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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] faderift2015-10-21 11:34 am

Into the DANGER ZONE

WHO: All Rifters + the 7 natives who signed up
WHAT: Searching the ruins of Haven for survivors, an Inquisition crew finds something strange. And demons. It's kind of scary that the demons aren't the strange thing.
WHEN: Third week of Harvestmere, 9:41
WHERE: Haven
NOTES: We've broken rifters and rescuers (or "rescuers") into two groups. This log has an arrival comment for each group--you can start smaller subthreads beneath those rather than try to have an eight- or nine-person log, just incorporate surrounding chaos/fighting--and a third top-level set for the whole group's journey back to Skyhold


You were asleep-- deeply or fitfully, for the last time or just resting your eyes for a moment-- and then you were not. And wherever you were was not, anymore, replaced by nothing but the sensation of falling, tumbling into endless, bottomless nothing. If this were still a dream, you would wake before you hit the ground. You can't die in a dream, they say. In some worlds.

But there's no waking here, just a flare of green-white light and a jarring impact, barely softened by snow that lies a foot deep with an icy crust that cracks beneath the force of your landing. The wind is biting cold, the sun is bright, and you are not alone. Others thud to the ground nearby, as bewildered as you, and others run up who look no less confused for having their feet beneath them.

You are also not as you were: in the palm of your left hand there glows a narrow splinter of light the same sickly green as whatever brought you here. It aches, a bone-deep pain that gnaws even through all the distractions. Like that you're being attacked by monsters, some tall, spindly stick-things with too many eyes, some hunched and hooded with no eyes at all.

Welcome to Thedas!
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[personal profile] apostasia 2015-10-22 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
The first thing Martel is aware of is

pain, and he has no immediate reason to question it. This is hell, obviously. The ache in his hand - the ache in his chest - the gurgling sensation of

Muscles that didn't anticipate being used again scream in protest as he drags himself up onto his hands and knees, high enough to - charmingly - take a moment in all of the excitement that he's only dimly aware of to vomit blood and bile. He makes a fairly striking image, wounded before he landed hard in the rubble, shock white hair plastered to his skin by sweat and catching all of the dust and debris to it, silver amulet dangling bloody from his neck - not a small man, either, several inches above six foot if he stood, shoulders like an ox.

Whether or not he looks like anyone (or anything) to inspire compassion is debatable, but he certainly doesn't look like he's in any fit state to do anything much about whatever response he does inspire.