new orleans ♔ for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets

[bancroft]

WHO || Thomas, Jack, Gar, Kat, Dumage, Mark, Myri, Buffy, Finnick, Spike, Rafael, Des, Elena, Chad Becksworth, The Mind Master, Decker Greenwall, Kitty Bonquas, Raoul Jacobson, Rynn, Devereaux, Keijen Blade [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights spy on an important meeting between Chad Becksworth and his compatriots... various downtime shenanigans ensue
WHERE || Various locations, New Orleans
WHEN || Friday, Oct 19th - November 12th [Backdated]
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order!!

[ Yesterday, members of team failboat went to the bayou hideout of the mysterious woman known only as "the Mind Master", on some intel from the captured Olean Gilbert. What they discovered was a very bizarre woman, who played mind games with them, and seemed to evince little concern for their interference. Another man, whom may have been Chad Becksworth entered, and told her that "Decker" was finished stalling and all was in readiness... The two of them fled before the Knights could get much information from either of them, and set a hideous creature to attack them: which appeared to be the result of a Frankenstein-like scientific process that sewed a human woman together with a giant snake.

The next day, another team of Knights infiltrated NOVA HQ to hack into appointment records and discover the names of those intended to meet with Chad Becksworth. Just as they downloaded the list, the scheduled meeting attendees arrived: it seemed they were meeting today, and the Dragon's Claws insisted that the younger Knights retire to the hotel, where all will be able to monitor the meeting onscreen as they spy on it and broadcast video. Knights' allies (Des, Rafael, Elena) are invited to watch as well. ]

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[ This log also covers any shenanigans the Knights have while staying in New Orleans, immediately following the last logs and extending over the next three weeks, when the next exciting shit go down.

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

[65]

[finnick's attention turns toward spike.] They were experimenting on someone?

[nothingsodivine]

I'm gonna let you finish your moral outrage in a second, but I didn't take any vows, so I'm allowed to be okay with this without judgment.

[slay]

[ there's a sour look shot des' way and buffy really wants to throw down a lecture, but she realizes it's more important to update finnick. so she looks to him instead, though her jaw remains tight. ]

In the swamp. The Mind Master brought out this ... this thing. It looked like they'd gone all frankenstein on this girl. Sewed her together with a monster.

[65]

Horrible. They did this to some girl, and you're upset that they're probably dead?

[slay]

Killing them doesn't bring her back. And, it doesn't get us any closer to the talisman, either. Based on what we just heard, they're a hell of a lot closer to it than we are. [ she glances towards the blank screen. ] Or, they were.

[bigbad]

And now they've been set back. [Spike looks over at her.] Might not help bring the girl back, but it could spare other girls. And it gives us time to catch up.

[romanticidal]

[ ok now rafael will speak up, arms folded where he's leaning against the wall ] While killing them in such a manner will likely make it difficult for them to prove who did it, or even know for certain it was not an accident, it also does not assure any of them are actually dead. If anything, it will be a small setback, but their operation seems large enough that they will still pursue their plan. And so we will be able to continue following their movements and getting closer to the truth.

[witchwoman]

[n o p e - Hearing about a girl being sewed back together is the last straw for Myri. Her stomach cannot handle this conversation right now. She doesn't want to make a scene, but she can't stand there and listen to this right now.

She'll be slipping away to the balcony to get some air now.]

[slay]

[ at least rafael knew why she cared that they were closer, even if the point sailed safely over spike's murderous vampire head. she doesn't miss that rafael is playing devil's advocate - probably because he's tactfully on the other side - but given how vocally in favor of thomas' actions spike, des and finnick are, she's a little distracted by hatin' on them to have any currs right now. ]

Or, in layman's terms, now we've got less of an idea what we're dealing with because we don't know who survived or how they'll respond. We've gone from knowing exactly what their next move is to having no idea. [ she folds one arm across her chest, raising her other hand to her mouth to gnaw at her thumb nail. ] I guess ... maybe we can hope Jack or Thomas sees something.

1/-

[dragonsclaw]

[ her comment is well-timed, because jack comes in over the headset again. his tone is heavy, burdened. ] There's a body. I'm guessing just one, but there's someone else being carried away in a stretcher, badly injured: a woman.

I think it's Bonquas.

The other-- [ he trails off for a moment, before steeling himself ] is too badly mangled to tell. Somehow the rest seemed to have come out ... relatively uninjured. They've got clerics on the scene already.

2/-

[rationalizes]

[ gar looks a little nauseated at the announcement ] I don't know what it means that I can hardly tell whether to be relieved or horrified.

3/3

[shootfirst]

[ kat, in the meantime, looks clearly disappointed ] That only took out one of them? [ she frowns ] They build bad guys outta sturdier stuff than minions, I guess.

[bigbad]

Well, that all seemed rather pointless. Maybe the elevator repairs'll bankrupt them. [Spike isn't as in favour as he might sound. He just doesn't see the point in arguing over how okay it is when it's already happened. Especially since the death count was so low.]

[bancroft]

One's better than none. It's likely they'll announce the accident on the news. Jack, I'll meet you back at base. Best to get out before they start looking for us.

[nothingsodivine]

One down. God only knows how many to go. [Des is with Spike. And also he ate soylent green this week, so if he had a moral high ground, he lost it at that. A job is a job.] That's not even a blip. [He's totally optimistic.] It was a good call, but without results, it's bullshit. They're gonna up security and make it harder to get close.

[postergirl]

They were already going to do that. This was probably our last chance to try something like this.

[slay]

Good! [ buffy can't handle any of you right now. ] We shouldn't have to resort to something like this, we're better than that. We're better than they are. Every single one of us. But, I'm having a really hard time seeing how right now. [ she shakes her head, expression rife with disappointment in ALL Y'ALL. ]

[notaroundme]

[It's a lot to take in; experiments on children? Listening to what could have been a mass murder via gravity? Arguments about the morality of it all? She looks toward Myri as she gets up to leave, and her lips press into a hard line. She's not sure she wants to hear anymore, either. Not right now.

Finally, she swallows, and moves to follow her outside.]

[witchwoman]

[Once outside, she turns, sensing another presence. When she sees Elena, she immediately regrets leaving and making her follow. If this is hard for her to swallow, she can only imagine how this poor girl must feel, still being so new to this.]

I'm sorry about all that.

[notaroundme]

[She shakes her head.]

No, it's fine. It kind of gave me an excuse not to listen to it anymore.

[She wanted to see if Myri was okay, but she also didn't want to be reminded of what just happened on the other side of that microphone. She can steal hear the screeching of the metal in her head.]

Are you okay?

[witchwoman]

I'll be fine. [She gave a weak smile. But she felt like she had to say something, anything. She didn't want to scare the girl off, after all.]

It's not... It's not always like this.

[notaroundme]

[She nods in understanding.]

Don't worry. I didn't expect everything to be sunshine and rainbows.

[And, instinctively, she knows that she's been through things like this, where things happened, horrible things, that were out of her control.]

I just don't think I could do something like that myself, if they asked me to.

[witchwoman]

I know I couldn't. [She replies quietly.] But perhaps that's why they were sent. To do the things we can't.

[notaroundme]

Mm, maybe. Everyone has their strength...and weaknesses. I don't think that not being able to do something like that is a weakness though. There's always a better way, or so I'd like to think.

[witchwoman]

[The corners of her mouth turn up slightly.]

You have a lovely way of thinking, Elena. Hold onto that. [Hope seems to radiate from the girl and it helps Myri feel better about it all.]