crystal, open

[acreage]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: holden
RECIPIENT: everyone!
NOTES: this is dick's fault

[ this is james holden, with the — okay, no. this is a voice that'll be familiar to some, though he's never used the crystals quite like this before. he's going to feel incredibly stupid if trying to make a broadcast (sorta), through a rock, doesn't work somehow. ]

For a Rifter, I realize I don't know much about these rifts. We know people can — and have — fallen into Thedas from one. What I want to know is, what happens if someone tries to go through one on this end? Has it been tried, and what happened?

Comments

[justashotaway]

There are demons on the other side.

[acreage]

You're saying that because of the monsters that come through?

[justashotaway]

Yes.

[innerharbor]

Hey, Cap?

[acreage]

Yeah?

[innerharbor]

Sounds like a real shitty way to die.

[hornswoggle]

I imagine someone must have tried, but I can't recall any mention of it recently. My impression is that the Fade isn't a place anyone wants to visit without reason, much less risk getting trapped in.

[acreage]

[ he's tempted to say he isn't exactly planning a pleasure stroll into the fade, but.

hold up. ]

What does that mean, trapped in it?

[hornswoggle]

Well, that's the gamble. You don't know what's waiting for you on the other side, or if you'll be able to get back out the way you came.

[ ergo— ]

Of course, I'm not an expert on rifts, or the Fade. But I've seen enough of what comes from them to assume whatever lies beyond them isn't so easily explored.

[elegiaque]

Twice. Three times, if you count the Herald of Andraste.

She was fired into and then out of the Fade by the process of the breach in the first place. Then there was an incident at Griffon Wing Keep, which was a nuisance, and most recently a cunt without the sense of a turnip didn't have your stellar forethought to ask if anyone with at least the sense of a turnip knew more than she did about the Fade before she dove into it and dragged several of the rest of us into her stupidity. I assume she also routinely shoved knives up her own arse to check if they were sharp or not.

( she does not assume that, but she is still mad about it. )

[acreage]

[ okay there's a lot going on here, most of which flies over his...head. (who is the herald of andraste? what happened at griffon wing keep, also where is that?) but — ]

So you were with her? [ the rest of us. also, how clearly she's still mad. seems personal! ] What happened?

[elegiaque]

What do you understand about the Fade? What do you know about the rifts?

( an unfamiliar rifter - if he says 'nothing' she won't be surprised, but it's necessary to know exactly how much she needs to explain. )

[wythersake]

Oh, there's a medal awarded.

[acreage]

Excuse me?

[wythersake]

Yes, quite shiny — says Champion Hole-Entry —

[lettenhove]

If you're offering to try, go for it, I say. I find myself quite comfortable where I am for the time being.

[acreage]

[ bemused, ]

I'm happy for you.

[ not everyone's going to feel the same way about the same set of circumstances, of course. ]

Just doing a little information gathering.

[lettenhove]

Not that I blame you. I have quite a few questions of my own. But surely there are other ways of gathering information. Ways that might not lead to bodily dismemberment?

[deceivingly]

If it has been tried before, if it hasn't--I think we should try it. Again, if we have to.

[acreage]

And why's that?

[deceivingly]

To see what happens.

[tender]

You know, I said take it easy.

[ the immediate assumption of "so you're going to go provoke a rift" ]

[acreage]

[ this ACCUSATION ]

I didn't realize that meant staying off the crystals.

[okayimin]

Please don't encourage them.

[acreage]

Who's them?