krozna ♔ just remember that you're still alive

[selfexile]

♫ Battle Scars - Paradise Fears

WHO || Failboat, Various Krozna peeps, family members of Failboat [closed]
WHAT || Reunions and preparation for Egypt
WHERE || Krozna, Russia
WHEN || Winter through Summar 2018
HOW || Actionspam or prose

Rescuing Rafael could have gone much worse... And then did, when Rafael, desperate to feel alive and free again, got himself into a car accident. He came out of it alright, but injured, and they headed back on a plane after a whirlwind wedding had happened the same night between Dean and Rose, which Elena and the fiendish version of Sam had dropped in on - as well as Bobby Singer. After the madness of that night, Jack sent word back to them that if they had any family that they wished to keep safe, they could bring them back to Krozna. Rafael and Isabella insisted on picking up Giorgio, Nellethiel, and their children, Giulia and Pietro. Alainn picked up quite a bit of family as well - her adoptive parents and siblings from Ireland.   They return to Krozna together, where everyone can get acquainted and recover from the ordeal of their close calls in New Orleans before pressing forward.   There would be months for them to train, and the pace of life in Krozna to settle in, far from the chaos of the rest of the world.  

The date is now quickly approaching for the upcoming meeting at the "Darkhouse" where they hope to acquire more leads about the dagger that was used by Blade in the ritual to kill his father, Malaak'a.  

This log covers all social things for Failboat between the first social log and the Darkhouse (months worth of time skip).  

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Rose - OTA ][ Winter: Following the events of New Orleans

[littledhampir]

[ Celebrations were usually called for in the wake of a Wedding, but it's a rather somber Rose who returns from New Orleans, with more than just a new name (Hi Bobby). She's never been the kind of person who would excitedly tell everyone she knows about the big news in her life, so it's probably no shock that the main indication that something has changed is the Claddagh Ring she now wears on her left hand. Don't worry. Alainn and Sam were there. Just because Rose isn't the type to shout it from the rooftops, doesn't mean you won't have heard it from one of them.

No matter how she's feeling about everything, Rose will never be one to shut herself away. In fact, if anything? Their return to Krozna has seen an increase in the amount of training she's been doing. The snow not even enough to keep her from taking to the roof to work on her skills, and perhaps work through some of her anger.

What is a surprising turn, however, is that she's taken up meditation. Or more said, she's taken up trying to do so with limited success. It's the one time Rose seems to go out of her way to get away from everyone in Krozna, seeking out a quiet spot and trying to breathe and let go the way that Mikhail had shown her. If the occasional glowing Rose is anything to go by? Her mind is a little too busy these days to completely let go. ]

OOC
{ I'm narrowing this top-level down to the time shortly following New Orleans just to get a solid feel for where she is at in the wake of everything that happened. Rose will be generally easy to encounter around the place, either in the form of running, training on the roof, eating and to a lesser extent meditation. Feel free to hit me up if you have something specific in mind. It's worth noting she's in no way hiding that she and Dean got married/what happened at the wedding, she's just not likely to bring it up at random.

First night back

[witchwoman]

[The moment that Myri is made aware of the group's return, she sets out to check in with everyone. What she soon realizes is that there are many more people returning than originally left. She spends most of the day helping prepare and settle the new arrivals in, as well as letting her daughter become acquainted with the new children who have come along. But as soon as Shay is down for the night, she takes the opportunity to have a more in depth conversation with some of the members of her ever growing family.

It's Rose she seeks out first, checking the common areas before making her way to the roof. Whether up there for training by moonlight or just taking in the quiet, cold night air, Myri is relieved to have found her.]

Thank the stargods you've made it back safe. [Every step they take now is dangerous. And the entire time the group was gone, it felt like a lump was caught in her throat, the anxiety taking up so much of her thoughts. Her voice is strained with emotion, as though the relief washing over her might be enough to make her cry on the spot. She takes a few steps closer, then breaks into a short sprint to rush to her friend, wrapping her in a hug.]


(ooc: if the rooftop setting doesn't jive for how you imagine Rose's first night back, just let me know and I'll edit)

second day back

[familybusiness]

[No doubt they've seen each other here and there since they got back, likely with either Dean or Bobby around, but either Dean is still asleep or she's alone when Sam knocks gently on her door that morning.

