outer_divide | First Report [Video]

[By now, Carver and his sister have been frightened enough times by the bizarre, talking magical books that appeared in their possessions. They speak in voices and change every day, so it took some tinkering before they were able to figure out how, precisely, to work them.

But now they have. Sort of.

Carver's face appears in the image, glaring, focused in entirely too close for him to know what he's doing with it. He taps on it a few times and once he can see himself, tries to adjust so he's a little easier to see.]

Hello? Is anyone there? Can anyone hear me? [It statics, because he's yelling into it.] Maker! Damn this blighted thing...

[Giving up on trying to make the communicator work, he goes back to the subject at hand.]

If anyone can hear this, my name is Warden-Ensign Carver Hawke. My sister and I- I don't know how we got here, but we're here. We came out of that- that metal building back there.

We're holed up in a little shack not far from that metal building, on the south side of the mountain. I don't know if anyone else is out there, but if they are--

[He coughs, clears his throat, and his voice turns all business.]

I'm going to go ahead and assume this is somewhere in the Anderfels, so you'll probably know what a Grey Warden is. So in that case I'd like to request some food and supplies for both myself and my sister, who is not a Warden, but you're going to be damned bloody sorry if you refuse to her.

And if nobody else is out there... well, then we're in a pile of shit, aren't we...

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No, she's fine. We both are.

[An awkward pause.]

Is Brother here?

[Wait...]

Maybe you should refer to your siblings by name, because I have to confess now to being a little confused. Is...Bethany there with you?

[Carver might ordinarily be a bit annoyed at the confusion, but even he can offer her that one... he's confused too.]

Yes. It's Bethany. Please don't ask me how.

Alright.

Garrett's not here that I've seen. I've heard that Anders and Fenris are, and I know that Sebastian is.

[Although she can imagine that Carver doesn't care about them.]

[Oh, good, she answered the question before he had to ask and likely sound totally snotty about it.

But this is a good opportunity to ask.]

Sebastian who?

Sebastian Vael. The Chantry Brother.

Oh, heads up -- he seems to think that Garrett's female, not a mage, and married to him. Genuinely believes as far as I can tell, not just being...difficult.

You say that like I'm meant to know him.

Though if that's what he believes, he sounds like a lunatic.

Why wouldn't you know him? Hawke helped him, and he works with Hawke, like I do.

[Works with is perhaps not the most accurate way to phrase it. 'Follows around' might be more accurate.]

Since when? I've never heard of him!

And I know my brother is an idiot, but making nice with a Chantry brother sounds like a particularly steep new low.

Since six years ago. Well, we met him three years before that, and helped with the people who'd killed his family.

But then, I'm surprised with this from you, seeing as you became a Templar.

This again?

[A sigh.]

Wouldn't you think there'd be a bit of a conflict of interest if I became a Templar? It'd be like you being the captain of the Guard and running a smuggling ring on the side.

Because you can't think of anyone in my position who would have done that.

But it's a little different with your brother, Carver.

[Well, you knew this would be coming...]

What's that supposed to mean?

It wasn't like you helped him evade the Templars, you just didn't turn him in and he took care of himself.

Like the Void I didn't help him! Do you think I just tagged along for the ride for nineteen years?

I don't know, at the end of the day you still took the first chance you had to be a Templar.

Right. Except for the part where I didn't? I'm a Grey Warden if you didn't notice!

And even if I did, it's none of your bloody business! Maybe I was just looking for something to do with my life that wasn't the guard!

You did introduce yourself as such.

[But why would he?]

You seem awfully defensive about it for claiming it never happened.

Maybe I don't appreciate the insinuations you're making about me and my brother.

In any case, it didn't. You're the second person who thinks I'm a templar, and I'm definitely not. Unless the templars fight darkspawn all of a sudden.

They're not insinuations if they happened, Carver.

And how did you even become a Grey Warden?

They didn't! I know very well if I joined the Templars that none of you would ever speak to me again, so I didn't!

[He huffs.]

Remember the Deep Roads expedition we went on? That's how.

You didn't go on that, Carver.

Now you're going to tell me how I did and did not catch the taint, are you?

I just don't understand how this is possible!

Possible like Bethany claiming that I'm the one who died in Lothering?

Look, I've had several people tell me that they remember things differently than I do. Maybe you do too.

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