knightsoflegend | london ♔ when the gusts came around to blow me down

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london ♔ when the gusts came around to blow me down

WHO || Everyone and their dog.
WHAT || In the aftermath of the attack, the Knights attempt to recover
WHERE || Knights HQ, etc.
WHEN || Dec. 1st-8th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam

As darkness falls all around the castle, the remaining Knights straggle out of their broken castle to survey the damage and count the dead – of which there are three: Rose Hathaway, Kali, and Killian Jones.

What began like any other day for most quickly descended into a nightmare, after Wynn and most of the Section Heads were lured out to downtown London to face a threat of dual dragons, who turned out to be only clockwork creations of deposed Andres dictator Dimitris Sarandis, robotic menaces that were nothing but a distraction from the real threat. Having rallied support from some of the Knights' other enemies, Dimitris sent an army of chipped creatures, Shadowkind, robots, and a giant tank to destroy the Knighthood's headquarters, dropping part of the roof down onto the training room and med center in the initial explosive blast. Sarandis' alliance with a mysterious hacker named One (who turned out to have been the man who invented technomagic in the first place along with Zero) not only downed the Knights' communications, but also their defensive and surveillance systems (with some help from a mentally dominated Eleven). Whatever preparations Zero had made for an attack by One were undermined by the sudden but inevitable betrayal of the humanized robot GlaDOS, who introduced a learning virus into the system before taking off, likely having made some kind of deal with One to restore her robotic form.

The Knights rallied under the remaining sect leaders – Lis'sa and Koraith – to make a plan to fight back and try to take down Dimitris, who sent a taunting message out across the Drakenet, announcing his intentions to leave the castle as a smoking crater littered with corpses. Fearing that the attack might also be meant to target Myri and Vi's children, a group moved them to the Round Table Room, perhaps the most secure location in the building. The attack was a smokescreen of sorts, something Vi realized, taking Elena, Des, and Faith O'Keefe with her to the library in hopes of saving the elven mage, Lazarus, whose blood the villains required to unleash the nightmare god Malaak'a upon the world. The library, however, was already in shambles, thanks to a fire-slinging red half-dragon who had confronted some Knights there (and led Kate Beckett to discover something strange about herself...). Des remained in the hallway to confront a demon, in the same place where Skye had nearly died to an ifrit pyrokineticist named Serafina, one of Dimitris' chipped experiments. Sawyer Kelly and Alex Karamazov butted heads when it came down to sparing the enslaved ifrit, but in the end, Alex made the decision by putting a bullet in her head when Mars wouldn't act – much to Sawyer's horror. Things went to hell pretty quickly when the villainous Mind Master drove into the library on a motorcycle and proceeded to almost slaughter Vi, Elena, Faith, and Gar, making vicious comments to the former about going to see her deceased husband again. When Elena grabbed the Mind Master, she abruptly vanished, and Elena's whereabouts remain unknown. The Mind Master proceeded to make her way into Lazarus' secret chambers beneath the library, slitting his throat and collecting the magic that coursed through his veins in lieu of blood, the lasting effect of his having survived the ritual that sealed Malaak'a away in the first place.

Meanwhile, downtown, while Carol Danvers and Clark Kent played superhero around the city, Sam and Buffy ran into the archangels Raphael and Zerachiel, who were assisting the wounded of London, and Buffy cut a deal with Raphael after he cautioned her that some sort of big demon was also involved in the attack. In exchange for allowing Hell's forces further freedom of movement (the necessary cost to maintain the balance of the universe), Raphael transported Buffy right into the middle of the fray. The demon already gone, the angel advised her to go and protect the children – which turned out to be necessary indeed, as Sarandis had sent chipped, invisible raptors after the babies. Will Graham nearly died in the attack, but no children – or dogs – fell prey to the beasts.

