new orleans ♔ the man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud | but nobody ever hears him

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WHO || Thomas, Jack, Gar, Kat, Dumage, Mark, Myri, Buffy, Finnick, Spike, Rafael, Des, Elena [Closed]
WHAT || Various downtime shenanigans
WHERE || Various locations, New Orleans
WHEN || Tuesday Oct 16th - Oct 28th [Backdated]
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order!!

[[ Several of the Knights discovered a secret room hidden in Nova Headquarters, full of strange occultish paraphernalia and guarded by monstrous warriors. Amid this was direct evidence of an interest in the Talisman. They also took captive Chad Becksworth's personal assistant, Olean Gilbert, who has information about the location of the mysterious woman that Burt told Finnick about - the one whose presence has had a major effect on Chad's personality. Olean doesn't even know the woman's name, calling her the "Mind Master", and identifying her as Chad's 'advisor'.

The Knights also discovered that the other Dragon's Claw, Sir Jack Chessing, had followed his own secret mission to Nova Headquarters, and he'll be meeting back at the hotel with them to explain what brought him there...

This log covers any non-work related shenanigans the Knights have while staying in New Orleans, immediately following the last log and extending over the next two weeks.

Make your own threads, don't fuss about tag order, feel free to threadjack multiple people into one thread for hang-outs, ask me if you want a certain scene with an NPC, etc. forever whatever.]

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[slay]

[ she'd gone out trying to track her down, and well - the car's a lot closer than she'd been expecting. so she just slides into the passenger seat, quietly shutting the door and smoothing her hair back to get the rain out of it. ]

You got out of there pretty fast.

[shootfirst]

[ to her credit, the look kat gives buffy is clearly more put-on frustration than actual annoyance ] I'm really gonna have to invest in a more secret brooding spot at this rate, huh?

[slay]

Car's kinda a gimme. [ she says it with a cant of her head, like she's reluctantly acknowledging. ] I'd apologize, but ...

[shootfirst]

It's ok. I'm not so much anti-company, as anti-same hotel room as that pervert.

[slay]

I don't blame you. I don't think anyone does - if anything, IIII'm pretty sure everybody else up there's doing their best not to chop him up and fit him in a dessert cart. [ she reaches over the console to put a hand on kat's knee. ] I'm sorry.

[shootfirst]

[ the contact makes her shift uncomfortably ] There's a big difference between wanting to and having to actively spend every moment arguing yourself out of it.

I know it seems like such a terrible thing, wanting to actively go in and kill an unarmed man, but I'm really not seeing the moral high ground here.

[slay]

Not so much he doesn't deserve to die, more that he's not worth having that blood on your hands. Now, if you wanted to leave him in the swamp for the crocodiles to eat, that's an entirely different story.

[shootfirst]

I've had plenty of blood on my hands, absolutely none of which has left me feeling guilty. [ a pause, and she grips the steering wheel, even though they're not going anywhere. ] Know what's never made sense to me?

We kill monsters and don't blink at it, when a lot of them are just as sentient or souled as we are, because they're monsters and they can't make a choice to be different, and not eat people or spread evil. And that's supposed to be better somehow than killing human monsters, who had a choice to be decent, honorable, normal-ass people and instead actively chose to be the scum of the fucking earth. To ruin lives, hurt other people, eat other people up inside.

You ask me, the people who choose it are the real monsters. It seems a helluva lot more like justice when we get to take them down, than when we wipe out something that's just running on instinct.

[slay]

[ she gives a sigh, settling back in the passenger seat and staring out the front windshield. it's tough, because kat's right in so many ways, but it all comes down to that choice. ]

They are worse. To ... To choose being that way, they are. But the thing is, no matter how low they get, no matter how bad they are, they still have that choice. They could change. The monsters, they never could. No matter what happens, they're just gonna - they'll keep doing bad.

The people, no matter how loose a definition you have to use to include them in that, they don't have to.

[shootfirst]

Not everyone wants to be saved. Or can be saved, except by brainwashing or telepathically re-engineering their head. That's one reason jail gives life sentences out.

That kind of evil exists too. You can't honestly believe every person could wind up turning away from the dark side with enough love and rainbows. And even if they did, what if it took them five separate genocides before they learned that lesson?

I'd rather that one person gets cut down after the first one than we have to live through four more.

[slay]

And there's a reason that plenty of jails don't give out death sentences, too. Because you don't know which ones are going to be the ones who can get better, who will work to get better.

[shootfirst]

So the possibility that they could someday decide to give up slaughtering people makes up for all the people they kill along the way?

[slay]

It gives them the right to not be killed by us when there's an alternative, yeah. If we went around killing people just because we decided they didn't deserve to live anymore, we wouldn't be any different than them.

[shootfirst]

It just doesn't feel right.

[slay]

No, but it's still the best option. We don't get to decide who lives and who dies, it's not our place to take lives all willy-nilly.

[shootfirst]

Yeah, well times like these, making one teeny tiny exception doesn't seem like such a capitol offense.

[slay]

If everybody were making exceptions, it wouldn't be much of a rule, would it?

[shootfirst]

Yeah, yeah. Gunning down unarmed men who've sort of surrendered: bad.

He's just lucky we didn't meet in the middle of a firefight.

[slay]

Or we're just really unlucky. [ it's grumbled. she wants him dead too, kat, it's ok. she peers up at the hotel, then back at kat. ] I'm gonna take another crack at him. [ beat. ] Interrogation crack, not ... bone crack.

[shootfirst]

He's got to know something useful to us. Probably better you go diving around that disgusting mind of his than I do.

[slay]

Any chance you've got a hazmat suit for my brain?

[shootfirst]

You'd have to talk to the Dragon's Mind about that one, and we're a little short on psionics in this crew.

[slay]

Too bad. [ she sighs, pushing the door open. ] Wish me patience.

[shootfirst]

Yeah. [ she breathes out a grumpy sigh, but right before the door closes she says: ] Buffy?

[slay]

Yeah? [ she leans down to meet kat's gaze, stopping short of closing the door. ]