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Bruce Banner ([personal profile] amygdalae) wrote in [community profile] faderift2016-09-01 01:02 pm

[CLOSED] PLAYER PLOT: The Ashes Underneath His Nails

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.


    universal_charm: (Default)

    [personal profile] universal_charm 2016-09-08 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
    Kirk felt his stomach turn, sour bile burning the back of his throat. Slowly he bent down, picking up one of the books - children's tales, thin and simplistic, and... was that blood on the edges? Or just dirt?

    "Maybe they didn't know," he murmured. "They could be getting children from somewhere else, or simply had them to begin with..." He licked his lips, shifting his pack closer and opening it up to slide the book inside, holding out his hand for the doll.
    justice_is_blond: (All right then)

    [personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-09-08 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
    He shakes his head as Kirk holds his hand out for the toy.

    "I'm going to keep this. At the very least, we can have Garahel see if he can get a scent off it later." Gently he tucks it into his own pouch. "And no offense, but I don't know if your people have ever been captured and hauled across the country. Those were Templars outside, once upon a time."

    Anders straightens, and there's some coldness in his expression. "Children as young as two have manifested abilities and been torn from their families. Maybe this wasn't a mage, but there's a chance this was personal."
    universal_charm: (captain_face)

    [personal profile] universal_charm 2016-09-08 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
    Kirk nods to the doll, closing up his pack on the storybooks. He doesn't know why, but he feels like they should have them around, and the doll.

    He watched Anders quietly, not sure precisely what to say. There had been such injustices on his planet before, but not in any of his recent memories, at least. Still, he couldn't imagine it - kidnapping children, and from the looks of the cage, not for good purposes. You didn't bring a child here to be kind to them.

    "I'm quickly learning not to put much past some people in this world," he said softly, but there's an undercurrent to his voice, a low burning rage at the thought of a child going through this, mage or not.

    "Maybe they're still here - just somewhere else. The child - or children, that is," he said, glancing around. "We should check potential hiding spots in here, just in case."
    justice_is_blond: (A small atonement)

    [personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-09-08 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
    "It can't hurt." He doesn't think a child would have been silent at their books and toy being taken, but he wants to help. It's what drives him. "Even though many people in this world can, and do."

    Anders climbs out of the wagon and looks around before heading to one corner. "Hello?" His voice is pitched to carry, as gentle as possible in case there's a scared child hiding nearby. "We have fresh food and water. There's even a dog nearby, a real mabari."
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    [personal profile] universal_charm 2016-09-10 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
    Kirk left Anders to calling, poking through objects and behind them to see if heard movement or a sound. He eventually made his way around to the crates, looking around and between them before knocking on the tops, and eventually reaching to grasp the edge of one and attempt to lift the lid away.
    justice_is_blond: (All right then)

    [personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-09-10 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
    It's all silence. Anders sighs heavily. It had really been too much to hope, but he'd hoped a little anyway.

    Coming over, he nods to the books. "What have you got there?"
    universal_charm: (Lecture Face)

    [personal profile] universal_charm 2016-09-10 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
    Kirk flipped through them quickly, not quite getting all of it, but recognizing immediate words like Lyrium. He took a guess to mean these were probably research materials of some sort, or at the least they were journals kept about what they had been doing.

    He sucks his lip for a moment, debating on what to say as he snaps the book shut.

    "Likely materials used for whatever they were doing here," he said, holding it out to Anders. "Whatever it was, it wasn't good. I suppose the question is - do we bring it, or do we burn it? I'm usually against burning books and knowledge, but this - this I might make an exception too."
    justice_is_blond: (Need an aspirin)

    [personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-09-10 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
    He takes the book and frowns right away at the cover.

    "These are from a Circle." He taps the markings that say as much before flipping it open. As he reads, his expression darkens. "Maker. I don't know what to do with these. I don't want people to work from them, but seeing where they failed, maybe I can come up with some way to counter the spread of red lyrium. Unless they're taken."

    The book gets closed and he frowns at it for several moments. "Does the good that might possibly come from this counter the risks of the notes falling into the wrong hands? The chance of me figuring something out is so small..."

    He doesn't know. He just doesn't know.