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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] 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.


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.
tar_minyatur: (twins of the star)

[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-01 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Elros settles against him ]

I will be. I'm not like Elrond, always looking back!
castintoflames: (✧ all the broken chords)

[personal profile] castintoflames 2017-12-01 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
You are luckier, I think, in that. (He kisses the side of his dark head.) I will not be a weight wrapped around your feet.
tar_minyatur: (young mischief)

[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-01 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ He snorts in amusement ]

You're far too tall to be around anyone's feet!
castintoflames: (✧ and I'll do the same)

[personal profile] castintoflames 2017-12-01 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
(He huffs and pinches his ear.)

I can crouch! I am not too old and inflexible for that!
tar_minyatur: (still a menace)

[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-01 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Ow! [ Elros swats at him cheerfully ]

But if you go around crouching, you'll hurt your back~
castintoflames: (✧ call me anything you want)

[personal profile] castintoflames 2017-12-01 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
(What an adorably round ear!)

Nice try, imp. I'm not that easy to put out of commission!
tar_minyatur: (young mischief)

[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-01 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ You leave his ears alone! ]

Really? I can't help but think it must be uncomfortable, all squished up like that!
castintoflames: (✧ darling believe me)

[personal profile] castintoflames 2017-12-01 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
(But how can he not play with them? They are round now!)

Am I a stranger to discomfort and pain? I think not.
tar_minyatur: (still a menace)

[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-01 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Still! Sensitive! ]

Wouldn't it work better if you carried me on your shoulders instead?