chapter finale ♔ maybe one day we can break the distance

[allaboutme]

♬ break the distance - ashton edminster

WHO || Cordelia, Kate, Ashley, Elijah, Topher, Astrid [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a man named Estavan, whose Trade Consortium is linked to a series of mysterious attacks
WHERE || PTC Warehouse, London
WHEN || June 12th [forward dated - changing the date from last log being in 2016 to being in 2017 surprise]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

A several year operation investigating a Consortium known as PTC run by a mysterious man - now revealed to be a ogre - named Estavan has led to the discovery that he made a a business deal with a trio of demons. To no one's surprise, that did not end well, and Estavan has asked the Knights for help in setting things right. Estavan has asked the Knights to head to his warehouse in London and keep the creatures busy while he goes to meet with the Consortium's Ruling Council to find a way to take care of them. While Phineas, the Doctor, Val'drin, and Alec stay behind to clean things up at Estavan's home, Cordelia and Kate phone for back-up to meet them downtown at the warehouse.

They meet up in the warehouse district of the city, outside the large building.  There are several empty trucks parked out in the lot, but otherwise, no visible lights on, and only one door set in the side of it, and a few closed heavy loading doors. 

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[andblockbuster]

[EXUBERANTLY RAISES A HAND NOT HOLDING HIS GUN.] Me! That's what I'm here for. The non-violent hacking of things.

[HE JUST WANTS TO BE TELEPORTED.]

[allaboutme]

Just don't get spliced into anything, Jeff Goldblum style.

[bagsthem]

[She doesn't say anything else, just takes a step over to Topher so she can smack a hand into his shoulder, and proceeds to make them both dissolve into a lovely cloud of energy...

...and basically phases them both through the door. Let's see what we've got here.]

[allaboutme]

[ when they reappear, it's as if their stomachs drop right out from them. there is, in fact, no ground to find purchase on beyond the door, and so the moment they materialize, they begin plummeting straight down into an unimaginably vast and open white space. while from the outside, it had appeared to be a normal door set into the side of a building, from the inside, that door seems to float impossibly above them, growing ever further away by the moment as they fall. there are no visible walls, floors, or ceilings. they rush quickly past several shapes in the distance, strange floating platforms that they can't make out initially, but finally realize are pallets of crates and boxes floating throughout the expanse. other doors can be seen hanging freely at various elevations, several of which they pass close to, but not close enough to grasp.

stranger still, small blue-skinned humanoids with multiple arms work throughout the vast "warehouse", loading and unloading floating pallets with forklifts that are suspended in mid-air. none of them pay any mind to the plummeting pair. ]

[andblockbuster]

[AND TOPHER SCREAMS LIKE A GIRL] Go back! Go back!

[bagsthem]

[At least Ashley's on her A game. She was expecting some fuckery, but um...

...yeah.

He doesn't need to ask twice. Her grip on his shoulder tightens as she teleports them back before they've fallen any massive distance (reflex 31).

They (hopefully) reappear back outside looking...very windblown. Also startled.]

Holy shit.

[killmypatience]

[THAT IS WHY SHE WAS WORRIED GUYS. And this is definitely Kate's worried face.]

Are you guys okay?

[andblockbuster]

[Topher breathes in and out for a few seconds as his stomach settles.] There's... no... floor.

[ofmyword]

[what.] Is it just an empty space inside?

[bagsthem]

Some floating platforms. Also blue aliens.

[Just o.o]

Maybe we're just supposed to hold off whatever's coming from outside because, um....

[killmypatience]

[She makes a face.]

He seemed to indicate that they might already be inside.

[And they can't do much about it from out here, even if they bar the doors.]

I wonder what would happen if we just opened the lock? Estavan is a big guy, and while he is a sorcerer, I doubt he floats though midair.

[pathology]

[her face lights up, because:]

I am awesome at picking locks. Sounds like a job for yours truly.

[allaboutme]

Pretty sure I'm gonna stand way back here. Just in case.

[pathology]

[ she briefly reconsiders her excitement ... ashley and topher did look pretty shook by their alien experience. ok it was just topher and he gets shook by doors closing too loudly but whatever.]

Okay. But maybe one of you should stand near me. As backup. In case something pops out.

[ofmyword]

[Elijah steps up.] Let's get this over with, shall we?

[pathology]

[she kneels in front of the door and

um

she got a nat 20 so

that happened. clearly she was not full of shit ok]

[allaboutme]

[ with surprising ease, astrid picks the lock in no time flat, and they find themselves looking into that crazy infinite space beyond. a single flying forklift starts past the doorway, about twenty feet out... ]

[andblockbuster]

Yeah, that's... pretty much what we just saw. Still weird.

[pathology]

That's — I don't know what that is.

[anyway, the gears in her brain are turning once she gets past the wtf of it all]

So, here's an idea — teleport onto the forklift and then move it over here.

[allaboutme]

And if that blue thing tries to murder you, we'll shoot it dead.

[bagsthem]

Just don't have crappy aim.

[That goes for all of you. She's heard plenty of friendly fire stories. No thanks.

But okay, she'll walk back over to the now open door, holster her weapon (so the creature might not think she's openly hostile, it could happen) and teleport to the nearest floating forklift.]

[allaboutme]

[ she lands on the passenger seat, and the blue creature doesn't even so much as look up, continuing to steer calmly along like nothing happened. the lift bobs a tiny bit under the weight, then returns to its same gliding height ]

[bagsthem]

[Oh, well, okay. She'll clear her throat once.]

Um, hello?

[allaboutme]

[ no response at all. he just keeps steering... ]

[bagsthem]

[Oooookay? Then she'll just lean over, wave a hand in front of his face, and if that gets no response, she'll try and take over the steering by either pulling the wheel in the direction she wants harder than him or by trying to remove his hands if that doesn't work. (str? 14)]