open ♔ shield base arrival // knights socialization

[refurbished]

bloody city - sam tinnesz

WHO || The Knights & agents of SHIELD
WHAT || The Knights arrive at the Las Vegas facility...
WHERE || SHIELD HQ (The Harbor), a desert location near Las Vegas, NV
WHEN || March 2018
HOW || Actionspam

The acting Heads of the Knighthood - Hasmed and Solace - have made a decision that is not easy for many. Given the terrible state of everything happening in America, they've decided to relocate operations entirely to the States, and have secured a facility vaguely near Las Vegas: agreeing to work alongside the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization to find a way to take down Blade. It is certainly possible, with the grim missions that lie before them, that many, or all, of the Knights may never return. Reactions to the announcement are certain to be strong, but it's time to choose what they will bring with them to their new life - and for some, to decide if it's a journey they can bring themselves to take.

Most of the facility is underground, and the Knights are each granted badges that will act as keycards to get them into the barracks area that has been sequestered for them in its own building (called the Enclave), as well as to access the other rooms that are open to their use. It is more or less similar to this, but scaled up in size to account for the larger numbers of people housed on base. There are separate buildings on the base compound for the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (The Sanctuary) and for those members of Hellsing (The Bulwark) who have relocated as well. The entire compound itself is referred to collectively as "The Harbor". Peter Fargason will continue to run training drills daily, attempting to mold the Knights into a more efficient combat unit, and Hasmed, Solace, Koraith, Dovan, and Lis'sa will continue to assign missions to members of the Knighthood, ostensibly aimed towards slowing the tide of monsters and evil doers heading to Los Angeles and protecting Shadowkind in America from the "war on Shadowkind" being waged by the American government, as non-humans are being rounded up as potential threats to the country. Hasmed and Solace have assumed joint leadership of the Knighthood, and appointed no Dragon's Claw to replace either the deceased Sir Bancroft or the now gone rogue Sir Chessing.

Gone is the eclectic decor of the castle rooms, replaced by a much more uniform look to each assigned barracks, which, unfortunately, sleep two to a room because of restraints on space. Feel free to sign up for a roommate on the thread on this post. In fact, everything here is much more polished, state of the art, and modern, which is a jarring change from the castle. How well people adjust may depend on quite a few factors... but for now, they are free to attempt settling in.

[ This is the social log for anything while the Knights relocate to Las Vegas ]

On this post:

Roommate Assignments
Roomie Sign-Up
Phil Coulson | Welcome
Skye | Tech support, Bulwark, Research, Apologies
Gwen | Enclave public areas, Training w/Hellsing, Wildcard
Kenzi | Enclave, Training, Wildcard
Darcy | Bio Engineering & Research, Wildcard
Avaleen | OTA
Sawyer | Enclave, Wildcard
Frankie | Hangar, Technology Room, Have a Beer, Wildcard
Topher | Technology Room, Wildcard
Malina | Scenarios
Rosario | Scenarios
Paige | Training w/Hellsing, the Track, Wildcard
Kali | Training, Elsewhere
Caroline | Training, Common Rooms
Andrew | Technology Room, Rec Room
Barry | Training Room, Various
Cora | Outside, Training, Hangar
Jane | Technology Room, Laboratory, Research, Training
Dimitri | Training
Bo | Training
Lois | Training Room, Common Areas, Various
David L. | Training Room, Various
Kate | Shooting Range, Rec Area
Sweets | In Session
Lila | Shooting Range, Kitchen, Rec Room, Outside
Rory | Training Sessions
Laurel | Various
Hasmed | Various
Toby | Kitchen, Outside
Sark | Training, Wildcard
Integra (w/Alucard) | Training
Edain | Various + closed to Ella
Carol | Training, Hangar, Rec Room
Deadpool | All your Base, Vegas baby!!
Cordelia | Rec Room
Jordan | Enclave various
Ward | Daily routine
Thea | Various
Riggs | Enclave
Jo | Lost
Tony | Sanctuary (w/Coulson), Enclave lab, various

Comments

[hyperverbose]

Maybe we don't take our advice from the guy who winds up dead in his own play. But a valid point, nevertheless.

So let's throw out the box.

