[Open to Skyhold] Ever dream this man?

[colecomfort]

FORM: Skyhold posting: on the message board, on random beams, in a privy or two...
SENDER: ???IT IS A MYSTERY (no really it's Cole)
RECIPIENT: Everyone at Skyhold
WHAT: It's like a Wanted Poster. Except not. Because Solas didn't do anything wrong aside from leave without coming back. Clearly.
WHEN: Mid-Guardian
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: No one saw who posted this. Only people who might have seen Cole's handwriting before will recognize it, though anyone who's heard Cole mention Solas could reasonably guess...

You Might Have Seen Him in Your Dreams



This is Solas. He led us to Skyhold, and then he left. We need him to help with the shards. He knows how to stop them from hurting people.

He might be in the Fade. Please look for him. Try to remember. If you find him, tell Cassandra.

Comments

[ooc]

[eolasemah]

[well they're sure as shit going to now]

[ooc]

[colecomfort]

[somewhere Solas is facepalming and doesn't know why, but then, that happens to him a lot]

[arlathvhen]

[ A neat little note appears next to the poster. ]

He looks angry. But I'll keep an eye out for him.

[ Though she hopes he doesn't just waltz in uninvited to her dreams like a weirdo. ]

[colecomfort]

[No promises, Beleth.]

I wanted to draw him smiling. But he doesn't look at a lot of people like that.

[arlathvhen]

His name is Pride. Is that connected?

[colecomfort]

You think he doesn't smile because he's proud?

??

[arlathvhen]

I was asking you.

[colecomfort]

Unmoored, made to wander slow and slogging, adrift without an anchor.

[Added a little further down:]

There's lots of reasons not to smile.

[arlathvhen]

[ She's guessing Cole is saying Solas is sad because the Herald is gone. Well, he's been gone since she died... But she decides to be nice, instead. ]

Maybe he just needs to talk to you more, Cole. You make me smile.

[colecomfort]

I would like to try, when he comes back.

[arlathvhen]

Let me know how it goes. If you need help, I could tell a joke...!

[ Her jokes are not that good. ]

[hugeinorlais]

[Kid, this is probably the creepiest thing he has ever just stumbled upon and that is really saying something.]

Now, I'm all for trying to find whatever weird place Chuckles decided to bed down in, but did you have to put up posters of his face on the inside of the privy doors?

Startled the shit out of me.

[Not to mention that bit about seeing him glowering at you in your dreams? Yeah, making him pretty glad he doesn't dream.]

[private on sending stones, btw]

[colecomfort]

I wanted them to be places people would see them.

[That's a tone you've heard before, Varric. It's the 'I get that you think I did a wrong thing but I don't understand how' tone.]

[private, sending stones]

[hugeinorlais]

[Explaining why he didn't want to see Chuckles staring at him while using the privy would inevitably be a far longer conversation than Varric wanted to have on that subject. He didn't want to have any sort of conversation about that. No, better to let that go.]

Well, that's definitely going to get seen, so I'd call that a success. [He silently weighs asking a follow-up question and, in the end, can't really help himself.]

There aren't any more hiding behind doors or around corners, are there?

[private, sending stones]

[colecomfort]

[Well... he can't exactly answer that without knowing which ones Varric has seen.]

...How many did you find? I made five.

[private, sending stones]

[hugeinorlais]

[Varric had just stumbled across--or rather, recoiled from--the one of them. That was enough for him, frankly, but knowing there were four more lurking around was a treat.]

Five?

[He tries not to sound too bothered by that because, Cole is trying...and, honestly, Chuckles would be a welcome sight. The real one. In...most locations. Not the privy.]

Only spotted one of them, Kid. [And this almost hurts him to say:] You might want to use more than five if you really want everyone to keep an eye out.

Wait, can regular people even remember things you've written?

[private, sending stones]

[colecomfort]

I'm not sure. I've never done a lot of writing.

Two privy doors, the tavern, the tall, round room, and the big hall. [Just so Varric's prepared for the other ones.] How many more should I make?

[private, sending stones]

[hugeinorlais]

Well, since being able to remember a poster is pretty important to the idea of posters, how about I make a couple and you hang them up wherever you like?

Not any more in the privies.

In a note next to the poster in the Rotunda.

[laurenande]

Is he lost in the Fade?

[colecomfort]

[Scribbled at the bottom:]

Not lost. I don't think he'd get lost.

It's the only place I can't look.

[laurenande]

[Written on the reverse.]

I can search many places, all at once. I will try to find him in the Fade, or elsewhere, if I am able.

[colecomfort]

[A little drawing of a smiling face.]

Thank you.

[laurenande]

If I should find him, what should I say?

[She has never seen a smiling face drawing quite like that one and, in all honesty, she rather likes it. She adds one after her latest question.]

[colecomfort]

Tell him about the people who came through the rifts. And the ones with the shards in their skin. Tell him you need his help.

[el_tybs]

[He knew how to stop the shards from hurting? Figures the one person who did wasn't around or didn't tell anyone else how to do it.

A small note appears next to the poster being most used.]

Look for him in the Fade? Wouldn't he have to be in a space relatively close to where we are to make contact? Or can he freely traverse it?

[colecomfort]

He travels to see the Fade, but he walks in it too.

Sorry. I don't know how it works.

[el_tybs]

Did he mention anything or anywhere he might have went? That might make things easier to try and find him.

[colecomfort]

Old places.

Battlefields, ruins. Famous and forgotten.

Watching the memories. Remembering.

[el_tybs]

That pretty much leaves... all of Thedas.

I'll be sure to keep an eye and ear open for him.

[harthad_uluithiad]

[ Sam can't read your strange, dwarf rune-esque script so he's just going to study the picture of the strange bald man with a look of bafflement. ]

[kallian_endris]

I... I don't think I've seen him. But I will keep my eyes and dreams open. Perhaps... someone else in the Fade might know something...

[colecomfort]

Yes. Ask the spirits. He likes spirits.

[Added slightly below that:] Don't ask any demons.

[kallian_endris]

I didn't intend to. And, yes, I do know the difference. But why do we need to tell Cassandra?

[colecomfort]

Because she'd want to know.

[kallian_endris]

Ah.

I hope this Solas is found. I work in the healing tents, and I wish there were more I could do for the rifters...

[rathercommon]

[ A small note: ]

Some of us would help if we could! But we can't.

[colecomfort]

I can't either.

[Small drawing of a sad face.]

[rathercommon]

? Why not? Are you another dwarf?

[colecomfort]

No.

[rathercommon]

Well okay...What are you, then?