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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.

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[Well that all sounds... not great? To put it lightly.]

What is Kirkwall supposed to do? How can we help?

[As for the dragon situation - he's not sure how they could even begin to deal with something like that.]

Prepare for wounded, if you are able. If there are ships available, we may be in need of them.

[There's a short beat.]

Perhaps some aid, if the Inquisition wishes.

It's a start. I don't know that the Division leaders will want to risk Rifters being captured, but I want to fight if we're needed to.

[He's heard enough talk of this Corypheus. He wants to fight him.]

Whatever we can do.

[He obviously is making promises he can't back up, being someone not-in-charge, but he's been feeling restless to do something to prove himself after all this talk of phylacteries.]

War does not get picky about who it tramples or does not. Keeping the Rifters from participating will not protect them in the end. You are a Rifter, I take it? Even if they suggest you hide from the world, I would not.

...But I would also not walk into Minrathous right now and Tevinter is my homeland.

I am a Rifter. I'm also no stranger to fighting. I thought that was what we were here to do, but I don't know what they'll have us do.

What exactly is happening over there?

Corypheus has attacked us fully. His agents must have infiltrated the guards, the palace, the whole of the city more than we knew. And they struck together. They are attacking even civilians if there are inquisition members nearby; they do not care.

[His voice is pain and anger.]

What exactly is happening is that my people are dying.

[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.

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.

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.]

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.

There may be ships available, but that is a long voyage - from Kirkwall, around Antiva and Rivain, then past Seheron.

[ a voyage they'd made very recently, so he knows. ]

You'll either need a place to hide until our ships get there, or commandeer some and meet us half way.

I have a place I can ferry refugees from the city to, an estate that is not within the city. We can support them for a time, long enough for the voyage.

Not much longer than that, however. They were designed for profit rather than settlement. Can you bring the ships? Will you?

[ now that Araceli has messaged him and given the official request, he has a solid answer for this. ]

The ships will come as fast as we're able.

There's a woman who traveled with you there - Max. Dark skinned and haired, Orlesian accent, as familiar with Tevinter as a native. Find her.

[It's the first bit of good news he's heard all day, and he's more than willing to take a task on in exchange.]

Max, [Thor echoes.] I will find her. I will make certain of it. We will guide the refugees to Marnas Pell. Are your sailors familiar with that?

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.

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.

The magister's boy. Good. Then you can keep them in line until we get there.

[ panicked people do not need to be on ships, they make everything terrible. so be a good magister in training, please. ]

Charles Vane. The other captain will be Flint. You'll know the ship when you see it. [ as it'll either have a pirate flag on it, or an Inquisition one, whichever gets them by safer. ]

[Boy. It's probably an insult and the pride that normally would have him retorting just... isn't there.]

Vane and Flint. I will know your ships.

[He's heard the names, knows vaguely that he'll recognize their banners, and that's all he needs right now. Aside from one more little thing.]

If you are free to bring a few herbs that we will not have at the estate, we will pay you for the expense. Do not take extra time to get them if it will delay the aid.

[Thor names the herbs. The combination is used rarely, and only with preserving a body in Tevinter. He hopes that in asking this of another Tevinter the need will be recognized and not publicized, that Vane will recognize it and no one of the South will.]

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* tevinter's first hair metal band?

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