He waits patiently until the door opens, his eyebrows lifting as he leans against the outside of the doorframe.]

I was gonna go for a run. You wanna come?

[romanticidal]

[ rafael wasn't exactly super social on the plane ride home. something something, just torture for years, something something embarrassing car accident that needed myri's help to tend his wounds. it's only after he's been healed up and restored (externally, at least) that he makes his way up and around to explore the place. he runs into rose as he walks out onto the roof, hands pressed into the pockets of the jacket he's wearing ]

I wanted to say thank you.

Myri | OTA | Winter

[witchwoman]

[As more people start to fill the halls and settle in, the residence in Krozna almost starts to feel like home. It helps, of course, that Myri is no stranger to moving on to a new place as a means of survival. But there's an easy routine that she settles into. Her empathetic and nurturing spirit is satisfied to help make the newcomers as comfortable as possible. She helps prepare most meals, cooking up big pots of warm soup to help fight back the winter chill. Shayla is often her helper in the kitchen, trotting back and forth with ingredients and wielding a wooden spoon like a weapon.

When her daughter is busy elsewhere, Myri walks the grounds to clear her head or finds a comfortable spot to sit and read. She's also taken up a dream journal to try to keep track of any messages that she might be receiving, even in the most innocuous of dreams. So you may see her scribbling some notes over breakfast. She doesn't train, really. It's just a lot of moments of quiet contemplation and trying to see what's in her magical bag of tricks that might be most useful in a coming fight.]


[ooc: just doing one season at a time to avoid continuity issues! if you have future season requests let me know and i'll set that up!]

[romanticidal]

[ we can actually set this pretty early on after raf comes back? he will need some healing up and presumably it will be myri doing that, so eventually he will rouse from sleep as she comes in to check on him. the injuries from his car accident and from the torment he underwent have healed thanks to her, but he still looks tired to the core as he looks himself over to see how the scars have mostly gone. ]

Grazie, Myri.

Perhaps I deserved to live with some of those marks.

vi (& lucia) ♃ open

[graveflowers]

WINTER

[ getting into nature is hard during the winter months, the ground around the monastery is hard and frosted, but vi still manages to coax some life from it and even gets to work building a ramshackle temple to her grandfather that would make dovan... maybe not proud of her handiwork but proud that she tried. (craft 16) the frigid snap in the air doesn't stop her from seeking out nature, she just suffers a little bit while she's in it. luckily she has that aasimar cold resistance.

thanks, mom.

holidays are marked, lucia's toys have always been handmade so nothing changes there and the residents of krozna get dolls of their likeness to put in the toddler's dollhouse, at least the ones that she has taken a shine to. it was difficult felting mikhail's somber expression but vi did her best. lucia is enamored with all of the half-elves that join them, staring wide-eyed at any features that resemble her own, and delighted to have her zia rafael back. ]

SPRING & SUMMER

[ spring is easier, life breathed back into vi in a very obvious way: the color comes back to her skin, the luster comes back to her hair, the weight that presses down on her throughout the winter months lifts and she seems to breathe easier. everything is easier when she is not being crushed by her birthright.

lucia insists on being a shepherdess like david taught her so vi finds herself doing absurd things like learning to shear a sheep from the natives (and then turning that wool into new dollies.) she is almost three, but vi has seemingly no qualms with continuing to teach her to sword fight -- admittedly still with a wooden sword -- and crafts a toddler sized dummy out of logs and vines for her daughter to practice with. the log dummy gets stabbed a lot.

her wedding anniversary in june passes with little fanfare and the next day passes with a lot of alcohol once the creamsicle girl is in bed. she doesn't want to bring anyone down so she inadvertently isolates herself to tell her daughter, again, the story of how her father died.

only a week later is lucia's third birthday and there are more felted dolls and animals and flower crowns to be had and felicity's birthday is full of new orleans booze because these girls know how to casually party.

she's around, as ever. ]

♃ closed

[graveflowers]

[ sometime in winter, when things have settled a bit, vi approaches jack and mikhail when they are together in the kitchen, sat at one of the tables. ]

Just the two guys I was looking for.

