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

[beatupgrass]

And yet none of that really inspires me to go home with you. Sorry, Astrid, but this stupid castle's the closest thing I've had to real home since I came through the d'ast Veil. And if you took me, you'd have to take Groot and Drax.

...And Quill, but we'd have to kidnap him.

[pathology]

Yeah, no, I know what you mean. This is better than home, and I'm not taking your whole motley crew back to Philly. Peter could come, though. [~dreamy sigh~] We went on a date awhile ago, that was fun.

[beatupgrass]

I'm aware, and it's still weird.

[you humanoids and your biological imperatives. PAH!]

[pathology]

[she elbows him like OMG ROCKET] He told you?! Did he say anything good about me?

[liam? liam who????]

[beatupgrass]

No, he didn't tell me. [He just KNOWS THINGS, ASTRID.] Sometimes we like to know what he's up to- see if anything's triggering any of his old memories.

[we being... him, Drax, and Groot. and it's entirely on Rocket's suggestion.]

[pathology]

Ummmm, so, what, you're spying on him? Were you spying on us?

[beatupgrass]

No! I was spying on Quill. I just happened to see you two together once. And it was only just long enough to think it was weird. People I know don't need to date each other.

[pathology]

We aren't dating, we went on a date. Totally different thing. And why don't we need to date each other?

[beatupgrass]

Because it throws a social circle off-balance!

[HAVEN'T YOU WATCHED THE LION KING???]

[pathology]

Oh my god Rocket! We went on like, one date and made out once! Your social circle is fine. I'm in it to win it with someone else.

[beatupgrass]

[he breathes a sigh of relief.] Uh-huh. Well, good luck with that- maybe you'll have time between training to go on dates to that Starbucks we don't have.

[pathology]

[GROANS DRAMATICALLY] Don't remind me about Starbucks!!!