Blood of Arlathan
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Arlathan Crater
Venatori gather at a huge ruins site, while Strife, Rook, Bellara, and Neve watch from a nearby cliffside.
Rook: Well?
Strife: They’re waiting for something. There’s talk of a sacrifice.
Bellara: Do they mean the clan? They mean the clan, don’t they?
Strife: Well, the tracks suggest the captives are on the other side of the clearing. You’ll have to go through the crowd.
Dialogue options:
- Investigate (Saved Minrathous): Witness the sacrifice? [1]
- Affable: Wait, through the crowd? [2]
- Sarcastic: I hate cultists. [3]
- Stoic: It’ll be a fight. [4]
1 - Investigate: Witness the sacrifice?
Rook: They’re gathering to watch people be killed?
Neve: It’s the Venatori. Spilling blood is their religion.
Strife: And we won’t let that happen.
2 - Affable: Wait, through the crowd?
Rook: We’re going through them? Won’t they notice?
Strife: Not if you look like them.
3 - Sarcastic: I hate cultists.
Rook: We’re going to get that close to a crowd of Venatori?
Strife: It’s quickest.
4 - Stoic: It’ll be a fight.
Rook: That’s a lot of them. It’ll be a fight for the ages.
Strife: No fighting. You’ll get us all killed. You’re going to blend in instead.
5 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Strife: I found you some disguises.
The party changes clothes.
Harding: Well, do I look evil enough?
Strife: You’ll fit right in.
Harding: I’ll just hide behind Neve.
Bellara: Oh, that doesn’t smell good. Oh… oh, it’s sticky. Why is it sticky?
Strife: Blood. Hopefully. Make sure you split up. You don’t want to draw attention.
Rook: Neve, I need you with me. You know the Venatori best. And you’re probably the only one who can convince them you belong there.
| Neve romanced | Neve not romanced |
|---|---|
| Neve: I’m all yours. | Neve: Sad but true. |
Rook: And we’ll be your entourage.
| Bellara not in party |
|---|
| Bellara: I’ll go with the Veil Jumpers. |
Strife: We’ll try to keep the escape routes clear. Get the Dalish and get out of there. And please, try not to stand out.
The party heads into the ruins.
- Bellara: What about everyone else?
- Davrin: What will the others do?
- Harding: What about the others?
- Emmrich: Will the others follow?
- Lucanis: And the others?
- Taash: What about the others?
Rook: They’ll be close. But it’s safer to move in small groups.
They continue.
Neve: I thought I saw someone, in the trees. Strife and the Veil Jumpers?
- Bellara: The others, maybe. You don’t see Strife unless he wants you to.
- Davrin: Good to know they have eyes on us.
- Emmrich: Ah, they’re keeping watch, then. Excellent.
- Harding: I thought I saw that, too! Good to know they’re watching over us.
- Lucanis: Good.
- Taash: Yeah. Checking to let us know they’re in place. Veil Jumpers don’t get spotted unless they want to.
They head down a zipline and continue towards the ruins.
- Bellara: This robe feels weird. And I can’t move my arms properly!
- Davrin: This robe. Is it made from dragon whiskers? It itches. How am I supposed to fight?
- Emmrich: How do the Venatori stand the itch of these robes?
- Harding: Ugh, these sleeves! They’ll get tangled in my bowstring.
- Lucanis: This robe stinks of Venatori.
- Taash: This robe itches. How am I supposed to fight like this?
Rook: We’ll wear them as long as we don’t have to fight.
They enter the ruins proper, blending in among the Venatori. Some of them rush to the side of the room.
Venatori: They’re going to bleed the Dalish deer!
- Bellara: That’s a halla. Why are they killing it? Poor thing…
- Davrin: They’re going to kill a halla. Monsters.
- Emmrich: They must mean one of the halla. They plan to kill it for sport.
- Harding: They’re going to kill a halla? Just for fun?
- Lucanis: Halla. They’re going after halla.
- Neve: Dalish deer. Halla. They’re going to kill it to show power.
- Taash: What did the deer ever do to them? Monsters.
| Veil Jumper Rook | Non-Veil Jumper Rook |
|---|---|
| Rook: I hate it, too, but we need to stay hidden. | Rook: We can’t do anything that’ll draw attention to ourselves. |
- Emmrich: But… you’re right.
- Harding: Damn it.
- Lucanis: Wait until we find our target.
- Neve: Venhedis.
- Taash: (Growls)
Neve: Rook, we don’t have to watch this. It won’t be pretty.
| Bellara in party |
|---|
| Bellara: Can we go? Please? |
The sacrifice the halla in a burst of blood and magic. The crowd cheers.
- Bellara: Why did they do that? I hate this. And them.
- Davrin: I’ll remember this. They’ll pay… in blood.
- Emmrich: (Deep sigh) Poor creature.
- Harding: Pointless. Cruel and pointless.
- Lucanis: They will pay. One way or another.
- Taash: (Growls)
The party moves on.