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faderift2017-11-15 12:48 am
faderifting) wrote in faderift2017-11-15 12:48 am
FIRSTFALL RIFTER ARRIVAL
WHO: New rifters & their rescuers
WHAT: People fall out of a rift and get attacked by stuff, as usual.
WHEN: Firstfall/November 14
WHERE: Somewhere a ways off the Imperial Highway between Cumberland and Nevarra City
NOTES: This arrival log is open to all. Solas was able to alert the Inquisition to the general area where the new rifters would be arriving so people can pick them up. Rifters can then either continue on with the main Inquisition caravan to Nevarra City or be escorted back to Kirkwall.
WHAT: People fall out of a rift and get attacked by stuff, as usual.
WHEN: Firstfall/November 14
WHERE: Somewhere a ways off the Imperial Highway between Cumberland and Nevarra City
NOTES: This arrival log is open to all. Solas was able to alert the Inquisition to the general area where the new rifters would be arriving so people can pick them up. Rifters can then either continue on with the main Inquisition caravan to Nevarra City or be escorted back to Kirkwall.
You were asleep--deeply or fitfully, for the last time or just resting your eyes for a moment-- and then you were not. And wherever you were was not, anymore, replaced by nothing but the sensation of falling, tumbling into endless, bottomless nothing. If this were still a dream, you would wake before you hit the ground. You can't die in a dream, they say. In some worlds.
In this world, when the afterimage left by a flare of too-bright, greenish light fades, you will find yourself landing with a wet smack. There is no avoiding the mud: this rift has opened up in the center of some unfortunate farmer's field, and all his hard work plowing and manuring has now been ruined, first by the rain that has churned it into a thick and especially fragrant muck and then by the arrival the rift itself, splitting the air mid-field and making it impossible to safely plant. And now, of course, there's you as well, tumbling out of the Fade and into the shin-deep mud.
The cluster of demons emerging from the rift seem at odds with the setting, strange stark shapes in this empty space, standing out against the grey sky. Some are tall, spindly stick-things with too many eyes who seem like they should tumble down the hill in a tangle of limbs but instead sink into the snow to anchor themselves and use the long reach of their arms to attack. Some are hunched and hooded with no eyes at all, others mere wisps of greenish light that float over the icy ground. None look friendly or familiar. Also unfamiliar is the narrow splinter of light the same sickly green as whatever brought you here that now glows out of the palm of your left hand. It aches, a bone-deep pain that gnaws even through all the distractions.
All around is more fields, except for an abandoned farmhouse a ways off, beside a windbreak of spindly trees topping a low ridge before the next stretch of pasture. As you find your feet, you may catch sight of a handful of figures in the distance, exiting the farmhouse and hurrying away over the hill. If anyone ventures to the farmhouse, they will find the remains of a camp, and may be able to locate a dropped notebook or what looks like pieces of some unknown scientific instrument, apparently broken in the rush to leave.
In this world, when the afterimage left by a flare of too-bright, greenish light fades, you will find yourself landing with a wet smack. There is no avoiding the mud: this rift has opened up in the center of some unfortunate farmer's field, and all his hard work plowing and manuring has now been ruined, first by the rain that has churned it into a thick and especially fragrant muck and then by the arrival the rift itself, splitting the air mid-field and making it impossible to safely plant. And now, of course, there's you as well, tumbling out of the Fade and into the shin-deep mud.
The cluster of demons emerging from the rift seem at odds with the setting, strange stark shapes in this empty space, standing out against the grey sky. Some are tall, spindly stick-things with too many eyes who seem like they should tumble down the hill in a tangle of limbs but instead sink into the snow to anchor themselves and use the long reach of their arms to attack. Some are hunched and hooded with no eyes at all, others mere wisps of greenish light that float over the icy ground. None look friendly or familiar. Also unfamiliar is the narrow splinter of light the same sickly green as whatever brought you here that now glows out of the palm of your left hand. It aches, a bone-deep pain that gnaws even through all the distractions.
All around is more fields, except for an abandoned farmhouse a ways off, beside a windbreak of spindly trees topping a low ridge before the next stretch of pasture. As you find your feet, you may catch sight of a handful of figures in the distance, exiting the farmhouse and hurrying away over the hill. If anyone ventures to the farmhouse, they will find the remains of a camp, and may be able to locate a dropped notebook or what looks like pieces of some unknown scientific instrument, apparently broken in the rush to leave.
