knightsoflegend | new orleans ♔ some people they call me monster

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new orleans ♔ some people they call me monster | some people they call me saint

WHO || Rafael, Buffy, Spike, Des, Jack, Thomas, Myri, Finnick, Elena, Gar, Kat, Burt [closed]
WHAT || The Knights infiltrate NOVA to try to locate the experiments and relics mentioned by Chad & company. Shenanigans ensue.
WHERE || NOVA HQ, New Orleans
WHEN || Sunday, Nov 18th, 2012
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order! Keep it a rollin'.

Months ago, Finnick learned from Burt Becksworth about a number of construction projects Chad had contracted on the building. At the time of discovering the occult room, it was assumed the construction was to create the secret areas behind the auditorium, however, Kat's finally managed to hack into NOVA financial records and trace the contracts down.

It seems there was another, much more expensive, project, adding restructuring to the locked off basement level, to which there is no access through the public elevators. Schematics show that there is one accessible elevator shaft that goes to the lobby, which requires a key to activate the lower floor. Thomas considers it a better bet, however, to use the nearby quarry underground entrance through which construction trucks used to reach the site. Thomas will be leading a team through the underground tunnel in hopes of finding a space large enough to host the 'experiments' that Chad and company were afraid of the Knights discovering while nosing around the building.

Meanwhile, Jack wishes to discover if there are any remaining 'relics' in the building, and if so, to confiscate or document them. The heightened security within the building has made access much more problematic, and its taken awhile for him to acquire the security protocols necessary to be able to create a looped camera feed. Now that's everything's in place, he'll be infiltrating the building to override the cams, allowing Buffy, Elena, and Rafael to join him on the fourteenth floor for one last sweep of the occult room.

The situation has also grown more complicated in other ways since eavesdropping on Chad's cabal. In a gutsy move, Burt Becksworth has created an inescapable situation for Rafael and Finnick, forcing them to comply in preparing for an album and tour, lest they destroy their own reputations and become infamous in the business for backing out of their 'contracts' and letting down legion of NOVA fans. Finnick is an ideal situation to try and discover more about Burt's plans, however, and perhaps to find out incidental information concerning Chad's "Back the Fans" tour.

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[ fort 17, so she can still see. ]

Thank me when we make it out of this alive.

[ they converge with elena as they head for the door, and buffy's doing her best to run at full speed despite her injuries, keeping one arm at rafael's back to make sure he doesn't get left behind. she has to have faith in jack. he's a dragon's claw for a reason. he can get out of this.

but she casts a scared look over her shoulder towards him, lips pursed. she can hardly see him through the stage lights. she continues on out the door. ]

Giovanni's with us. [ there's no hesitation in the claim and it's clear that he's drawing a line in the sand ] If the Vatican thinks he has done wrong, they are free to contact Wynn and discuss the matter. But until then, I will not stand for you attacking my people. [ he raises his other hand, and a white light grows within that palm as well, brighter and brighter, like staring into the sun. and then abruptly, the light blasts outwards towards anderson, a ray that strikes him right in the chest, and causes him to emit a groan (dmg 17) ] You will leave, before this gets uglier.

[ anderson glares at jack when the beam cuts off, brandishing a sword to the side ] D'you really think you have any authority here, Protestant? Yer dirty cheap magic tricks don't scare me.

An' I can tell you're hiding something. I intend t'find out exactly what that is. [ rather than attack, he just starts taking menacing steps closer to the stage -- and jack -- who stands stalwartly awaiting him ]

[As Elena meets up with the two of them, she bends down a bit to get under Buffy's other arm. It's a strange little train, the three of them; Buffy trying to help Raf, and Elena trying to help Buffy as they all head for the door.

Still, she can't help but spare a glance backward toward Jack. She's terrified for him, but still doing what she's told. Buffy and Rafael might not be able to survive a second hit, she doesn't know. And she's pretty sure she can't take even one, and then she won't be able to help anyone.]

[ they finally make it to the door, and rafael opens it, holding it with his foot and gesturing for the girls to go ahead of him, as he raises one gun and trains it at the back of anderson's head. he fires one nearly flawless shot (atk 39) that sails across the auditorium and strikes the paladin's skull from behind (dmg 10) ]

[ ok yep definitely hurrying out that door now that rafael DREW ATTENTION TO THEM JFC YOU DUMB BITCH. she shoves him out a little roughly, and then follows after. whatever jack's doing seems to be working, because anderson's doing more talking than attacking. ]

[ all three of them will make it out the door at this point, since anderson's busy regenerating... the back of his head. raf nods to the elevator ]

[She sees the elevator, makes a quick glance to try and make sure that neither Buffy for Rafael will hit the ground if she lets go before she speaks.]

