[Player Plot] Fall of the Colossus

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WHO: Cole, Outsider, Tim Gutterson, Inessa, Sam Gareth, Ciri, Kain
WHAT: Taking down Adamant Fortress
WHEN: Late Harvestmere
WHERE: The Western Approach
NOTES: Battle violence

Dwarven architecture is made to last. The fact that Adamant Fortress is still standing at all is a testament to this, having been constructed at the edge of the Abyssal Rift before even the Second Blight — but its age does show. Centuries of neglect, along with the destruction wrought within it in the modern Age, have left it nearly a ruin. The walls are worn, collapsed in places. The corridors crawl with demons, and the occasional darkspawn who finds his way up through the Rift.

Left to its own devices, the fortress would surely collapse, reduced to rubble by wind and sand. But until that was done, it would remain a bruise on the land, even somewhere as desolate as the Approach.

So. Instead, it falls today.

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Corridor Shenanigans

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((OOC: This thread is for everyone apart from Cole and the Outsider, and they might make an appearance here too, if they want — who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In any case, Tim, Inessa, Sam, Ciri, and Kain are here to be a distraction for the demons. Fight things, fall through a hole in the floor, lament the lives of Grey Wardens that were wasted within the walls. Etc.))

Cole & The Outsider: Setting up Charges

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The dwarves built this place, and dwarven methods will take it down. There's a sort of justice to that — one Cole has come to accept, as much as he'd wanted something different at first.

He carries a few of the contraptions, vials of liquid that will mix when the time is right, and cause strategic explosions to help along the Outsider's personal methods of destruction. The others are working to distract the demons, but Cole still extends his ability of not-being-noticed to the Outsider as well as he can, while they move through and place the charges where they need to go.

For the most part, he's quiet — but he's also nervous, and that leads to muttering. Semi-conscious rambling as past pains held within the walls tug at him.

"Blood burned into the stones. The dark song dancing through veins, a demon dreaming from across the Veil. So much red."

Asplode

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((OOC: Once the work is done, everyone gathers at a distance to watch the fortress fall. Open for starters.))