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I don't know, I just do it? I mean, I do sort of know, I fuck around with the Weave and I make it do what I want, but I never was one for magical theory so much as practice, also is this really the time to be asking that?
❰ all of that said in a long rush as adalia keeps an eye on the demonic whatever that just tried to attack her. it was distracted by the animated shield keeping it at bay, but now it screams, and that doesn't sound good. it sounds extremely very not good, so adalia steps forward, in front of her new friend, and holds out her hand. ❱
Stay behind me, ❰ she says, and it would all be very badass were she not about a foot shorter than him and unarmed. the sparks around her begin to hiss and pop, though, and she stands her ground. ❱
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But that would be boring, no? I am guessing you can't direct those sparks terribly well though, so I'll take this side, and you can take that one?
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I'll show you direction, ❰ she mutters, then turns her attention to the creature bearing down on them. in her outstretched hand, a little spark forms, and she throws it forward with a flick of her wrist. it finds its target, clinging to the long spindly leg of the creature... and appears to do nothing. for a moment, the spell appears to be a dud, and then adalia narrows her eyes and clenches her outstretched hand into a fist, and lightning dances all along the creature, making it scream in pain and frustration.
with that, she turns to her companion, eyebrow raised and chin held high — the very picture of "told you so!!!" ❱
Your turn.
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Now that is a useful trick. Think you can teach it?
[ He chuckles ]
So long as it doesn't involve me getting blasted in turn. Watch your back!
[ He ducks one swing and comes up inside the reaching demon's guard, blade sliding easily through chitinous armor and the light in its eyes goes out ]
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❰ the idea is now swirling in her head, though, and as adalia thinks on it she turns to their next foe. it's a small green wisp, barely there at all, and it hasn't seemed to notice them just yet. ❱
Do you want this one, or shall I handle it?
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I feel it's almost a waste for either of us, but if it is something innate, do you run out? Because I can take it, if you do. Best save your abilities for anything big and mean.
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❰ she throws another spark at the wisp, and electricity crackles through its gaseous body. it makes no noise, but it turns toward the two of them, and adalia unconsciously moves closer to the man at her side — something about the silence makes this thing creepier than the other, somehow. ❱
Well, I got its attention, pal, go on!
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[ Elros eyes it and takes a swing at it - the blade is an elven-blade, forged in Doriath long ago and wound about with wards for protection and the destruction of evil. But.
Metal blade.
Insubstantial wispy thing.
Elros doesn't even know if he can cut it, but he figures it can't hurt to try ]
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❰ which is a very helpful answer, she knows, but it's hard to quantify how big a spell is unless she does it, and if she does, that's one less spell she can do for the day, so...
his blade does seem to do... something... but the wisp is hard to read, and adalia has no idea if it's even all that hurt. uttering a low curse, she moves over to the man and deposits the dragon egg in the makeshift sling on her hip she'd made when she picked it up, rubbing her hands together in preparation once it's secure. ❱
Something like this takes quite a bit more power. Stay back, please, I don't want to hit you.
❰ with that she slowly draws her hands apart, and as she does a crackling bolt of lightning spreads between them. it hisses and sparks, trying to escape the confines of her hands, but she holds it in place, stretching it out and out and out —
until she abruptly throws it forward, straight through the wisp. the bolt flies forward, passing through the wisp without stopping for a hundred feet, leaving the ground around it singed and the air smelling of ozone. it was definitely overkill on the wisp, and adalia grimaces as she watches it dissolve into light, shaking little sparks from her fingers. ❱
Well, that's quite a bit of energy I can't get back today.
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Damn, but I wish I could still sing down the storm for you, as I think you'd enjoy that. A lightning thrower! I don't think even my foremother could do that, although one hesitates to say things anything was truly impossible for Luthien. Still, I suppose I'll have to work harder to make sure you don't have to do that too often.
[ He winks at her and the turns back to the demons ]
Just don't zap me!
[ He tosses with a saucy grin over his shoulder and lunges forwards, sure footed despite the muddy ground ]
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What do you mean by "sing down the storm"? Who are you?
