open ♔ june/july castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || Any time after June 7th  
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.   

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:

Rafael, Buffy, Des & Wynn | Closed
Frankie & Lis'sa | Closed
Taradiddle @ the desk
Lydia @ the desk
Abigail @ the desk 
Adam @ the desk
Bambi @ the desk
Rebekah @ the desk
Dawn @ the desk
Adi @ the desk 
Stiles @ the desk
Felicity @ the desk
Will @ the desk
Han @ the garage
Ric @ the bars.  all of them.  also dragon's hoard lab.
Team NYC | Closed
Lila @ the kitchen/castle grounds
Kate B. @ castle grounds / training room
Aedan @ training / woods / common areas
Frankie @ front desk / garage / various
Maxwell @  rec room / training room / castle bar / forest
Will @ firing range / pond / castle grounds
Sven @ the woods
Adam @ library / firing range / London
Jaime @ castle tavern / training room / stables
Hook @ castle grounds / bar
Jack & Christos @ the training room
Damon @ the castle bar / castle grounds / woods / London / library
Sean @ castle ground / jumping out a window
Des @ the woods
Kate @ training / shooting range / castle grounds
Vi @ her room / bathrooms / pantry / dragon's light wing / firing range
Francesca @ training room / bar
Francesca & Val'drin | Closed
Kenzi @ training room
Lila & Bambi | Closed
Spike @ training room
Lissa @ foyer / Dragon's light wing / garden
Andrew @ his birthday!
Buffy @ Rafael's room / firing range / training room / dining hall
Francesca, Will, & Max | Closed
Faith @ Kitchen / London bars
Abigail & Will | Closed
Des | Dragon's Light wing
Jackson | Train station / training room / garage
Klaus | Bar / garden

Comments

[immuno]

[ Lydia has literally no mental defenses, apparently (will 11). If she ever did, Peter Hale basically crazed her into losing all of them. She comes back into the castle with a few department store shopping bags, spotting him just outside the front gates. She tilts her head, brow furrowing at the sight of him with that cat. She’s grown used to familiars, but psions don’t need them.

Approaching, she sets the bags down on the edge of the steps a few higher than where Adam sits, and she crouches to offer her hand to the cat. ]

Why are you just sitting out here?

[ It’s creepy. Why does she always gravitate towards creepy? First that (super hot) vampire—if Adam turns out to be some weird lurker loser too, she’s gonna lose the last of her marbles. These are all running mental commentary ftr. ]

[ex_psionic439]

Honestly? I'm bored. [It wasn't a lie ok. He was just alleviating his boredom by eavesdropping on everyone.] And I figured she'd want to get out of my room for a little while.

[Speaking of the cat, she is probably all up on Lydia's shit so long as she's getting attention. I dunno she's a diva. Surprised she's not Lydia's familiar tbh. Adam reaches over to scratch her on the booty.]

Plus, I've been keeping an eye out for that douchebag who messed with your friend Stiles the other day.

[immuno]

[ Lydia is giving her hella attention, so yeah. She should change her loyalties and become Lydia's familiar basically. Her hand stops mid-pet at Adam's last remark, and it's 100% unclear if she's so frozen at the fact that Adam is calling Stiles her friend (ahahahahaha) or if she's concerned that someone messed with him.

If we're being honest, it's probably 50/50. ]

Wait, what? What are you talking about?

[ex_psionic439]

[As soon as Lydia stops Venus is probably like bye, Felicia. Gurl has no loyalties.]

This guy started stalking me after I shut him down the other day. I guess he got in Stiles' head and tried to get him to break my phone in retaliation. It was pretty sad, actually.

[immuno]

Got in his head.

[ beat. ]

Like mind control?

[ wis 16. damon you fucker, you are officially on her shit list. good thing he told her about the compulsion shit. ]

[ex_psionic439]

Yeah. [Like what else would he even be talking about tho.]

I told Stiles to let me know if he tries anything again.

[immuno]

Adam. It's mind control. Stiles won't know if he tries it again, he could just erase his memory and pretend it never happened. That's how mind control works!

[ She gets to her feet like WE GOTTA DO SOMETHIN she just doesn't know what yet. Also yes that's a definitive male pronoun because she fucking knows in her bones that it's Damon. Her tone is a bit pitchy, but mostly alerting Captain Obvious because Adam SHOULDN'T YOU KNOW THIS YOU CAN DO IT. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Oh, is that how it works? Relax, gurl. The guy made Stiles gently drop his phone on the ground. Adam is not giving Damon that much credit tbh.]

So what do you suggest? [Like, really. It's either narc or payback and neither one of those sounds very smart to him. He strokes Venus' back when she crawls back in his lap.]

[immuno]

[ her wisdom check was a 6, so she's just impotently, stubbornly pacing. ]

I don't know, stop him? He's a vampire, people in this world must have found some way to protect themselves from domination.

[ex_psionic439]

[PSA: Since Lydia dropped the V-card bomb, this is officially taking place after the thread with Gus down below, just to keep shit organized and making sense.

Except now Adam stops stroking Venus so that he can look at Lydia like guuuurl.]

Wait, what? He's a vampire? [And you know this how? Basically.]

