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faderift2016-02-23 01:43 am
faderifting) wrote in faderift2016-02-23 01:43 am
OPEN: turn off the lights and I'll glow
WHO: New rifters & characters in Emprise du Lion
WHAT: More people falling on ice than usual, this time with demons, templars, and bonus nighttime
WHEN: Guardian 23
WHERE: Emprise du Lion
NOTES: This month, the arrival log is open to all.
WHAT: More people falling on ice than usual, this time with demons, templars, and bonus nighttime
WHEN: Guardian 23
WHERE: Emprise du Lion
NOTES: This month, the arrival log is open to all.
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 onto freezing stone or ice that is twice as cold and just as hard. When your breath returns and the light's after-image fades from your eyes you will find yourself beneath a dark sky, a full moon straining to be seen through intermittent clouds, and a second moon low on the horizon. Its light reflects off snow to add an eerie ambient glow to the darkness, made stranger by the sickly green tint added by the fluttery menacing shape of the rift hanging in mid-air. Be careful getting up: you are at the edge of a cliff, what was once a waterfall now frozen solid in a massive curling sheet of icicles. The drop to the bottom is several stories, surely a deadly fall even without the huge humps and spikes of ice and snow that litter the ground where splash and spray were petrified.
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 the fact 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. Some are entirely different but perhaps more monstrous for it: men and women in heavy, gleaming armor, all of them with chunks of red crystal protruding out in a way you soon realize indicates it is actually growing out of their skin. Their eyes are a dull red, hollow and empty, and they attack with a single-minded determination.
Luckily, you are not on your own. Around you others are waking up, equally confused, with the same green lights flaring from their hands. There is stuff scattered about, like the contents of someone's life exploded through the rift with them: a picnic table and benches upended, metal camp furniture flung about, clothes and utensils, bits of wood and canvas and mattress littering the ground. Even better, you are not far from a path leading toward an Inquisition camp, and noise travels far in this terrain, echoing up canyons and off cliffsides, carried by the chill night wind. Help is on its way; just last until it arrives.
But there's no waking here, just a flare of green-white light and a jarring impact onto freezing stone or ice that is twice as cold and just as hard. When your breath returns and the light's after-image fades from your eyes you will find yourself beneath a dark sky, a full moon straining to be seen through intermittent clouds, and a second moon low on the horizon. Its light reflects off snow to add an eerie ambient glow to the darkness, made stranger by the sickly green tint added by the fluttery menacing shape of the rift hanging in mid-air. Be careful getting up: you are at the edge of a cliff, what was once a waterfall now frozen solid in a massive curling sheet of icicles. The drop to the bottom is several stories, surely a deadly fall even without the huge humps and spikes of ice and snow that litter the ground where splash and spray were petrified.
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 the fact 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. Some are entirely different but perhaps more monstrous for it: men and women in heavy, gleaming armor, all of them with chunks of red crystal protruding out in a way you soon realize indicates it is actually growing out of their skin. Their eyes are a dull red, hollow and empty, and they attack with a single-minded determination.
Luckily, you are not on your own. Around you others are waking up, equally confused, with the same green lights flaring from their hands. There is stuff scattered about, like the contents of someone's life exploded through the rift with them: a picnic table and benches upended, metal camp furniture flung about, clothes and utensils, bits of wood and canvas and mattress littering the ground. Even better, you are not far from a path leading toward an Inquisition camp, and noise travels far in this terrain, echoing up canyons and off cliffsides, carried by the chill night wind. Help is on its way; just last until it arrives.
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Apparently she's not the only one with magic capable of knocking these creatures over. She's not sure if it's a relief to find someone else with magic or not, but right about now, she'll take just about anything. Her hands are aloft, a weary attempt to show she means no harm. Her hair is damp and freezing quickly in the cold air and she's certainly not dressed for this adventure, in thin fabric and bare feet.
"I'm not going to hurt you," she says, and there's a dark whisper somewhere in the back of her head that she could if she wanted to that actually makes wince as she shakes it off. "I'm just trying to get out of here."
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Still, it shouldn't have been so difficult! Was he getting old? Ugh.
"Although I'm very sure I don't know where 'here' is. Shall we make a break for it?"
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"I'll follow you." He at least seemed to have some ability to cut through the things they were unexpectedly facing. She steps a bit closer to make good on that promise, before admitting, "I have no idea where this is, either."
It was possibly as cold as Maine, but generally they didn't have undead glowing soldiers on attack. Or impossibly high cliffs, for that matter.
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He means the red templars, not the demons. Although, at this point, the difference is more academic than practical. Either way, skidding and ducking, with a muttered blessing for his good Temple-issue boots, Obi-Wan darts ahead, clearing the way for his new friend to follow, where he can.
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She picks after him quickly, surprisingly sprite yet it's not like she has very much to slow her down. "Do you know what these... things are?" There's so much currently in the fray, she's not even sure how to specify which thing she means. She doesn't know what any of them are.
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They crest a small ridge, snow over rock, and find themselves faced with someone who, for once in their day, doesn't attack. Or at least, doesn't attack them; before Obi-Wan can so much as open his mouth, the Inquisition scout charges past them at the rift, drawing her weapon as she move. He hesitates a moment, and turns back to offer Emma a hand up.
"...I haven't yet gotten your name."
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The next figure they run into looks ready for a fight, and Emma lifts her hands again to show her lack of hostility, but the woman doesn't even falter, running straight past them. Emma might have liked a momentary pause to explain what was happening, but maybe now wasn't the best time.
She hesitates only a moment before she accepts the hand up. She doesn't need it but she appreciates the gesture, even if it's not necessary. "It's Emma," she answers. "Thank you, for whatever... that was." She could have used her own magic, but she honestly appreciates that she didn't have to.
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Which is the truth. More to the point; he's little else to do at the moment, amid all this chaos.
"If we become separated, find me later. This is-- insanity."
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She doesn't trust quickly, but she doesn't have any reason to think that Obi-Wan will hurt her, at least. He helped her this far, after all.
"I'll try." It's easy to get lost in the battle and if she can't use her magic to keep up, it'll be hard to follow closely.