❰ she's never met anyone like her before — some sorcerers have passed through candlekeep every now and then, but none of them stormborn like her. the idea that she might finally have met someone like her, even if he just used to be (and who knew such a thing could be lost? adalia is steadfastly ignoring that idea, thank you), has adalia totally focused on the man in front of her, the demons no longer a worry.
unfortunate, as one seems to have fixated on her, and her animated shield drops to the ground, its minute of magic up. ❱
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I'm Elros. [ He grins at her, and then the grin fades into bared teeth and he lunges past her to take out the demon trying to take advantage ]
Elros Earendillion, Luthien's heir, Tar-Minyatur, first king of Numenor, and so on. [ He grunts as the demon catches the blade, but elven blades are not particularly kind to evil, and it pulls the hand back with a hiss, allowing Elros to run it through ]
My brother and I are rather starting to accumulate titles, it seems. [ He shrugs, panting. ] Whiiiiich based on the look of your face, I am guessing you haven't heard of at all?
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No, Your Majesty, I'm sorry, ❰ she says eventually, laughing breathlessly, slightly embarrassed and suddenly nervous about the way she's been treating him. a king? really? ❱ I have no idea what any of that means, or where Numenor is.
❰ she looks around the field, but the remaining demons seem to be distracted with other people, at least for now. ❱
Oh! I'm Adalia. No titles or anything. I'm, uh. Honoured?
❰ that's how you talk to kings, right? adalia does a curtsy for good measure, and it's... passable. at least not the worst attempt he's ever seen, probably. ❱
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[ He drags her up with a laugh ]
Not on a battlefield. Just Elros is fine. The crown is brand new anyway - if not for the mud, you could probably still see the shine. Numenor's new too - can't really call it a kingdom yet, although it will be, one day! Hopefully I live long enough to see it going, although now I'm mortal I've no idea how long I've got.
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Well... Sucks you got dropped in the mud, then, I guess?
❰ crowns shouldn't get muddy, probably. most kings adalia knows wouldn't like that.
...not that she really knows any others, but. ❱
"Now you're mortal"? You weren't before?
❰ wat ❱
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[ He shrugs ]
Mm. Luthien's heir. That's part of it. She was half-maia, my great-grandmother - that's where most of the power comes from, although I can't acess most of it now. Can still heal, a bit, which is nice.
[ not bitter noooo... ]
But between her heroism, and the other side of the family.... well, between her deeds, and then what my father & mother did, Fate owes us, apparently. Owes us big time. So they let us choose, which side of the family we would cleave to. So we wouldn't be half-elven any more but one or the other.
[ He snorts ]
I'll take mortality any day, even with all the downsides, rather than existing forever until the world ends, watching it all go downhill. Fate. Bah. What did it ever gain us but my mother abandoning us for a cursed jewel and a father we can see but not speak to or touch? But humans... we get to leave. Luthien had the right idea.
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You're a half-elf?
❰ she conspicuously pushes her wild and curly hair behind her ears, leaving the blunted points of the tips of her ears on full display. while adalia has no real attachment to her haf-elven heritage, unsure as she is whether she really even is a half-elf, she can't help but cling to any similarity she finds between herself and other people. people tend to like those who are like them, don't they? ❱
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[ He looks a little guilty ]
Elrond didn't understand. He wants to stay and fight. But I... couldn't, any longer. I'm done, with the tangled affairs of the elves.
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You were half-elf... As in it's something you can stop being? You can... choose to be a human or an elf?
❰ that is so beyond anything adalia has ever heard that it almost makes her head hurt with its sheer bizarreness. she could no more stop being one half of her than she could stop being able to use magic. it's just... in her, forever, unavoidable and unchangeable. ❱
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[ He shrugs, awkwardly ]
It... they told us, because we were of both worlds, we could chose, in honor of the sacrifices of our family, whose fate we would be bound to. I mean... I'm still... half-elven, I guess? But I feel mortal, now. There's... a shift? In... things.
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❰ elros you are supposed to be a king how are you this uneloquent. adalia just stares at him for a long moment, and then jumps when an inhuman screech pierces the air. there are more demons, it seems, and they shouldn't be kept waiting.
huffing out a frustrated noise, adalia jabs her finger into elros' chest, staring up at him. ❱
You are going to explain better when we're done here, I tell you what. "A shift in things", some king you are.
❰ and then she's picked up by the wind and swept forward as she throws another lightning bolt forward through a line of demons. ❱
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[ He lifts his head at the screech and grins at her rakishly ]
A king doesn't have to be good at explaining himself though!
[ He follows her with a whoop, blade singing in his hands as he flows smoothly forward in a deadly dance ]