[immuno]

[ she dropped her v-card a long time ago, sweetheart. ]

Uh, hello? Why else do you think he looks like he hasn't seen the sun in a couple hundred years? [ Rolling her eyes and making it sound like it was so much more obvious than it ... was ... ] He uses a cursed ring to walk around in the day, but he's undead.

[ Oh. The why. She shifts her shoulders, raising one finger to carefully smooth her hair aside. ]

... We talked. [ Her tongue darts out briefly to wet her lips, and her eyes flutter upwards in a way like just let it go, dude. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Don't think that her answering her own question went over his head, because it didn't (wisdom 15). And he'd look a lot more amused by it if they weren't currently discussing the king of douche mountain. Who she's apparently sexting now. Yeah.]

About his magical jewelry. [He wasn't going to not say anything, sorry.]

[immuno]

I'm sorry, are we blaming me for being charming and easy to talk to right now, or are we helping Stiles?

[ having none of your shit, adam!!! because yeah she's going to just full-on admit that she was half-rolling her eyes at damon's life story and engaging him to learn as much as possible because men are narcissistic as fuck and she knows it and exploits it to make them adore her. whatever. let's move past it and onto wHAT SHE LEARNED OK. ]

Yes. He's a vampire. That's how he controls people's minds. [ he definitely told her about that too but she's trying to make it sound like she researched it. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Except he thinks the exact opposite because if she had researched it, she'd sure as fuck have researched a way to prevent it. Especially if she had one showing off his bling to her (wisdom 21). Lydia, you are not that dumb.]

So did you ask him how you could prevent it? [Or maybe you are...]

[immuno]

[ wis check of ... 8.

It did not occur to her before this point to research it. ]

No. If he's just going around dominating people, I doubt he would have told me anyway. There's a good chance he only told me what he did because he could dominate it out of me, anyway. He knows how to use it to make people forget.

[ But it's not too late!! Because her new wisdom check is 20 total. ]

Something like that would have to be a spell. There are tomes in the library: I'll start digging. [ She points at Adam. ] You go find Lila. She's always in there looking at texts about mind-affecting spells. [ Lydia might not know why, but since they both spend considerable time there, she's noticed. ] She might have an idea.

[ex_psionic439]

[Wow, Damon was sounding like even more of a douche than Adam originally assumed. But it's the information about Lila that really interests him. Because he's nosy and anything having to do with telepathy or telepathic abilities are going to ping him. He will file that information away for later.]

I can just text her. [Like, really. He is going to go ahead and do it now, in fact:

Hey, do you know anything about vampire domination? Not the kinky kind, thanks.

Because why would he trek through the fucking castle looking for this bitch instead?]

[bittersweeter]

Sure do.

[ yeah. that's... the text. ]

[immuno]

And I can start looking.

[ She pulls out her phone to do a quick drakenet search for a nat 20 research check wow she is dedicated to that iphone googling. ]

[ex_psionic439]

[Wow, bitch. Care to share with the rest of the fucking class? But that would probably not go over well. Especially when she had no context to go on whoops. Good thing Adam has the forethought to class it up a little before he hits send.]

Some asshole turned Stiles into his bitch. Any way to break it or prevent it from happening again?

[bittersweeter]

[ that gets her attention. hurting stiles it like kicking puppies. also her knowledge: arcane lore check was a pretty decent 20 total so she's no slouch. mostly because this appeals to her skill set. ]

Ew. You could set him on fire. :) Kill the source, kill the compulsion. That's all it is, a compulsion spell. I do the same thing with sleepwalkers. There is a protection against evil spell that blocks stuff like that if you can get someone to cast it on a charm for him, but I'm not sure who can or how long they last. I broke someone out of a similar spell because my curse work beat whatever bullshit he was pulling, but I also don't know if any of my curse charms would stop it from happening. I could ask Zero or Amara. Tia would probably know more about it from a psionic perspective.

[ yes, she texted that in one big block. that's how she do. ]

[ex_psionic439]

Lila thinks we should set him on fire. [Yeah, that's the only part of that he thought to relay to Lydia.]

Tempting as immolation sounds, this guy's supposedly one of ours.

The vampire douche. Not Stiles. [Just to be clear. But he's still texting and talking like a professional ok.]

Do you think your curse work or whatever could undo what this guy did to Stiles?

[Not touching on the Zero or Tia front because reasons. Who the fuck is Amara? He assumes another mentor.]

[immuno]

Not allowed to set other squires on fire.

[ She tilts her phone to the side to start scrolling the search results. She zooms in. ]

You can stop texting her now.

[ She turns the phone around to show him the results. ]

Holy objects and garlic mitigate the effects. All he needs to do is carry one.

[bittersweeter]

[ lila isn't telepathic so... she doesn't know what lydia is saying and still texts adam her answer. a+ ]

Sure, maybe.

[ex_psionic439]

[Adam stops texting to look up at Lydia like are you fucking being serious right now? Because that was the dumbest shit of his life. But fortunately it was also simple, so he couldn't really complain.]

Crisis averted, I guess. Apparently holy objects and fucking garlic can undo it/prevent it. But thanks.

[immuno]

So.

[ She raises a very pointed finger. ]

I'm not buying Stiles jewelry.

[ That's on you. ]