But despite what you've been told

[mostlyvoid]

WHO: Cecil, Kevin, Sherlock, Maxwell, Korrin, Lenneth
WHAT: Four brave Inquisition members go to rescue a group of very odd people
WHEN: the next few days
WHERE: on the edge of Emprise
NOTES: Rescuers feel free to use the ooc post here to plot out how you want the rescue to go down. Feel free to make up camp details/NPC actions. Action will be split into three main threads: Captive chatter, rescue, and travelling (both coming and going). Rescue will be a group log, but for the others feel free to do one-on-one threads.

The report’s directions are clear, at least, which is good - how else would the scouts be able to find the camp in this cold, desolate landscape. Snow as far as the eye can see, but there are great red shards of lyrium breaking through the ground. The only sounds are the grunting noise of red Templars stalking their way through the construction site echos along the frozen grounds, and the freezing wind that bites through skin and fur alike.

Scattered among these fearsome foes are cages. They look almost like caravans - giant cages on wheels, with cowering, shivering figures within. A few elves, primarily humans, all cold and hungry and uncertain about their fate.

Within one of these cages, a tattoo-covered human is conducting interviews.

Comments

[justdesert]

He'd heard rumors, but the news of individuals still able to close Rifts is clearly a surprise- a very, very pleasant one- to the man. His eyes and grim widen.

"It really wasn't only Andraste's chosen one able to such us all? That's wonderful! That is simply- can any of you here manage it? To close those rifts?"

[gatheringstorm]

"I can't, but one of us can. The guy in the dragon armor, Kain, he has a rift shard." Korrin gestures back to him briefly. "Everyone I've met who's come to Thedas through a rift has one, though some people from this side have gained one as well. They seem to be stable enough, at least for now."

[justdesert]

"Came through the rift. Incredible."

Kevin's attention is fully on Kain for a moment, committing the man to memory.

"However did ones from....what was that perfect phrase? 'Our side' happen upon them?"

[gatheringstorm]

"Oh, that. It was a place of 'right place, right time', if you can call it that. We were sent to search the ruins of Haven and see what we could find. Well, what we found was a rift that spewed out demons and people. The people helped us kill the demons, so we took them back to Skyhold with us." And it was then that for the first time since the Herald's death that Korrin felt that there was hope again. The Herald was gone, but her gift lives on in others.

[justdesert]

Kevin sat back to absorb that. Rifts and people, all at the ruin of Haven.

"Incredible. Incredible. Why, I believe you have convinced me."

[gatheringstorm]

"As long as I didn't convince you to get a shard of your own, I can live with that. We still don't know the long-term effects of that on people, useful as they are at the moment. It's better to keep as much of a distance from rifts as you can and let the shard-bearers be the ones to get up close."

[justdesert]

"But more now could only aid the Inquisition. Long-term effects are hard to evaluate when the future itself is so very...questionable at the moment. Though, if such a technique of manufacturing is unknown, all that is just fantasy. And who has time for that?"