[CLOSED] Smoke & Mirrors: Kirkwall

[minrathousian]

WHO: CLOSED to those who signed up.
WHAT: Inquisition personnel work to identify Venatori agents who have infiltrated the Inquisition in Kirkwall.
WHEN: Early November.
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Violence, murder.

In Kirkwall, the threat to the Inquisition is more covert:  four Venatori agents have infiltrated the Inquisition's base of operations in the Free Marches, and have insinuated themselves well into the workings of the organization. Perhaps they have made befriended you, or established themselves as a quiet loner who prefers only to focus on their work, with little interest in socializing. Actionable intelligence suggests that they will take advantage of the Inquisition's reduced numbers in Kirkwall to attempt to seize valuable information. The trouble now is identifying just who the infiltrators are--and stopping them before they access vital information, or create further havoc.

Comments

nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

[minrathousian]

He holds tight through the guard captain's last, wheezing gasps through what has to be a crushed trachea, gritting his teeth and squeezing his eyes shut with the effort required not to relax his grip, not at all, until he's certain that consciousness is well and truly gone. Even then, he relaxes his grip only long enough to shift his weight, to encircle the chains around Basco's throat so that the weight of his own body does the work for his arms. Then, he at last lets himself sag back against the frame of his wooden cot, sweaty and disheveled and bleeding profusely from his mouth, and stares with glassy eyes into nothingness.

It takes a moment for the trance-like state required for him to enter the Fade to arrive, but when it does, he sweeps into it with predatory efficiency. Basco's presence there is so faint, so minute it might as well be a wisp, a bit of spirit detritus that whatever passes for wind in the Fade might do away with at any moment. He's dying.

Atticus grasps him by his shoulder and spins him, his free hand crackling with telekinetic energy, and strikes.