romania ♔ follow me as i trip the darkness

[coldheritage]

WHO || Myri, Mark, Kat, Nadia Reichenov [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights track down a lead on the girl Decker Greenwall is looking to recruit
WHERE || A concert hall in Romania
WHEN || Early January, 2013 [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam

[ The Durere concert hall is absolutely packed when they make their way into the back after buying their tickets. Most of the people here have crowded the stage, although a few are parked at back tables with drinks casually procured from the bar. It's smoky and dingy and small, and the concert goers are arrayed in a variety of goth-looking ensembles: a sea of black and funky hair styles and piercings stretches out in front of them. The Knights look so abysmally out of place, it's almost funny. ]

Comments

[coldheritage]

[ she fixes kat with an unwelcome stare ] You don't know the first thing about him.

Get out of my dressing room.

[witchwoman]

[Even with her nerves, Myri knows how important this is. She straightens slightly, trying to look less uncertain than she is. Instead of being diplomatic, she switches gears to try to intimidate the woman, but it's... not a flawless attempt (intimidate 14)]

We can't do that. We can't leave before we know what they've told you.

1/2

[coldheritage]

[ it actually seems sufficient to make her hesitate in the doorway, although it doesn't do anything to undercut the hostility with which she now seems to be regarding their intrusion. ]

Is that a threat?

[shootfirst]

[ kat's eager to hop on that wagon, because, well, it's a more familiar one to her. so it's probably not surprising when she pulls her gun and fixes it on nadia, expression hardening (intimidate 17 + mod) . ]

Oh good. You're catching on. [ nadia stares at the barrel, and then at them, lips pressing together, but when kat motions for her to come inside and close the door, she does so, with slow, cautious movements. ]

[witchwoman]

[This isn't how she had wanted it to go, but at least it's working. Myri sighs and relaxes the tension in her shoulder slightly as the door closes.]

I had hoped it would not come to this. [Which is sincere. She looks from Kat to the gun, then back to Nadia.] My friend has a temper, as I'm sure you can see.

[coldheritage]

Are you planning to kill me?

[witchwoman]

[She takes a breath and tries to reason with the woman again, this time putting a bit more pressure into her attempts to persuade the woman to be forthcoming (diplomacy nat 20, 22 total)]

We only wish to talk. The men who have come from you are not what they seem. Whatever they have promised you is just a ruse. They seek destruction. If you do not come with us, it may be too late to undo the damage they have done, and if we cannot stop them, all Shadowkind will be in grave danger- yourself included.

[coldheritage]

[ she listens attentively, dark eyes, chips of obsidian flashing at the implications. finally, she speaks in a cold, proud voice: ] And what if it's worth it to me to risk that danger?

This world is full of men who make their living by seeking to destroy other men. That's the way of nature.

To survive.

I don't fit here, and with them, I will finally have a place. Where I should be.

[witchwoman]

[Myri's gaze softens. For as dire as the situation is, and as little time as they have to change the woman's mind, she cannot help but understand why she would take the choice once it was presented to her.]

It isn't the answer. [She steps closer, careful to still leave Kat a clear shot.] The man who leads them despises us, uses those from worlds through the Veil for his own needs. You have no place with him other than as a pawn. You are so much more than a right hand to destruction, Nadia... Please... Don't do this. Come with us and we'll explain everything.

[coldheritage]

Maybe you're wrong about who's really the pawn in this game.

[witchwoman]

[She pauses] What are you saying?

1/2

[coldheritage]

Too much. [ her hand moves to the door handle as she watches kat and that gun cautiously ] If you're going to shoot, do it.

[shootfirst]

It's not a good idea to say that to me, ever.

[witchwoman]

[Any diplomatic hold Myri hopes to have is just slipping away in front of her eyes. She imagined this going so different and now she's fairly certain that Kat is going to shoot the girl no matter what she says.]

No! [She jumps forward between the two of them, moving to grab Nadia's wrist.] She will shoot you if you leave. I can promise you that. [She wishes she could be harder, colder. She wishes she could bully the woman into speaking with them, but all she has left is fear. Tears brim in her eyes as she speaks.] I have worked too hard and traveled so far to find a place where I did not have to be afraid. These men you are working with want to destroy that. I will let her kill you if that means protecting those that I love.

[coldheritage]

[ she struggles uselessly against myri's grip (str 4), and glares daggers at her, gritting her teeth ] You should be afraid. This world is crueler than any other that I can even imagine. [ myri can suddenly feel her tense up, and then she darts her eyes in kat's direction. kat readjusts her grip, looks to myri as if for the go-ahead, and her finger itches towards the trigger...

when the gun is ripped from her hands by some invisible force and goes clattering to the floor, sliding under a gun rack. ]

[witchwoman]

[Adrenaline is pumping apparently, because Myri's first instinct is to tighten her grip on Nadia's wrist and move to hold her, wrist twisted behind her as she presses her against the door (grapple 20 total).]

1/2

[shootfirst]

[ nadia was clearly not expecting the maneuver whatsoever, and myri feels something snap in the girl's wrist as she turns it, and slams her against the door (crit fail). kat scowls, hesitating about whether to go after the gun or not, but seems to decide myri's got this one and moves to shove clothes aside angrily. ] What the hell are you?

[coldheritage]

[ nadia grits her teeth against the pain and struggles to look back at myri. there's a strange deliberateness to her words as she orders: ] Let go of me. [ myri must make a will save of 16+ in order to keep from obeying the suggestion, and being unable to grab her again for 8 hours. also! make a spot check and text me :D ]

[witchwoman]

[With a will save of 20 total and a spot check of 17, Myri is laser focused on this mission. The snap of the girl's wrist makes her hesitate, as she can immediately sense the pain and feels the urge to heal it. It's when she spots the remnants of sawed off horns hiding under the girl's hair that she's able to swallow back that instinct. She's seen those before, hasn't she? Myri turns her head to look over her shoulder at Kat.]

She's like Rynn. [Because it was in the elevator that she saw horns like those. And it was while during research that she learned what it meant. She turns her attention back to Nadia.] You're a tiefling, aren't you?

[shootfirst]

[ Kats head jerks up from where she's found the gun, a frown cutting across her face. ] This is getting to be a mondo disturbing pattern, if you ask me.

[coldheritage]

I'm a person. [ the reply is steeped in bitterness that speaks to a thousand experiences of people assuming otherwise. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri's grip loosens slightly. How many times in her childhood had she dealt with a prejudice so similar to the one she can only imagine Nadia experienced? They called her a demon, said that her magic brought death to their town. They claimed that she stole the souls of the dead and fed them to her familiar. She doesn't pull away completely, but her tone is much more empathetic to the woman's past.]

Of course. But if you work with these people, they will make you a monster.

[coldheritage]

They're the only ones who can stop me from becoming one.

[shootfirst]

[ abruptly kat draws a vibrating phone from her pocket ] Ut oh. Speaking of Monsters Inc. [ reading: ] Eijen-Kay and Ecker-Day incoming.

Very incoming. [ she looks at the door, hesitates, then gestures to myri to let go of nadia and come towards her, frantically. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri trusts Kat with her life, so when she sees the gesture, she immediately releases the singer and falls back to Kat's side.]

Please, Nadia... [She pleads for a final time, knowing that this is the end of the line for this conversation.] Once they have you, I'm not sure if we will be able to help you. We won't be able to keep you safe.