[klep]

[Early in the morning on Lucia's birthday, the day before Felicity's, she slips in to Vi and Lucia's room, with a stuffed kitten tucked under one arm, glitter bow tied around it's neck. She makes her way over and nudges the sleeping girl gently with a smile.]

Hey, birthday buddy. I got something for you.

felicity | ota

[klep]

winter }

[Felicity returns from New Orleans with nothing so exciting as a wedding or a returned love, but she does come with a backpack full of booze for her to ration out over the coming months. It's not that she's an alcoholic, but she's also easily bored. One pilfered romance novel was not going to cut it.

Besides. She needed to make sure her alias cards were still working.

Other than that, Felicity's just trying to establish a bit of a routine - she works in a little training and trips down to the town nearby, trying to get to know the locals. By the time summer comes round, she's still going to get a little stir crazy, but that's a problem for summer Felicity to worry about.]

spring + summer }

[Somewhat warmer weather means Felicity's spending a lot more time outside, with outdoor runs and other training adventures. Summer also means Felicity's birthday, which brings it's own joys and adventures. Though, it's kind of hard to throw yourself a party when a good chunk of the people you want to be celebrating with aren't there (or may think you're dead).

Still, never let it be said that she can't make her own fun, because she will walk into the middle of the Failboat oriented common room and hold up a couple of bottles of the good shit.]

It's my birthday, I'm playing a dumb drinking game. Who's in?

wildcard }

[Anywhere, anytime, anything, come at me. Single thread for the drinking game, but otherwise have at her or hit me up if you want a more specific starter.]

for vi }

[klep]

[When she returns from New Orleans, Vi is her first stop after she gets settled. She pokes her head into her room, rapping lightly on the door frame nearby and offering her a small smile.]

Hi, honey, I'm home.

[Figuratively speaking.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ no more is felicity unloading the clinking bottles from her backpack than a voice pipes up from the entrance to her room. it's the young son of rafael's friends, nellethiel and giorgio, who they picked up on the plane ride back. he folds his arms and looks at her skeptically. ]

Are you gonna drink all of that?

various ♔ (ota).

[romanticidal]

[ it would be impossible for rafael's experience to have not marked him in any way, but it does not seem to have done anything to increase his self-preservation instincts, as evidenced by the way that he got into a reckless car accident immediately after being rescued. there's something of a sense of chagrin to the way he ghosts about the kroznan complex, trying to get caught up on everything that he's missed while he's been gone, and trying to figure out what his part will be in everything moving forward.

buffy has, at least, convinced him that he needs to take time off to recover and grow strong again, which is true, given how thin the already skinny half-elf had grown in captivity. he can be found practicing his aim on the roof at targets made out of straw or wood, spending time down at the shadow village getting to know the people there and helping them out however he can, spending time with buffy, isabella, giorgio, and nellethiel, playing with their children, giulia and pietro, and putting together meals for the entire compound on some lucky evenings. ]

[graveflowers]

[ vi gives him a little space and a little time before she knocks on his door. she imagines he's had a lot of visitors as of late so she hadn't wanted to intrude, but she missed him dearly and it's only a few days before she gives in. ]

Hey Italia.

various ♔ (ota).

[telekinection]

[ tia has also been staying on at krozna after she came back with news about draken crombe. it seems that she's fully on board with team failboat as well, open about her disdain for hasmed and solace "taking over" the way that they did. she spends a lot of time talking to jack and practicing psionic combat, but she also tends to take time to herself to read in the main room, to walk the hills and mountains in the region, and to be pleasantly social with the others. ]

[familybusiness]

[Time for a long overdue conversation. He catches her when she's on her way out for a walk.]

Can we talk? Privately?

[No doubt she has some idea what they're gonna chat about.]

[klep]

[Felicity spots Tia on one of her sweeps through the halls, and she diverts, making her way over to the couch. She doesn't plan to separate her from her book long, she just wants to say quickly:]

I never got the chance to thank you, for vouching for me.

[It doesn't seem like it should be a lot - she only told the truth - but in that room, it meant a great deal.]

colleen o'rourke ♔ (ota).

[irishlass]

[ alainn's family was on the plane that was brought back, and one of the most social presences that comes with is her adoptive sister, colleen, a fiery redhead who seems to have opinions on everything. she pops her head in just about everywhere, and eventually makes clear what she's looking for ] Can't even be sure this place knows what a proper bathroom is, by the look of it. Can ye believe it?

