live from minrathous

[ebeje]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Max
RECIPIENT: Everybody
WHAT: Max has some vital information about the Inquisition members who were taken captive by the Venatori
WHEN: A few days after everybody else got out of Minrathous, waves hands about timelines
WHERE: Minrathous
NOTES: This is gonna be a free-for-all, please threadjack at will. Max won't be able to respond for long, but feel free to use this post for IC brainstorming too!

[ Since Minrathous fell, Max has remained safe only because she has remained secret, holed away in a Tevene cellar with too much wine she can't drink and a sending crystal she dares not use, at least not when her rescuer is within earshot. Her gratitude extends only so far toward trust. She listens when she can, she'd spoken to John if only to tether herself to something solid again, but she hasn't let her voice across the crystal network -- until now. ]

Are all of the sending crystals accounted for?

[ She sounds a tad stressed. It's possible they won't know. Or can't know. She doesn't have time for either of those answers. ]

To the best of our knowledge -- have the crystals belonging to those who did not escape the city been destroyed?

I have news from the north. [ The important sort. The sort that will be made useless or worse, should the wrong ears overhear it. ] There is not much time.

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[sorcerised]

[ He was going to talk generally, but then he heard dragon, and-- ]

Charis. Adalia's dragon, it has to be him. Which means the woman is most likely her. Both have been missing.

Has...has anyone said what's supposed to be happening to them there?

[swordproof]

[ Immediately, Six is on this. She sounds haggard, exhausted, desperate. ]

My sister. They have my sister. She's in the palace?

[sorcerised]

[ Oh no. ]

Six. We'll get her back, we've got to. We'll not let them keep her.

[swordproof]

I will take the entire country alone if I must. I will not abandon her to them.

[tactical_alert]

That isn't going to be necessary.

Although, getting back in is going to be a problem. Back into the city in the midst of upheaval and chaos, that should prove fine enough. [in comparison, at least, to:] Getting back into the palace? That's a far different story.

[sorcerised]

Not to mention, they'll expect us. They'd have to know we wouldn't leave our people there to become an asset for them, or to speak our secrets. Even if they don't guess at any sentiment, they'll know that.

We need to get in without them noticing. Somehow.

[ebeje]

[ A pause, wherein Max considers saying what she actually imagines the Venatori are doing to them and neatly curbs the impulse. If this friend of the mage woman's isn't imagining the same yet, maybe that's a kindness.

And more importantly: ]

The word is that some or all of them have a piece of the Fade in them--and that Corypheus intends to use it.

[ That is a bigger problem than anyone's friends' lives. ]

[sorcerised]

Adalia's definitely a Rifter.

[ He can't speak for the others, but he can confirm it for her. The thought makes him feel sick. ]

Thank you for getting the word out. Are you safe, for the time being?