briefing ♔ a lion still has claws | and mine are long and sharp

[wynn]

WHO || Wynn, Buffy, Des, Myri, Astrid, Elena, Spike, Vi, Archer, Felicity, Rose, Steve, Kat, Gar, Dumage  [Closed]
WHAT || Wedding Crashers Mission Briefing
WHERE || Knights HQ, the briefing room
WHEN || Vague February date, shortly before 5pm [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The Knights might have known better than to expect their unseating of Dimitris Sarandis from his position as dictator would go without reprisal.  The sudden attack staged by Sarandis killed several Knights and leveled part of their home, shaking their confidence, but not their resolve.  It's hardly surprising, then, that the moment a lead has arisen as to Dimitris' whereabouts, the Knights are prepared to spring into action.

That lead has come in a surprising form - as Sir Dumage Moulet returns with the news that her sister, Amanda, is engaged to wed Sarandis, and that she's willing to do whatever it takes to prevent that from occurring, even at the risk of potentially compromising the cover she has established with the villains.  

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[allmydreams]

[So normally, this would be the part where Vi would hand Lucia off to Felicity and head off to the briefing for the mission that Felicity would not be going on. Possibly Shayla too, since the three of them were having a baby play date. But since Felicity also got called in on the mission, there's just going to be a couple babies coming in with the first couple knights.

Felicity isn't really sure what she's doing here, but she's not going to question the call until someone tells her too. Instead, she'll just make her way in and grab a seat, pulling out the one next to her so one of the moms can sit down as well.]

[graveflowers]

[ vi kicks her own chair out so myri can take the one felicity pulled out, perching lucia on the edge of the table so she can kick her feet happily and jabber at her baby bestie, which vi translates. ]

Yes, I know! It's your and Shay's first briefing! [ lu squawks happily, clapping her hands purposefully. ] Sirs Shaybay and Lulabelle.

[witchwoman]

[Myri gives Felicity a grateful smile as she takes the offered chair, adjusting her daughter on her lap as both girls keep babbling at each other.]

The bravest and prettiest of all the knights that ever were and ever will be.

[Aggressively hides behind this nice moment because she's sure this isn't going to last. Shit is gonna get real. It always does.]

[recruited]

[ In comes Steve. A little confused as to why he's called in, but he's no longer a Squire so maybe he's on a big boy mission for a reason. When he spots the babies he lights up as he slides into his own empty chair. ] Hello, pretty ladies. [ Nah. He means the babies. Babies are cool. He gives a little wave to them. ]

[slay]

[ Buffy strides in with her hair braided into pigtails behind her neck, glancing around with certain surprise at the new faces. She shoots a questioning look at Myri, then decides to just go for it: ] Whoa. New guys. I mean, I know we haven't exactly been making leaps and bounds for progress in the past couple, well, years. But ... Still. Replacement seems wicked harsh.

[pathology]

[astrid shows up with a giant starbucks drink in hand, eyeing around the room like there are so many ppl here am i late??? wait wynn's not here yet, fuck it. and then ... she sees the babies. and immediately jerks away from the chair she was going to sit it to place herself even farther away from them.]

[nothingsodivine]

[Des saunters in just behind Buffy and Astrid, running a hand through his hair to muss it as he examines the fresh blood.] Oh, you know how it goes. Fresh eyes. Less world-weary. A Lot of man power to break into a wedding, though.

[he stops between Myri and Vi's chairs and leans over to make faces at the babies.] Hey, kiddos. Long time, no see, huh? Stop getting bigger. You're gonna make me feel old.

[doubletake]

You are old, Des.

[Elena speaks with mild snark as she steps in shortly after him, heels clicking on the floor as she moves to pull out a chair for herself nearest the door.]

Try not to hog the babies. I'm pretty sure you've seen them more recently than I have.

[As she winks over at the two moms.]

1/2

[shootfirst]

[ kat heads in with lucky the black cat perched on her shoulder, looking around at the gathered with a raised eyebrow. the new faces don't escape her attention either, especially astrid, so she's just gonna sit on the

opposite side of the table, which puts her near the babies too. ] Just don't change diapers on the Round Table, ok?

