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

[errantdetective]

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.

[reallywicked]

We're supposed to be training, aren't we?

[errantdetective]

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.

[reallywicked]

[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?

[errantdetective]

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.]

[reallywicked]

That's comforting. [Faye scoffs as she watches Toby drink her blood. Okay this is weird.]