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.

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[whiskeyandbrimstone]

On it. If anything changes, let us know, we'll get to work trying to get supplies. Good luck, the cavalry is coming.

[mousquetaire]

The dwarves are offering help. Tell anyone still inside the city to get to the Ambassadoria.

[ He'd say please if the ground wasn't literally shaking him off his feet. ]

Then warn them there's Darkspawn in the Deep Roads. Come, but be ready to fight. We'll do what we can.

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[sclavus]

[ oh my god, remind him again why they are doing this?? this thing where they have to deal with people from the rest of the world?? ]

If they do this on board, I'll rope them to the stern, so fucking help me.

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[katabasis]

Seems like a waste of line when there's perfectly good sea in every direction to fall in.

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[sclavus]

Shut the fuck up.

[ Vane growls, a voice that makes you feel like he could be shouting it for how vicious it sounds, but that's just how Charles Vane's ridiculous voice works. It isn't actually raised. ]

You're ward for these people until we get there - stop losing your shit where the dozens of panicked refugees can hear you. This'll be difficult enough to pull off as it is. [ that just with people calm, they don't have the wiggle room to spare for people second guessing those in charge and those protecting them. ]

I'll send someone to look for the herbs while we load the ship. Once we have our friends safe, then you can go back to screeching at each other.

[sclavus]

You think we can pass it off to Bonaventura that they just happened to slip and fall over the railings?

[katabasis]

It's a low rail.

[sclavus]

A low rail that's been through a few battles recently. Could be a low, unstable rail. [ jussayin. ]

[letoldthingsdie]

Understood.

[He can only imagine what it's like being there in person, but he admires her ability to remain composed.]

Any other suggestions or is that all?

[Because he has no idea how to deal with a dragon, alright. He's never seen one.]

[letoldthingsdie]

Forgive the questions, but the Venatori - those are the mages that work for him, yes?

[He's heard stories of Corypheus and his followers and all of that mess when he arrived but he's not seen them. He has a bit of experience with the Red Templars but otherwise in the months he's been here things have been mostly quiet.]

What are their abilities like?

[What should he expect should he have the misfortune of meeting one when they hopefully come to the rescue.]

[katabasis]

[Exhibit A in the case for why someone should really pay to have the ship refit to avoid tragic accidents like this one happening again in the future.]

Carpenters mates might take exception.

[Unfortunately.]

[thorndergod]

I do not know that a charge on horses would be a practical approach.

[thorndergod]

Some are mages. Many are not. They are as skilled or unskilled as anyone else. Until recently they were a small underground cult that we mocked, but they have grown in ways we could not have foreseen in the past couple of years. Because of this, I have little to tell you other than they could be anyone or anywhere, and that they do not seem to have any scruples.

[winterwinds]

We're in the catacombs, but I'll get the word out.

Better the darkspawn than torture at Corypheus's hands.

[sclavus]

Never liked him anyway.

[ who is he again tho? ]

[whiskeyandbrimstone]

[Jang gives a laugh, half out of relief]

It's a saying from my world. Means help is on it's way.

[coquettish_trees]

[ deeply cross: ]

Kitty.

[rathercommon]

[ Just as cross in return: ]

What.

[foxsays]

Shit. [Not that she's surprised. She's been their captive once, she knows - intimately - exactly what the Venatori will do in their cruelty.] The seneschal can have my apology after you're all safely returned then, I'll bring what I can that won't weight us down but keep the cold from setting in.

[The shock, really, but let's pretend it's just the cold of being at sea with no land to protect them. Waspish isn't helpful but she keeps herself from snapping back since she's not there.

It's not like she was much better when it was her turn to be on the receiving end of the Venatori's treatment.]

And you'll be wanting lyrium too, I'll let Beleth know and see what she can get her hands on, I'll put that in with potions, poultices...Last time something happened at sea we could go to Llomerryn but with the recent massacre that's no longer an option, I'd say the first friendly places we might meet you are Antiva or Rivain depending on what way the winds favour either lot of us or what comes after you.

[Araceli would like to offer more than that but she can't.]

If Marnus Pell is even open to us or you have the option to go there, you might not. You might all have to keep sailing.

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[coquettish_trees]

[ quietly, after a moment: ]

There will be another day when he is flippant, irascible, contemptuous, dismissive, sharp-tongued, infuriating, and any number of other things that you find terribly objectionable, and on that day you may snipe at each other to your heart's content but not today.

[ a quiet breath ]

Please.

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[rathercommon]

[ This isn't said in a tone of complaint, but rather with the confident air of someone presenting evidence in court. ]

He called me a tart.

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[coquettish_trees]

[ tiredly: ]

His city burns above us, we are covered in its dust and blood. There have been... losses. I am not asking for kindness, I do not imagine it would be well received in any case, just... this? Not now.

For me, if that good will extends any further.

[rathercommon]

[ Yeah, but it's a shitty city full of slavers??? So literally who cares???? Except ugh it's probably not the slavers who died, it's probably the common people, because it's always the common people. So - ]

Fine. But I hope you're saying the same thing to him, since I am trying to coordinate a rescue effort and he's the one jumping in and insulting me for it.

[coquettish_trees]

You have my word I shall intercede on your behalf if in the future you find yourself in a similar position.

[ read: I'm not saying the same thing to him, no. ]

[rathercommon]

[ With some annoyance: ]

Yeah, right.

[ But this is not the time to have a fight about how Lexie coddles her slave-keeping monsters. Instead, with a huffed sigh: ]

In any case. I'll keep you up to date. I'll be helping out with meeting all of you, so let me know if there's anything special you need.