new orleans ♔ the man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud | but nobody ever hears him

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WHO || Thomas, Jack, Gar, Kat, Dumage, Mark, Myri, Buffy, Finnick, Spike, Rafael, Des, Elena [Closed]
WHAT || Various downtime shenanigans
WHERE || Various locations, New Orleans
WHEN || Tuesday Oct 16th - Oct 28th [Backdated]
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order!!

[[ Several of the Knights discovered a secret room hidden in Nova Headquarters, full of strange occultish paraphernalia and guarded by monstrous warriors. Amid this was direct evidence of an interest in the Talisman. They also took captive Chad Becksworth's personal assistant, Olean Gilbert, who has information about the location of the mysterious woman that Burt told Finnick about - the one whose presence has had a major effect on Chad's personality. Olean doesn't even know the woman's name, calling her the "Mind Master", and identifying her as Chad's 'advisor'.

The Knights also discovered that the other Dragon's Claw, Sir Jack Chessing, had followed his own secret mission to Nova Headquarters, and he'll be meeting back at the hotel with them to explain what brought him there...

This log covers any non-work related shenanigans the Knights have while staying in New Orleans, immediately following the last log and extending over the next two weeks.

Make your own threads, don't fuss about tag order, feel free to threadjack multiple people into one thread for hang-outs, ask me if you want a certain scene with an NPC, etc. forever whatever.]

Comments

[slay]

[ listen 21 means she hears him creeping up and thereby doesn't jump when he speaks, despite his lack of reflection. hearing him and not seeing him makes it obvious he's spike. ]

With as many of these as I've busted by now, I'm beginning to think the cheap-o quality is my bad luck.

[bigbad]

Might not be the bag's fault. You're bloody strong. [He moves next to her and glances over at the bags.] You need a more durable work-out partner.

[slay]

For coming from a guy who spent a good two months complaining every time I hit him, that sounded suspiciously like an offer.

[bigbad]

[He shrugs.] That's just because I can't hit back. But I suppose it wouldn't hurt to work on defence. [He starts circling her. Even when he's planning on simply blocking her attacks, he can't help but act like a predator.]

[slay]

[ she raises her eyebrows at him, but then shrugs and nods, spinning and aiming a backwards roundhouse for the side of his face, but the pomp and circumstance that goes into getting her body into position for it means it's easy to pick out what she's going for, and the placement of the kick makes it all the easier to catch or deflect (atk 13). ]

[bigbad]

[On instinct, he catches her leg and steps in, throwing a very light but well-thrown punch to her stomach (atk nat 20, dmg 3). When he realises what he's done, he winces, ready for the pain, but... it doesn't come. He drops her leg and frowns.] That's odd.

[slay]

Oof. [ she grunts out and takes a step back once she has her leg back, moving a hand over her stomach to rub it lightly. she looks down at it in confusion. ] What's odd?

[bigbad]

No headache. [He frowns and swings a punch at her again, full force this time, but before he can get close (atk 16), he cringes back, grabbing his head.] Bloody hell! Never mind. Headache problem's still very much there.

[slay]

But, you hit me! Wait. It hurt when you didn't hit me, but didn't when you did? I feel like that's very, very backwards. That's backwards, right?

[bigbad]

I don't know. I was trying to hit you the second time. Wasn't the first time, not really. Think that's got anything to do with it?

[slay]

So, whatever's causing these headaches, it just cares that much about intent? People hurt each other accidentally all the time. That doesn't seem like a very good means of stopping it from happening.

[bigbad]

It's inside my head. Maybe that's the only way it can tell I'm attacking. [Though fuck if he knows how it knows whether he's fighting something human or not. These headaches seem to be making up rules as they go along.] Probably means we can spar, at least. In a way.

[slay]

And just go off hope and prayer as to whether it fires or not? Gee. Sounds promising.

[bigbad]

I think we can manage it. [He throws a loose, incredibly easy to dodge punch (atk 9) to get them started.] It's like dancing.

[slay]

[ she sidesteps it easily, dodging and then crouching down before springing up to catch him in the jaw with an uppercut (atk 19, dmg 1). she keeps the real punch out of her hits, more working out and hitting the motions than anything (aka i'm not adding her strength mods to anything). ]

[bigbad]

[So kind, Buffy. He steps back with the punch, then moves to retaliate with an easily dodge-able or block-able kick (atk 18) moving around her as he did.]

So, have you talked to Jack yet?

[slay]

[ that gets a sharp laugh out of buffy that's not entirely positive, and in fact borders a little on the cynical. she grabs his foot and twists, dropping him to the ground by spinning his body with the ease of superstrength (atk 25, dmg 5). ]

We talked. Well. He talked, I babbled. It was heartwarming. Shoulda been there.

[bigbad]

[He props himself up on his elbows for a moment.] That bad, huh? [He springs up to his feet, using the momentum to bring his fist towards Buffy's stomach... but he pulls the punch at the last second because he's afraid he's being too aggressive and will set off the chip, so it's pretty sloppy (atk 11).] What'd he say?

[slay]

[ she hops back to dodge the punch, then twists her body to spin and deliver a backwards roundhouse to the side of his face - but it skirts right past his nose because she falls short (atk 13). ] That he hasn't been here because he knows I don't need him.

[bigbad]

[He ducks past her leg and delivers a quick punch to her torso (atk 20, dmg 7). It's a little harder than he meant to hit, and his head flares a warning (dmg 1). He grimaces.] Do you need him?

[slay]

Well, I haven't. [ she admits it begrudgingly, coughing at the end of the sentence as she's wasted the last of the air that wasn't knocked out of her. she wheezes, doubling over a little, and then reaches out to grab for his shoulder in the hopes of a headbutt, but falls short (atk 14). ]

[bigbad]

[He bats her head away and tries to follow up with a knee to her chest, but he overcompensates for last time. It's slow and weak (atk 11).] But you wanted him around.

[slay]

And I still do. [ she sidesteps the knee and brings her elbow down against the back of his neck (atk 20, dmg 1). ] But, I don't need him. I've been fine - managing.

[bigbad]

You are more than competent. And independent. [He makes a pained noise and tries to stomp on her foot (atk 11) but misjudges.] Would you even listen if he tried to order you around?

[slay]

Of course I'd listen. He's still a dragon's claw. [ nat 1 attack means she tries to jump out of the way of his foot and into a spinning kick, but she just trips over herself and stumbles into him. so at least she takes him with her still when she hits the ground. after a beat, she sits up off of him some. ]

Maybe. [ a longer beat as she dusts herself off, then finally shrugs. ] If it was something I was already planning to do anyway.