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[redinside]

PLAYER
Name: a ghost (tk)
Contact + Notes: abyssal or dw pm; i may appear on discord from time to time but that is not the best way to reach me promptly.
Anything We Should Know: i was here and then i left and then suddenly i came back.
Favorite GIF: like this, only the office is this game:


CHARACTER
Name: Raleigh Samson
Info Page/App: here
Who They Are: General of the Red Templars; currently a prisoner of the Inquisition.
Where They've Been: Skyhold's dungeon, Cullen's office, various other restrictive spaces, usually while shackled and being pressed for information. He's been interrogated, experimented on, variously cussed out and ignored, and all while suffering through an inadequate lyrium ration. Most recently, whilst being transported to Kirkwall, a rift opened right on top of the caravan and caused a big old fuss, and now he's got one of those nasty little green things in his hand, too. As if he needed another reminder of his boss.
What They Want: for them to up his ration please for the love of Good question; Samson's trying to figure that out himself. He's shared just enough useful intel over the past year-and-some that guilt is gnawing at him from all sides, been as cooperative as he could stand to be whilst still nursing that big chip on his shoulder (which occasionally meant not cooperative at all), and still doesn't know Why. Why is he even still alive? Why's he got this anchor thing? Why Kirkwall, the city of his heart? What does it all mean??? Are you there, Maker, it's me Samson. No but seriously someone get this guy's ration bumped up, he's been sweating nonstop for a year.
Plot & CR Desires: As is the ghostly custom, I'm going to fly by the seat of my pants to start... but,
- I heard there's some kind of Tranquil-related thing in the works. Samson has a gigantic Tranquil-shaped soft spot right on his heart, so you know, maybe that.
- As for CR, any characters that knew him in Skyhold, please let's continue.
- If your character would have sent him letters* (however few) I'd very much like to inbox some of those exchanges (however brief) and springboard from there.
- Studying red lyrium? Look, here's the big guy himself.
- I would ++LOVE some for-real negative CR (maybe warming to neutral or even friendship over time?) and/or to read other PCs' threads wherein people are angry that he's not in a hole somewhere, please grant me this my truest wish.
- Grudging cooperation between grouches is my actual truest wish, let's make it happen one day.
- Maybe he will die. If so, I want it to be cool.
Anything Else: Cullen sent him here, it's his fault; in fact it's Cullen's fault that Samson is trying at all to be something other than a greyish lump, what with his "you served something greater" nonsense, that crusty young fool. But since our very own Coupe is Head of Forces in Kirkwall you can blame her too. heh heh

* what is wrong with you he's a war criminal

Comments

[limier]

google: how do you return a satinalia gift

BUT i'll loop you in on the status of tranquil plot stuff at some point after........friday.......... we can pp, but it's p easy to handwave them meeting before it goes down either way, cas can be checking the magic locks or doing research intake paperwork or something.

[redinside]

Yes please. Loop me in real tight, hang me from my ankles and dangle me above your plot sharks. It is past my bedtime. Also there's no gift receipt, deal with your red lyrium fruitcake.

[elegiaque]

Ur dj name is tkuddle I decided while walking home

[elegiaque]

Also let's have cr, unfinished interview business plus gwen is ass deep in tranquility

[redinside]

Yes we must. Interview proper to take place after whatever this Tranquil business is, maybe? Sam will probably have a lot to talk about, then.

[elegiaque]

yesss that sounds good

[elegiaque]

oh also her stuttering mage uncle is cmmdr coupe's sexy kept ginger so enjoy these fuckin weird kirkwall sociopolitical dynamics

[foundmyselfagain]

sup nerd, i missed u

[redinside]

HELLO, and likewise; you too are a nerd that I have missed.

[foundmyselfagain]

yaaay

ALSO: this nerd right here used to be a part of the gallows circle before everything went to shit, though he was like 16 at the time, so i'm not sure if he would've been around for samson being a templar?? BUT: hey at least there's someone else who is just as pleased to be stuck back in this hellhole

[redinside]

Your info page tells me that would've been 7 years ago – so yeah, they wouldn't have crossed paths in the Gallows. Feel free to say Gareth heard his dismissal story, though, and also the part where he was helping smuggle mages out of the city. :>

/throws a blanket over everything that happened after that, it's fine just ignore it

[foundmyselfagain]

casually appropriates samson's story to prove how BROKEN THE SYSTEM IS and how circles are TERRIBLE

[redinside]

You're doing the Maker's work, kid.

