[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

[justice_is_blond]

He takes a breath, feeling the way the fight starts, letting it settle around him... and then there's a shift as there's a group heading for Hermione. Anders moves, fast, putting himself between her and most of the approaching Templars before mindblasting forward, hoping to at least slow or knock back some of them.

The next thing he does is renew barriers; there are too many around to risk them slipping.

"Mind the flanks! There could be others!"

[bookish_lioness]

... garnering undue attention was the exact opposite of what she'd wanted.

She staggers backwards when she sees just how many of the Templars are suddenly going for her, but luckily Anders is there to do what he can to protect her. She'll have to thank him for that later, when death isn't a very viable possibility,

Instead, one of the Templars who'd managed to slip around Anders' magic gets a Stunner to the chest, though Hermione doesn't realize that there's at least one archer among them, and clearing her immediate path of opponents means she also clears a path for an arrow, if someone doesn't have the foresight to step in.

[circleprodigy]

Upon seeing Hermione attract attention -and the rifter succeeded in getting her attention as well, with her unique magic- Inessa uses Fade Step, blurring toward Hermione on waves of magic, with Garahel charging ahead. Once there, she'll conjure a blizzard for the Red Templars. Clouds gather above and the freezing winds come, hopefully providing enough distraction and cover for the rest to act.