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Aleron Darton ([personal profile] lifeofendurance) wrote in [community profile] faderift2016-03-30 02:35 pm

[OPEN] Peace Bore a Heavy Price

WHO: Everyone
WHAT: Aleron and Nathaniel are hosting an BSG boxing match open sparring session to work out personal griefs within the Inquisition.
WHEN: Drakonis 30, All Day
WHERE: Just outside Camp Shady (aka, the Warden's Camp outside Skyhold)
NOTES: More information, including the rules, can be found here. You do not have to have signed up to participate. Non-combatants can come and just cheer for their favorites or appreciate fine bodies getting physical. Please note in your subject line if you're spectating, healing, or open for fighting.



Just outside the site where the Wardens have established themselves, a space has been cleared. Its boundaries are marked with some wooden posts driven into the ground with loose ropes stretched out between them. A copy of the rules has been nailed to one of the posts. It flaps in the wind, but seems to stay in place with but little fraying as the day wears on:

1. No magic.
2. A volunteer healer will determine whether someone is fit for a bout.
3. Conduct the fight honorably. If someone surrenders the fight, it ends immediately and without question.
4. Don't deliberately incapacitate someone to the point where they won't be able to perform their duties after the fight is over.
5. All weapons must be blunt, even blades.
6. Challenged chooses the method of competition.

At the end of the fight, participants are to consider their issue resolved and move forward.


Off to one side, a basic triage is set up for combatants who have taken their licks. Volunteer healers are present to offer treatment for injuries and to determine who remains fit to fight. Their decision is absolute.

For the spectators, there is ample room to stand around and watch. One of the merchants from the pilgrim's encampment has caught wind of the impromptu event and decided it's a grand time to turn a profit. He's got a cookpot set up and is hawking fine treats like fennec-on-a-stick, druffalo kebabs, and smoked nug legs. He's also selling wooden cups of ale for five coppers, but it's questionable if there's more water or ale. Let the buyer beware.
pinprick: (To touch the face of the stars)

[personal profile] pinprick 2016-04-14 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Everything is going fine until Anders nuzzles his chin, and Nathaniel's nose is filled with the scent of his hair. Then, there are lips.

Oh Maker, there are lips.

There's a frozen moment where Nathaniel simply allows Anders to do as he pleases. Then, something gives and the dam breaks. All those images Zevran planted in his head come raging back, as does the erection he spent so long cooling off from. He surges forward, meeting Anders' kiss like a starved man, and doesn't stop, marching forward and backing Anders against the nearest tree, shoving him against it and pinning him there. Everyone who is attending can see what's happening. He doesn't even care.

Maker have mercy, he gives up.]


Time to find somewhere less public? [he murmurs, for his ear only. Hopefully, some part of Anders was sincere about this, or Nathaniel will feel like such a fool.]
justice_is_blond: (A dark joy)

[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2016-04-14 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd hoped, just a little, for a kiss back. He'd not at all been ready to be shoved back against a tree, or to feel exactly how worked up Nate is pressed against him. Not that he's objecting. Anders holds Nate close, welcoming everything he's given and only leaning back to give Nate a shocked look when the archer speaks.]

Months, [he says in a jokingly mournful tone,] months I hit on you, years back, here, and all I had to do all along was kiss you? Yes. Yes, you inscrutable lump. As private as you need; I've no shame.

[Anders shakes his head before leaning forward and kissing Nate lightly on the lips again and taking one of the archer's hands. Let anyone talk who wants to, he doesn't care. And let Zev sit there, Anders just beat him at seduction and he's feeling so very smug right now. He does have charms.]
pinprick: (Breathe life into this feeble heart)

[personal profile] pinprick 2016-04-14 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Feeling strangely giddy, Nathaniel allows himself to be led, but casts a grin back at Zevran. As distinctly as he can, he mouths:

You win.]
ombranera: (Cruel to the end)

[personal profile] ombranera 2016-04-14 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Zevran offers them a salute with his cup, smirk wide and feeling oddly...


Sad? Wistful? He does not put a name to the feeling and squashes it down as quick as possible. ]