MINGLE: The Derelict Ship

[save_the_souls]

Who: Anyone traveling to the derelict ship(s)
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: At the Derelict Ship on the Planet
When: 10/13 onward



[After several days of traveling, the passengers are able to reach the ruins of the ship. Explore the ruins, try to find a distress single scavenge, play your hand at Harvest moon and grab some pumpkins- come on in, it's a mingle!

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[killedwithlove]

No. If others call him a god, he doesn't care. He doesn't call himself a god, because he is what he is. Nothing more or less.

[Cole shrugs a little, looking off elsewhere.]

Yes. But the Dalish aren't always right. They rebuilt their society, from stories and half remembered songs and idea of what it might have been. I'm not saying Fen'Harel is necessarily right. But... he isn't evil. He rebels. He refuses to be trapped. The Dalish aren't always right either.

[wolfehawke]

[Adalwolfe is quiet for a moment, mulling over all Cole has said.]

When someone who's a god, or at least has god-like power, says they want to change something back to how it was... what I assume was ages ago, experience tells me that's probably not a good thing for us mortals.

[You know who else wanted to change things back to what he knew? Corypheus. Adalwolfe pinches the bridge of his nose.]

Do you think he told you he'd have to make you forget because he knows what he's doing will hurt people, and he doesn't want to be stopped anyway?

[killedwithlove]

[Cole shifts on his feet. He wants to tell. He doesn't want it to happen.]

He wants to take away the Veil. He put it there and he wants to take it away. And he knows it'll cause chaos, but he said it was an accident and needs to be done and I can't tell Jove. Can't tell.

[wolfehawke]

He wants-... What?? How could anyone possibly--??

[It's not a violent reaction, but certainly a surprised one. The Veil is just the Veil, to think that someone actually put it there isn't a thought that ever crossed his mind. True, there's probably something in the Chant about the Maker putting it up or something but he'd always thought that was all somewhat more metaphor and myth. Well, until they found Corypheus. But even so, he's not really one to ponder the nature of the world and how it works, just utilize its mechanics where he can.

So give him a moment to breathe. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Once. Twice. Thrice. Calm. Clear-headed. Just like his father taught him.]

Forgive me, because I know you've got to have been from the Fade to begin with, and I know there are other good spirits too, but there's also a whole lot of demons where that came from, not to mention the changing nature of the Fade itself. Chaos wouldn't even begin to cover what tearing down the Veil would do to the world, and probably to both sides. He can't possibly think it would be a good idea, even if he didn't mean to put it up in the first place. There would be so much bloodshed, mortal and spirit alike.

[He lets out another long breath.]

And if he thinks it was an accident, why didn't he just tear it down after he'd done it? Before the world developed what I assume is ages with the Fade and the waking world separate? Sooner after, if they were once one world, then wouldn't people have been more willing and able to live alongside spirits?

[His thoughts still reel and he wants to ask a thousand things at once, but those are the ones that get through to the surface enough for him to voice them.]

[killedwithlove]

[Cole vanishes for a moment.

It's his reaction to shouting and strong emotions. Hide, vanish, wait it out, but he appears again a few moments later, fingers plucking at the threads of his gloves.]

I don't think most spirits would like it. Reality is... confusing. Fractious. Fixed.

He... meant to put up the Veil, but not how it went? It went wrong. And he wasn't strong enough to undo it then, he went to rest and time... is different. Here. And there.

When he came back, he called himself Pride to remind himself of what he did.

[wolfehawke]

[Cole vanishes and reappears and Adalwolfe immediately clamps down on his emotions, trying to wrangle them into something more manageable for both himself and for Cole.]

Sorry. I just... It may have been a mistake at the time, fine. I wasn't there, I don't know, but he can't change it now, not without too much damage and a high death toll. Cole, this is the sort of thing that can't be allowed to happen.

[There's irony in Fen'Harel calling himself Pride to remember his mistake and then succumbing to hubris again in thinking he can undo it without any input from the entire world his actions will affect.]

[killedwithlove]

It's not your emotions startle me. It's the yelling.

[He edges closer again.]

I know. I don't often understand the big picture, but I understand this. I understand that the Veil is part of the world and it keeps both sides safe from each other. Softens the harshness for spirits. Keeps them away from mortals.