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Sir Hasmed ([personal profile] eldritchweaver) wrote in [community profile] knightsoflegend2017-09-23 09:19 am

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



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. ]
errantdetective: (Or just foolish little tools?)

[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-10-17 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[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?
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-10-17 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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.]
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[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-10-17 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-10-18 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess you could say that. I was born with an affinity to fire. I've just never tried to fight it.
errantdetective: (We know too well the song she sings)

[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-10-19 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Toby nods.] That sounds like more fun than my affinity. Blood. You have no idea how many clothes I go through.
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-10-20 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Blood, huh? So...vampire?
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[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-10-23 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shakes her head.] I read blood and use it in spells. I don't eat it. [A beat.] Well, I don't eat it for sustenance, anyway. And it's usually my blood, not other peoples'. I'm fae. Dochas Sidhe.

[Not that the last part means much to most people, or even most fae. There aren't many of them.]
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-10-24 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Can you show me? [Learning more about magic- even magic she can't actually use- sounds better than a lot of options right now.]
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[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-10-25 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a party trick. [Toby ends up covered in blood way more frequently than most people. That doesn't mean she goes out of her way to do it.] And these are, like, my only jeans without bloodstains. I'd like to keep them that way for a little while longer.
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-10-29 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
We're supposed to be training, aren't we?
errantdetective: (We know too well the song she sings)

[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-11-03 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I doubt you want me to make your blood boil just to show that I can, and a lot of it doesn't kick in until I'm injured, or at least exhausted. But if you really want a demonstration....

[She pulls out her knife.]

I'll need some of your blood.
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-11-07 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Faye's eyebrows go up because wow this is now a lot more real. And did she say boil. She's having second thoughts but it also too curious about new kinds of magic so she takes the knife and slices her palm.]

That enough?
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[personal profile] errantdetective 2017-11-09 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, it'll work. This is going to be gross.

[Look, some of Toby's spells are a little evil. It's fine. Toby takes Faye's hand, bringing it to her mouth to taste the blood.]
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[personal profile] reallywicked 2017-11-15 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
That's comforting. [Faye scoffs as she watches Toby drink her blood. Okay this is weird.]