Video - Week 44, In the wee hours of Thursday morning

[djinnigenie]

[A very happy Elissa is holding her communications device and speaking very loudly as if trying to be heard over a great deal of noise. Strangely enough, the only noise is the rather frantic barking of her enormous dog Dane who keeps trying to push his way into the view of the camera.]

Greetings, all! I hope that you can hear me over the celebrations. Kozmotis has been found! It seems half of Ferelden was on the ship, but they are safely with me now. All is well! There is no need to search further!

[She laughs at something only she can hear and casts a brilliant smile to her left.]

Really, you should all come visit this week to meet everyone - Alistair, Leliana (she is the one who is singing!), Zevran, even my brother Fergus and my beloved Loghain are present! If you come, please bring ale as Oghren shall shortly run us out of our supply.

[Dane is still barking as Elissa ends the communication.]

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[genoshas_general]

[Wanda looks vaguely concerned. This seems like a problem.] Your friends are with you now?

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[djinnigenie]

[Elissa shrieks with laughter.]

Put me down, Fergus! Ack! Yes, I will dance with Teagan! Stoppit!

[She is absolutely full of merriment, though the room behind her appears to be empty.] Alistair does not have to make it a royal command! [Now she's almost giggling, the communications device forgotten though she still sits in a chair with it in hand.]

I have missed you all so very much. You honestly have no idea. There are no words to express... FERGUS! [And there is another shriek of laughter.] I have missed everyone except you, big brother. Ha!

[A very large dog puts his nose in front of the camera and makes a plaintive whimpering noise of worry.]

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[genoshas_general]

[Wanda frowns at the dog, wondering if he can help get his master back to reality.] Is she alright?

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[djinnigenie]

[In response, Dane releases another whimper and glances aside to Elissa. When he looks back to the screen, he shakes his head - actually answering Wanda's query.]

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[genoshas_general]

[Now that is a smart dog. Wanda's a little surprised, but she rolls with it.] Can you get through to her?

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[djinnigenie]

[More whimpers from Dane and another shake of his head after a gruff noise. As if to illustrate, he turns to Elissa and begins sloppily licking her face, but she merely laughs and half-heartedly pushes at him, still lost in her conversation with hallucinated loved ones.]

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[genoshas_general]

...Do you want me to help? Without knowing what forces are involved, it's difficult to say whether trying to use my powers to disrupt this effect would do more harm than good. It might do nothing, or it might wipe her mind entirely...

What do you think? [Okay, so maybe a leap from 'the dog understands questions' and 'the dog understands the interaction of varied supernatural forces' is a little ridiculous, but it's worth a shot, right?]

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[djinnigenie]

[Dane tilts his head from one side to the other as he tries to figure out how to answer the woman's complicated question with his limited way of communicating.]

I am so glad that you are here, Loghain. [That is Elissa's warm, soft voice from nearby.] There are things I've wanted to say to you since we left the gates of Denerim behind and pushed on into the city to do battle.

[unofficial_ambassador]

[She was sleeping like a normal person before all the noise happened]

What - Elissa? Are you back at Kozmotis's home?

[djinnigenie]

Tis where I live, is it not? And tis now nearly full to bursting with Fereldans! Fergus? Fergus! Please stop Dane from closing the door again? Tis stifling in here.

[She nods her head from side to side as if keeping time to music that only she can hear. Elissa turns her head to the right and a deep blush creeps into her cheeks.] Teagan, you are incorrigible. Alistair should have warned me about you.

Inara, I have to go now - it seems as if the power-mad King Alistair has ordered me to dance with his uncle. [Elissa giggles.]

Come to the party!

[unofficial_ambassador]

He's probably right, Elissa. Keeping the door shut will keep your friends from becoming ill from the fog.

[djinnigenie]

Point taken! [She twirls in the large, central room, merrily laughing.] Leave him be, Fergus. I forgot the door should stay closed. Good boy, Dane! Good boy!

[unofficial_ambassador]

Tell the others to stay inside until the fog clears. Hopefully a storm will come soon.

[djinnigenie]

Haha! You tell her, Alistair. The only reason we'll have to leave is when we are out of ale!

[She spins her way to one of the comfortable chairs and falls into it, madly giggling. Dane very nearly touches his nose to the camera as he tries to give Inara a plaintive look.]

[unofficial_ambassador]

[She feels a bit foolish reassuring a dog, but he looks so sad and Elissa is proving unreachable]

I don't know if you can understand me, but if you can keep her indoors until morning, I'll try and find someone who can help.

[djinnigenie]

[Dane's response was a 'Woof!' of affirmative and he actually looks somewhat relieved by Inara's words - far more so than any normal dog would. Elissa is still talking and laughing to the empty room at large, her expression full of joy and, sometimes, love when she speaks to her hallucinations.]

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[threesovereigns]

[Oh, this looks equal parts entertaining and concerning. Zevran being Zevran, he focuses on entertainment. By the backdrop, he himself is holed up inside a tavern, and there's some genuine noise surrounding him and his smirk.]

I have been accused of being two-faced before, milady Cousland, but being in two places at the same time is a new trick. If I have managed it, please let me know.

[djinnigenie]

Wait.

