[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's burned and he doesn't care. Not when they go out, not when the pain eases. The child had suffered so much and they just couldn't help.

Anders is silent as he looks down at his singed staff. Distantly he hears Herian and he considers not helping. If she'd nit drawn... but there's no guarantee they child have saved the child even without people leaping to attack. The staff slowly goes onto his back and he moves to follow Kirk silently. There's still some pain from the burns but it seems only fair. He'd just helped kill a child. Needed to, yes. But he'd done it, and he's not sure he has the right to stop and tend to the rest of his wounds just yet.

[circleprodigy]

Inessa lets Raylan turn her, but it's already too late. That inhuman shriek, the flames, the child's final words...it's going to haunt her for the rest of her days. She tries to speak, to Raylan and Ciri when the latter joins them, when Garahel returns to their side, whining softly and in need of comfort himself. But the moment she opens her mouth, everything shuts down. She slips down to her knees, and gives in since her stomach can take no more, but she hasn't had anything in a while and all that happens in some dry heaving.

[ichaer]

The moment Inessa slips down to her knees, Ciri reacts. She kneels beside her, setting one of her still healing hands on her friend's back for support as her body racks from the dry heaves. She hates this but how could they know this was how it would all end? If possible, Ciri wishes this could have gone differently but they didn't have a choice.

"Come on, I'm not letting you stay in here." She says, taking Inessa's elbow to help her back up but honestly? Ciri isn't far from just carrying the other Warden out of here if needed.

[fleurdesel]

"...we have learned all that we can from him." Every horrific detail that none of them are going to easily forget. They may not have the whole of it? But they have some idea of what has happened here. What holes there are in the puzzle only serve to tangle tangle in Adelaide's gut.

Ambiguity in torment does not end well. "Tend to the boy and- I will join you in the morgue when you are ready."

Her eyes flick to the remainder of the party, Raylan, Inessa, Kirk. Remaining to watch the burning of what little is left? Will not help them. "We should go."