Outside, a number of Knights armed to the teeth with grenades, rocket launchers, and flame throwers took on a towering seventy-foot tall Colossus that was ripping the castle apart. However, when Steve Rogers cut its head off with an expertly thrown shield toss, the monstrosity fell into the front of the castle with all of its three hundred tons, (and on fire, courtesy of Baal) and many barely escaped with their lives. Wolverine was the only person trapped in the ensuing rubble, but Nathan Young and Amy Pond dug him free as his body healed up the massive wounds suffered.

A strike team was sent out to take on Dimitris in his tank, and Spike and Dean drove Archer's car straight into the oversized military vehicle as a distraction, while Cora Hale, Rose, and Kali disabled the tank and its weapons and broke their way inside. What they found, however, was merely a projection of Dimitris taunting them, as Cora's werewolf senses alerted her immediately to the fact that no one was actually inside but them. Too late, the girls tried to escape – as the tank exploded in a volley of shrapnel and gout of flame, that also caught Christos La Krail and Grant Ward off guard, who had just arrived at the gate so that Ward might meet with Wynn for his official Knighthood interview. As everyone scrabbled to save the injured, a bag of grenades that Kali had dropped caused a secondary explosion, that took Rose and Kali's lives. Dean and Spike proceeded to look insane when the archangel Michael showed up to collect the souls of the dead, and they were the only two who could see him, but Cap stood his ground anyway with them. Dean angrily refused to give up on Rose's life, despite the fact that the death of her bondmate Lissa less than twenty four hours prior had left her connection to life weakened already. Michael cautioned him against doing 'something stupid', as Dean stalked off with her body.

Meanwhile, after realizing Zero's role in all this and helping return him to his senses so that he and Skye could restore communications and defenses, Lila Zacharov-Gray took off with Alex to the upper floor to find Amara. They discovered the homo magi using her powerful magic to keep the ceiling from collapsing into the entire castle, and while she entreated them to evacuate, Lila refused to leave her, prompting Amara to use her most powerful spell to repair the structural damage that was threatening to capsize the castle, at the cost of alerting her father to her exact location.

Just when it seemed like all might be well, Emma Swan, cursed by Poseidon to turn into a flesh-eating kelpie if she wasn't in water by sundown, came across the body of Lazarus and found her monstrous hunger awakened. Dissatisfied with the bloodless corpse, she decided to make a meal of Killian Jones, magically teleporting him into the pond behind the Knighthood, where in spite of Faye and Alex's best efforts, Killian was drowned. Luckily, however, they prevented Emma from eating her true love.

The other Knights fought bravely against basilisks, clockwork mages, and giant scorpions, while trying to assist the wounded, rescue the trapped, and do everything they could to protect the Knights' assets from falling into Dimitris' hands. With the smoke cleared, their home – thanks to Amara – remains standing, but the damage to it is substantial and won't be repaired overnight, even with magic at their disposal. More lasting will be the emotional scars of watching the only home some of them even remember ever having broken around them, their illusion of safety shattered, and their peace violated – not to mention the looming possibility of the Nightmare God being freed.

[ You are now free to make top posts for your characters in the wake of the attack. These top posts may include multiple sections (with different instructions for whether you want them to be open to multiple threads for that scene or closed to a single thread with multiple participants), that deal with anything directly after the events of the event post, and in the week following. I recommend using letters or numbers to indicate each section, so that those responding can put what they are doing in the subject line, to help others quickly know where to go to jump into any single threads.

There will be a thread about Wynn's return and a subsequent Drakenet post addressing IC-ly where people will live. Those with rooms in the Dragon's Tongue, Dragon's Hide, Dragon's Hoard, and Dragon's Fire wing will find their rooms almost entirely undamaged and still livable, but there is a percentage chance that anyone in the Dragon's Light or squire rooms will have their room destroyed. Please ask me for each of your characters this applies to and I will let you know the extent of the damage. Your characters are free to try searching the rubble for their personal effects – just include it in their top post with a search check please, and I'll let you know how much of their stuff is recoverable. Rebuilding efforts will commence within the week, so if your character has any way of contributing to putting the castle back together, that's also top post fodder. There is limited space in the Knights' downtown London office for some Knights to stay, while others may have their own apartments, etc. Other options may open up eventually. If your character is no longer living in the castle, please use your top post to establish this! I will put up top posts for each potential resurrection attempt, as rezzes take multiple days IC-ly to even be attempted.