How did?

When did you leave? Did you go to fetch more ale? I fear Oghren's very nearly depleted Kozmotis' stores.

If you sneakily left the party for reasons other than ale or sex, I am not certain I can forgive you anytime soon.

[Elissa is apparently distracted by whatever else she is seeing in the room when her gaze leaves the camera and she gifts someone with a quirked brow and then a sudden laugh.]

Fergus Cousland, if you and Alistair do not stay away from that cheese, there will be none left by morning!

[threesovereigns]

If you are on the ship, I regret that I have not been back since I first took my leave of it. I find it to be... unsettling.

[He peers at Elissa with a catlike cock of his head.]

You, I must say, appear to be oddly at home. Have you perhaps been experimenting with the local liquors? They are, in a word, potent.

[djinnigenie]

No... not recently. Dane and I are living in the woods between the Old City and Poseidon in a home that I helped Kozmotis to build. You... should know this. You were here, earlier.

I mean...

[Elissa rubs at her forehead.]

No. Not you. It was my Zevran. Maker's breath - can Verdana handle two of you?

[threesovereigns]

Earlier, as in they came through the fog to visit you?

[Zevran only has local rumours about the fogs to go off, but he's evolving a theory as a result. He lifts his eyebrows in merry encouragement for Elissa to spill more.]

I think that two of us will find Verdana's charms more than ample. She is indeed as bounteous as Wynne's very fine bosom... or perhaps we handle each other. I have been accused of being in love with myself before, this may be a way to test that theory.

[djinnigenie]

[At that, Elissa's laugh is very nearly a giggle.] Yes, getting the two of you in the same room will be very entertaining.

I found Alistair in the fog, earlier, when we were out searching for Kozmotis. We had to give up and come back home, but then the others began to arrive. Even Kozmotis!

[There is obvious delight in her voice even if her's is the only one that can be heard through the communicator.] You should see everyone, Zevran. Fergus is here. He lives! And Wynne with her bounteous bosom, Leliana, Oghren, Sten...

[She trails off to cast a sidelong glance to an unseen someone very close to her as she smiles.] Yes, you, too, Loghain.

[threesovereigns]

Ahhhhh...

[Eventually Zevran runs out of 'ah' and closes his mouth, two fingers held up in a small gesture as he tries to decide whether to explain hings, or just allow Elissa to enjoy her hallucinatory partytime. Normally he'd be loathe to intrude on someone else's recreationally altered state, but since she doesn't seem to have done this intentionally...]

Do not take this amiss, Warden, but do you remember that small matter with the Arl of Redcliffe's son?

[djinnigenie]

[Elissa lowers her voice at that question as if hoping no one else will overhear her reply.]

Yes, I remember. Teagan is here as well and I am not certain he would like a reminder of that matter. However, speak on.

[threesovereigns]

[Having a care with someone's feelings is not generally on Zevran's list of things to do. He may not go out of his way to be more than obnoxiously teasing, but neither does he go far off the path to coddle someone's feelings either. Such things take time and a certain generalized empathy that does not work well with a career as an assassin. Thus, he's a little out of his depth here, and some impatience seeps out through the edges of his expression as a result.]

You will recall how you had to free each of us from dreams we were trapped in? There is no demon at work here, or so I am told, but you are trapped all the same. There is no-one around you that I can see.

[djinnigenie]

[The Grey Warden lightly frowns as she considers Zevran's words.]

In my own travels, the dream trap was set by the sloth demon on the upper levels of the Circle of Magi - not at Redcliffe...

[Dane gets his face in front of the camera and makes a pleased noise at Zevran for saying what the dog has not been able to voice. While Dane's big head is in the way, Elissa looks over the central room of Kozmotis' home at all of the those who are chatting and mingling. Finally, she speaks.]

I do not want this to be a trap.

[threesovereigns]

Perhaps it was, perhaps it wasn't, but the timing of that particular excursion in the Fade is not the point, I am afraid.

[Zevran gives the dog a quirk-mouthed expression, suggesting that he still finds the creature smelly and fond of committing acts of horrific cruelty to nice leather boots... but he's with Dane on this one.]

I do not think this is a trap... exactly. Or if it is, it is one that was set long ago and has outlasted the trap-maker. I believe you must have been exposed to the fog that is out, Warden. I am told it will have no long-lasting effect... but have a care about where you go. What you see may not be as you see it.

[djinnigenie]

The fog. I see. I... shall do my best to remain indoors, if that is the case.

[Dane makes a noise of agreement via a sharp bark and then he disappears from view. Elissa releases a somewhat sad laugh.]

Dane has stationed himself before the door as if to insure I cannot leave. Thank you, Zev. Perhaps, when this is all over, some of these people will remain. I hope so.

Will you pay me a visit when it has lifted? Please?

[threesovereigns]

I shall see if I cannot make my way to you, of course... although if your home in the woods is lonely, why do you not come into the town?

[Zevran: Decidedly not one of the Dalish elves. Decidedly ensconced in what looks to be a particularly comfortable attic that may or may not be his while he waits this out.]

Poseidon is a fine city, I am finding, although I am also finding it a fine place to be leaving from to go visit others.