what is a man [OPEN]

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WHO: Notas & OPEN
WHAT: The Inquisition must investigate a Venatori camp that has set up on the Wounded Coast. What are they up to? Will you find out?
WHEN: Early December. I'm flexible in its timing if people in Nevarra want to partake.
WHERE: The Wounded Coast
NOTES: I'll set up a few top levels for everyone to tag into as you please!
If you'd like something specific, or you desire to arrange your own top level, please feel free to.

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ARRIVAL

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The Wounded Coast is no different than any description that one Varric Tethras would have described in any of his adventures regarding the Champion; the smell of the sea impossible to ignore, the weather far from fair and drizzling cold water. Mist threatens to climb up from the rocks below as crashing waves claw up furiously from the ocean. Just as charming as one might aniticpate from the name of such of a location.

Perhaps you are here because the Inquisition has requested it of you; a sighted Venatori camp has placed itself here somewhere, and you've been asked to investigate. Or, perhaps you are simply on your way back to Kirkwall and happen to notice something is odd and you decided to observe it out of curiosity. No matter the reason, you are here now:

The rocks do well to obscure the camp mostly from vision, but it's the distant noise that no doubt gives it away: the sound of shouting echoes from the open mouth of a cave. One without magic cannot pass, but one who is a mage will notice that the entrance is blockaded by a barrier.

Once that has been bypassed, if you are all careful, the inside shows the camp: tents and torches all arranged. Some of them are working, frowning at the noise and working conditions, but most of them are jeering and yelling enthusiastically as a fight is taking place in the center of the gathering. A Qunari woman and man are fighting each other. Though the man is armed, she is only fitted with a pair of gauntlets -- yet, she does well for herself.

In the end, she disarms him, throwing him down before grabbing him by the horns and forcing his neck to snap with a loud CRNCH that echoes the cave.

The crowd cheers, blind to your arrival.

FIGHT

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Inevitably, a fight initiates; that's usually how these things go, after all.

The Venatori, whether mage or soldier, react swiftly and are prepared to fight back. What is not entirely anticipated is the enormous Qunari woman who slams her clawed gauntlets into the back of one man's skull, and she snarls as she leaps into the fray.

"TIBERIUS!" she roars, charging in, running by the lot of you. Presumably the named man freezes in place when his name is howled in such a way, then he frantically spins out his staff to prepare to fight her.

Better get fighting, Inquisition.

AFTERMATH

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You do what you do best: the Venatori are dealt with, no man left alive, your inexplicable ally assisting as she strikes down any that faces her until she reaches her goal. You do well for yourself; it's what you're here for, after all.

But when she finally reaches the man named Tiberius, she reaches out and grabs the hand holding his staff, crushing it in her armored fingers.

Though he cries out in pain, he grits his teeth and hisses at her, "I am your master! You will kneel!"

"No," the woman says coldly. "I kneel before no one again."

With her other hand, she slams her clawed fingers into his jaw, growling as she rips it messily off before she drops him to the ground. Lifting up a foot, she proceeds to stomp his face in, hardly paying much heed to anyone else around her just yet.