winterwinds: (proceed with caution)
Audra Hawthorne ([personal profile] winterwinds) wrote in [community profile] therookery2018-08-04 10:31 pm

WKLBZ 2: Thedas

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.
mousquetaire: (i n t e r r o g a t e)

[personal profile] mousquetaire 2018-08-08 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed.

[ Grimly. At least this is a fight they can win. ]

How many are with you? Not all of my party are here.

crowncitizen: (failtography2)

[personal profile] crowncitizen 2018-08-11 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah but if you escape but don't have a crystal, how are you gonna contact anyone to help you get out of the city? I can try contacting him, though we haven't-

[He grimaces as the explosions roar from the crystal. Shit that doesn't sound remotely good.]

You still there? You okay?
crowncitizen: (and I've been blind)

[personal profile] crowncitizen 2018-08-11 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
What's Nascere?
foxsays: (pic#11910545)

lost this out my inbox in the work shuffle

[personal profile] foxsays 2018-08-11 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
And that will be enough? I know little of your father and there are a lot of lives at stake. Qunari have gaatlok though, if it can stand against them, it can stand against Venatori...

[Gently said. Her throat is tight, she is not thinking about Craintellier. What might happen to anyone who they haven't got with them, it's not helpful.]

How well would you be able to hide? The injured amongst you, moving them too far-- it's not ideal. There's a ship belonging to Lady Vivas that will be coming too, now that I know for certain.

[Bless having rich Antivans in Naval Presence.]
circleprodigy: (desperate)

[personal profile] circleprodigy 2018-08-11 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heavy breathing on her end, and a shaky reply.]

I have to go. Sorry--
circleprodigy: (well shit)

[personal profile] circleprodigy 2018-08-11 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, he's with me. I'll be sure to tell him, though I think he's pretty motivated as is--

[Garahel growls in the background, at something unseen.]

I have to go. Thank you, Audra.

mousquetaire: (i d e n t i t y)

[personal profile] mousquetaire 2018-08-13 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hanzo, and a small group of others. I was looking for Benedict, and he matches that description. Dark hair and eyes.

Dressed in red, most likely personally offended by all of this?

[ He's saying that like it would irritate him, but he really just wants to hear his charge is safe. ]
faithlikeaseed: (blind -  lineface)

pretend this happened back with everything else;

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2018-08-14 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Myr's voice is strangely level; this is just another report. As if there's no screaming in the background, no crackle of fire, no yell of the guards--as if he's not speaking as quietly as he can to avoid being overheard.]

I've been cut off from the route to the catacombs. Will make my way to the docks--if there's anyone in similar straits, I've a rendezvous with Ser Ashlock,

[he names an intersection that's still a fair piece from the docks themselves, but further from the Archon's palace and the dragon.

Don't anyone ask how possible that is when he barely knows the city. It's going to work because he says it is, because he believes it will, because it's that or capture or death./small>]
arlathvhen: (43)

[personal profile] arlathvhen 2018-08-16 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...No. I'd suggest asking the people who are in Tevinter. [ She's never set foot in that country and has no intention of doing so. ] But...I'll see what I can find out.
arlathvhen: (20)

[personal profile] arlathvhen 2018-08-16 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Come out of it alive, then. That's all I can really ask of anyone, at the moment.
somethingwild: (Better with creatures)

[personal profile] somethingwild 2018-08-16 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
That, at least, I can promise to at least try to do.

If there is anything else I can help with, please let me know.
crowncitizen: (Put my heart on my chest)

[personal profile] crowncitizen 2018-08-18 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Inessa? Hey, Inessa! [....nothing. Prompto's heart feels like it drops into his chest.] Please be okay...
thorndergod: (Let me make a suggestion)

[personal profile] thorndergod 2018-08-24 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
We have spoken with people from Nascere.

[He has confidence in Tevene over others, even when they're pirates and criminals, even when his city burns.]

They are bringing their ships. And as for enough... Our people, our forces, are strong. I do not think Corypheus can afford to turn enough of his focus to one place to overwhelm him. The distance on the injured could take its toll, I will concede that, we may not be able to help everyone. But we can help some.
thorndergod: (Um)

[personal profile] thorndergod 2018-08-24 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck, little mage.

[There isn't condescension there, or it's not intended. The elf has a human helping him and is an ally for now. Perhaps the human can take some of the burden of this chaos off the shoulders of the elf. Through this at least, though, Thor will treat Myrobalan as he'd treat a mage of a smaller, lesser house.]
thorndergod: (Um)

[personal profile] thorndergod 2018-08-24 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
It is an island in the Imperium. They are... They are pirates.

[They are complicated. But he'll take them at their word because there are no other options right now.]
crowncitizen: (mercurio9)

[personal profile] crowncitizen 2018-08-26 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...phew. You know it's bad if we gotta throw our lot in with pirates.
mousquetaire: (b r o o d y)

[personal profile] mousquetaire 2018-08-28 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds right.

[ Poor Benedict. At least he's safe. ]

Please, take care of him. That I'm not with him has been a matter of distress, though I am glad he's not with me. If you could tell him I will find him when this is done, I would be grateful.
faithlikeaseed: (blind - alarmed)

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2018-08-31 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't take offense at it; there's nothing in him for something so frivolous.]

Thank you--

Maker be with you, messere. Get h-- get back alive, [his voice drops on the last as someone comes near where he's sheltering; his breath catches on sudden anxiety.]
thorndergod: (Give me a moment)

[personal profile] thorndergod 2018-08-31 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
They are of Tevinter, at least.

[Which matters to him. They're not invaders.]
paladingus: (Default)

[personal profile] paladingus 2018-09-01 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[The human would love nothing more than to ease all of Myr's burden and then some, but making his way towards that rendezvous unarmed and reliant on nothing but his capacity for discretion is taking all the concentration he can muster.

His heart leaps when he hears Myr's voice, still clear, still safe--and skips a beat, nearly drags to a stop, at the audible gasp and short cutoff of his lover's message. He doesn't dare respond, can't risk exposing him, but waits a long few minutes before whispering as quietly as he can into the crystal, forgetting in his distraction to set it private.]


Myr--Myr, are you nearly there?
faithlikeaseed: (blind - injured)

[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2018-09-01 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[By that time, Myr's moved on, creeping from cover to--what he hopes is cover, fingers trailing along walls and the barest glimmer of a barrier flickering around him. It's the Maker's own mercy they'd thought to talk maps and routes on their first day in the city--scarcely anticipating this but instead, innocently, getting separated on the streets (or separating, to avoid someone who oughtn't see them together).

It's the Maker's own mercy and he'll need a damned sight more before the day's out; for all he knows he's already hopelessly lost, but-- There isn't any option, anymore, but to keep going.

The crystal pings with another message; he tucks into an alley, cups hands around it to listen and bites his lip against a humorless, hysterical laugh.

If I've not gotten turned around, he could say, or I don't know, but neither confession of doubt helps them and he hasn't any evidence for either.
] Passed that awful fountain a block or two ago--so, nearly, aye.

You?

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