[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

[dashing]

"And I had been so hoping for a hot spring." In this, this so called royal suite. Shameful.

So very flatly said, and yet maybe, just perhaps, there is a note of something lighter in there. (Or perhaps not. Probably not. This is not entirely a time for jokes, even if they might need them in the face of such grim realities.)

"Lyrium? For the templars to augment their strength, do you think?"

[ichaer]

A storybook for children? It's enough to get her mind spinning, questioning every little detail and always coming back to one conclusion. The one thing she didn't want to think about currently.

"That's a possibility. The red stuff makes you crazy, right? Wouldn't surprise me if they had to lock up some of their fellows that were getting out of hand."

There's a part of her that doesn't believe it so simple. "But they could have also been giving it to the people they kidnapped."

[dashing]

"It former seems less likely," she agrees, quietly, gaze falling on the book, expression flicking just slightly. She almost holds her hand out, but stops herself, looking to Ciri. "May I?"

Regardless of the outcome, Herian's jaw flexes a little. "If you are right," and she dreads that it is more likely than not, "then the people here were all but tortured to their deaths."

And there were children here, either as witnesses or victims. She feels sick.