[andblockbuster]

It's the end of the world. This is the time where the craziest ideas thrive and this? [He sweeps a hand at his screens.] This gets crazy.

[And because they have had this nerdgasm and not properly introduced themselves, he scoots his wheelie chair a little closer to Tony and thrusts out a hand.] Topher Brink.

[hyperverbose]

Tony Stark. [ he reaches out to grasp his hand and give it a firm manly shake ] Sort of make my stock and trade in crazy.

You know, you maybe shouldn't sound so thrilled by the concept of the ... world ending. Just a little general social etiquette tip.

[andblockbuster]

[You have become manfriends with Topher.

Topher will now call you that at least once a day.]

It's not the world ending part that's thrilling, but yeah. I get that. [He clears his throat awkwardly, as he releases Tony's hand.] We're gonna solve it. Maybe with this, maybe with some other genius idea, but I did not walk out of the places I've walked out of to die in a world controlled by a literal rock god whose best songs are about how he hates his dad. Van Halen, he is not.

[hyperverbose]

Right? That'd just be embarrassing. Proverbial egg on our face.

[andblockbuster]

Right. I mean if all else fails, my last ditch plan is to get a bunch of psions to loudly project 90's bubblegum pop at him until he goes into a fugue state, but that's, like... Plan W through Z.

[hyperverbose]

Taken down by the power of "It's Britney, bitch"? Wonder what the blowback would be on that one. Bieber?

[andblockbuster]

God, reducing Keijen "My manpain makes me a literal god" Blade into Justin Bieber would be both the exact punishment the world deserves for letting this happen and the best possible way to end this nightmare.

[hyperverbose]

Maybe if we just puncture his ego hard enough, he'll go flying off into space like a deflated balloon.

[andblockbuster]

I know you're joking, but this is exactly the mental image my nerves needed right now, so thank you.

[hyperverbose]

It's important to maintain morale. So this Mind Master, she's, what? Working for Blade?

[andblockbuster]

I think they're working beside each other? I have... Literally nothing to base this off beyond that she strikes me as more of a Catwoman to his Riddler "From Paris With Love"-style. Like the second she doesn't get whatever it is she wants from him, she's gonna throw him off the boat.

[hyperverbose]

I suppose it'd be hoping for too much to just set the two of them against each other and deal with the fallout.

[andblockbuster]

Like Psion vs Psion Thunderdome. Could be a good time for us or it could be the end of the world as we know it, but we're already kind of in the middle of an apocalypse. You can't really slowly de-escalate the end of days.

[hyperverbose]

The enemy of my enemy is a convenient nuke to point at the other.

[andblockbuster]

As long as we and most of the average population are far away from ground zero. I'm a pragmatist and nukes are always gonna make a good chunk of the population dead but... [He puffs out his cheeks and sighs.] It's not worth it if we're the only ones left alive 'cause we've got this nifty spy bunker.

[hyperverbose]

Convenient, then, that he's already in the middle of a Ground Zero of his own making.

[andblockbuster]

That's the good thing about a human-racist godking, I guess. [He rubs at his face.] I can't believe I'm discussing nuking my home town.

[hyperverbose]

I used to have a spot in Malibu back in my dimension, but I sort of called down the bombs on that one too. [ whoopsie. maybe he should stop tryin to get la blowed up. ]

[andblockbuster]

[......]

.....What did you even do for a living before you crossed the Veil?

[hyperverbose]

One-time advanced weapons designer turned full-time superhero-slash-planetary-defender. [ no beating around any bushes here ]

[andblockbuster]

[The slowblink is strong with this one.]

Yeah, you've definitely done a lot more with your life than me. I mean... I could have ended the world once, but I didn't. And that's what's important. I try not to dwell on the curse of genius being other people can use your genius for evil. You seem to be doing okay for yourself.

[Yep. Y e p.]

[hyperverbose]

I try to keep my genius on the philanthropic side. [ still, there's a pretty dry tone there that implies that 'try' is the operative word ] Looks like in the end, you did too.

[andblockbuster]

We joined the knighthood. They do a pretty good job of telling you when you've gone too far, and so far I haven't. Just as long as no one starts complaining about my brain-boosting ideas.

[hyperverbose]

Do you think that's likely? Change in management and all.