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knightsoflegend2015-11-30 07:05 pm
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Entry tags:
- !main plot,
- abbie mills,
- abigail hobbs,
- alanna,
- alec mcdowell,
- alex karamazov,
- alice lincoln,
- alisha daniels,
- allen francis doyle,
- allison argent,
- amara,
- amy pond,
- anastacia o'keefe,
- andrew dennis-gatewood,
- ashley magnus,
- astrid mädchen,
- avaleen,
- baal,
- belle desrosiers,
- bo dennis-gatewood,
- buffy summers,
- carol danvers,
- cheryl tunt,
- christos la krail,
- clark kent,
- clint barton,
- cora hale,
- cordelia chase,
- dante wilder,
- david levin,
- dean winchester,
- deryn argall,
- desmond d. descant,
- dimitri belikov,
- dovan ironsides,
- drax,
- dumage moulet,
- emma swan,
- epiphany greaves,
- eric carpenter,
- erica reyes,
- faith lehane,
- faith o'keefe,
- faye chamberlain,
- felicity braddock,
- frankie matera,
- fredrick jr.,
- gold,
- grant ward,
- gregor hughes,
- groot,
- gus harrison,
- gwen cooper,
- hasmed,
- jack chessing,
- jaime lannister,
- jaina solo,
- jeanne d'arc,
- jeanne gar,
- jo harvelle,
- kadir yassin,
- kali,
- kat samcelot,
- kate beckett,
- kenzi,
- killian jones,
- kyomi kato,
- lance sweets,
- lila zacharov-gray,
- lis'sa trinall,
- lorne,
- lydia martin,
- malia tate,
- malina harvey,
- marcus andres,
- mars dacey,
- matt byrne,
- myrilandel odair,
- natasha romanoff,
- nathan jones,
- neal cassidy,
- nick hawley,
- nyna dilant,
- paige lyons,
- peter quill,
- rafael giovanni,
- regina mills,
- risa vergara,
- rocket,
- rose hathaway,
- sam winchester,
- sara lance,
- sawyer kelly,
- sebastian trevethor,
- shawn spencer,
- skye,
- snow white,
- solace,
- spike,
- sterling archer,
- steve rogers,
- stiles stilinski,
- sydney bristow,
- sylar zacharov-gray,
- taradiddle gezuntheit,
- the doctor,
- thea queen,
- thoster chatwyn,
- topher brink,
- violet reedhym,
- wade wilson,
- wanda maximoff,
- will graham,
- willow rosenberg,
- winter vilaró,
- wolverine,
- wynnefalshond,
- zatanna zatara
london ♔ when the gusts came around to blow me down
iron sky - paolo nutini
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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As he gets close to her, he notes the injuries and grime apparent on her, and the strong stress lines on her face. All he can manage is the simplest of greetings.]
Hey. No worries, I'm allright.
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She stops -- freezes, really, because she's just that relieved -- when he finally reaches her and speaks. She doesn't even try to hide any expression on her face any more; up until now she'd been trying. Being productive in her worry kept most of it off her face. Relief, that he finally decided to show up from wherever and is, apparently, unharmed. Tired, because wow it's been a hell of a day. Even a little annoyance, because what was so important to leave your phone off for?????
Then she realizes she should probably speak, move, or something. Anything. But then when she tries to think of something to say, she can't, like her mind went blank too when she froze and she's having trouble rebooting her brain, and finally just moves and clings to him. Good luck ever getting her detached.]
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He glances around at the utter mess that surrounds them, doing his best to match faces to names and doors to rooms, but it's a struggle. It's clear that everyone is physically and emotionally wiped out from the day, and he feels a twinge of guilt from having missed what was clearly a fight for their lives.]
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The thing that breaks her out of her almost still-frozen state is the fact that his phone buzzes. Again. With what is probably another delayed text from her. That makes her laugh, because if she doesn't laugh, she's probably going to wind up crying. Which, granted, she will wind up doing anyway at some point, what with her A+ strategy of ignoring herself in favor of everything else.]
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[He speaks in a low voice, no need to be loud since they're still sandwiched together.] I think someone's been trying to find me? I would have answered sooner, but the phone would kick out with a new message every time I tried.
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[He's still going to mumble it though, no point in acting proud about it.]
