[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!

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[stabsbooks]

Once it becomes clear that he's actually telling her everything she knows, she'll ease up on him, but she will be interested in the shard 'waking him up,' as well as want a full report on who was involved and how they managed to close the rift.

[wontforgetyou]

He means literally the shard reacted and and and he couldn't sleep through it, and he can tell her when he gets close enough to a rift the shard in his hand flares and sparks and is maybe just a wee bit painful - and while he hasn't been there when a rift has appeared out of nowhere before, he thinks it's entirely possible that it's the same reaction as getting close to an already existing one.

The rest of it he can give the names of the ones he knows out of the group which would be Church and Galadriel (and I think possibly Mal because it's after a war table mission he's supposed to go on with him?), and he can describe Martel but doesn't know his name. And he'll mention that Mal's dog and Bethany were helping get the demons off the group so they could use their wills to work together and pull the rift closed like they did when they closed that one in the Mire.

[stabsbooks]

Cassandra will be tracking those people down and questioning them too, if she can. Jamie gets a pat on the head and can go get cookies and juice at the snack table.

[wontforgetyou]

Hey! He's not a wee lad, you know.

...but if there's cookies he supposes it's all right, then.