Congratulations! You've been assigned to the mission: The Cult of the Red Glowing Thing! As leader of the mission, it will be your job to submit a report as Aro here once you feel you have enough plotted out and RPed. Usually I'd ask that this be submitted by the end of the month, but due to this month's mod plot, if you need an extension, let me know and I can push back the due date into September.

As a reminder, missions require some part of them be RPed out. Whether you want to run it as a lead up to the cult, fighting the cult, and/or the aftermath is up to you. It could be any part/all parts of it you'd like including stuff I haven't even thought of. You can contact a few friends to RP it with you or open it up to the whole game by posting a sign up on the OOC comm. You can also run it whenever you'd like before the due date, but again, this mod plot might be a reason you'd wish to delay it a little. I'm flexible about it. As long as something gets RPed out and a report is submitted before September's over, it's fine by me.

Things I'd like Aro and co. to focus on (whether it's RPed out or said to have been done if you RP the aftermath of the mission) are:

1. Destroying the red lyrium. I take a vague, video game inspiration for this. Basically a character hits it and it explodes. They can have cleansing runes on their weapons for added effect (though just for the mission, as cleansing runes are an AC reward item). I tend not to think too hard on the details because video games are weird.
2. Killing the infected cultists. All will be too far gone to continue living without constantly endangering others. According to the Dragon Age Wiki: "the red lyrium they ingest slowly eats away at their bodies and destroys their minds until he or she later dies in agony." I'm leaving it vague as to whether the cultists were shaving bits off to eat as part of their worship, or if long term exposure to the presence of the red lyrium still infected them.
3. Burning the bodies. Because burying the corpses with red lyrium is a no go. Not only do corpses rise, but the red lyrium could sow itself into the soil.

These are all things the Red Lyrium Project Leader (Christine) would tell Aro needed to be done to insure the red lyrium doesn't spread or harm anyone else. At this point, we can handwave she gave him the Red Lyrium 101 lesson and he knows the dangers in being around it/handling it. If anything isn't clear, or you have other questions, you can reply to me here, send me a PM to this account, or contact me on plurk at megoom. Have fun!