[libratus]

zooms at you

i have a shitty dickface mage AND a less shitty mage with vague existential concerns and a soft spot for terrible people. for you.

max probably doesn't care about red templars unless they 1) start giving her information that will help her get her island back, or 2) start sprouting literal gold from their bodies instead of this gross red lyrium stuff. but she is here too. who knows what tags may occur.

[redinside]

Who knows, indeed? Samson doesn't care about pirate problems, though, so it seems unlikely. But he does care about mages (more or less) and also about avoiding coping with his own problems by distracting himself with things such as conversations with people he's never met before, soooo...

[rowancrowned]

what up it's the guy that stalked him in the dungeon who nows has AUTHORITY

anyway yes tranquility stuff will prob come up first.

[redinside]

Great! More creeps with power, that's exactly what Thedas needs.

It has occurred to me just now that this Very Tall Elf may come to remind Sam vaguely of his boss on account of mumblemumble reasons. Perhaps that can be exploited somehow.

[chainlightning]

LETTERS

[redinside]

Letters!!!

p.s. stop doing blood magic, you're killing me, smalls

[chainlightning]

p.s. no
p.p.s. i might be able to fix your issue with it

[redinside]

The part where blood mages are inevitably overwhelmed with power and become abominations? >:T

[chainlightning]

that sounds like some chantry discourse, samson

[redinside]

/points to uprising!!!

[chainlightning]

/points to anders

it's basically his fault and he's super Not A Blood Mage

[redinside]

bah.

[chainlightning]

C:

[heirring]

Red lyrium!!! Gross and neat! - wysteria, 9:44




I cant believe we might actually get to rp tk its an october miracle

[redinside]

I know, it doesn't seem real. Next phase: find some way to write a ship

[heirring]

What an ambitious 10 year plan

[redinside]

More like 100 year plan. Every day is an etERNITY

[faithlikeaseed]

HELLO myr is chronically bad at actually negative CR with anyone & inclined for his own reasons to be sympathetic to starving templars AND ALSO up to his neck in Tranquility stuff BUT deep breath real quick to accept "those guys over there are the bad guys" on the say-so of authority

so what i'm saying is he'll grump at samson initially and then probably try to be friends, gross. might even bring him lyrium, double gross, probably dangerous.

i've also got a rifter who has real weird ideas about the world that might or might not be like PFF WEAK at him for not mindlessly doin his job wrt mages so that could be fun!!

anyway hi hello i have heard much about u & greasedad!!

[redinside]

Hello!! I remember seeing Myr during my occasional thread-spying adventures – does he have eyes now?

Friends are the grossest and both of these things sound fun.

Oh, and, if you are serious about the lyrium-sneaking thing, we will have to discuss with someone in charge before that goes down, I think. May be best for ours to meet first, either way. :>

[faithlikeaseed]

he has eyes now!! it is a long & weird story.

truly the grossest. & yeah i figure!! tbh the more likely scenario (and less off-the-cuff being silly scenario) is he'd gently agitate for better treatment vs outright violating inquisition prisoner policy, but he's witnessed a really severe version of lyrium withdrawal firsthand and his heart is Soft.

but yeah defs better to see where things go vs preplan too much

[redinside]

Well then obviously he needs to tell that story to my character.

Advocating for the enemy general... bless.

[faithlikeaseed]

yesss let's do it.

it's about par for the course tbh. everyone deserves to be treated ethically, he yells, and the rest of the Inquisition is like child do you even understand what war is

[notched]

I would like to lurk outside your prison tower window and chitchat in real Bloodborne style... Lurking outside of windows in the dark is one of Anna's better skills.

[redinside]

Oh dear, yes please! She may even perch upon a stony ledge like some kind of gargoyle if it so pleases you.