WAKING NIGHTMARES IN SKYHOLD

[fleurdesel]

WHO: Adelaide LeBlanc, Vivienne, Cullen Rutherford, Sabriel Abhorsen
WHAT: Subduing an Abomination
WHEN: Haring 11
WHERE: Gardens, Courtyards, Beyond the gates
NOTES: Violence, gore, death, corpses, etc.

It is another night in Skyhold- calm and relatively quiet, most asleep or tending to their solitary business without expecting anything too strenuous at the late hour in the depths of their stronghold. For all that it is still undergoing renovations it is secure and has come to be something of a home for most that have traveled there looking for sanctuary.

The night's split by a deep, rumbling laugh, spurred on by the rending of flesh and the bright surge of flame, a chorus of screams and prayers rippling in it's wake. An abomination has ripped its way into being in the gardens, twisting the body of the boy into a creature seven feet tall, his mage robes shredded in tatters over misshapen muscle that twists and knots over protrusions of bone and raw, pulsating, pustulent meat. His face a rictus of vicious intent, irregular fangs nd warped, drooling lips below terrified, human eyes. In one hand he has the battered corpse of a young woman that he drags by the ankle as he smashes his way through the scrambling crowd of the garden, bursting into the main hall- many of his peers broken and bloodied and sobbing in his wake.

A call goes out- the first to the scene are the first to see this creature, the first to act in the Inquisition's defense.

Comments

[madame_de_fer]

Enhanced magic thanks to Adelaide is always a benefit and somewhere in the back of the First Enchanter's mind, she is pleased they are all of them so easily capable of working as a team. She nods once to Sabriel, acknowledging her supportive shields and a call to keep a moderate pace. Time is assuredly of the essence before more lives are lost, but a rushed battle will do none of them any good.

Taking advantage of the distraction that Cullen is providing, Vivienne encases herself in icy armor, then fade steps directly behind the creature to begin lobbing more wintry magic at the Abomination. Fighting fire with well... ice actually. Once they've driven it out, she intends to freeze it in place then assault it with another blizzard.

What's bothering her is the young corpse the monstrosity is hauling around. Not merely for the additional death, or even the morbidity of such an act. There is a reason this creature is doing such a thing, unusual though it is. She quite suspects it has a hand in why one of the mages has succumbed and once this terror is over, intends to find out if that is so.