knightsoflegend | 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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Well, you found the barrier somehow.

[ like ... why wouldn't she be? she wanted that holocron, and she's ostensibly evil. ]

Who do you think they would blame if the wards were breached?

Probably each other, at this point.

Dissension in the ranks?

That's none of your business.

[ said snappishly. for being the one who needs help here, she sure knows how to show gratitude and humility for it. ]

If you haven't figured out how to get past it, how am I supposed to? What do I look for?

You're focused on subtlety, when you could batter those doors down. If you want to break the bindings, you would need the help of someone who can unravel them.

There's no one in this world who can help me with that.

[ because she's not asking YOU for that, girl. ]

The wizardry of this world is not like anything I've ever seen before.

You mean I need magic, not the Force?

I think that given time, and access, I might learn how to breach it with the Force. But given that I can't guarantee that, the short answer is yes.

Even to find it? I can't sense the holocron past the wall either.

That's another story. The holocron pulses with the energy of the Force. If you reach out, can you not hear it?

[ she'll ... take this opportunity to reach out. and not even with her hand! (see force 13?) ]

[ nope, she barely knows what she means by ~reach out~, even if she doesn't use her hand ]

Is that truly the best you can do?

I've never done this before!

A pathetic excuse. Your senses are stifled, and you lack focus. You're too set on envisioning the outcome you desire.

Then tell me what I'm supposed to do instead.

[ good god, woman, don't just be an asshole. no wonder the sith are all so ... unstable. ]

Stop looking for it and just feel what is already there. Don't reach for the holocron, reach for the Force.

[ she shuts her eyes, feeling the air on her skin. it's stale down here, and cold. but it prickles the sweat that sticks to her skin. and beyond it, the cracks between the bricks. and the force between them, like a pattern, an intricate weave of energy ... (see force 20) ]

[ it's her that draws rey's attention before anything, after she finally connects to that greater beyond - the presence right there, so close and so focused on her, a thrumming source of malevolent power.

she'll need to make a will save to break away from falling into focusing on that rather than stretching beyond it ]

[ rey reaches out for the darkness, brushes it, but pulls back at the last minute, suddenly horrified by the realization,
upon examination, that this is not what she seeks (will 22). ]

[ she wrests away from the sucking darkness, stretches out and touches the light and presence of many - so many - feels the tension rushing through the castle, filling its tight spaces in this difficult time. it is as she follows these trails that she senses something else, quiet at first, almost a whispering voice that is just beyond earshot. ]

[ she's heard this before. no, not exactly this. but something like it. in maz's castle. in her dreams. this time, she doesn't run away or try to wake up or pull back. she chases it down. she needs it. ]

[ in her mind's eye she sees wynn's golden doors, which seem to pulse in front of her, as the whispers grow louder and louder. something is in there, something is calling out, something is speaking a language only she can --

and then it abruptly pushes her away, or something does, sending her recoiling into herself ]

[ she shouts, stumbles back, and spills to the cold stone ground as she is thrust out of her meditative state. she's back in the dungeon, suddenly, sweating and panting and staring up at darth vane's face. ]

I felt it. I felt it, but something pushed me away.

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