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likebigboats) wrote2014-07-12 04:22 pm
likebigboats) wrote2014-07-12 04:22 pm
Memory - Betraying Hawke because a demon promised her an awesome new boat.
Hawke got a letter about an apostate half-elf mage the party has saved from slavers before, and pulled together Anders, Merrill and Isabela to go check up on him. He’s in a coma, and his mother has also called in elvish Keeper Marethari looking for help. The problem is he’s a dreamer, able to enter the Fade without using lyrium -- and now he’s stuck there, and at risk of demonic possession. The party is going to have to enter the Fade -- it should be Hawke and party because saving him made the boy a Hawke fanboy -- and confront the demons trying to take control of him. Keeper Marethari asks the boy’s mother to leave while she prepares the ritual to send the party into the Fade, then uses the opportunity to speak privately.
Marethari wants Hawke to kill Feynriel in the Fade if it turns out he’s too weak to handle his abilities, claiming killing him in the Fade wouldn’t kill him in real life -- she believes it will make him Tranquil, no longer a mage and no longer a demonic possession threat to the people around him. It’s a safety issue. Hawke refuses, Anders and Merrill approve.
When they enter the Fade, Anders is automatically wreathed in blue flames, eyes glowing and voice all warped with power for the rest of the memory. He’s been carrying around a spirit from the Fade himself, named Justice, and back in the Fade means the spirit is in direct control. Justice is pleased to be back in the Fade, but urges finding the boy quickly.
First is a sloth demon, Torpor. On Justice’s advice, Hawke doesn’t bother even trying to talk her way through it; the party just fights the demon.
Second is desire. They walk through a door and into a dream, with the boy at a table and his absent father talking him up, endearing himself. Hawke is recast as the boy’s mother in this dream, and she warns him, walks him through piercing the illusion. The man was never around, never wanted anything to do with him. Findally, the demon reveals its true form -- a desire demon, a purple-grey horned lady with almost clothing on at all. She accuses Hawke of turning the boy against her, and Hawke promptly snarks that it was an accident -- just trying to help, honest.
Demon: Take away my pets, and I’ll take away yours. How loyal are these friends you drag into the Fade? Would your pirate queen stay if the open water beckoned? What do you say, sweetheart? a two-mast brigantine, square-main topsail. . .a hundred well-built lads to answer your every whim. I know you’ve been looking for a stiff masthead.
Isabela: Mmm.
Hawke: Should I turn around now to let you stab me in the back, or would you rather it be a surprise?
Isabela: You are just the sweetest.
Demon: The Siren’s Call 2 awaits in Kirkwall harbor. I’ll be under the furs in the captain’s quarters.
Isabela moves to side with the demon, grinning and drawing her daggers. “I like big boats, I cannot lie.” FIGHT, and the demon and Isabela lose. The next thing Isabela knows, she’s waking up in the real world with a start.
Marethari wants Hawke to kill Feynriel in the Fade if it turns out he’s too weak to handle his abilities, claiming killing him in the Fade wouldn’t kill him in real life -- she believes it will make him Tranquil, no longer a mage and no longer a demonic possession threat to the people around him. It’s a safety issue. Hawke refuses, Anders and Merrill approve.
When they enter the Fade, Anders is automatically wreathed in blue flames, eyes glowing and voice all warped with power for the rest of the memory. He’s been carrying around a spirit from the Fade himself, named Justice, and back in the Fade means the spirit is in direct control. Justice is pleased to be back in the Fade, but urges finding the boy quickly.
First is a sloth demon, Torpor. On Justice’s advice, Hawke doesn’t bother even trying to talk her way through it; the party just fights the demon.
Second is desire. They walk through a door and into a dream, with the boy at a table and his absent father talking him up, endearing himself. Hawke is recast as the boy’s mother in this dream, and she warns him, walks him through piercing the illusion. The man was never around, never wanted anything to do with him. Findally, the demon reveals its true form -- a desire demon, a purple-grey horned lady with almost clothing on at all. She accuses Hawke of turning the boy against her, and Hawke promptly snarks that it was an accident -- just trying to help, honest.
Demon: Take away my pets, and I’ll take away yours. How loyal are these friends you drag into the Fade? Would your pirate queen stay if the open water beckoned? What do you say, sweetheart? a two-mast brigantine, square-main topsail. . .a hundred well-built lads to answer your every whim. I know you’ve been looking for a stiff masthead.
Isabela: Mmm.
Hawke: Should I turn around now to let you stab me in the back, or would you rather it be a surprise?
Isabela: You are just the sweetest.
Demon: The Siren’s Call 2 awaits in Kirkwall harbor. I’ll be under the furs in the captain’s quarters.
Isabela moves to side with the demon, grinning and drawing her daggers. “I like big boats, I cannot lie.” FIGHT, and the demon and Isabela lose. The next thing Isabela knows, she’s waking up in the real world with a start.