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

[generaldavideus]

[David nods, shifting to lean back against the counter a bit.]

Poseidon was technically her uncle. He was one of the three most powerful members of the pantheon. Some people say that Athena did what she did because she was forced to - the rest of the pantheon wouldn't hold Poseidon accountable and being a chaste goddess, Athena needed to punish someone.

They say that Athena did what she did to protect Medusa from something worse, and sealed her cave from women so that Medusa's curse wouldn't effect them but ... it's still blaming the victim. Medusa lived the rest of her life alone, considered a monster by the rest of world. Poseidon stayed the god of the sea and probably did the same to others.

[He holds out his hands in front of him and shrugs.]

I don't think trying to "spin it" in Athena's favor actually works on that one.

[pilgrimages]

[ evident in the way her nostrils flare and her brow furrows is the fact that this is

really putting zara on edge.

like this is the most egregious of culture shocks where built into the foundation of one of this world's primary and foundational religions — she's read enough literature and art, now, to at least recognize the gods in passing, if not be familiar with their stories — is so steeped in

women's total powerlessness :')

lmao she's screaming inside. ]

And these are the gods who took away the Homo Magi's autonomy too. [ she shakes her head, folding her arms around herself and just really. needing a self-hug right now. ] Disgusting.

[generaldavideus]

Agreed. Which is why we helped them.

[Or at least why David helped them. Amara deserved to be free of being cursed to love someone she didn't truly have feelings for. And now, he hopes that wherever she is, she's okay.]

But they're rid of it now.

[pilgrimages]

[ she smiles, a flickering thing that's genuinely grateful to david even though they were people she didn't even know. it falters then and she says, ]

Only the Homo Magi. How many others in this world have been cursed by the gods and lacked such a champion?

[generaldavideus]

[He gives a small shrug.]

I don't know. They've kind of fallen out of favor with the Veil and the Faerun deities taking a more prominent position in things, as well as Christianity, so I don't know if there are any left that are still alive.

[pilgrimages]

If you were them, wouldn't that only make you more spiteful, more embittered to a world that had forgotten you? I would lash out more.

[generaldavideus]

I don't know. Poseidon's the only one I've had any interaction with, so I can't really tell you what the rest of them want. But from what I can tell, Poseidon is gone.