NOT IN MY CROSSROADS

[inkindled]

WHO: Barrow, Derrica, Matthias
WHAT: the gang visits the spooky crossroads
WHEN: Harvestmere
WHERE: the Crossroads
NOTES: part of the September

assignments.

"A team of Venatori were discovered in the Crossroads prior to the attack on the Temple in the Arbor Wilds, and the prospect of the enemy gaining greater access to the eluvian network opens up a host of dangerous possibilities. A Riftwatch team will be sent back into the Crossroads to try to discover where that group of Venatori entered from and prevent future use of that entrance....."

Comments

seven years of baddest luck: destroying the eluvian

[inkindled]

How do you break a mirror? Easy:

"Throw a rock at it," Matthias says, with his mouth full.

He's started eating, which is not really surprising. As his companions will now have learned, he eats pretty much whenever he has the chance. He's eating handfuls of berries, which he'd picked along the way here, and gnawing at a salted sausage that's leaving his hand greasy. He has the table manners of a mildly tame animal, so it's not exactly a pretty sight. But there's half a corpse still about, so, it's not as if they're dining in splendor.

He swallows his bite and wipes his mouth on his shirt-sleeve, leaving behind a smear of mashed berry. "Or I could knock it apart myself, but I think it'd be loads more fun if we threw rocks at it until it fell to bits. Satisfying, like."

[tender]

"We could start with rocks," Derrica agrees, though she isn't sure if that will get the job done. "But you should see about melting the pieces after. Or scorching it all enough that they can't salvage anything."

Which is mainly what Derrica is worried about. She doesn't know enough about how eluvians work to know if just smashing them to pieces is enough to prevent someone from gathering enough bits to make a new one from nothing.

"It's a shame, but might want to send someone back to collapse the cavern entirely."

[inkindled]

"I can burn 'em. Leave the bit to me."

He grins, confident, at Derrica. Like, please: that's no issue at all. The grin pulls at his cheek, which makes him register that there's food on his face. Matthias scrubs at his cheek with the back of his hand--which really just rubs the berry in to his skin, but. That can't be helped. It makes him look like he's got a strange pinkish birthmark, or a fading bruise.

"Only if it's broken to bits and burned up, why would the cavern need to be collapsed? We'll have done it all already."