What Can One Grey Warden Do?

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WHO: Hercules, Jamie, Kain, Rachette, Alistair, Kaidan, Bethany, Dorian, Anders, and Nathaniel.
WHAT: The ambush and capture of Lord Livius Erimond
WHEN: Drakonis 4
WHERE: The Western Approach
NOTES: Info on this post. Feel free to start your own mingle threads for the journey there and back. Warning for violence.

It doesn't really rain here. The skies are blue and the sun is glaring, the sands shifting only when a merciful breeze blazes through, which isn't often. It's hardest on Team D, which has no shade or shelter. The other two teams are tucked away in the shadows, impossible to see as Erimond's party enters the gorge.

They had seen the demons from afar, Nathaniel peering through a spyglass. There are eight of them, each bound to a mage, and Nathaniel has chosen to continue with the plan, though he has urged everyone not to try to fight, only to push through with the plan as-is and get out. They are all very much outnumbered, but all they need to do is take one man.

So stay hydrated and move quickly, team. Anything can happen in the next few minutes.

[OOC: I will tag into each team thread as the action reaches each team. Feel free to mingle on team threads before then and react to the action in other threads. Also, please start your own threads for travel mingling, if you want that sort of thing. This will keep everything organized for everyone's AC purposes.]

Comments

[byblow]

"There is that," Alistair says, eyebrows maintaining their slant. Now that she and her claws are off his lap, he's more inclined to being friendly, offering a hand for her to examine and daring to look away from her long enough to smile at Anders. It isn't a bright smile; it's smirky, tired, a little wary. Genuine, though. "But on the other hand: Orlesians."

[justice_is_blond]

"Mm. Point." A majority of the Orlesians he's run into he's disliked. And it doesn't help that the influx of Orlesian Wardens after Jonas' departure had lined up with increased harassment.

What does help is that Alistair is smiling a little. The joke had worked.

"However, they can be hilarious. All rigid arrogance and fake smiles, they've no idea how to deal with things that are considered common. This is where a dog does come in handy - release one near Orlesians, see them scatter in fear of being slobbered on."