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

[katabasis]

You're confident that you can secure the entirety of the port and the city around it for the time it takes to take on people and be under weigh? We could potentially find ourselves at the mercy of a densely populated shore with dozens of vantages from which to cast every kind of assault. Call me skeptical, but it sounds safer to refuge at your estate [ugh] until we're close, then travel overland to meet us in a more discrete location.

[As much as he loves the idea of being sunk in Marnas Pell harbor by some no name upstarts eager to please their new masters.]

[thorndergod]

I am confident. My house is no little matter. But as it is your ship you are risking for my people, I will work with your plan.

[katabasis]

[What an unexpected and viciously rewarding thing to hear said.]

Then weather permitting on the day, we'll message you of our arrival and wait hull down over the horizon to come in with the tide under cover of darkness. That should give us every opportunity to make our escape without anyone being the wiser. If we're lucky, it may even leave your Marnas Pell open to us in the future.

[Weeks ago he might have welcome the possibility of the port city being burned to the ground out of some kind of retribution. But the image in his mind looks different when it's Corypheus' forces doing the burning.]

[thorndergod]

My... My father will hold the port and the estate.

[Mere hours ago he would have declared he had no doubt in his parents holding it. But his father and his mother had been a team, and Thor is a little worried despite how confident he sounds.]

We will await your message, and prepare what refugees we manage to get out.

[katabasis]

Should circumstances change, you'll be made aware of it. Prepare to do the same if your position is compromised.

private;

[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.

permaprivate;

[katabasis]

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

[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. ]

[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.]

[sclavus]

Never liked him anyway.

[ who is he again tho? ]