Destroyed/heavily damaged sections of the castle: front hall/lobby (the Colossus is still there)/stairs, but there are currently ladders to access the second floor; the Dragon's Light wing/office/small library/bathrooms; the chapel; the med center; the training room; the armory; the bowling alley; the piano room; billiards room; parlor; the Dragon's claws bedrooms; parts of the dining hall; the library is intact but heavily damaged, many of the books destroyed by fire. After the first couple days, additional doors have been added to the castle at the far west end of the horizontal squire bedrooms hall, and beside the Dragon's hoard wing to enter the building, and a door has been installed at the southwest corner of the dining hall to allow people to cut through it to circumvent the Colossus still taking up the lobby and blocking access to the main hall. ]

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[With Shayla safely in Buffy's care, Myri knows that she doesn't need to worry about her daughter for the span of this ritual. Preparations have been made, materials provided. Myrilandel can think of nothing else but this once she realizes that Rose has fallen in the battle. Despite Dean and Spike's insistence that her magic won't work, she has to try. She has to do everything in her power to try to bring Rose back.

Rose would do it for her.

But the fact is, she's never done this before, never tried to bring someone back from the dead. She can only hope that the Stargods will aid her, as they have ever since she was very young.

She looks down at Rose, smoothing her hand over the woman's hair before she begins. She breathes in for three counts, holds for three counts, breathes out for three counts, holds for three counts. And again. Again. Over and over as she accesses her magic, welcomes the void between life and death, to try to find the thread that once represented Rose's life, to repair it, if she can.]

[ dean hasn't moved very far from this room since they brought her here, and as myri gets started, he leans against the wall, his shoulders hunched, his arms folded tightly across his chest, just staring at rose's face, silent as the grave himself.

he's not really in a mood for much conversation, and there's not a lot of hope in his eyes as myri gets going, but he doesn't say anything else about it not working at least. ]

[Being around this much holy magic makes Spike itchy, but that doesn't stop him from sticking around to support Myri as much as he can. He hopes he and Dean and bloody Michael were wrong. He hopes Myri can do this.

He hopes she won't blame herself if (when) she can't.]

[Cora is also keeping an eye on this one, as well as Kali's, just silently watching to see what happens. She doesn't know about the warning that Michael gave the rest of the group, but the fact that they're trying is enough to hold her attention.

So she's just there. Lurking in the background. Don't mind her.]

[ He lingers because he doesn't think that someone like Rose would leave him hanging if he was the one in this position. She had become his friend in the time he was here. Interested in his shield and how he used it in a fight. Part of him wishes she could have seen the head come off the Colossus just so she'd understand it's usefulness.

After a moment he looks down at his feet and doesn't look back up as Myri starts. ]

[Sam stands near Dean, eyes on Myri as she begins to work, though every so often his eyes flick towards his brother, his entire body tense, as if he's expecting him to do something at any moment.

He just hopes this works, hopes that for whatever reason Dean thinks it won't work, that he's wrong. He doesn't want to see what happens if it doesn't. His brother can't lose Rose. He just can't.]

[Guess who else made the trip?

For what it's worth, he gives everyone else their space, standing at the opposite side of the room, his face an almost stony mask. It's as if he's afraid that if he moves it one single muscle, the entire thing will crumble to dust.

He doesn't say a word. He just waits and watches.]

[While she has far too much on her plate to be present the entire time, Gwen does at least look in on Rose's Resurrection attempt, if for no other reason than Dean is Helen's Squire and Helen is nowhere to be found. She's also well aware of the close relationships between the girl being worked on and Helen, which makes the other woman's absence, all the more concerning for Gwen.

While she might not linger long, when she is here Gwen tries to keep out of the way while shooting concerned looks in Dean's direction before leaving again.

