WKLBZ 2: Thedas

[winterwinds]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Audra, Loki, Thor
RECIPIENT: All the Inquisition
WHAT: WE'RE UNDER ATTAAAACK
WHEN: during all this shit in Tevinter
WHERE: They're in the catacombs but anyone with a crystal can hear them
NOTES: Audra Loki Thor. threadjack away frendos

To anyone listening, Minrathous is under attack by Corypheus and his Venatori. Anyone wearing Inquisition colors is not safe, anyone who would oppose him is not safe. I beg those of us still in the city to make their way out, but help any you can without putting yourself in danger as well.

Under attack is putting it rather mildly? There's a Gods' Damned Corrupted Dragon lifting the Archon's Palace out of the ground! The guard are beating people to death in the streets!
Listen, all of you would do well to get to the docks or the catacombs, or leave the city on foot if you can stay hidden! Don't go dithering around looking for help; you won't find any here!

Not all of our people are heartless or Venatori. Avoid the guards and anything with the imperial crest, but if you are human or dwarf there should be those who will help disguise you if you need it. Particularly if you let the mages among you take the lead. Seek the alleys; they have the entrances to the catacombs. Some of us will linger to help those unfamiliar out, but we will not linger long. It is not safe. And watch the sky. The dragon is... fast.

Comments

[thorndergod]

Some food supplies have been... damaged.

[There is a great deal of anger under those words, but he still thinks they need the Inquisition if they're going to beat Corypheus so he's not ready to unleash that anger yet. Luckily there's a safe target for it - the Venatori.]

And the corrupt guards, the Venatori, have not cared who gets caught in the crossfire as they attack members of the Inquisition, so we have injured citizens. We can likely heal some when we have had a chance to breathe, but our healer is already tired.

[And has already failed to heal the most important patient they've had.]

We will be able to deal with food supplies for a time if we can get these people to our lands outside the city, but we are not set up to host a larger group for any real length of time.

[letoldthingsdie]

Are we doing anything to help them? What's to stop that dragon from coming here?

[He wants to be doing something besides sitting around Kirkwall.]

[bouclier]

You are my sister, my worries are with you until you are safe.

[letoldthingsdie]

[He just makes a frustrated noise, already well aware Coupe has yet to offer Forces for aide.]

Maybe he planned this. To have some of the Inquisition's people go to Tevinter and for this attack to happen.

[somethingwild]

[Newt's voice is tense; this whole situation is terrible on so many levels, and he's trying his best not to dwell on said levels, and the potential for even more terrible to be had. He wants to help; he needs to help. This is a disaster and he wants to do whatever he can to help.

Beleth seems to him also the person most in charge right now, so he feels it best to reach out to her.]

If you are looking for volunteers back in Kirkwall, I would like to lend whatever aid I can. Is there anything we can start working on right away to send aid to Minrathous?

[winterwinds]

[ Calmly: ]

My duty is to all people of Thedas. If I can prevent even one more body from being added to Corypheus's pyres, I will have done my duty.

[hwaaaitsme]

[Sorry, Kitty, you get Loki.]

I assume someone is already outside of this Gods Forsaken place. If you want to know who in particular, that is a bit beyond us right now.

[limier]

[ in my experience, dragons fucking fly, so you figure it out — is panic talking, and not to be voiced. ]

I am on the ground. Ashara has command of Kirkwall, and is organizing the response. Report to her.

[hwaaaitsme]

They will be healed long before Inquisition Reinforcements stumble their way here--[He is not an incompetent, Thor, he is just tired. He is not used to doing this much magic and you're not helping and--this, this is not the point. You're welcome Araceli, enjoy waspish Loki.]

You can resupply at Marnus Pell, it has a port and several military installations. We have the damned stores and they are certainly not pawns of this darkspawn creature. I cannot speak for the other ports--but they hardly matter.

[limier]

[limier]

[ 'is it frowned upon to strangle your own side' and other questions to google later ]

[thorndergod]

The guard has been infiltrated. I would not be surprised to learn Venatori have worked their way into higher ranks and this was all planned. But I must focus on getting as many out of this as possible right now and cannot spare time for speculation. We have...

[And here his energy fails for a moment and he trails off.]

I do not know anything except that we must get as many as we can out of this.

[arlathvhen]

[ Slides in here like what up I'm more useful than some MAGISTER NERD. ]

I have a list of people who have been assigned to areas of Tevinter outside of Minrathous. There is a decent amount of them, but luckily, there's been no reported concerted effort to attempt to abduct them, not like there's been in Minrathous.

[arlathvhen]

[ Beleth has plenty of thoughts, most of them along the lines of 'fuck tevinter tbqh', but unfortunately, Thor is quite correct. Tevinter falling to Corypheus would be catastrophic. Beleth can look past the old (and new) wounds to see that. ]

I don't doubt it, Ser. We'll see what we can do, once we are regrouped, and can take stock of who is safe, and who...

[ You can hear the grimace. ]

...is not.

[hwaaaitsme]

Yes. What. Luck.

[So lucky, the luckiest. Trapped in a field outside a city they aren't welcome in. How fortunate for them.

Except it actually is and he wishes he was among them because maybe, just maybe, his mother would not be dead and gradually cooling in this very room if that were the case.]

Why don't you be a good elf and disseminate that then? I've people to heal, apparently.

[hwaaaitsme]

She is as safe as any of you, now.

[He is still so very exasperated. Do you people not understand how well protected she is?]

She has both myself and my brother to guard her, as well as these other miscreants. She is not an incompetent, she will be fine. Worry over someone in more dire circumstance.

[arlathvhen]

[ Beleth is plenty tense herself, and trying to fight the rising panic, like bile in her throat. But she can't afford to give in--the Inquisition can't afford her giving in. ]

There are groups being arranged to go meet the Inquisition agents that are currently fleeing Minrathous, either through the Deep Roads, or via the sea. If either of those appeal to you, I can put you in contact with the people who are heading those efforts.

[somethingwild]

[Newt feels...not better, exactly, but less useless when he hears that there are efforts being made to help those escaping. And with one of those ventures being the Deep Roads, a place in which he has experience, he feels even less useless.]

I would appreciate that, thank you.

If it helps any, I've been to the Deep Roads before.

[sclavus]

Good.

[ because they aren't leaving Tevinter without her on the ship. They didn't bring her all the way to Kirkwall just to leave her with the Venatori in Minrathous instead. ]

Our captains and crew are of Nascere. We know it.

[rathercommon]

[ Sharply - ]

I'm not talking to you. Why don't you shut up for once and concentrate on something valuable? Like actually helping the people you should be helping?

[rathercommon]

Right. I'm outside the city myself, in the southern part of the country. What can I do?

[hwaaaitsme]

Oh and remind me, you mouthy tart, just how much you're currently helping? [He is livid--to be fair, he was already, but Kitty just brings out the best in him.]

I've helped people escape capture, healed wounds, and am currently trapped in a catacomb filled with smoke and co--[He stops very abruptly.]

You can comment on my value when you've actually done something.

[rathercommon]

Filled with smoke and what?

[thorndergod]

Nascere.

[That says everything, really. But Thor is in no mood to be picky or care about who he may be associating with.]

I am Thor of House Asgard. Our ports will be open to you.

[thorndergod]

[There's a heavy sigh as he looks back the way he's come through the catacombs so far.]

Are there people you do not yet have contact with?

[He doesn't know if he has the energy to go search for anyone with his mother on his shoulder, but he can't set her down. Putting her on the ground is an abhorrent thought, and Loki can't carry her.]

And do you know where they were?