faderiftooc | THE ASHES UNDERNEATH HIS NAILS

Before anything else - since more than eight peeps signed up I went to RNG the team for this, so here are the characters selected to be part of this plot! They are:

THE CHOSEN EIGHT

Hermoine Granger (

bookish_lioness)

Raylan Gibbs (

apostafuckyou)

Ciri (

cintra)

Adelaide Leblanc (

fleurdesel)

Anders (

justice_is_blond)

Herian Amsel (

dashing)

Jim Kirk (

universal_charm)

Inessa Serra (

circleprodigy)

If you're one of the ones mentioned above, then please read ahead for all the information that you need for what's to come!

THE ASHES UNDERNEATH HIS NAILS (PART I)

The Inquisition recently has been getting reports that the people in Fromage, a remote little village located at the outskirts of Emprise du Lion, are under a string of mysterious kidnappings and disappearances with no trace of them whatsoever. Wanting to get to the bottom of it, the Inquisition has sent a group over to investigate and uncover the cause of these strange kidnappings and/or disappearances.

THE MISSION: Investigate and resolve the cause of the disappearances happening in Fromage.

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PLOT TIMELINE

Inquisition gets reports about Fromage and their request for help. Inquisition gets the characters from above and puts them into a team, sends them to investigate.

The group arrives at Fromage and starts to investigate.

After enough investigation, group has enough information to put together that the disappearances mostly take place along a particular route to/from the village late at night.

Group goes to this particular route to investigate.

INVESTIGATION LEADS TO SEEKRIT CAVE!! WOW!!

SEEKRIT CAVE is guarded by RED TEMPLARS!! DOUBLE WOW!!

Group deals with red remplar guards and then investigate the SEEKRIT CAVE!! TRIPLE WO--okay I'll stop I'm sorry

Investigation of SEEKRIT CAVE will lead to discovery of tiny abomination child!

Group decides what to do with tiny abomination child and grab whatever they find in SEEKRIT CAVE (presumably)

Skedaddle back to Skyhold! \o/

MAP OF A SEEKRIT CAVE + STUFF TO NOTE

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The cave, as you can guess, will be the main focus for this plot. For the ease of the log as well as for everyone in general characters will be split into two groups of four each during the investigation of the cave (before discovering the abomination kid; all characters will be present to discuss what to do with the abomination kid) since coordinating between four people will be much easier than eight people all smashed together.

NOTE: Each of the teams will be taking one side of the cave, where there are different things to find. Left team will be taking the guardrooms, morgue and cells while the right team will be rummaging through the supplies and records. Both sides will have equal things to find, so don't worry! All eight characters will eventually converge in the 'lab' where the abomination child will be at, and from there they'll make their decision on what to do with the kid.

I'll put a comment below where you guys will be able to post to in order for you guys to properly confirm your teams and which side they're taking - or if you want me to make the teams, let me know there too and I'll respond with RNG'd teams + their bases to cover for everyone to refer to.

NOTE 2: How this investigation is handled is going to be pretty different from usual log formats around here - I'm taking several cues from murdergames like

danganroleplay,

cradleproject,

trustfell etc. In a nutshell the investigation is going to be heavily GM'd - characters will poke around the rooms to see what they're going to find and I'll be responding back in turn to see what they'll be finding ICly. Examples would be something like this, like this, orrrr like this!

NOTE 3: WITH THAT SAID, the only parts of this I'm definitely GMing are the cave investigation as well as the kid abomination threads. The others are pretty much free for all and you guys can do whatever, but please do contact me if you need clarification for anything or if you do want me to throw a GM tag your way.

STUFF TO DECIDE ON

FROMAGE INVESTIGATION: Handwave it, y/n? Its not super important and I can effectively summarize it up to make things easier. Instead then I can just put up a general thread pre-route stuff and beyond where you guys can just mingle or do whatever you guys want before going off to the route to investigate.

ROUTE INVESTIGATION: to lie in wait for something to happen or just charge straight in? Both ways will lead the characters to the ~seekrit cave~, but depending on what they decide to do the battle against the Red Templars might be easier/harder.

SEEKRIT CAVE: Red Templars will be guarding the entrance and for the sake of simplicity during the investigation later, all guards that would be inside the cave will be outside as well. There will be battling here and it is going to be pretty fierce, so just hash out if injuries are going to be a thing and such!

SEEKRIT CAVE INVESTIGATION: Destroy the records/evidence of what the group finds in the cave or bring them back to Skyhold? The hopeful outcome is to bring them back, but there's also no stopping the group from destroying them if they want to, so it'd be good to decide here as well.

CHILD ABOMINATION: The biggest headache of them all. All of you have free reign on what to do with the child: let him go off on his own, kill him, bring him back to Skyhold etc. etc. The only caveat is that if the group decides to spare the child and bring him back to Skyhold, it will be required to let the four advisors know and they will need to be involved from that point forward.

SUBTHREADS: My idea for the current subthreads now is: pre route shit, route shit, seekrit cave entrance shit, seekrit cave investigation (pre-kidbomiation), kidbomiation thread, way back to skyhold. If you guys want anything else in there or think something should change and stuff etc, just let me know and we can all see what works best.

OKAY that should be all the bases covered but if you still have questions and whatnot please let me know! This is my first time ever doing something like this and I want to make sure it'll be great for everyone, so don't hesitate to come up and clarify whatever you want!! Otherwise if everything is cool let's all go and kick some red templars in the ass and then go and get these characters horrified in the best/worst ways \o/.

Also a reminder that log will go up on September 1st! So mark those calendars, this is gonna be a wild ride.

TEAMS

LEFT TEAM

Ciri

Adelaide Leblanc

Herian Amsel

Inessa Serra

RIGHT TEAM

Raylan Gibbs

Jim Kirk

Hermoine Granger

Anders

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

FROMAGE INVESTIGATION: Handwaving it seems easier, especially if nothing long-term is going to come out of it.

ROUTE INVESTIGATION: Hermione will always ICly opt to stand back and assess the situation if she has the opportunity, but she's a Gryffindor, so. Y'know. If a fight breaks out or if other people start charging in, she'll do what she can to protect her allies without hesitating.

SEEKRIT CAVE: Her combat skills still aren't what they can be, so I'm up for Hermione getting pretty badly injured if she doesn't have anyone watching her back at a given moment. A lack of easy mobility could be why she ends up stopping and reading through whatever records Team Right finds. ~~She's light; one of the guys can cart her around while she reads.~~

SEEKRIT CAVE INVESTIGATION: Who would burn information?? That would be like burning a book. And even the most horrible books can prove useful someday.

CHILD ABOMINATION: No one hurts the kid while Hermione's there. She'll be very adamant about the whole thing and will do whatever she can to protect the weebomination, unless it proves violent, in which case she'll help subdue it and bring it back to Skyhold. She'll understand any trepidation about that, though, so she'll definitely volunteer to keep a close eye on it until they can figure out some way to help it.

SUBTHREADS: o/