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. ]

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Faye | ota

[reallywicked]

[She's starting to regret coming back. Everyone is on edge, they can't leave, and it's starting to drive her up a god damn wall. Faye spends most of her time working on magic, finding new spells that pack a punch. So if she's not digging through books about magic to try to find new ways to give herself a power boost, she's practicing her most dangerous spells on various non-living targets.

She's worried. Scared of what comes next. And the best way to cope with that is to destroy dummies and tables with magical fire and lightning, right?]

[uncurse]

I guess some things never change.

[ she smiles as she walks in. it's not that she thinks faye's in a good mood — she's not an idiot — but rather, it's nice to be back in the middle of things, to be able to reach out to her.

nice, and selfish. ]

[reallywicked]

[Emma shows up right as Faye fires off a disintegrate spell, so there's a dummy that's just been turned into a pile of dust. No biggie.]

You can't mess with perfection. [She shrugs] You stopping by before you head for the lake? [She doesn't really know how that whole thing works/worked.]

[uncurse]

I'm not, actually. I'm not heading to the lake at all. The power that was inside of me, that ... thing. It's gone.

[ like it never happened. except it did. hook might not have scars to show for it, but that's not the kind of thing you forget. ]

[errantdetective]

[Toby follows the smell of magic to the training room. She doesn't know the shape of the knighthood outside her little corner of San Francisco, and it doesn't seem like she's going to have all that much time to learn. But at least she can do as much of a crash course as she's capable of.

There's a kid setting things on fire. Well, that's... fun. She's never specialized in combat magic herself. She's more likely to rely on her knife and her general difficulty to kill. But she can certainly see how it would come in handy.]

Training or working out your issues?

[reallywicked]

Just trying to keep from dying of boredom. And if things go south, I want to make sure I can take out anything that gets too close.

[She shrugs. She wouldn't call it training, really.]

[errantdetective]

Yeah, boredom, that's the first word I think of to describe this place right now.

[They're preparing for a war. Toby's never been in an actual war, though she stopped one once. She's not going to be able to stop this one.]

You specialize in combat magic?

[unhand]

[It's not hard to find Faye. Amazing how often listening for explosions will get you there. Hook comes in just as Faye shoots off a lightning spell and he glances at her with a grin.]

Ah! You're like the cloaked man in the space film!

[He made a pop culture reference! Sort of.]

[reallywicked]

[His reference makes her chuckle, shaking her head.]

I guess I am. Just trying to keep busy. How are you holding up?

[unhand]

As well as I always do. [A shadow of a smile flickers over his face.] I hear it's to be war.

[littledhampir]

[Three years ago, if you'd told Rose that the world was potentially coming to an end and she had only one day to seek out people to say goodbye to, before potentially never seeing them again? She'd have snorted soda up her nose at the suggestion that Faye would make that list.

Funny how much could change in the space of a few short years.]

I'm a lot more impressed by that now I'm no longer target practice.

[Rose standing off to the side, arms folded across her chest as she watches flames lick the air from the object Faye had just set alight.]

[reallywicked]

[She snorts a laugh, watching the fire consume the chair.]

You'd break way more than my nose if you took a swing at me now.

[cue me sobbing about how much they've both grown up]

[littledhampir]

Well? [I mean....] Yeah.

[She chuckles softly at that, cherishing the few short moments where for just a second, things feel normal.

Her smile fades all too quickly as Rose stares at the flickering flames, her fingers raking back through her long, dark hair.]

You got time to take a walk? [Rose ever mindful of the ears that could be listening.] I believe I promised you a conversation when we got back.

[It's just that the conversation, is not the one that Faye might be expecting.]

[impetere]

[She had been following the sounds of magic from the main training room and while she flinches at the fireball that goes flying across the room, she is glad to see Faye is back here. She'd rather count up all the people she can trust rather than find out too many of them are missing.]

Practicing?

[reallywicked]

[She's actually starting to break a sweat when Cora finds her.]

Whatever's coming, I guess I've gotta be ready for it, right? [She shrugs]

What about you? Keeping busy?

[impetere]

More or less.

[Punching things has been her "busy" of choice, most of them inanimate, but that isn't why she ducked in here.]

I'm trying not to get in Hellsing's way.

[Despite the fact that her instinct is to watch their every damn move, she knows that that will start to get suspicious so after some "training" she's taking a breather.]

[undealt]

You're getting quite powerful. [Hey, it's Gold. He promised you he'd talk to you, and here he is.] But I hope you're not neglecting your non-combative spells.

[reallywicked]

[She turns and smirks when Gold asks the question. With a flick of her wrist, she casts Greater Invisibility, and to prove it's the greater version, she "attacks" by throwing a charred piece of wood at him (attack 17) and stays invisible.

She dispels it and puts her hands on her hips.]

Satisfied?

[undealt]

[That clips him in the shoulder. WOW FAYE. RUDE.]

Very much so. [He rubs his shoulder.] I see you're already getting restless.

[wishuponadjinn]

[It had been a while since Jordan had had any contact with Faye. He'd seen her in the library studying from the available spellbooks and had decided against spending time there during those particular hours. He'd done a good job at avoiding most people lately who weren't Faith or Fiona.

But he needed to practice his spells as well, especially if this came to war. And, he had to stop avoiding her and squash his anxiety about their next meeting. This was it.

He leans on the doorframe, watching for a minute more as she fires off another loud spell, and in the pause between he clears his throat gently before speaking.]

Room for one more?

[reallywicked]

[Of all the people she could have expected to run into, he's definitely not one of them. The hand she had raised from her spell casting slowly lowers.]

Yeah, sure. [She pushes her fingers through her hair.] I can set up more targets if you want.

[wishuponadjinn]

Thanks. [He pushes off the doorframe, walking to stand a few feet from her, giving each of them enough space to cast without hitting each other.]

I got it [he says with a casual wave of his hand, and there in front of them appear a line of actual targets, with bullseyes in various places and heights. They also all have just the faintest hint of glitter clinging to them.]

[pickyourbattles]

Did that table do something to you? [ oh sup. aurelius just... stopped in the doorway when he saw lightning in the room ]

[reallywicked]

I got bored with the training dummies. Wanted to try something different. [It's not that different, since it's still a stationary target but shhh.]

Got any new spells you want to try out?

[pickyourbattles]

Er, yes... but I'm not sure indoors is very safe.