I'll be right back.

[And then she books it for the elevator and hits the down button a couple more times than is necessary. The sooner it gets there the better.

Then she moves to help hold them up again while they wait, her heart pounding in her chest.]

Thanks. [ the words come out quickly as they move for the elevator. she glances over her shoulder, strained as she tries to spot jack through the wall. unsuccessfully, obviously. ] Did he tell you the plan?

I do not know how well a 'plan' will hold against such a man. [ rafael keeps an eye back on the wall as well as the elevator indicator slooowly climbs towards them ]

Jack knows what he's doing. [ buffy's answer is sharp and defensive. no. she doesn't want to imagine a scenario where jack's in over his head. she needs him. ]

I don't think there's much of a plan. He told me he was going to...stall him while I got you out of the auditorium.

[She looks a little grim, and definitely worried.]

That's it.

Let us hope he has no interest in killing him, then. [ implying otherwise jack gon' die. DING. elevator door opens and rafael gestures for them to get in ]

[ buffy hesitates at the threshold of the elevator. she glances back down to towards the auditorium. stalling is a great plan, if it works. it's a great plan, if jack is still able to follow them out. everything inside of her screams not to leave him behind, but what can any of them do against the terminator priest?

nobody has beaten her that quickly that badly. nobody. and if she's being honest with herself, she's ... well, terrified, though she doesn't show it.

but she can't leave him. ]

[And Elena feels exactly the same way, but if they stay? They'll die. They can only hope that Jack will get away after enough time has passed, that he'll follow them.

Because otherwise, if the worst does happen? It'll be for nothing.

Elena sees Buffy stall at the entrance to the elevator and look back. And Elena does the only thing she can.

She reaches out, grabs her wrist, and tries to tug her into the elevator before it closes, the adrenaline pumping through her veins fueling her. (Str 17)]

[ it's enough, considering rafael also steps in after her, and hits the door close button hard ]

We must respect the choice he has made, in any case.

[ buffy doesn't expect the move on elena's part, so she's easily pulled into the elevator. she turns around wildly afterward, breaking elena's grip with ease (str 23), but the doors have already shut courtesy of rafael's button pressing. she steps forward and rests her hands against the metal. ]

That choice could kill him. You saw what that guy's capable of.

And if we stayed, then he's in just as much danger, and we would die too.

[Buffy and Raf were already very injured. She wished she had Myri's ability to heal at this moment. Then she could at least be useful.]

I don't want to leave either, Buffy.

[But her tone indicates that they have to. Going back now would only be suicide.]

[ the elevator go down the hooooole ]

None of us do. If anyone should have stayed... [ IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEEEEEE ]

If you'd stayed, you wouldn't have been able to explain what the hell that was all about. [ she turns around at that, giving him a very sudden and hard stare. she's rapidly running out of patience for your mysteriousness when it keeps biting everyone in the ass, rafael. her expression is expectant, waiting for him to explain just what the hell he did that pissed the priest off so much. ] He's with the Catholic Church, right? And their demon hunter arm. [ how to not call iscariot escargot at a moment of seriousness 101. ] So, what's a guy like that want with you?

[ his dart to elena, and he hesitates before saying: ] Revenge. For one of his Church, who was killed. [ another beat ] By me.

[Yeah, she's backing Buffy up on this one. She doesn't know what the hell is going on, but she trusts her more than someone who blatantly admits to killing someone.]

Why did you do that?

[It better be a good reason.]

[ he glances up towards the cameras, obviously really hoping that jack was right about them all being on loop in the elevator ]

Buffy knows this, and some of the Knights. In Italia, I work with a Resistance Movement, that protects Shadowkind from the oppression they face there. We arm and fight to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

That is how the priest died, but that is not how the Church sees it, I would hazard to guess.

[ she looks at elena to weigh their opinions against one another, unapologetically excluding rafael from it with just her body language. considering she isn't sure how much to trust him anymore, she doesn't really feel it's out of line. ]

Wouldn't be the first time organized religion got their minority oppression on.

[ her ability to rationalize the conflict speaks to the truth of rafael's statement - yes, she knows, yes, he's a resistance fighter helping shadowkind. he wouldn't just murder a priest.

she thinks. ]

And most likely not the last. But those circumstances were unusual and extreme. Things in Italia get much more ... dangerous than they do here, for Shadowkind.

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