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Fade Rift Mods ([personal profile] faderifting) wrote in [community profile] allthisshitisweird2021-10-02 11:29 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME!

TEST DRIVE MEME

While in some alternate, tidier timeline, the War against the Elder One ended years ago, you're not in that timeline. It's 9:47, and the war continues. An enemy force partially occupies Orlais and has decimated several Marcher Cities, while the Chantry, aided by the Inquisition, has marshaled Orlais and the faithful of Southern Thedas into a new Exalted March against the army of demon-bound Wardens, Red Templars, Venatori loyalists, and darkspawn Corypheus has amassed. Rifts are still scattered across the continent, periodically spitting out strangers from strange worlds with green-glowing anchors embedded in their hands. There's no Herald of Andraste to save Thedas. Someone else is going to have to do it.

You're part of (or allied with, recently hired by, imprisoned by, etc.) a newer organization that's an offshoot of the Inquisition, dubbed Riftwatch, that consists mainly of these otherworldly new arrivals, rebels and Wardens, and other people who want to prevent the apocalypse without necessarily marching under the Chantry's banner to do it. Their headquarters is an island fortress called the Gallows—formerly a Circle of Magi, more formerly a prison for slaves, but its new occupants have done a good job removing the more grotesque reminders of that past and making the place livable. Their goal is to do what the Chantry can't or won't do, to go more directly after Corypheus and the dark magic he employs, and to keep the Veil from coming apart entirely.

Maybe you're here because you want to help. Maybe you need the money (though there isn't much of it). Maybe you acquired an anchor and sticking around is the only way to prevent your hand from killing you. Maybe you've been sent by the Chantry or some other entity to keep an eye on everyone—they're rumored to be a lot of weirdos and troublemakers. Or maybe you're a new rifter and just going where the nice people with swords tell you that you need to go.


I. THE SIEGE OF STARKHAVEN: North of Kirkwall, Corypheus' forces have occupied Hasmal, laid waste to Tantervale, and has now besieging the city of Starkhaven. An army of Marchers led by Sebastian Vael has returned from the Exalted March to press against the Tevinter force, but Riftwatch's aid is still needed. With the assistance of Riftwatch's griffons, you might be doing aerial surveillance of the enemy force or swooping into the city to provide supplies and news to the people holding the walls, then bringing news and valuables back out to deliver to the Marcher force outside. Or you could be engaging directly by harassing enemy camps from the air or dealing with mages the Marchers are less equipped to face.

II. THE WAKING SEA: When Riftwatch isn't traveling by air (or magic mirror), it frequently travels by sea, courtesy of allied pirate ships. So welcome aboard. The sea is choppy and frequently violent—violent storms, violent enemy ships, or both at once—and the crew may not have much patience for incompetence, so either make yourself useful above or try not to get sick below.

III. KIRKWALL: Even when enormous evil darkspawn are trying to take over the known world and you and your colleagues might be the only ones who can truly stop him, you can't work all the time. And when you aren't working, Kirkwall is there for you with its dingy Lowtown taverns, its flashy Hightown establishments, its market stalls and street musicians and cellars hosting gamblers. (Or maybe you can work all the time, and you're in the city to do some official shopping, try to spy on a suspicious character, or show a potential financial backer a good time.)

IV. SEND A MESSAGE: Each member of Riftwatch (or rifter, or ally) is assigned a blue crystal, small enough to wear around the neck, that can transmit voice messages, as well as an enchanted book tied to that crystal that can be used to exchange written messages. They're secure enough to discuss the war, if you'd like to get down to business, but loosely controlled enough to ask a question or play a game with only a few rolled eyes from people who hate fun.

V. WILDCARD: From the Gallows' library to the pirate islands off the coast, from Hightown's high-priced market stalls to the bloody frontlines of the war, Thedas is yours to explore.

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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-18 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, yes.

[Orlesian. Wee voice, upper registers.]

I am, right now, wearing four lucky charms.
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[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-18 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
(The accent isn't at all palatable but,)

An' they work, do they?
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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-18 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Never have I been ill. So my beautiful bezoar is doing something, and I love her very much for it. Have you been ill?
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[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-18 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
If the bezoar does all the work, what're the other three for?
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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-18 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
The bezoar is only for sickness. Of course she cannot do all the work. I have the little rabbit foot for general luck, which I wear on my belt. Then, I have my caul, which I wear in a little locket around my neck or sometimes, around my wrist, but I must loop the chain two or three times. The caul is good to keep me from drowning. Then, I have my amulet, which protects me from harm.

[A pause in which she realizes something and adds, quickly--] And thieves. It protects me from harm and thieves.
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I love her

[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-20 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Maker's breath. (And yet... she is taking notes.)

Do you jingle much when you walk?
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U//u//U gosh thanks

[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-21 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
A little. But this effect is very fetching, no? A woman who jingles when she walks is a woman of a mystery. She leaves behind everyone wondering: where is she jingling from?
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[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-21 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
(Gela likes the thought of this more than she might admit.)

She does attract a fair bit of attention though, does she not.
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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, she likes that. Attention. Who dislikes attention!
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[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-24 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
People who prefer to keep to themselves, I imagine.
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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-25 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, pish-posh. There is no one that really prefers that. There is only sad people who say this is what they prefer but in secret, or not-so-very-secret-at-all, they are wanting attention. Everyone knows that.
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[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-25 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
(There is a noticable pause.)

Surely not everyone.

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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-02-26 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, [so assured,] everyone. As in, everyone everyone.
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[personal profile] sprent 2022-02-27 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
(Gela has no idea how to feel about this so she is changing the subject right now.)

If I wanted a bezoar, where would I find one?
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[personal profile] saperlipopette 2022-03-01 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Mahelt-Marie Will Remember This.]

There is a woman who sells them in Kirkwall--at the market. I will make an introduction of you!