[Closed] Peeking at the Peak

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Alistair, Anders, Carver, Loghain, Nate, Teren
WHAT: A happy little field trip out to a happy little place, all in hopes of continuing with a Blight cure.
WHEN: Drakonis 5
WHERE: Soldier's Peak
NOTES: Summarized here.

The Fortress looms before them, cold stone walls protecting cold stone towers, rimmed by cold snowy hills.

It's cold, basically, and somehow manages to look even colder than it feels. The stairs upward are no longer even, crooked and bent as if some giant decided he wanted to romp his way through, and the gates are askew and slightly open.

On the approach there's little noise beyond wind whistling through, until the gate is touched and a flock of ravens bursts upward in a cackling cacophony. Beyond that it's still. Too still, perhaps.

Comments

[doneisdone]

Teren walks in with the rest, sees the ghostly figure, and turns around to walk back out. Well seeya

[justice_is_blond]

What sucks for Teren is that the door doesn't open to let her back out.

[doneisdone]

She doesn't run into it at least (Luwenna), she just stares at it angrily while tugging at the latch. C'mon you bastard, can't she get a free pass even once?

[mactears]

Loghain knows a thing or two about the value of a well-timed retreat from a battlefield, and so literally sidesteps Teren so as to not prevent her departure. His attention is fixed on that ghostly figure anyway, and his eyes narrow as it vanishes.

"Spirits?" he asks to Anders, glancing at him (and spares Teren's pride by ignoring how she tugs and yanks at the door latch).

[justice_is_blond]

Anders is working very hard to not look back at the door and what Teren is doing; it's not pleasant to think the door might have locked behind them.

"Um," he says to Loghain, focusing on the figure as it moves around and then fades. "More like an echo, I'd guess. I saw something similar in the deep roads before, old things being played out as if they were repeating. It's... He's been here a long time, he may have made an impression in the Fade."

Anders steps closer, slowly, and there's no repeat of the scene. Everything seems to have gone still for now.

[doneisdone]

She bangs on the door for good measure. fuck this fuck this fuck this

[justice_is_blond]

The door finally gives way for Teren to bravely run away.

[doneisdone]

Well now she doesn't want it. She just needed to know the option is there.
Eyeing the door, she turns back to the group.

[mactears]

Loghain watches her return now with slightly raised eyebrows. Better??

"Perhaps," he begins, turning his attention back towards where the spectre had been moments before, "there's been something left behind." He starts to approach the desk, though he steps carefully. Just in case the ghostly form rematerializes, or something.

[justice_is_blond]

The ghost form does rematerialize, but it doesn't react to Loghain. Instead it goes through the same set of motions again with no changes. They might as well not be there at all, as far as it's concerned.

Loghain is close enough to make out details of the figure's face if he wants - bald, human, wrinkled, and ancient-looking. Its gaze goes through him, unseeing.