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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. ]
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-10-28 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Caroline... [ he looks like he wants to chew her out for breaking the rules. he at least realizes this is not the moment for that ] How did you get a hold of her?
highlyemotional: (☁ uncertain)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-10-28 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I texted her. [ dragging her phone out of her pocket, she holds it out so he can read the messages. above the ones from earlier that day are generic teenager texts from caroline complaining about random things like how davin probably hates her because tolerance doesn't count as an emotion and whining about the price of a purse she wanted. a lot of texts from caroline, very few from elena. ]

She has a phone.
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-10-28 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't even read them at first, just looks up from the screen at her, aghast ] Caroline... they can track anything you send on this phone. They're going to know you went against the edict.
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[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-10-28 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I realized that. [ belatedly. at the moment she was a little too consumed with emotion to care. even now she's... at a loss on how to care about more than being so naive and childish to think elena ever cared. ]

You don't need to tell me I'm stupid, I'm already well aware.
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-10-28 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you going to do? If Hellsing finds out? That's the last thing they need to hold against a vampire.
highlyemotional: (☁ disgust)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-10-28 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I just found out my former best friend is a queen in Hell, I think I deserve a moment to cope before I write her off.

[ which she... is trying to ]
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-10-28 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you really think they're going to see it that way?
highlyemotional: (☁ glance down)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-10-28 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
They're gonna hate me no matter what.
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-10-29 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the kind of attitude that had me working for Corsone. We need to work to prove them wrong, not right.
highlyemotional: (☁ mmm no)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-10-30 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
I shouldn't have to prove I'm not a monster!
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-10-30 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
No. You shouldn't. That's the world the Knights are fighting for. But we don't live in it yet, and one of the only ways we're going to get there is to prove we're better than what they think of us.
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[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-10-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
They're never going to trust us. I don't know if Wynn was good or not, I dunno if Hasmed and Solace are right, but at least he trusted us. How are we supposed to do anything now?

[ if she fights is hellsing going to say she is too violent? if she bites someone is hellsing going to say she's controlled by her bloodlust? if she doesn't do anything are they going to claim she's weak and useless? ]
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-11-01 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
The Knights still trust us, or we wouldn't be here.
highlyemotional: (☁ disgust)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-11-03 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
They're kicking people out that don't want to fight.
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-11-08 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
They've said that people can stay here and do support positions. Fight is a strong word.

They've a right to deny people who don't want to help, period.
highlyemotional: (☁ figuring)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-11-09 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her mouth turns down into a frown, unhappy. ]

The round table says we're never supposed to abandon a friend.
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-11-12 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
And Sir Chessing left Wynn behind. Sometimes things don't always work out the way the people who wrote that on the Round Table want it to.
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[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-11-15 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ MORE UNHAPPINESS ]

So what do we do?

[ the we seems to be general, not specifically implying her and davin together because caroline knows better. its maybe colored too much by what happened on earth-11 but. oh well. ]
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-11-18 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
What we have to. There's never been any proof that the world was fair before. But if we don't try to be our best selves, then we're just ... vermin.
highlyemotional: (☁ unhappy)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-12-01 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she nods sharply, decisive. caroline is already trying to be the best she can be, but maybe it hasn't been good enough yet. ]

Alright. [ she stops herself from complaining about being a shit squire because YOU KNOW, SHE'S EXCEPTIONAL, but the way she fidgets seems to imply it's on the tip of her tongue anyway. ]

I'll see you at training.
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[personal profile] recycling 2017-12-02 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I'll see you at training.
highlyemotional: (☁ inquire)

[personal profile] highlyemotional 2017-12-08 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ caroline leaves the picnic basket for him, since there is some more blood in there, and leaves his messy room with a little wave. au revoir. ]