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knightsoflegend2014-12-22 11:09 am
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Entry tags:
- !main plot,
- abigail hobbs,
- adam weiss,
- alainn o'rourke,
- alanna,
- alice lincoln,
- alisha daniels,
- allison argent,
- andrea dodge,
- andrew dennis-gatewood,
- astrid mädchen,
- bambi dalton,
- belle desrosiers,
- bo dennis-gatewood,
- brantley river,
- buffy summers,
- cara mason,
- christos la krail,
- cora hale,
- cordelia chase,
- david levin,
- dean winchester,
- desmond d. descant,
- dimitri belikov,
- drax,
- elena gilbert,
- emma frost,
- emma swan,
- eric carpenter,
- faith lehane,
- faye chamberlain,
- felicity braddock,
- francesca,
- grimrot,
- gus harrison,
- han solo,
- hayley marshall,
- helen magnus,
- jaime lannister,
- jaina solo,
- jeanne gar,
- kat samcelot,
- kate beckett,
- killian jones,
- klaus mikaelson,
- lanston wellington,
- lila zacharov-gray,
- lissa dragomir,
- lydia martin,
- malina harvey,
- marcus andres,
- mars dacey,
- matt byrne,
- miles cuivre,
- myrilandel odair,
- nathan young,
- rose hathaway,
- sam winchester,
- sebastian trevethor,
- spike,
- taradiddle gezuntheit,
- the doctor,
- thoster chatwyn,
- violet reedhym,
- wade wilson,
- will graham,
- willow rosenberg,
- wynnefalshond
andres ♔ but life is for living
♬ everything's not lost - coldplay
WHO || Everyone
WHAT || With Andres Isle reclaimed, the Knights deal with the aftermath of their battle to save its people
WHERE || Andres Isle, and various
WHEN || September 20th, 2014 - October 20th, 2014 [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam
When the sun rises on Andres Isle the next morning, and the smoke and rubble clears, it is impossible to call the battle anything less than a victory, in terms of freeing the people from Sarandis' hateful regime.
But all victories come with their costs.
Sir Zatara's team easily accomplished their goal, shutting down the power station that allowed Sir Trinall's team to wrest control of Isle communications, although Emma Swan was grievously injured in the process and Faye Chamberlain found herself facing an unexpected temptation when she got her hands on Jordan Reeves' genie bottle. Sir Wellington and Carpenter led an assault on the prison base, that succeeded in freeing all of the captured Shadowkind and putting a halt to the hideous experimentation going on there - at the cost of Sir Maxwell Briggard's life. (And Nathan Young's... but he got better. Twice.) Even Myrilandel's familiar, Amaranth, was found, but when Lan turned violent on a bank of computers in a fit of hatred for the machines and all they represented, a targeting system was activated that released all the mind-controlled Shadowkind hybrids from the facility, on a dread path of destruction for the castle, ready to kill anything in their path.
Meanwhile, Sir O'Rourke's team had managed to locate the love potion that Dimitris Sarandis was using to control Kat Samcelot's behavior, and made it impossible for the next dose to be administered on time. Sir Hathaway's team likewise made it into the castle, after following a set of clues that indicated Sir Elena Gilbert and the doppelganger Kyp had killed a guard and stolen their identity, heading into the palace proper. Eavesdropping within its walls, they learned that the Prime Minister had been shot, and that the woman responsible was being held in a tower. This, however, proved to be a cruel trick of Dimitris' ally, the powerful psion known as the Mind Master. Forcing Elena to shapeshift into Dimitris, she mentally dominated Elena, and made her sit outside the empty tower cell, where Rose, Will, and Dean found her. Having been approached by Kyp, who had been separated from Elena and feared for her life, a grudging alliance was formed, and the doppelganger approached "Dimitris" alone. Despite her attempt to drop hints to her real identity, the situation escalated - until the Mind Master made Elena wrest Kyp's gun from him, and shoot him right between the eyes.
In the meantime, Sir Yassin's team had blown an entrance for Prince Marcus Andres to lead his group into the castle through the tunnels below it. Dimitris had, however, expected something like this, and filled the tunnels with all manner of monster and creation designed to stop them. With exceptional teamwork, they bypassed all threats and made it within, where they were shocked to discover the real Chad Becksworth was in fact a prisoner here, and that Draken Crombe, leader of the Church of the Lord's Humanity had been impersonating him with the aid of the Mind Master, for access to NOVA Records' resources, for years. They also discovered the bones of former Dragon's Claw Sir Ellison, Tia's father, and helped lay his spirit to final rest.
Knights around the Island struggled to halt the hybrid creatures from charging into the palace and ruining the internal team's chance to save Kat and Thomas and stop Dimitris. Wynn led his own team to hold the line between the forest and the castle, but the brutal creatures they faced were overwhelming, and even with back-up arriving, creatures broke through. Wynn sent Sir La Krail and Francesca, whose team had secured the guardhouse, to stop several driders who had passed, while he chased down a chemical golem that crashed right through the palace doors.
Dimitris had already sprung his trap, however, sealing Marcus and friends in a room below the palace pumped with poisonous gas, while he asked Kat Samcelot for her hand in marriage on a screen for them to watch. At that moment, however, the love potion wore off, and she stabbed him in the dick, and helped free the others below. Myri teleported several of the Knights up to the main floor to save Kat, who faced the guards alone and weaponless, but the arrival of the chemical golem provided enough of a distraction for Dimitris to make a break for the throne room.
