knightsoflegend | slovechnia ♔ hey little sister what have you done

WHO || Failboat, Dimitris Sarandis, Amanda Moulet, invited wedding guests, and more [closed]
WHAT || The Knights head to Slovechnia to interrupt Dimitris' wedding to Dumage's sister
WHERE || Flight from London to Slovechnia; Slovechnia
WHEN || Sometime in February
HOW || Actionspam or prose

The morning after, the Knights board a plane at their private airfield, and begin the couple hour flight to the country of Slovechnia. Wynn has laid out a plan for them as such, leaving Sir Gar in charge of seeing it executed: they are to send in a few Knights to infiltrate the wedding, while others steal an ambulance from a local hospital. Using magic to make Sarandis think he's having a heart attack during the ceremony, they will intercept the outgoing call to the paramedics, and pose as them to take him out of there and straight to a private airfield to meet with Wynn. They're all aware, however, of just how smoothly their plans tend to go where these villains are involved - especially if the Mind Master shows up.

Either way, it promises to be an interesting day...

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[She gives a small shrug.]

I think we've all got our layers to explore. It's what keeps things interesting.

Precisely.

It really applies to all of us. Kat is a very practiced mage - I believe she's earned the appellation of archmage now, but she's also quite skilled with computer. Mr. Descant is quite handy with a gun, but he's also a very experienced detective. I've done quite a bit of study into the fields of arcane lore, as well as a variety of sciences, to the end of trying to quantify magic in scientific terms.

[She nods a bit, curious at that topic.]

That can be a hard thing to do, when some sources of magic are so intuitive. Especially some of the more divine magics.

Most of my studies focus on the arcane, but that doesn't mean I don't believe even the divine could be understood scientifically were we advanced enough. I don't think it removes any of the mystique of it, for all that - if anything, it makes it all the more impressive.

[She nods for a moment, before shrugging.]

Makes sense. I kind of grew up with natural magic as well as the arcane, so I feel like a lot of it has to do with the person who wields it too.

[ gar rolled a fantastic tact check not to start deconstructing that sentence in an irritating nerd fashion be proud ] There's certainly much more to it than lies within our understanding yet.

I think that was everyone. Beside... Dumage.

[So, so proud. She nods a bit before glancing back over her shoulder.]

I noticed things seemed a little ... tense.

Quite an understatement, really. Dumage... took some things into her own hands where this mission was concerned. She was working undercover, wormed her way into Blade's entourage, and then decided that she was going to pretend to be a double agent. She did a few very questionable things in order to convince them.

[She nods slowly as she processes that.]

And I take it she wasn't a Wynn-approved double agent?

Triple agent, I suppose. And no. She decided to do it because she didn't trust the rest of this team to get anything done.

[Her eyebrows go up a bit at that.]

But she seems to trust us enough when it comes to her sister.

I'm not certain she feels like she has a choice. She certainly couldn't turn to Blade for help.

[She makes a face in agreement. Ew. Blade.]

That is true.

How much do you know about him?

I know that he's the Nightmare Lord's son, and that he's Jade's dad. Vi's filled me in on a lot of general stuff.

[It's mostly that the he's involved with the Nightmare Lord, who's caused Vi so much pain, that makes her mad and has firmly implanted him in the Bad Guy column.]

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I don't know if I'd consider that particularly general information. It stymied us for quite awhile. [ and she still sounds very troubled by all of it ] You know about his abilities?

[She nods in agreement.]

That is a check on creepy mind-rape-y powers. Not my favorite thing to hear.

It seems to be something of a theme. But that seems to be an important part of what Draken Crombe's church is doing - attempting to use the powers of Blade and his kind to implant some sort of messages in the greater populace.

Dimitris Sarandis is a member of that Church. He's been instrumental in helping them track down the Nightmare Lord's descendants and recruit them to their cause.

[She makes a face at that because brainwashing? Not good.]

Is there a "whether they want to or not" attached to that?

Actually, they seem to enlist their aid willingly, if what one of them - Nadia - told us is true. Although 'willingly' ignores the element of psychological manipulation they use to make them feel like it's the best option - and ignores how much they tend to not tell them about what it will cost them.

[She grimaces.]

A choice that's not really a choice. Always fond of those.

It's hard to say how much pushing was necessary for all of them. All we really know is what Nadia's story was... and a bit of Jade's.

[She nods in agreement.]

Some might not have cared about Blade's endgame so long as they got what they wanted.

If it's even Blade's endgame at play. There's still an unfortunate amount that's unclear, and for all intents and purposes, Crombe is still the one running the Church putting all of this together.

[She pauses then frowns.]

Is this like a legit church or like ... Westboro Baptist Church, Gonna Destroy the World edition?

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