[klep]

[She can't help but smirk at that.]

I think they try. Succeeding, however, is not something they managed, though.

[littledhampir]

[ She's yet to have a chance to meet all of Alainn's family properly, but the accent at least makes it easy for Rose to know where Colleen fits in. ]

If you think that's bad, wait until you see the liquor cabinet.

nellethiel and/or giorgio rossi (w/optional pietro & giulia) ♔ (ota).

[elfiest]

[ rafael insisted on picking up the people he considers family who aren't here already: chiefly his close friends nellethiel & giorgio and their two young children. nellethiel is a beautiful and classy elf, while her husband is a very human italian man who runs a vineyard. the two of them settle in to the pace of things here pretty easily, as if it fits with what they're accustomed to. they'll gladly work the land and nellethiel seems to enjoy farming with her young ones. ]

[graveflowers]

[ vi feels almost ill-equipped to meet new people after so long with the same people and she hasn't put much of an effort into meeting the denizens of the monastery or the newcomers, but she blames that on winter. it is an excuse but one she is willing to go with for now.

lucia, however, has other things in mind and has no issue in running up to the beautiful blonde elf to stare at her like a little orange weirdo. vi trails after her, knowing that her curious daughter is at least harmless. ]

Her father was an elf, [ vi offers by way of explanation for her daughter's wide eyed wonder. lucia adds in a toddler's whisper: "Momma, she looks like the Moon." ]

Debriefing Jack || Assorted

[littledhampir]

[ With so many new faces to be settled at Krozna, it's probably not that easy to get five minutes to talk. At some point, however, Rose seeks out Jack - whether he's alone or chatting with somebody. ]

When you can? [ Her expression grave. ] We need to catch you up on what went down in New Orleans... After the auction house.

[dragonsclaw]

[ jack is alone when she comes across him, walking the crenelated paths outside the monastery ] Is this something that should be a private conversation?

sean o'rourke ♔ (ota).

[orourke]

[ YET ANOTHER NEW FACE although this one seems a bit more sedate than his fiery sister. sean o'rourke is alainn's adoptive brother. tall, in his mid-twenties and thoughtful, sean will approach people to ask if he can help with any tasks around the building, take some hikes in the mountains, and spend time sniping with his sisters regularly ]

[littledhampir]

[ Sean's gotta eat at some point right? Let's be real if it's a hot breakfast it was probably made by an O'Rourke and Rose is no doubt first in line for food once she's showered after a run.

She watches him for a moment, washing down her food with a mouthful of juice before finally observing; ]

They must have eaten you alive.

Bobby Singer - OTA (New Arrival after the New Orleans Wedding Reunions)

[ohballs]

[ Well. This wasn't where he'd expected to end up when he'd packed a bag and raced for New Orleans a day or so before, but here he is, half a world away in an impromptu trip back with the boys to their base. Or whatever this place is.

He has a lot to catch up on, it seems.

And considering how restless he's feeling in an unfamiliar place, he's currently wandering around the Monastery's warren of hallways and rooms, potentially getting lost, sticking his nose into places he's not.... actually sure he's allowed to be? But like hell is he gonna let that stop him any time soon.

Although he hadn't actually been intending to interrupt anyone with actual business to get done, so should he happen upon someone who looks occupied, he's quick to pause - almost as if startled to have actually stumbled across anyone in the first place. ]

Ahhh.... Didn't know anyone was in here. Sorry 'bout that.

[ He's just... gonna excuse himself now. Or - maybe if what you're doing looks especially interesting - step forward to peer into your personal business anyway, despite that apology. ]

/slams into this

[littledhampir]

[ What he's managed to walk in on is perhaps the least interesting thing in this place. Bobby greeted by the sight of Rose sitting in the middle of a floor in what looks to be a small library or reading room. Only Rose would think that a library was a suitable place to try and master the ridiculous art of meditation but in her defense? If you were ever looking for a place to not be disturbed by Rose? A library was your best bet. ]

Please - [ A huff of breathless laughter escaping as she cracks open one eye. Smiling hasn't been that easy since they got back, but she still manages to muster up a small one for Bobby. ]

You probably just saved a bunch of books from getting trashed.