B...Birdworld. I was at Birdworld with Sarah...It was supposed to be a goddamn day off...
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[That actually adds to her relief. He might feel guilty about missing the action here, but she's glad he was safely away from all of it. Not only just because that meant he'd be fine. But also because when groups were being assigned to deal with the various threats, everyone gathered on the steps, she was nervous enough about maybe having to split up from Steve. She probably wouldn't have gotten lucky enough to be in the same group as both of them, and whichever one she'd be split from, that would have made her nervous enough that she couldn't have been sure she would have been able to be at her best.]
I had to face a seven story ... robot ... thing.
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You mean the big guy outside? I saw that, and pieces of two other...somethings...strewn about. What the hell happened here?
[On his way in Clint heard at least 5 different stories about things that happened today. Surely they can't all be true, right? RIGHT?!?]
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Yes, that big guy. Steve took its head off with his shield. And then it went crashing into the lobby. [yep.] Kenzi said she was with a giant scorpion at some point. Something about a dungeon and a bear, too. If you've heard things from other people, it actually happened. [spoilers: it's all true.]
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Ok, I have no idea who that is. But he's officially on my Ass Hat list.
[He pulls away slightly, to check her face for wounds. He knows her thighs are the stuff of legends, but that doesn't mean she can't get hurt.]
So, are you ok? You look like you got in quite a scrap.
[He pushes a few strands of her fair behind her ear as he looks.]
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Yeah, I look worse than I am. [Her half smile is weak, though, just because she doesn't really feel much in a smiley mood to say the least.] Half of it is .... from part of a ceiling falling on me after a rocket was shot right on that section of roof. [DON'T U EVEN THINK ABOUT SAYING IT. She did, however, take a good chunk of damage from that. But then a cleric healed her most of the way up.]
The rest of it is from the fight outside with the thing.
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Damn. It sounds like you really played your part out there. I'm sure you helped save some lives today.
[He looks her over once more, noting a few scratches here and there.]
Looks like you could still use a little patching up, though. Got any bandaids handy? [(He's actually almost serious about that.)]
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As for the roof -- yeah yeah yeah yeah, she knows he's amused karma finally kicked her ass after like six or seven months. And the thing is, she can't even honestly say she doesn't deserve it a little ... but it's not like she's actually going to say anything like that out loud.
At the bandaids comment, she just gives a look that's like
because oh she sees what he did there, before offering a verbal reply of: ]
No. I actually don't. I didn't think I'd need them when in the training room a few hours ago since I don't make a habit of getting hurt there. [The one time she could have used them too, god damn it.] And I haven't really stopped trying to see what I can do to help after everything had been dealt with, since I'm not as badly injured as a lot of others still are.
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He gets her undivided attention by gently holding her head.] Not all injuries are physical, Nat. How are you holding up? Shit like what you just lived through is traumatic, and it's ok if you need to stop at some point tonight and just decompress. Ok?
[Dude's really concerned about her, ok?]
matching icons because yes.
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[He makes a small Noise of Frustration, then continues talking.]
I'm not saying drop everything and sulk for three hours. If you think you're strong enough to help others, then by all means help. Soon as I get oriented here I'm going to do the same thing. But, sometime in the next few hours, you need to take a break for yourself, ok? Promise me that?
[He squeezes her hand as he says that for extra friendship persuasion points. (by which we mean a Diplomacy check of 16)]
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As long as you're not going to help out in the lobby any time soon, I'll go wherever you're going whenever you get oriented in this ... mess. [She's had enough colossus for a lifetime. No more. But while taking a break doesn't sound like anything she wants to do, she's also not sure she wants to be too far away from him now, which he could probably understand and tell, what with the forty billion text messages.]
I'm glad you were away from this, though, and safe. [Things she didn't voice earlier when he first came up to her a few minutes ago, but now that she's able to function with words and brain properly, she does so now. She feels like she should actually say it, using words. With his hands away from her face now, she kisses his cheek and gives him another hug, though this one is less clingy and death grip-y than the first one was.]
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Hey, I'm glad you're safe too. I'd hate to think we spent our one dance in uncomfortable one-uppmanship. I'll send you a text once I know where they want me, ok?
[His phone lets off a triple-buzz burst to help remind everyone of it's continued presence.]
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You mean, if those delayed texts stop rolling in, you will.
[really though.]