chapter five ♔ it'll be a day like this one when the sky falls down

[eldritchweaver]

the blues - switchfoot

WHO || The Knights
WHAT || Failboat returns from the disaster in LA as the Knighthood goes on lockdown
WHERE || The castle, London
WHEN || Directly after this, Fall 2017
HOW || Actionspam

Hasmed's announcement does not brook any rebuttal: all Knights are recalled to the Castle, where they must remain until the Section Heads and Jack Chessing have spoken about the events in Los Angeles that have left the Knighthood without their usual leader.  

The entire Los Angeles area is now covered with a dark miasma that has interfered with any signals that might be sent out from phones, etc., leaving the whole world wondering what exactly is happening down there.  Final images showed horrendous monsters, a panic of citizens, looting and violence from humans and Shadowkind alike.  

Hasmed has warned of extra magical wards on the castle, and anyone arriving will immediately take notice of one very prominent one: above the entire roof of the excessively large building hovers a black and red sigil in the air, a pentagram in a circle surrounded by runes or words in an unknown language, stretching for miles.  

[ This is the social log for post-LA lockdown.  Failboat must complete the top log before being allowed to tag outside of it. ]

Comments

[watcherjunior]

[ Did Vi want to get accosted by a relieved Dawn? Cause she's getting accosted by a relieved Dawn. It's probably even later in the night, after Vi's seen everyone else. Dawn should probably be asleep, but she can't, not after seeing what she saw on the television. She may not be a member of failboat, but she did spend like... months with them in Chicago. So. She was worried.

Dawn drops her drink in her haste to hug Vi. (Don't worry, it's in one of those Dawn-proof tumblers.) ]

You're back! You're back, oh god.

[graveflowers]

Oh Dawn, it's so good to see you. [ the relief is palpable in the way she slumps into dawn's arms, clearly more than happy to be embraced. ] I'm so glad you weren't there.

[ is that a terrible thing to say considering all the death? oh well, it's out and it's honest so vi isn't going to apologize for it. ]

[watcherjunior]

[ She doesn't make a move to let go, not just yet. ]

I can't imagine what being there was... [ Just watching what she could before the video cut out was nightmare fuel enough. ]

When the others came back and you weren't with them, I didn't know what to think. I may have sent a hundred texts or maybe I thought I did, I don't know right now.

[graveflowers]

[ oh. phone, right. that actually has vi drawing back in order to pull out a very cracked phone from where she had it tucked into the strap of her bra under her arm. ]

Ah. Even my phone is spiders. [ well, spiderweb cracks. it still lights up when she presses the home button so it's fine for now. probably. maybe. who knows. she'll head down to the hoard labs to swap out for a new phone before she goes to bed. ]

At least it wasn't between my boobs.