briefing ♔ i dare the dark to eat me fiercely

[wynn]

♬ Little Death - Aesthetic Perfection

WHO || Wynn, Jaina, Miles, Han, Rey, Poe [Closed]
WHAT || Philippines Mission Briefing
WHERE || Knights HQ, the briefing room
WHEN || Late February, shortly before 5pm [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

Just as before, accessing the secret room where the Round Table is housed requires using the Knight's keycard to open the glass case beside the mural of the War in Heaven, located across from the ballroom entrance. Using the fire extinguisher as a lever to activate the "door" mechanism reveals the long torch-lit hall plastered in artwork depicting the Knight's history. The tenants of the Knighthood hang large and foreboding over the doors at the end of the hall, which stand open to reveal the brightly lit Round Table, and the majestic crystalline dragon statue presiding over it.

Come in, find a seat, meet your teammates if you haven't already.  Wynn is already here, and standing beside him, arms folded, lips pursed together, stands Jaina.

Comments

[cuivre]

[Miles wanders in shortly thereafter, sliding around Rey. Normally he'd be pretty laid back coming into a briefing, but Jaina's expression has him fixing that in a hurry, brows furrowed as he finds a seat to one side.]

[forcevisions]

[ Ok then ... Rey turns as Miles enters, tracking him as he sits, then goes to occupy a space with two empty chairs left between them. Like urinals. ]

[parsecs]

[Han gives Jaina an easy grin as he walks in... up until he catches her expression. Then he frowns, glancing around at the others sitting quietly and grimly.]

Who died?

[newgenwraith]

[last to the party, Poe arrives with BB-8 at his heels. He had stopped to get a large cup of coffee to go. Because what were meetings without caf? BB-8 is taking in the hallways and the paintings, and when they get to the main room he rolls in and leans WAY back to look up at Wynn a moment while Poe grabs a seat and really works hard to resist putting his feet up on the table.]

[flyingsolo]

[ wynn looks down at bb-8 with a little smirk, while jaina looks to him for the okay to take the reins. he nods to her and she drops her folded arms, looking around at them. ] Nobody. I asked Wynn to invite all of you here.

Some of you know that I've been keeping an ear to the ground about things that might have come through from our world. [ she gestures to everyone but miles ] Especially about the Force.

[forcevisions]

[ straight to the point as always, Rey pipes up, ] You found something.

[flyingsolo]

[ she nods once. ] Rumors of a Jedi Master, actually, someone using all the language, rumored to be able to perform great feats that fall in line with what we do know about the Force, who left tales in their wake in South Asia. Whoever she was, she seemed to be fleeing something - or someone, and the last living sighting of her came from a dock worker who helped board her privately on a ship bound for the Philippines. They said that she was very concerned with protecting some sort of item in her possession, a palm-sized glowing cube covered in strange markings.

A woman matching the description of this Jedi was found dead on the slopes of the Mayon Volcano on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, the most active volcano in the region. There was no sign of any such cube on her, she carried no identification, but there was a strange weapon on her that the authorities who found her sent to us upon Wynn's request.

[ she reaches into her jacket and withdraws this long silver object, before glancing to wynn for a moment. she depresses the button on the side, and an amethyst blade of light appears with a hissing noise. she lightly cuts it against the air, letting them hear its hum, the purple light reflected on her features, until she depresses it again and the blade vanishes. ] I want to know what she was doing there, what happened to that item - and who killed her.

[cuivre]

[Holy shit that sword is awesome. Does he get to see her fight with that thing? He sure hopes so. Yes please.

Focus, Miles, focus. Priorities.]

Sounds like we're heading to the Philippines, then.

[forcevisions]

[ Rey's hand reaches for the leather pouch at her hip, where Luke's saber hangs like a weight that never leaves her side. She hasn't forgotten her responsibility to him, and foolishly, she lets herself hope for a moment that he could be out there somewhere with whoever this Jedi Master was. The light surprises her, in a way; the closest to a purple lightsaber she's seen before was the swirling, bending light as her lightsaber clashed with the broken hum of Kylo Ren's and the ensuing cast of violet light over the snowbanks. ]

Will we start at the volcano or the dock? [ Nima Outpost wouldn't be a particularly simple place to find information once people had already moved through, but the Resistance and the First Order alike had been quick to swarm them at Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana. It seemed a toss-up, if they could expect to get any news of who might have been following her from there. ]

[newgenwraith]

Do you have photos of the crime scene? [he leaned forward a bit] I'm sure by now some of the evidence would have been destroyed but we could see the path of footprints in the dirt to see if she was walking up, or walking back down before she was killed.

