knightsoflegend | krozna ♔ just remember that you're still alive

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krozna ♔ just remember that you're still alive

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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I don't even know where to begin, it's been cuckoo bananas up in here. Do you want to take a walk?

[ maybe it'll be easier to figure out with very cold fresh air. ]

Si, maybe that is a good idea. [ let him go get a big ol' coat ]

[ everyone gets coats! layers for safety! once they are snugs as bugs in rugs, vi leads them outside. the roof is lovely at night, but vi likes walking across the permafrosted grass. ]

It's been... Cuckoo bananas really does sum it up well and I don't know everything 'cause I missed some shit and everyone loves their secrets so this isn't gonna be entirely accurate. Actually I guess, what do you know? Then I can struggle valiantly to fill in the gaps.

I suppose... I know about why you are all here. What happened with Wynn. And to Blade. [ he frowns deeply ] To think that you were all cast out as you were is difficult to believe. I had hoped for better from the others.

I don't... I don't see it as being cast out. [ but maybe she is the minority in that. ]

We've been at this for so long and from the outside, it looks like we got literally nothing done. Less than nothing because we lost Jade, we lost Zareth, we lost Elena and Des to Hell itself. We almost lost you. We came back from that concert with more dead knights than living.

[ abigail and alice and alanna and lydia and felicity, myri was almost broken, wynn was missing. vi almost didn't come back at all. even before that finnick had been so badly hurt... she knows loss is the nature of a mission so daunting and long term so she can work past her guilt and grief and fear, but she understands why solace and hasmed couldn't keep it up in light of wynn's disappearance. astrid had pointed it out after slovechnia and she wasn't wrong then. they don't have a track record of proven success, they have a track record of failures. ]

They asked us to step down from the mission for a fresh set of eyes, but we chose to leave. It's our mess. But-- [ a qualifier. ] I wasn't there so, grain of salt.

Edited 2019-07-31 16:25 (UTC)

[ HOLD ON WAIT A MINUTE STOP THE PRESSES watch his entire face fall and shift ]

What about Elena and Des? [ he heard you. he just can't process that, especially when it's mentioned as a sort of aside. ]

[ vi puffs her cheeks out in surprise that she is the one that has to explain this. she wasn't even on the plane ride, someone else should have covered this already.

she exhales. ]

Well, um. Elena is married to Lucifer, the Lord of Hell. All of it, I think? Maybe just the bottom one but I think it's like all of it. So she's the Queen of Hell now. Des is married to the demon he took to my wedding, Zarad is Azrael. That dream Buffy had, ages ago? I think that was it. Whatever ceremony they did to kill their human bodies or whatever.

[ drawn out - dishwalla

there's so much in there to unpack and he's just staring at her barely comprehending, as if he hopes this is all just a language barrier ] You are joking.

You must tell me that you are joking.

I wish I could, Italia, but I can't.

[ at least des knew rafael was okay now. she shouldn't find that a comfort, but she does. she's sure that'll get fucked up soon. ]

Edited 2019-08-05 20:42 (UTC)

[ he studies her for a long moment, waiting for her to change her statement, but when she doesn't, an extreme fatigue seems to settle across his bones, although his eyes are weirdly energized, his jaw clenching ] Tell me everything.

[ vi hesitates, looking him over. (sense motive 21) she isn't a doctor but this stress can't be good for him, right? ]

I don't know everything and a lot of it is second hand. We can't exactly fact check this, is that gonna be okay with you?

[ may... be not?? but she also gets the feeling he's not going to stop at asking just her ] I need to know.

[ yolo

she pushes out a sigh, dragging a hand through her hair. she's wearing gloves, it just makes her hair all static-y. ]

You gotta remember there is way more I don't know than I do know. I don't know when it happened, not for Elena at least. After Kyp, before Kyp? After the trial, I think. [ but again, and she cannot stress this enough, vi doesn't know. ] For Des it was after Italy, whatever happened to you guys there. I don't remember or even really care, honestly, I know that is terrible because I love you and Buffy so much, but that whole day was the worst day of my life and whatever else happened was pointless to me, I'm sorry.

[ at least she's honest. ]

Des said that after Jade died, Zarad -- [ yeah she knows that's not the name but she does not care ] -- offered him clarity and peace and understanding and it just spiraled from there I guess until Italy when he broke into the Vatican to save Des. His curse broke and he freaked out and decided there was no way he could be mortal because then he wouldn't be able to help even though like everyone else on the team is mortal and we help all the fucking time even if it means we might die, but whatever, where was I? Okay, so his curse broke and after like 2000 years he took it badly, which I do actually understand, so when Zarad offered him his immortality back and companionship for forever, he took it back and became Lord Consort what the fuck ever.

So, that's that. [ which is only a third of this clusterfuck! ]

Edited 2019-08-10 20:01 (UTC)

You're talking about Azrael? The woman who came to him, the one who Buffy could see? That he went to her because his curse broke? How did it break? Why did he not tell us? [ welcome to the 20 questions portion of the evening ]

Yep.

[ truly a word full of gravitas and solemnity. yep. ]

His curse broke because of true love? I dunno, man, Des lied about so much, so many times, and it's not like I can or am allowed to call an angel down here to fact check him and they're not exactly on the same side so it wouldn't be objective at all. This shit is from Des himself, but I had to ask.

Azrael loved him, unconditionally, and he realized that he loved her, him, them, whatever too. He finally wanted to live again or had something to live for... and it broke the curse? Something like that.

What Azrael did to him isn't love. [ like wtf tho ] He suffered for years.

Maybe he has been made to think otherwise.

[ look, vi feels the same and it is obvious she is pinching back her opinion on the matter so raf can take it in without even more of her bias. ]

I don't know, you'd have to ask him and if you called him here Rose would lose her shit so. Best not.

Have the others spoken to him? About any of this?

Not that I know of, but we aren't exactly the most communicative bunch, y'know? It's gotten worse since you've been gone. I thought he'd have--

[ she stops, reassesses if she wants to finish that sentence for the sake of rafael. vi knows that gods (and demons, she guesses) can't intervene because everyone has to follow their own path blah blah fucking blah and that if hell makes a move, heaven can make a move right back, but vi can't fathom des not intervening with rafael, fuck the rules.

vi doesn't finish the sentence, raf doesn't need to consider that apparent inaction. ]

He and Elena are off limits until we need them to fight Blade, not a second before, that is the deal. [ she turns to look at him, concern on her expression. ] I'm sorry that I'm the one that has to tell you all this, I'm know I'm not good at it.

Why has no one else mentioned this? [ there's the kicker ]

Sore subject? Ill-informed attempt to protect you? I keep not being there for everything so the secrets are really standing out to me lately but that isn't the case for everyone else, maybe they didn't think about it or forgot you needed to know.

[ trying to be neutral and keep her opinions at bay has made vi a little to generous with the grains of salt she is laying down now. ]

I don't want to be protected from the truth. I need to know what we're dealing with. There is much that has happened that I need to find a way to understand.

I know, Italia.

[ she frowns, feeling inadequate to help him. ]

We could ask Jack if he knows more?

[ something about that clearly seems to disappoint him, but he nods ] Perhaps that is best, si.

I'm sorry you're stuck with probably the least knowledgeable person here for answers, I wish I could just answer everything.

[ but she doesn't know. ]

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