open ♔ socialization log (april through july)

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, Andres, etc!
WHEN || Any time in April/May/June/July
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.   Characters participating in the following missions are asked to wait until their missions have concluded before tagging into things that take place chronologically after said missions:  Dead of Winter, Curse of the Homo Magi, Ravenloft, Shadow Bermuda, and City of Blood  If you aren't certain if that applies to you, please ask!  Characters who are not currently squired in may also post, as their characters are living in the castle awaiting their ceremonies.

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:

Wynn/Section Heads @ Various
Cheryl @ Front Desk
Myri @ her room & various
Skye @ Various
Buffy & Rafael @ the Kitchen
Peter @ Rec Rooms, Bowling Alley, Etc.
Liam @ Rec Room
Baal @ Various
Malina @ Dragon's Fire Wing/outside/kitchen/bar/library/Rec Room
Sweets @ Dragon's Light wing/Rec room/music room
Kali @ training room / firing range / outside / etc
Elena @ firing range / gym / kitchen / common rooms
Vi @ firing range / garden / rec room
Dean @ firing range / billiards room / library / kitchen
Jaina @ garage / training room / roof / computer room / bar
Lazarus & Vi | closed
Nick @ training room / firing range / rec rooms / computer room / bar / various
Des (& Zarad) @ NYC / firing range / training room
Elena @ 21st birthday party!
Alex @ garage / airfield / London / firing range / rec room / etc
Dante @ training room / old man bar / library
Andrew @ his room / computer lab / rec room
Alcide @ bars / grounds
Faye @ Gold's room / her room / various
Thoster @ hallways
Ollie @ training room / Dragon's Hoard wing
Mars @ library / room / gardens
Doyle @ the bar
Sebastian @ training room / his room
Neal @ various
Klaus @ rec room / kitchen / bedrooms
Adam @ Dragon's Light wing / various
Aedan @ training room / Dragon's Light wing / outdoors / rec room
Thea @ training room / grounds / bar / rec room / pool / various
Carol @ training room / grounds / roof
Kate @ training room / library / grounds / London
Ric @ Dragon's Hoard labs / bars / homeschooling kids
Jo @ lobby / various
Abigail @ firing range / gym / grounds / library / Dragon's Fire wing
Steve @ training room / various
David @ training room / library / grounds / kitchen
Emma S @ the pond / library / firing range
Amy @ library / kitchen / etc
Clark @ various
Erica @ grounds / training area / library / etc
Natasha @ firing range / training room / gym / bar / billiards / rec room
Sara @ bars / training room / gym / various
Hook @ bar / kitchen
Taradiddle @ Dragon's Light wing / grounds / places she shouldn't be
Sam @ library  / shooting range / castle grounds
Alice @ Dragon Light's wing / rec room / kitchen / training room / outside
Cora @ her room / grounds / training room / library / kitchen / TV room / computer lab
Will @ pond / firing range / castle grounds

Comments

[witchwoman]

They found me very quickly after I came through the Veil. Before then, I traveled a land called Kardia Hodos, the kingdom of Corronan, specifically.

[likeababyduck]

[His head tips to the side as he listens.]

Do you remember much of it?

[witchwoman]

As far as I know, I remember everything. Well- everything that I ever remembered, at least. I never knew my family, not even on that side of the Veil.

[likeababyduck]

[He nods, considering his next question carefully.]

What was it like?

[witchwoman]

Nothing like this. No electricity. There were laws in place to forbid anyone but a magician to learn how to read. From what I've gathered, it was something like the Shadow world that most of the other shadowkind Knights come from. Primitive. But not the very same world.

[likeababyduck]

[He nods as he processes that.]

Do you miss it? Or do you prefer this world to your own?

[He's found that it can be a toss up, depending on the person and what they remember, but he doesn't expect a straightforward answer.]

[witchwoman]

I was hunted there. I had no family to speak of, save for my familiar. I had no home. This place gave me safety, comfort, and more people who love me than I could have possibly dreamed. I wouldn't trade what I have here for anything.

[Not even to have Finnick back. That's a strange thing to realize. She wants him to come back to her desperately, but not so much that she would give up her family and her home.]

[likeababyduck]

[He nods with a small smile, because that's one of this things he loves the most about what Wynn does here. He gives people who don't already have one a chance to build a family of their own, which is just as important as place and purpose.]

How long have you been with the Knights now?

[witchwoman]

A little more than 3 years now.

[likeababyduck]

And what do you think of the knighthood?

[witchwoman]

Everyone here has been wonderful. I never really knew what a family truly was until I found myself here.

[likeababyduck]

But it hasn't always been easy. You've had some pretty rough missions since you've gotten here.

[The entire Talisman mission has been littered with loss, not just for Myri personally. But there are some blows she had to have felt stronger than others.]

[witchwoman]

We all have. [Meaning her group, but the way she drops her gaze speaks to things that she doesn't want to think about. Like the months of torture, for one....]

[likeababyduck]

[He nods, watching her gaze for a moment and guessing all too easily where her mind is going (sense motive 23).]

You know, I know there are a lot of things that probably aren't easy to talk about, especially given what you've been working on. But sometimes those are the things we need to talk about the most. Carrying them around with you can give them power over you that you might not even realize.

[witchwoman]

I'm not sure I really know where to begin. [Torture time on Andres and the mess with Finnick top the list. He likely has full reports on both.]

[likeababyduck]

[He does, but since this is still their first session, he doesn't want to put her in that kind of position of him forcing the conversation.]

Let's just start generally. How do you feel about your current mission with the Knights?

[witchwoman]

[The problem with that sort of question is that her entire life is basically surrounding this one mission.]

I don't... The work we do is good. I want to see the evils of the world stopped, but...

[likeababyduck]

It can be very stressful, I'm sure.

[The mission has been going on for so long and he's sure there are moments where they just feel like they're in traction and not actually getting anywhere.]

To defeat one evil and find out there's still more out there?

[witchwoman]

We haven't-- [She lets out a strained breath, her chest tightening with the anxious feeling that overwhelms her when she thinks about this for too long.]

We haven't defeated anything, have we? We've only uncovered the layers of evil, the tangled knot of it. But we haven't stopped any of them. The only lives lost have been of our own- knights or people we were meant to protect. [Well, okay there were some guards that died on Andres, but she can't even call that a total win since the ultimate evils there... escaped.]

[likeababyduck]

You still have more answers than you had before.

[They have more information than when they started, which is enough of a victory.]

Even if you haven't won the war yet, you've won a lot of smaller battles. Those victories are still important.

[witchwoman]

It doesn't feel like it. It doesn't feel like we've found anything but more pain.

[likeababyduck]

[He leans back in the chair as he considers carefully.]

So you truly feel like no good has come of it. That the battle itself is futile?

[witchwoman]

[She glances down, going quiet again. She looks a bit like a child that's been scolded for giving the wrong answer in school.]

[likeababyduck]

[He glances over, studying her for a moment, before shifting and leaning closer.]

There's no right or wrong answer here. I just want to make sure I understand what you're feeling. It's okay if you're frustrated with the way the mission has been going - if it were me, I would be too.

[witchwoman]

I just... I don't know what we're doing it all for. Because it's good? The right thing? Yes, lives have been saved, but so many have still been lost. And the darkness in the world only grows stronger.