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faderift2015-12-22 01:35 pm
wontforgetyou) wrote in faderift2015-12-22 01:35 pm
[Open] The World It Learns
WHO: Jamie McCrimmon and you!
WHAT: Rifter reflections and various other things
WHEN: Mid-to-late Haring unless otherwise specified
WHERE: Various places in Skyhold
NOTES: Either brackets or prose is fine with me, so feel free to use either and I will match your style. I'm also happy to set threads prior to the Abomination appearing, so if you would prefer one of those, just say so in the header. Will update warnings as needed.
WHAT: Rifter reflections and various other things
WHEN: Mid-to-late Haring unless otherwise specified
WHERE: Various places in Skyhold
NOTES: Either brackets or prose is fine with me, so feel free to use either and I will match your style. I'm also happy to set threads prior to the Abomination appearing, so if you would prefer one of those, just say so in the header. Will update warnings as needed.
Battlements
[Monsters. It seems no matter where he goes, there's monsters. It's something that's been a part of his life for so long now that he normally he doesn't even think twice about the fact they're here, too, just falls into the habits he's developed over the past few years when they turn up.
The night the Abomination shows up is one of those nights, although he doesn't wind up facing it directly. Instead, he helps others get out of its path and tries to keep the fires from spreading, and when all is said and done the night becomes a bit of a blur. It's not until a few days later that he finds himself up on the battlements, staring down at the Courtyard below.
It's entirely not because of what's happened, although it is part of it. Losing people is never easy, and there's a part of him that regrets they couldn't do more to save them, especially that poor mage lass who'd never stood a chance. However, what happened also reminds him all too much of the way life used to be, before he'd fallen through the rift. Only a few months ago he'd still been with the Doctor and Zoe, fighting beasties and helping the people wherever they'd wound up. Sometimes they'd died, too, but they'd done their best to stop things from getting worse. Maybe he's doing the same here now, in a way, but now he's doing it alone. As much as he likes to think that he can handle what this world is throwing at him, deep down he misses his friends - and he winds up caught up in those thoughts, making it all too easy to sneak up on him at the moment and catch him unawares.]
Library
[Jamie's not normally the sort to be found in the library. He's neither a mage or a scholar, and much prefers trying to see about getting something to eat rather than nosing around old books. But the longer he's here, the more he's starting to realize that the books here can be useful, too. The main problem with that - or with reading anything that's being written down around here - is that he has no idea how to make heads or tales out of the runes people seem to be using for writing. Having to learn to read all over again in the space of only a few years isn't something he's particularly keen on doing, but given that it could be something that would be handy to know, he's determined to figure it out.
The problem, in his case, is getting started. There were books the Doctor used to when he first taught him to read. Simple children's books, ones where it was easy enough to take the letters he'd been taught and string them into words, and from there, start to puzzle out sentences. He hasn't seen all that many children about, but the library here has a lot of different books. Surely there's something her that'd work. On the days he's trying to find these books anyone who happens to come by the library can find him pulling tomes off the shelves, leafing through them (often while the book is upside down), and putting them back again, although not necessarily the right way around. Sometimes he finds a couple that look almost promising, and settles in a nearby chair, slowly tracing the symbols with a finger as if trying to make some sort of sense out of them. More often than not, though, he simply winds up looking frustrated with the whole exercise and winds up grumbling to himself. He tries to keep that part of things quiet...but he's also not particularly good at always being quiet. If it means he gets glared at, well, that's only to be expected.]
Out and about
[Being at Skyhold for the moment means that he can be found just about anywhere: having a drink at the tavern, trying to sneak a bit of food from the kitchens, or hanging out with the horses in the stables. Occasionally he can be found carving a piece of wood. It's a longer piece, about the length of someone's forearm, and to those who can recognize such it's slowly starting to resemble something rather akin to a recorder, although still very roughly formed. He seems to be taking his time with it, although it's hard to say if it's because he wants it to be perfect or if he just needs the practice. Either way, if you need him for something, you should be able to track him down one way or another.]
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That's why I'm here, to pester the War Council into sending the Inquisition there in force. The time for scouting is over; we need to be there yesterday. I don't know what's going on in the Western Approach, but unless it's just that much worse, it'll have to wait.
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[To be fair, he supposes it could be, but he hasn't heard anything from anyone that's been sent out there. He's inclined to go with the problem he knows about, even if he's only just heard about it. That hasn't stopped him from jumping into things before, and he looks almost as if he's ready to take off and go hunt down someone to convince right this very moment.]
Right. So what I can do to help, then?
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Train, stock up on supplies, be ready to head out at a moment's notice. I'm not sure how long it will take us to go en masse, but the advisors have been given our reports, so the know what we're up against. It's likely we'll be moving out some time after First Day.
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[Still, it seems like a long time to him. Maybe he's just impatient, but it seems to him going back sooner rather than later is a good idea.]
Think they'll send a smaller group back in the meantime, though?
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It takes time to gather an army, and we need those numbers if there's a chance for this battle to go our way. And they might, but I'm not completely sure. Given what we uncovered, the higher-ups might decide it's too risky to send another small group alone and hold us back.
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[He's well aware of that, and that they might decide to do that rather than send another small group. He still doesn't look any happier about it than she does, however, and after a moment he lets out a sigh.]
Don't like it, though. If the Doctor were here...well, never mind that. Suppose training and preparing'll have to do.
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If he was here...what? Go on, I have a feeling this will lead to several good stories, if nothing else. And that's a welcome diversion, believe me.
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Oh. Well, he'd likely see about what he could do to help them, Inquisition backing or no. We spend- spent a lot of time helping people, just the three of us. It, erm, wasn't always a by the book sort of thing, if you know what I mean.
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My kind of people, then. I can always get behind doing what needs to be done to help others, rules be damned. Though in this case, it was less rules and more timing getting in the way.
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[Not that he particularly minds that, all things considered, and there's a flash of a grin on his end before he tucks the half-finished recorder away.]
That's how we wound up in the mess we were in the last place I was before I fell through the rift. Just wish I knew if the Doctor'd managed a way to get out of it or not.