[OOC] The Sky is Falling!

[eolasemah]

Recently a rift opened in Skyhold itself. Although nobody saw it happen, it was rumored to have been opened by a mage native to Thedas and not one of the rifters.

There are damages to the courtyard from where buildings and vegetation have been singed and frozen and dented from the resulting demon battle. It looks a mess. This is a mess.

The purpose of this post is for general opinion gathering, rumormongering, and plotting for the fallout from this fiasco. If people can just open rifts wherever they want, what does this mean for the Inquisition? Can rifters do it, can regular mages do it? Why would someone within Skyhold and ostensibly part of the Inquisition do this in the first place? Why weren't snacks provided?

If you feel so inclined, reply with your character's reaction to the news (or the sight, or the battle) and what action they might want to take, if any. Plot, make CR, do the thing!

Comments

[laurenande]

Galadriel will be, as usual, infuriatingly cryptic. She has learned exactly enough about Thedas to be distrustful of Templars and Wardens on principle alone (nobody's mentioned seekers yet so sorry, Cassandra, you get to count as a Templar); the more heavy-handed Cassandra gets with her interrogation the less helpful Galadriel will become. Her accounts will be truthful but probably somewhat lacking.

If you need somebody to express a somewhat alarming (burgeoning) knowledge of how one might attempt to open a rift, I can cheerfully have Galadriel drop that sort of information on Cassandra. Also if anyone else who was present would like their characters' lives made slightly harder, I can have Galadriel insinuate that she suspects she's not the only one who could figure it out.

[stabsbooks]

SURPRISE she's EVEN WORSE THAN A TEMPLAR it's your lucky day galadriel.

Cassandra will get more and more frustrated and yelly and basically this will snowball quickly into horribleness unless there's someone there to pull her back. Does Galadriel have a book? There may be book stabbing.

If Galadriel shares any knowledge of the sort though shit's gonna get real super fast. As in, if Galadriel both indicates that she can open a rift and that she has no qualms about trying (let alone actually plans to do so), Cassandra will do everything in her power to stop her, up to and including having her locked up [or attempting to do so].

so what i am asking i suppose is how much earth do we wanna scorch here