hadriel_logs | Intro Log: Welcome to the Snave (snake cave)

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for March
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: March 10th-15th
Warnings: Snakes! Snakes! It's a snake!

Good morning, new arrivals! Or, well, it's probably morning. The sun is up, anyway. Okay - not the sun, but that ball of light at the top of the cave that functions as the sun, anyway. Whatever. The point is you've woken to find yourself on the floor of Hadriel's colosseum. You may be wondering where you are and what you're doing here, but what you should be wondering is how fast you need to run to get away from a three-headed snake.

You're not the only one who just woke up. Also to be found in the arena, angry and confused, are Runespoors - large three-headed snakes. Only one of the heads is venomous, but all of them are perfectly willing to take a bite out of you if you get too close - or if you annoy it. If you're lucky, an attacking Runespoor may distract itself via infighting between the three heads, giving you time to run. If not, well, let's just hope you can fight off all three heads at once!

But that's not the only thing you might find. Also scattered around the colosseum floor are what look like tasty snacks. Popsicles, cheese, even toast! Unfortunately, if you get hungry and take a bite, you will quickly discover that each and every one of these is actually soap. So that's great. Maybe the Door thinks everyone needs to shower more? You can also find a few that actually look like soap, and if you're really lucky, you might stumble across the rare and coveted 'pile of baby hands' soap.

With luck, you didn't get eaten by a snake or accidentally eat a piece of soap. Once you find your way out of the colosseum there's plenty of other distractions. Feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, a new monster, a project to help with, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers March 10th-15th.
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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( Leliana had been at the Colosseum, though the monsters had proven enough of a complication that all she could really do was fight, and keep people as safe as she could. Introductions would have to wait, and her duty came first over meeting new people.

Seeing the woman now Leliana doesn't know if she's new or not, but the reaction to the food was enough for her to offer help. At the very least she knew where there were other options )

There is more here, if you know where to look.

[ Emily glances toward the other woman, bristling a little at having someone notice her. More often than not, she makes a point of being totally unnoticed. ]

I'll keep that in mind. [ Though the stranger hadn't said where the actual food is. ] ... I take it you know where to look?

I've found a few places.

( She gives a nod, and takes another few steps closer to her )

There's some that's grown here, or can be found in what would have been a store.

( If anyone was around do run them. She suspects the gods restock that but she's never seen it )

[ Emily is not at all trying to mask her body language, which is: cautious, unsettled, distrustful. ]

Grown? Here? [ How could that even be possible? ] I thought all the stores were abandoned. They look like it to me, anyway.

[ From her brief experience flitting in and out of them. ]

They are, but there are some that have taken plants they have found and have created a nursery.

( It was certainly better than starving, and also a way to keep busy. Plants needed attention )

[ To that, Emily merely nods, filing away the information for later. ]

That's good to know. Thank you.

[ ... ]

Do you live here, or are you another captive?

There is no one here that wasn't brought here.

( The gods don't count. You can't even find them half the time )

It was months ago that I arrived, in the same place that you did. Everyone is left there.

[ Except for the gods, she assumes, but doesn't say. ]

It was an interesting way to arrive. [ Alone and surrounded by monsters. ] Where do those animals come from?

In the same way we are.

( Which could end up being anywhere )

They call it the Door. We're brought for all manner of worlds, or times. Some call it magic.

( Just if she doesn't have magic in her world. Gently breaching that barrier )

[ Emily is tight-lipped about 'magic.' In her world, that kind of discussion branded you as a witch or heretic and the Overseers soon dragged you away. ]

Hm. [ Comes the only response. ] ... How can there be such a power?

[ There. That sounds dubious enough. ]

I'm not certain how it exists here.

( If it is brought about similarly to the mages of Thedas or differently, or even how it works. Not having magic herself it is a little difficult to understand it with experience )

There are those that possess it, and then the gods.

( 'Gods'. Every time she says the word regarding those here she never makes it sound like that's what she believes they are )

Theirs is a different power.

There are no gods in the Isles. [ Emily reports stoically. ] If there were, I doubt they'd speak with us.

[ The Outsider doesn't count. ]

You seem... oddly used to all this.

It has been months that I have been here.

( And considering the trials of Thedas 'odd' is not even the worst to describe Leliana's 'strange-o-meter'. This place doesn't really come close )

I could tell you some more of this place, though finding you something to eat seems more pressing.

Months. [ Emily repeats quietly, committing that fact to memory. ] Is that about how long... most have been here?

[ Of course, 'months' is fairly vague. ]

I can manage. [ The empress replies, but it's true that she'll need food... sooner or later. Still, she doesn't amend what she'd said, instead frowning slightly as she fights it out internally. ] ... Though, if you have any suggestions...

( There's a nod, and it works for both of Emily's thoughts. Most that Leliana knows have been here longer than her )

Come. ( She'll start to lead Emily away, continuing talking as they go ) People come and go, though never by choice. A friend of mine has been here a year now.

[ The empress watches, listening, taking in details of the other woman. She reminds Emily briefly, almost vividly, of the assassins who had taken her mother's life.

This is another world. This woman isn't a danger to me. At least, in the sense that she isn't related to those people. ]

Over a year? [ She repeats, stricken. ] ... I can't afford to spend that much time away. I'm sure that everyone else would say the same, but I have to get back as soon as I can.

They do, but it is less simple than that.

( And even less simple to explain. For Cecily Leliana hadn't known her to know she was gone, and Cullen had known her, making him a different Cullen to the one she'd worked beside. Others... it had seemed simpler for them )

When friends have arrived from the same world, sometimes at different times, they have not noticed anyone being missing. It is as if they have not been gone, or that time has been frozen.

( And she's heard of time being played with before, as impossible as it should be )

[ Time has been frozen. She thinks immediately, of course, to Delilah turning her father to stone. An angry flush comes and goes from the empress' cheeks. ]

... So, if I can find my way back... or, if we're sent back, then you believe no time will have passed?

[ That would be ideal. She can't afford to let her alleged aunt have her way with the Isles. ]

It is only a belief. ( Leliana in no way wants this woman to hope too much ) But perhaps. Many things are possible where magic is involved.

That's true. [ She's seen it firsthand.

There's a pause. ]

If you find out more - My name is Emily.

Leliana. Hopefully things work out, even if you are stuck here.

Intro Log: Welcome to the Snave (snake cave)

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