[Player Plot] Protecting Val Gamord from Darkspawn - Pt 1

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WHO: Bethany Hawke, Teren von Skraedder, Ciri, Merrick, Inessa Serra, Kain Ventfort, Aleron Darton, and Amelie Durand
WHAT: The Marquise of Val Gamord has called to the Inquisition for help, and the Inquisition has answered.
WHEN: Last week of Harvestmere, first week of Frostfall
WHERE: Val Garmond, in Orlais.
NOTES:Based off the war table mission. OOC details are here

Val Gamord is a small village in rocky hills, surrounded by walls, and presently very cold. Outside the walls, a sizable and semi-organized force of darkspawn has gathered. Reaching the village without passing through the darkspawn requires traveling along a narrow path to reach a small opening in its gates. The main road and entrance to the town are blocked and being battered by darkspawn on a nightly basis.

As noted in the original War Table Operation from DAI, Marquise Bouffon has already committed her handful of personal soldiers to the Inquisition's cause, so the town's only defenses at the moment are its walls and the efforts of the farmers and merchants who have taken refuge there. They'll all be exhausted and incredibly grateful for help. Several will be quarantined and suffering from blight sickness. (Note: They can't be saved; if the team does attempt to put through the Joining, they'll die during the ritual.)

Marquise Effiloche Bouffon will be a gracious host and very thankful for the team's efforts. She will call everyone involved noble a lot, and refer to herself as humble and devout; there will be some apparent truth to that, as her personal home is small and sparsely decorated, for an Orlesian noble's estate. She'll allow the team to stay there if they desire and feed them well. Once the darkspawn have been driven away, she will be particularly eager to see the team leave the town without lingering or asking any further questions. She will permit them to stay at most an additional day before insisting that they leave.

Comments

[doneisdone]

From several yards away, a much older and less pleasant Warden watches the boys like a hawk. They're gripping those poles a little too tightly.

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The other boys notice Teren, and they all start to swallow nervously. She's ... well. She's downright scary, that one is.

The one who is talking to Ciri is chattering along though, ignorant of what's happening behind him. "They must have come from the old mines, then. Don't know why, though. Those have been closed for years."

[ichaer]

Teren, please. Either way, Ciri does not notice or perhaps she is simply not acknowledging it but there is something that could be called an amused look on her face just barely noticeable but definitely there.

Quietly, she turns her focus back to the one nearest her and folds her arms in thought. "Your old mines might have ran close to a section of the Deep Roads. When they're not ruining everything with a Blight or being an annoyance, they are digging in search of the Old Gods. They found the old mines instead and went from there."

Tiredly, she sighs.

"But we won't know until we can investigate or pick up their tracks."

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"Tch, old man Cruerer was right. We shouldn't have started digging so deep." The young man rubbed the back of his neck, "You'll need permission from the Marquise to go into the mines, though."

[ichaer]

"Of course," she replies, nodding. "We'll likely speak with your Marquise later this evening once we've finished our work in the village. We want to make sure we help as much as possible first before running off into some mines."

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"Marquise will be pleased with the help, we all will. We want to get back to work, we do." The boy laughed nervously, "Rather do it without the darkspawn peering over our shoulders, as well."