with her. It looks like some sort of hand-written journal, and she frowns a little as she tries unsuccessfully to make herself vaguely comfortable and opens it up to a random page.

"There are some books over here," she calls when she hears Anders' voice. She'll tell him what kind of books they are once she reads enough to know for sure.


[OOC- Not being super specific with the extent of the injuries since the fighting thread is ongoing and I'm not sure if anyone would have offered/had the time to heal whatever injuries she got, but either way, she's not looking all that great. Except that she's fine. Totally fine. Hush.]

[amygdalae]

The books definitely aren't pleasant reading material, for one.

As for the secret compartment, there's nothing within it, but should he look down he can probably see something glinting back at him, just visible enough from the firelight around the room.

[justice_is_blond]

"Tell me about the books, I'm checking something over here."

Anders holds up a fireball and steps forward, now curious, before bending down to see what's sparkling at him.

[bookish_lioness]

Well that's... cheery.

Raylan answers in her stead, and it's unlikely her murmured response can be heard from where Anders is.

[amygdalae]

What Anders might find is something he's probably rather familiar with - remnants of what once seem to be a vial of sorts, along with very tiny shards of red lyrium scattered about. Nowhere near big enough to cause any sort of effect on anybody, but its still very much there.