[parsecs]

[Han nods at Jaina, looking sympathetic. This woman's strange cube might hold some clues to Jaina's powers, but not nearly as much as a real teacher would have. Still, it's a lead.]

Worth looking around up there but my bet is we'll have more luck talking to people. Someone saw more than they're saying. We just need to figure out who.

[flyingsolo]

[ she catches that look from han, and sees that he gets it, and her expression shifts just a little bit because yes, that's exactly what's hard about this for her 8( and it's emotional for her to realize that her dad understands immediately. ] They documented the crime scene and said they can give us everything they've got when we come to see it ourselves. But I agree - we should probably check the dock first.

[forcevisions]

I think ... [ She looks between them, then fixes her gaze on Jaina. ] I think the Force can help with that. I can't be sure, but ... [ this is probably up there on the list of crazy shit she's said. ] When I was captured by the First Order, I convinced a stormtrooper to set me free. And one of their leaders, he could use it to interrogate people. [ she searches Jaina's eyes like she needs approval from the ... only other Force-familiar person she knows. ] And if it doesn't work, using the Force could just as easily bring whoever was chasing our Jedi friend down on us as well. A trap.

[parsecs]

Oh yeah, Jedi mind tricks. [Han nods.] They work on the weak-minded.

[swordofthejedi]

We can try just asking first and see if it gets us anywhere, but that's... good to know.

[forcevisions]

Of course. [ she nods quickly. just, you know. if they seem to know more than they're saying ............ it's fine. ]

[newgenwraith]

So it looks like we have a starting game plan. Anything else we need to know before we go? Like you know, if that volcano is at all active?

[he has no Force powers to contribute to this mission. Just a cute BB-8 droid and a sparkling personality.]

[swordofthejedi]

It is, actually. So you might wanna dress for warm weather.

[forcevisions]

[ #jakkuflashbacks tho. Rey's noise crinkles, but then she follows it with a smile because tbh the cold fucking sucks and she'll be glad it's at least warm and it won't actually BE jakku, so. You know. How bad can it be .......... ]

[cuivre]

Shorts it is.

We taking the red eye or heading out in the morning?

[wynn]

We think the sooner, the better, in order to make certain the trail doesn't go cold first.

If that is all, then you are dismissed.

[newgenwraith]

[Poe nodded, and he stood up and stretched]

So do I get to fly the plane?

[parsecs]

No.

[forcevisions]

Plane? [ Rey shifts her gaze to Han. ] The Falcon isn't running? [ Ok maybe it should have occurred to her that it would be ostentatious to zip around in a starship but, to be fair, it's 100% the norm where almost everyone in this room is from. ]

[newgenwraith]

Why not? I'm a great pilot.

[BB-8 would like to remind you, Poe, that you crashed into this planet]

That was because of the black hole and this Veil, not my fault. And I didn't crash. I landed and without half my systems.

[don't mind the man arguing with his droid]

[cuivre]

We've got a couple pilots in this group, champ. I think they've got a bit of rank on you for now.

Maybe you'll get them to take turns.

[But probably not.]

[parsecs]

Falcon? [Han looks confused, then shakes his head.] Don't know that one, but fact is, we're not taking an X-Wing. You might be a hotshot, but you're still new to this world. Let the pros handle it.

[flyingsolo]

What he's trying to say is that you might want us to show you around their old tech here a bit first.

[forcevisions]

[ BUT


DAD


YOUR SHIP.

Rey is too stunned to properly respond, and she shakes herself of it after a few moments only to finally get to her feet. Right. Packing and getting on their way. That's a thing we should all do. ]

When we get back, I'll go up in one of their sub-orbital planes with you. We can learn together. [ Rey offers the minor salve of camaraderie to Poe as she heads for the door, touching his arm lightly like let's just not try to stop Han Solo from flying ok ]

[newgenwraith]

But I wanna fly the ships now, Rey...

[fake whining and he goes to follow her out, BB-8 rolling behind him continuing to make his sarcastic comments]