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

[banishers]

To maintain the cohesion of our training and our unit, yes.

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline makes an unhappy noise, it's not like they have infinite room in the castle, especially with the knights coming back from the other offices. ]

Cozy.

[banishers]

My men are used to making due in small quarters. They are more than content to sleep several to a room.

[highlyemotional]

All men?

[ read: only men? even as she's asking she looks around to see if there are any gi janes tucked in there. ]

[banishers]

A few women, as well.

[highlyemotional]

Well, I guess that is better than none.

[ lmao so imperious like WE'RE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY even though everyone is called sir instead of something gender nonspecific like

pal.

you know what, it's a work in progress. ]

[banishers]

Sir Integra Hellsing is five times a woman. And there's not a man among us who wouldn't lay our lives down at her word.

[highlyemotional]

So you have to be five times a woman in order to have respect?

[ THAT IS LITERALLY NOT WHAT HE SAID AT ALL. ]

[banishers]

It seems that you're simply looking to find fault in my words. If you'll pardon me, I have work to do - whether it's appreciated or not.

[highlyemotional]

Wait no, sorry. [ caroline's face scrunches up. well this went badly. everything has gone badly recently. this week sucks. don't pick a fight with people who don't like you. ] I didn't mean-- I don't like change. This is a lot of change.

[ what's welcoming? food, but she's not making spaghetti for the whole castle. ]

There's tea, in the kitchen.

[banishers]

That would be appreciated, yes.

[highlyemotional]

[ thank u for submitting to her british stereotype. ]

I'll go get you one.

[ and poof, she is off to do just that and extract herself from a conversation she basically drove into the ground due to her nerves. she's back in a couple of minutes with tea made the way she learned online (earl grey with a splash of milk) and excuses herself then. better to just bow out on a not... terrible note. ]