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).  

Comments

[graveflowers]

Let's do this.

[ she follows along easily, happy to be able to figure one thing out. ]

Thanks for this. I wasn't looking forward to testing it out for the first time, you know, on Blade. It'd be a hell of a time to realize I don't know how it works.

[selfexile]

I'm afraid to ask much more, but can't exactly help myself. [ he leads her out and down the steps that lead towards the mountain path ] We are talking about the Greek god, right?

[graveflowers]

Yup. My dad is human, but my mom is, um. The Roman version of Persephone. So Zeus is my grandfather. LA is his territory and he's a little pissed Blade weaseled his way in there. He can't do anything, so that is why I have his master bolt. [ she gestures at the staff. ]

[selfexile]

He didn't want to use it himself?

[graveflowers]

He can't. It's a complicated god versus god thing. Luckily, that is why kids like me were born, fighting when our parents can't.

[selfexile]

Sounds like a system with an unnecessary middle man.

[graveflowers]

It sure as shit is. But after a few millennia I think the gods, all of them, have figured out that mortals, irrepressible and stubborn and sometimes dumb as rocks, have something they don't have.

[selfexile]

And what do you think that is?

[graveflowers]

Hope.

[ it's a hokey thing to say out loud, and while she wouldn't say it in front of some people, mikhail hasn't given her the impression that he is the type to try to smother the idea of hope. that is what his whole place represents, isn't it? hope to change for the better, the way dom had, hope to find peace within themselves, hope that they could return one day. ]

[selfexile]

[ he considers her for a moment before nodding in agreement ] I agree with you on that. And perhaps that's what this gift of yours really is.

[graveflowers]

If it is... it's not not working. And as the story goes, Zeus did give Pandora the box, including Hope. [ quietly, more to herself than anything: ] Kinda poetic, Gramps.

[selfexile]

Let's hope that activating this has fewer of the other kind of consequences, at least.

[graveflowers]

Let's hope indeed.

[ look, there it is again. hope. ]

Think Blade might count as all the world's horrors, so that could have been the box opened. His dad was my number one nightmare and if he is stronger... [ sarcastically: ] Yay.

[selfexile]

If anything, he should be weaker. Demigod, after all.

[graveflowers]

Demigod who killed a god god. I'm keen on overestimating him and then being happily surprised if he is garbage.

[ solid plan as always ]

[selfexile]

Not a bad plan. [ he glances over to where jack is on his way up with dominik as they look out across a snow capped mountain side ] Here comes trouble.

[graveflowers]

This trouble is trouble I like at least.

[ quietly, to herself, casually praying: ] Please don't let me kill us all before Jack gets married, please and thank you, Zeus.

[selfcombust]

[ dominik looks skeptical about whatever weird thing jack said to get him out here as he approaches, looking between the two of them ] What is going on, exactly?

[graveflowers]

[ at least like two fantasies.

vi, blessedly, does not say that out loud. ]

Weapons practice and hopefully not death.

[dragonsclaw]

[ luckily jack will never pick up on that vibe... ] You're here to prevent the latter, really.

[graveflowers]

Yeah. You're here in case I cause an avalanche. [ she pats dom on the shoulder, flashing him an easy smile, even if the thought freaks her out still. ]

Shall we?

[selfcombust]

Now that I'd like to see. [ he just smirks at her, as mikhail nods in the distance.

"Why don't you aim that way?" he advises ]

[graveflowers]

[ vi takes a deep breath and also several steps forward so she doesn't, you know, casually electrocute them all. fingers crossed. ]

Here goes nothing. If we die, Jack, I love you like a brother and Dom, you're... hella lit. Mikhail, I really respect everything you do. Okay. I am sorry if we die. [ she cracks her neck. ] Okay Zeus, time for thunderdome.

[ she aims, pauses, turns and gestures for them to get out of the way behind her just in case she is holding the staff backwards though she doesn't think she is (wis 22), and then aims again. (ranged atk 15 + prayer???) ]

[selfexile]

[ she feels it beginning to thrum in her hand, and then a flash of heat burns through the metal that causes her to want to drop it... so make a fortitude save! ]

[graveflowers]

[ vi grits her teeth, but does not let go because she is stubborn and really has a bone to pick with this family, ok. (fort save 30) ]