crystal; brandel's reach liveblog (jaws theme)

[foxsays]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Araceli Bonaventura, Val de Foncé, Korrin Ataash, Helena
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Translating some markings, mysterious seabeasts, setting the hearts and minds of the Chantry at ease (with this squad??? It's more likely than you think)
WHEN: Waves hand at Solace
WHERE: Brandel's Reach
NOTES: Araceli is blue, Val is green, Helena is red and Korrin is purple.  Will update with anything else!

How is it coming señor de Foncé? Are we done? [Oh does Araceli sound hopeful? Does she sound tired? Is it just a trick of the cave bouncing her voice back at her or is it that she's probably aged ten years here with the dripping of the water all about her while she waits for whatever it is to be done.

Not even somewhere comfy to lounge.] I should've brought Fernando, he would've loved it out here. And how is it [and this is why the sending crystal is on, or maybe she just wanted everyone to hear her complaints re: Val's painstaking work to be heard by all] that waterproof ink doesn't exist here? It'd save many headaches, no?

If you were wanting to be inventing this waterpoof ink, and to give it to me-- [Val shouts, from somewhere across an echoing cave--where he is, by the way, hard at work, just because he isn’t doing anything demonstrably heroic does not mean his work lacks value--] --right now, in this moment, if you were wanting to invent this thing--then by all means! Invent away! But I can go no faster than I am.

I am personally more interested in these markings--astonishing! Do you know, they do not resemble anything that I have seen? No written language, they are all their own. Do you have any idea, the sort of discovery this-- Look, just here, you can see that the sea has been eradicating this part--but the markings here are stronger, and clearer, and they go all along here, see--down below the water, even--

Eradicates? [What slander is this?] The sea reclaims. Do you think maybe the people who went sailing off beyond the Amaranthine and never returned? [The cool kids who clearly found something so baller that the rest of Thedas got left behind, no forwarding address. Inquisition you may chime in whenever this is riveting stuff all this cool shit no one can see.]

( Helena is listening to these shouting people, unbothered by their sea bickering.
The giant devil woman she has met before is here, and the small one who sounds Spanish but is funny, and now the fancy French whose hair she sort of wants to ruffle. When she speaks, she sounds far off, and that’s probably because she’s scaling rocks in the cave to look for different angles, finding tiny crevices for hand and footholds on the seemingly slick surface and climbing towards a ledge and pile of boulders. Not that anyone can see that over the crystals, of course, but that’s why she sounds a little more distant, a little more echo-y. )

Pretty man. There are more markings up here. Cave-in, I think, blocking off higher tunnel.

( And then the irregular tap-tap-tap-tap of something - a rock, presumably - being pulled away and tossed down into the lower part of the tunnel. )

Fernando, here? That would be entertaining while we wait, at least. Though I don’t even want to imaging trying to wrangle him for the return trip. [Ignoring the sea bickering -because Araceli can hold her own, and there are other issues to address- Korrin glances over and up to the climbing Helena, admiring her skill. She frowns at mention of a cave-in, though.]

Let me help with that, it’s better than standing around waiting for him to finish. [She’ll climb enough to see what Helena’s talking about, then attempt to energize some of the rubble...carefully, not wanting to trigger an incident.]

[In the midst of the chatter, there's a noise. Easily overlooked but coming from the water, not the lapping of the tide but a disturbance. How do you do fellow kids.]

Comments

over the crystals/action-ish???

[strangel]

( Helena has her crystal held between her teeth, it sounds like. To make sure she does not accidentally throw away. )

Is someone hungry?

( Because that was not sounding like stomach rumble, but she is also throwing rocks with large woman's help, so— ? )

[aventuriere]

Val? [ excited, jealous, voiced raised as if that will help him hear her across the cave or whatever ] Do they bear any resemblance to the Fex markings we saw in De Bruynegge?