Even she knows better than to try and talk to him now. (SM 29)]

[Sara goes in very briefly to the resurrection attempt for Rose. Again - Sara talked to Rose a grand total of one time, but she liked what she had been able to see of Rose that one time, and Rose had left enough of an impression on Sara that she feels like she can go in for a short time to support Rose and her friends. She doesn't stand too close, either, putting herself several feet away so as not to take up space for people who were closer to Rose. She just hopes that whatever the cleric is doing for Rose in the process of trying to bring her back, that it'll work.]

[ dean watches myri like a hawk, and it doesn't take long to be able to read what's happening in her expression. the more she pours her magic into her, grasping for any sign of life, trying to coax any semblance of spirit back, the more emptiness she touches.

it feels hopeless. but presumably, it doesn't quench myri's determination to keep trying. it's on the third day, after sam slips off to go grab them something to eat, that dean turns around and stalks out on his own without a word. ]

[Guess who comes back about 15 minutes later with two sandwiches.

And there's no Dean.]

...Where'd my brother go?

[Cora glances over to Sam then glances to the rest of the group. They haven't gotten anywhere, and Cora presumes that Dean needs a break from it all.]

Maybe he went out to get some air?

[Poor innocent girl who knows nothing about Winchesters.]

Yeah, maybe.

[He...doesn't sound like he actually believes that.]

Watch these for me, alright?

[Putting those sandwiches down and...gonna go try and find Dean. #justco-dependantwinchesterthings]

[Cora watches him go and shrugs, and she will keep an eye on his sandwiches. After that, she will just turn her attention back to Myri and Rose to see if anything is going to happen.]

[ Steve watches Dean stalk off. He's worried and wants to follow to talk to the guy, but he stays rooted. He knows whatever he says won't do a damn thing for him. He stays quiet when Sam enters. Lets Cora handle it until Sam ditches her with sandwiches and goes. This is totally going great. Nothing could ever go wrong here. ]

[And a decent amount of time later, Sam comes back sweaty with bloody knuckles, looking VERY DISTRAUGHT.]

[Sam doesn't look like he's come back for his sandwiches.

And the fact that he seems that distraught doesn't seem good by any means, which has Cora perking up a bit and looking at Sam in concern.]

Where is he?

[She's going to guess it's Dean related.]

[He sits down on the floor, back pressed against the wall, staring at Rose with unblinking eyes.

Yeah, he doesn't look hungry.]

He left. I'm not sure when he'll be back.

[And of course Gwen would do one of her check ins just as Sam says that. Remember that Nat 20 Sense motive she got Sam? Now she's just looking at you like, bloody hell is this what you were talking about?]

[It's about this time that Faye makes her appearance at this rez, which is her third that she's keeping an eye on. She just looks fucking tired and empty inside at this point. But she's here and focusing on Rose, because she doesn't know the Winchesters well enough to know that dumb shit is incoming.]

[ When Sam comes back he raises a brow at his return. Not sure where he or Dean got off to. This definitely is not a good thing. Mostly because he knows what happened out there and Dean was bound to do something dumb. ]

[Cora's not ... understanding any of that, really. But she can at least read between the lines enough to know that something bad is happening (sense motive 24). But she's going to keep her mouth shut for now, and go back to focusing on Rose.]

[ a little over an hour passes in that tense manner, before abruptly something happens - something that only spike and sam can see.

in the air above rose's chest, a glowing red sigil begins snaking through the air, thrumming with power. ]

[Sam is suddenly straight as a board where he sits before he gets to his feet starting to walk closer and then make his way around, clearly waiting for what he's pretty sure is going to happen next. He looks hopeful and stricken in the same moment, his hands clenched into white knuckle fists.]

[Gwen has no doubt seen one or two rezzes during her time with the Knights but they're usually very uneventful. Either they work or they don't and you look to the Cleric running the show to see which way things are leaning.

Sam's very abrupt movement is enough to make her tense, confusion touching her features as she looks from him to... actually she doesn't know what the hell he's looking at but she feels a definite shift in the air. Gwen torn between watching Sam, watching the body before them and watching the door to see if Dean is going to return.]

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