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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.
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[personal profile] laurenande 2017-12-04 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I believe they knew each other for little over three hundred years before they were wed, it was a very...trying time. Had my husband not traveled abroad, I sometimes wonder if they would have ever met, but it matters not."
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[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-04 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Three hundred years" Elros groans in mock dismay.

"I don't care if there was another war on, you just don't make a lady wait that long!"
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[personal profile] laurenande 2017-12-04 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
"You do when you are trying to impress my husband." Galadriel corrects with a wry smile. "Be easy on your brother, he could not go too far from home while he courted her and he loved her dearly."
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[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-04 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
"He's my brother, I'm pretty sure it's my job to be hard on him." Elros sniffs but he relents.

"Tell me about her? Do I get to meet her?"
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[personal profile] laurenande 2017-12-04 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Celebrían was my dearest, my very heart, and she shone like starlight. She was her father's daughter, in temperament at least, and was quite good for your brother. He shone brighter when he was near her and longed for her when they parted."

Unfortunately, while Galadriel is always fond to recall her daughter, doing so for more than a fleeting moment carries the risk of plunging her into grief. In this instance, it manages to sadden her with more speed than it usually does, and her face falls.

"You shall not meet her, unless perhaps she comes to these lands. She sailed long ago and well after your time."
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[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-04 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
"She sounds beautiful. A good match for him."

He says and then impulsively hugs her, when her face falls.

"You will though. Cheer up! You can tell her all about Elrond's terrible brother."
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[personal profile] laurenande 2017-12-06 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Galadriel leveled him with a dry look, her mouth turned upward in a mild, but not unkind smirk.

"Do you truly think she could be wed to your brother and not hear tales? Not even after she bore him twin sons with your dispositions?"

It was a cheering thought and, to Elros's credit, it did pull her from her encroaching melancholy.
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[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2017-12-06 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
He grins saucily back.

"I'd certainly hope they would hear tales! And surely they weren't all me! Elrond always plays the prim and proper lord but I hardly got into my childhood scrapes by myself you know!"