Elsewhere on the Isle, Sir Koraith's team had been gathering allies among the Shadow Village, to face an attack that they had been warned about, by soldiers seeking the location of Rocket, who had escaped the Shadow prison after attempting to assassinate the Prime Minister. Koraith led those who could not fight towards the boats, while the others remained to hold the line and take out not only the soldiers, but also the clockwork creations called nimblewrights, robots whose construction Failboat had learned was based on some kind of demonic creature held in Dimitris' basement. The battle was brutal, and Sir Riddick fell to the clockwork soldiers' assault. The fate of Sir Jaina Solo and a Shadowkind villager named Indra Crestrage remains unknown, as they were also grievously injured in the assault.
Sir Edain's team had secured various boats to transport villagers off the Isle, but also discovered a sinister shack where body parts were created up for export to Japan. In the battle that followed to hold the docks, Hook lost his entire arm, but managed to hold onto his life.
Back in the palace, several Knights joined Wynn in taking down the chemical golem, as Marcus and company moved to confront Dimitris and the Mind Master in the throne room. The Prime Minister was unrepentant for his crimes, and revealed that after capturing Kat, he had had the Dragon's Claw Thomas Bancroft killed, dumping his body off a balcony for them to see. Enraged, Kat ran to attack Dimitris, and was nearly killed by his bodyguard, Asha, but Fred Jr. intervened, sacrificing himself to save her. Des murdered Asha instantly, while the Mind Master teleported herself and Dimitris away, leaving the guards willing to surrender, and the Knights frustrated by the hollow victory.
A search of the Isle revealed no trace of where the two had gone, but it also meant that Andres was free of Sarandis' influence. Sir Banks' team had managed to gather all the wealthy human elite of the Island together inside a country club under the guise of a gas leak, and when Emma Frost appealed to the humanity of Sergeant Alastair Stone, a local police officer, he assisted them in routing out potential supporters of Dimitris, and separating them from the others, so that they might be shown the truth about what had been happening on the Island, right underneath their noses, in the form of a video of the prison laboratory provided by Logan and Nathan.
Most of the natives were shocked by what they saw, but had already been distrustful of Sarandis' true motives. Hearing that the true heir to the throne had returned has given the people of Andres a real sense of hope that things can change, but the road will not be an easy one.
Rather than pull out and head home the next day, Wynn has asked as many Knights as possible to remain and help with reconstruction. There are families to reunite, injured to tend to, homes to rebuild, a palace to remodel, and much more. This post is for things following directly in the aftermath of the Battle for Andres, especially for things happening on the Island itself. More posts will go up in the near future to backdate less immediate events. Characters are free to go back and forth to the castle as they please, but also have accommodations provided in the city or palace on Andres Isle.
the art part }
They were all just fighting a war. No one's going to care about a little blood.
He slows when he sees Faith focusing on the painting. To him there's nothing all that remarkable about it, but she seems very invested which leaves him to ask:]
Familiar with the artist?
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Pretty sure the dude that painted this has been dead a long time. [She doesn't remember the artist, but she figures if it's expensive and used to be in a museum... it's by an dead guy.]
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I meant more with their work.
[But he can take that explanation too.]
You just seemed really interested.
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Hm? Nah, just - I've seen it before. [Peeking out from a black hole of sorts...]
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[Okay then. He figures it would take more than that to make him stop, but everyone doesn't necessarily appreciate art the way he does.]
... It's nice.
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You should clean yourself up. [Because, Faith knows what it's like to do that hours later and go "Hey... where'd that gaping wound come from." right before passing out.]
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I'm fine. I was just trying to figure out where to crash.
[he got patched up by one of the clerics back at the Shadow Village, so he's not actively bleeding anymore - he just hasn't gotten it off his armor.]
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I've probably slept worse places.
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Faith.
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David. You been with the Knights a while?
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About a year and a half? Longer, but not as long as some.
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Help me take this down. [She doesn't know David, so she won't be divulging exactly how she knows it was stolen, but she figures that if he's honorable to the name of a Knight that he'll help her put this where it belongs -- or at least help her get it off the wall so she can.]
[She moves forward and lifts the frame away from the wall slightly. It's a big painting and she doesn't have a magic bag that can slip it away into a pocket dimension, either.]
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Why?
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When's the last time you knew a museum to give a painting to someone? It belongs in that museum.
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Give something to someone? No. But people loan things to museums.
[Unless she knows specifically which museum this came from.]
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Maybe for an exhibit, but not for a private collection. [Or so she assumes.]
Either way, I know this painting is a big deal. The museum it was in - it had its own wall and a special room. They wouldn't give it to this guy to borrow.
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You think he had someone steal it for him.
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I think if it's on this wall, someone put it here without permission. I mean, if you want to stop and take a moment to wait for a Google search... I'm cool with that.
[Mostly, because she knows that it had to make the news and she really doesn't think she's included in the press for it. If she had been, she's pretty sure Wynn would've had a chat with her.]
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Nope. I'll take your word for it. We should let Wynn know, I'm sure he could have it shipped back discreetly.
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Maybe I'll see if Wynn'll let me bring it back. It's not every day that I figure out a famous painting doesn't belong on a wall. Kinda wanna see it through.
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He probably will, especially if it's local.
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Though... what am I gonna do with it until then? I can't really just carry it around with me...
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Maybe there's a storage room somewhere? We could put it there for safe keeping?
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