knightsoflegend | andres ♔ but life is for living

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Malina hangs out in the medical tent because it's where she's the most useful at the moment. She runs errands, helps with treating wounds, and while she doesn't have any medical magic to speak of, she can lend a hand here and there.

She comes up on Adam after things taper off a bit, and offering him a water bottle.]

Thirsty?

[And since Adam is probably exhausted after a few hours of trying to look busy but really being more interested in seeing like idk someone with half of their face melted off, he doesn't hesitate to take the water when it's offered.]

Thanks. [Uncapping that shit and gulping like this is a Coke commercial.]

I should probably remember to stop and hydrate before I end up looking like one of these guys. [Who were apparently still in earshot, because said burn victim turns to look at them like wtf.]

Oh, not you. You look great, sir.

[Malina shakes her head, before placing one hand on his shoulder, turning him towards the back end of the tent.]

Maybe you should take a break.

[He doesn't seem to mind being led away from the triage station, especially while said burn victim is still glaring at him with his one good eye whoops.]

Are we even allowed to leave? These people aren't going to stop pouring in.

We're allowed to step away when we've worn out our usefulness.

[She'll sit him down in one of the more isolated areas and proceed with the obligatory mom-ing.]

When was the last time you ate?

I don't know, before we got here?

[Which, now that she mentions it--yeah, that was probably something he should rectify. Especially when his stomach decides to speak up in agreement as if it had magically been turned back on by his actually being reminded that it existed.]

I guess I just wasn't thinking about it.

You and a lot of other people.

[She gestures for him to sit, before heading over to where some of the food that was brought in was left.]

Sit. I'll get you a plate.

[Look, Adam is smart enough to know better than to argue when a woman offers to wait on him. Which is why after he has made himself comfortable he's prompted to ask--]

Are you single?

[Astrid was out of earshot and he was totally just trying to be funny. No harm rite.]

Yes.

[Because she's honest if nothing else. But she knows where this is going and she's going to cut you off at the knees, kid.]

But no.

Worth a shot.

[Said the guy who was not single himself. Way to endear people to you, Adam.]

So are you a cleric, or...?

[He spends time with the Dragon's Light because of Astrid but he doesn't remember seeing her there ever.]

[She shakes her head as she fixes a plate.]

Dragon's Fire. I'm just an extra set of hands. Figured it's where I could be the most useful.

Same here. Sort of. I'm in the cool group though.

[That would be the #psionmasterrace for the uninformed.

And he technically hasn't been officially promoted yet.]

No offense.

[Her eyebrows go up a bit at that as she glances up at him with a smirk.]

And which group would that be?

Mind. I mean technically we're still Fire, right?

[They really should have their own sect tbh.]

[They probably should, but Malina's face nods a bit in recognition.]

So psion, then. Not a bad asset to have.

Right? Not that magic isn't ... useful, I guess.

[Somehow lmao.]

I mean, setting things on fire has to be kind of cool.

[Except some psions can actually do that too.]

Setting things on fire happens to be my favorite thing.

[She brings the plate of food back over and hands it to him to eat.]

Malina Harvey.

[Just kidding, this conversation went a in a completely different direction! Because the name is actually one that he's heard before, and a wisdom check of 15 means he's able to recall Zoe telling him that Malina had been the person to train her.

He snaps out of his little trip down memory lane when she offers him the plate of food tho.]

Adam Weiss. I think you know my sister, actually. [More like he knows she does, but he's keeping it less interrogative for the time being.]

Edited 2015-01-09 05:40 (UTC)

[Her head perks up at the last name "Weiss" and she can't help but smirk a bit in response.]

So you're the brother. She said you were around here somewhere. I was her mentor.

[Zoe hasn't told her a lot about him one way or another, beyond what she could infer from general sister stuff, but she tends not to judge much based on what people tell her anyway.]

Edited 2015-01-09 17:38 (UTC)

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