open: we built this circle on rock and roll

[exequy]

WHO: Open (mostly), targeted toward people who care about mage problems but anybody's welcome.
WHAT: Looting a Circle, fighting some scavengers, and arguing about the ethics of falsifying records of abuse.
WHEN: Cloudreach
WHERE: Markham
NOTES: This is a sliver of a couple bigger schemes, including a plan to publicize mage mistreatment (which will double as an anti-Gertruda Divine-influencing plot) and a plan to hide some Circle valuables from the Chantry, but your character doesn't have to be aware of those plans to participate in this! They can just be along to help fight bandits and carry heavy stuff. ETA: In some places this log says Ostwick, rather than Markham, because I'm dumb. Ignore them.

Calling an outbreak of enchantment-related deaths and mysterious incidents in Markham convenient would be horribly insensitive to the various burn victims and vanished druffalo involved, but, you know. It is. All of the arguments about whether or not to make formal request for permission to secure the Circle's contents, when it's already their stuff, and if Ostwick says no it might mean the Inquisition won't give them leave to go—those arguments were all for nothing. Markham's response is, essentially, Please do. Hooray!

Comments

[justice_is_blond]

[He's tense here despite the absence of Templars. The increasing chances that they'll get a Divine who is a fan of the Circles brings back far too much for him to easily handle, and so he's been a little stand-offish, a little distant. But he's growing increasingly aware of being too touchy and increasingly guilty about it, so when Iorveth breaks off on his own to go trudging into who knows what corner, Anders decides to actually be helpful.]

Is there something or somewhere you spotted earlier you're looking for?

[He asks as he catches up. Iorveth had to have heard him coming; stealth is not Anders' strong point even when he tries and he wasn't trying.]

Sorry. I'm not trying to supervise or something, but the Veil's always a little thin near a Circle and we've already seen a fair few nuisances. I thought I'd help.

i had a tag written and then had to restart my pc and typio didn't save it AND I WAS PISSED

[aenseidhe]

[ iorveth doesn't exactly startle at anders' presence, but his attention does zero in on him quickly, glancing over the man before moving back to the walls around them. ]

Nothing in particular, no.

[ just curious? is he allowed to say that without someone blowing it off and trying to drag him back to camp? ]

Some old structures hold memories in their bones. [ his mind goes to the elven ruins he's seen here, or the ones at home. ] I've heard so much of the suffering that's come to pass in towers like this, and yet I've not had a chance to witness evidence of the life led here.

[ and iorveth makes it his business to be nosey as all fuck, so, here we are. ] If you wish, you're welcome to be supervisor as well as tour guide.

I completely understand.

[justice_is_blond]

I left my supervisor's hat in my other robes, but I can do my best.

[His voice is light enough, considering the topic at hand.]

I'm not entirely familiar with this Circle's cruelties, aside from the the regular ones. I was held in Kinloch Hold. But... well. If we go up, we'll likely find the Harrowing chambers. Down is probably the dungeons, because every Circle must have a dungeon for the children who don't lose their independence and personhood quickly enough. I'd frankly prefer to show the Harrowing chambers and talk of those, but it's tourist's choice today.

[He never wants to be in a dungeon again, but he's hardly about to share his fear and baggage freely. Anders gestures at a door set in the wall.]

That's the staircase. This floor is probably just the small rooms mages were kept in on a day-to-day basis.