[rationalizes]

[ gar, as opposed to most people, looks serious as a heart attack when she walks in, and she appraises each face in turn as if she's envisioning every one of their lives being in her hands as mission leader here.

surprise, this all feels a lot more lethal than it did a year ago. wonder why. she moves to sit on the other side of kat, giving a very small smile to anyone who makes eye contact, but she seems very in her head. ]

[littledhampir]

[Maybe it was Gar's srs bsns face rubbing off on Rose but she doesn't look all that playful as she moves into the room. No trademark swagger in her step as she casts an eye over the faces, new and old before slipping into a chair opposite the door with little more than a nod by way of greeting.]

[postergirl]

[ dumage sashays in behind her, ignores literally everyone, and makes her way to an empty seat near astrid, where she leans back and pulls out a cigarette immediately, lighting it up and taking a slow drag ]

[bigbad]

[Spike comes in smelling like cigarettes, but at least he... isn't lighting up right at the table nice one Dumage. He slides into the seat next to her and gives her a nod. Then he glances at the new faces.]

Fresh meat?

[nothingsodivine]

[At Elena's words, Des's head comes up and he straightens himself up, moving away without waiting for so much as a would-you-kindly from the moms he was leaning over.] By all means.

[he takes the empty seat on Astrid's other side, and gives her a slight nod and a tight grin.]

[graveflowers]

I mean, one of our team members is busy being king and wooing another team member to be queen, so it's not like we didn't have the openings.

[ also finnick, but vi just isn't going to mention that. let's focus on mark being king. she doesn't want felicity to have to defend being there though. ]

Besides, me and Archer were the fresh meat once and that worked out great. [ a beat while lucia makes heart eyes at gar. ] Varying degrees of greatish.

[doubletake]

[Elena grins at Vi's words, looking amused.]

We have superstars, their main squeezes, and royalty on our team. How are we supposed to top that?

[Though, again, it doesn't look like they're all here. Buffy is probably plastered all over gossip magazines, though, so she's still pretty high profile.]

Besides, I think I'll just consider them additions instead of replacements.

[Just because everyone might not be present doesn't mean they're not there in spirit okay 8(

Elena is just happy that she knows all these new people at least a little bit.]

[pathology]

[while she doesn't seem super thrilled to have dumage lighting up next to her, astrid doesn't say anything. truly she has grown as a person. as everyone comes in, she assesses that she at least has met most of these people? vi, elena, felicity, des, myri ... maybe she'll pretend kat and spike aren't real.]

I feel so welcomed. [deadpan as fuck with a face to match]

[recruited]

[ Steve doesn't really seem phased by the odd welcome. If anything he just looks serious. Then again Steve takes most stuff serious. Especially something like this. If they have an issue with his presence he figures they can take it up with whoever assigned him. He throws Astrid and Felicity a small smile. Newbies unite. ]

[allmydreams]

[Felicity just takes all of this in and is ... already slightly on edge. Usually people are grateful for help, rather than the other way around, but okay.

But she's not going to be sullen about it. She's just going to shrug it off.]

Extra muscle can't hurt, right?

[She means more Steve than herself.]

[littledhampir]

I think what everyone means to say is, Welcome. [Actually it's pretty clear Rose doesn't GAF what everyone means to say. She's been the new person in this group and she knows that shit ain't easy.]

[slay]

[ Drumming up a smile, Buffy nods enthusiastically in concert with Rose's assessment, even if it looks like that's still not really the full story for her. ]

The more the merrier. [ Then, to Vi and Elena. ] Actually, speaking of topping that, I'm betting it's no coincidence that Rafael and Mark both got passed over for an invite.

[rationalizes]

They're both a bit high profile for this sort of thing. But we are certainly grateful for all of you for being here. This is potentially quite a dangerous assignment. [ she can't stop herself from glancing around, thinking about those who've died or worse in the name of their mission ]

[bigbad]

And here I thought we were just trying to reduce the chances of friendly fire. [He glances around.] Hey, Archer's not here either. Maybe Wynn's wising up.

[isisagent]

[As if on cue...] Yeah or maybe go fuck yourself, Spike.

[Archer saunters past, martini in hand, which promptly cascades to the ground when he catches sight of Steve.]

Bahahahaha! Ho... holy shit. [He doubles over, and grabs hold of a chair, laughing so hard he's out of breath.] nobody told me we were doing costumes! Since when are we doing costumes?!

[recruited]

[ Steve's only in this until he can find clothes for whatever this mission is. He plans to put them over it. Or attempt to. He squirms a bit and looks at Archer. He doesn't know what to say really. ] It's not really a costume. It's a bulletproof tac suit. [ No, Steven, it's basically a costume. ]