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therookery2022-06-12 10:55 pm
delphian) wrote in therookery2022-06-12 10:55 pm
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julius and marcus's no good, very bad roadtrip. ( closed to division heads )
FORM: Crystal.
SENDER: Tsenka Abendroth.
RECIPIENT: Exclusively the division heads.
NOTES: After receiving a letter, Marcus and Julius set out to meet old friends. When they fell out of contact, Tsenka found her brother.
( tsenka does not send her message from within the gallows.
not so unusual; she lives in lowtown. she is not always within the gallows. she could have sought the division heads out in person for this, requested a meeting, made her way across the water to where she could easily and quickly gather the help she needs—
but while she offers and asks this in good faith, and wants their help, and wants to believe that they will back their own ... she has been with them for less time than many. she has stayed for her brother, mostly, willing to learn to see what he values but not there yet. and if they say no, they don't know where she is to stop her. )
This is Tsenka Abendroth, with Scouting. I'm a dreamer mage. This is the reason that Tevinter took and kept me, and why in all that time they were never able to force me into their service. I destroyed the mind of every person that tried until they learned to keep me insensible, and hoped to find some means of bending me to their will or leveraging for my cooperation. They failed, and I'm here now. Dreamers are rare, and few of us survive to adulthood. I never met another one. In the Circle we kept my ability a secret so that the Templars wouldn't see me as too much a risk to suffer alive. In Riftwatch, we've kept it quiet for the same reason.
( she speaks briskly, not emotionally. a summary of the facts, to bring the four of them up to date with the situation as it stands. more formally than she usually speaks, which yseult and byerly have spoken to her enough before to know. it is precise. the sound of—motion. packing. )
Marcus received word from what he believed were old friends of ours who we were parted from—he thought that they might have to move on from where they were, and hoped to tell him in person where they intended to go instead of committing it to a letter. The letter came from Wildervale and that's where he and Julius departed for.
( all perfectly above board, not kept secret, an unremarkable personal errand expected to be brief. )
When they stopped responding to their crystals, I searched out Marcus in the Fade. He's in the hands of Templars who ambushed them outside of Wildervale. He saw Julius struck down and didn't see what happened to him after that, doesn't know if he's alive. In his memory I heard them speak of stopping at Val Chevin. I intend to take the path that they took, search for Julius, and go after Marcus. I'll try to find him in the Fade again, if he can help me find him. I'm going to leave shortly.
Can I take a party with me? If we find Julius, someone will need to bring him back to Kirkwall before we continue.
( she isn't—
she isn't sure what else to say. she doesn't sign off with anything in particular, she just stops talking. )
not so unusual; she lives in lowtown. she is not always within the gallows. she could have sought the division heads out in person for this, requested a meeting, made her way across the water to where she could easily and quickly gather the help she needs—
but while she offers and asks this in good faith, and wants their help, and wants to believe that they will back their own ... she has been with them for less time than many. she has stayed for her brother, mostly, willing to learn to see what he values but not there yet. and if they say no, they don't know where she is to stop her. )
This is Tsenka Abendroth, with Scouting. I'm a dreamer mage. This is the reason that Tevinter took and kept me, and why in all that time they were never able to force me into their service. I destroyed the mind of every person that tried until they learned to keep me insensible, and hoped to find some means of bending me to their will or leveraging for my cooperation. They failed, and I'm here now. Dreamers are rare, and few of us survive to adulthood. I never met another one. In the Circle we kept my ability a secret so that the Templars wouldn't see me as too much a risk to suffer alive. In Riftwatch, we've kept it quiet for the same reason.
( she speaks briskly, not emotionally. a summary of the facts, to bring the four of them up to date with the situation as it stands. more formally than she usually speaks, which yseult and byerly have spoken to her enough before to know. it is precise. the sound of—motion. packing. )
Marcus received word from what he believed were old friends of ours who we were parted from—he thought that they might have to move on from where they were, and hoped to tell him in person where they intended to go instead of committing it to a letter. The letter came from Wildervale and that's where he and Julius departed for.
( all perfectly above board, not kept secret, an unremarkable personal errand expected to be brief. )
When they stopped responding to their crystals, I searched out Marcus in the Fade. He's in the hands of Templars who ambushed them outside of Wildervale. He saw Julius struck down and didn't see what happened to him after that, doesn't know if he's alive. In his memory I heard them speak of stopping at Val Chevin. I intend to take the path that they took, search for Julius, and go after Marcus. I'll try to find him in the Fade again, if he can help me find him. I'm going to leave shortly.
Can I take a party with me? If we find Julius, someone will need to bring him back to Kirkwall before we continue.
( she isn't—
she isn't sure what else to say. she doesn't sign off with anything in particular, she just stops talking. )
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Plus in my experience, it's super easy for a bunch of heroes to disregard the token rational person anyway, or the [ a deferential gesture to Byerly...'s word choice ] coward. I vote one of us for leash-tugging.
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While I have plenty of cowardice to offer - if little rationality - I think I'm an ill fit for this mission.
[ He's out. But it sounds like Flint is enthusiastically in. ]
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To say nothing of Stark's point, which warrants the faintest tip of the head in something near to agreement.]
The same may well go for whoever has him. [he says to Yseult.] It's possible they may change their attitudes once they realize the extent of the problem they've created.
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You'll keep us apprised?
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[Simple enough, easily agreed—a fleetingly optimistic affirmation. Sure. Once they do that, not if they do that.]