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knightsoflegend2013-06-05 06:45 am
romanticidal) wrote in knightsoflegend2013-06-05 06:45 am
Entry tags:
- !main plot,
- buffy summers,
- burt becksworth,
- dawn summers,
- desmond d. descant,
- elena gilbert,
- eterna jade,
- finnick odair,
- fredrick jr.,
- isabella alessandro,
- jeanne gar,
- kat samcelot,
- lila zacharov-gray,
- marcus andres,
- myrilandel odair,
- rafael giovanni,
- spike,
- sterling archer,
- violet reedhym,
- wade wilson
CHAPTER FINALE ♔ darling can't you see it's now or never
♬ Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing) - Amanda Palmer ft. Zoe Keating
WHO || Rafael Giovanni, Eterna Jade, Burt Becksworth, Isabella Alessandro, Finnick Odair, Myrilandel de Tanos, Buffy Summers, Spike, Elena Gilbert, Dawn Summers, Desmond Descant, Jeanne Gar, Kat Samcelot, Mark Sandazhard, Violet Fiore, Sterling Archer
WHAT || CHAPTER ONE FINALE: Rafael Giovanni & Finnick's televised international concert debut
WHERE || A music hall in Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 3rd, 2013 [ forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam
The hour is finally upon our heroes, to learn whether their crazy plan to invest in making Finnick and Rafael international superstars under Burt Becksworth's management will pay off, and keep control of NOVA Records out of the hands of Chad Becksworth and his sinister compatriots. Now, as the Knights finish taking their seats in the balconies directly overlooking the stage, the concert goes live, broadcasting around the world, to where even other members of the Knighthood in London can gather to watch.
The camera pans across the endless sea of gathered, curious fans, who shake their arms wildly for their two seconds of fame, and then zooms in on a blonde figure on one corner of the stage, where she stands ready with a microphone: Buffy Summers.
[ the action of this post will be continually propelled by the interspersed musical numbers performed by finnick and rafael. each musical number will be up for a short amount of ooc time, in which players are free to create mini-thread responses directly to that song comment. these can be for internal reflection, to make commentary to the neighbors seated in their rows, for backstage convos for those involved in the program, or for 'host' commentary between some songs by archer and kat. threads that result from these responses should be kept short and sweet, as each song is only 3 to 5 minutes long, which doesn't leave a lot of time for in depth conversations. ideally, by the time the next 'number' is posted (as a direct response to the last musical number comment), your response threads from the previous number should be considered over and done with, and you can continue anything going on in them as a new mini-thread under the most recently posted song. in order to keep track of when things are rolling on to the next song, I highly encourage everyone to please track this entire post. ]
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orlando bloom, in the meantime, entirely ignores spike's question, and watches the two girls over jade's body. after a few seconds, spike and buffy might see (spot 12+) a small orb of white light start to rise out of jade's chest.
bloom seems to make a decision, and he reaches out very gently and places his palm over the light, closing his eyes. a single tear rolls down his cheek, and the light begins to sink back down into her, as the droplet slides off his cheek and lands on myri's hand that's placed on jade.
there's a flash of golden light that emanates out from where the tear falls, encasing myri and jade both for a brief instant. and myri would feel that coldness ebb inside of her, and her energy returning again, as if for a second wind. and as she pours that energy into jade, she feels strengthened herself this time, rather than weakened.
she can feel something plateau off, as the dark energy is held at bay. jade is, essentially, stabilized in a sort of comatose state for now, but myri can also tell that darkness is battering back, and it won't be long before it breaks through and jade slips away entirely.
bloom leans over and places a kiss atop first violet's head, and then myri's, and says very quietly: ] Long enough to say goodbye. [ neither of them hear his words, but they both share in a sudden sensation that somehow, there is some small level of hope. and then he draws back up to his feet, and turns to look between des and rafael, his face a mask of deep, pained sadness that only reflects in his eyes. ]
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She wipes at her mouth with the back of her hand, and even though she has no idea Gar even spoke to her, she's straightening back up.]
I'm fine.
[Her hearing will come back, or she's going to assume that for now. It's just temporary, from the noise. And she doesn't need to worry people any more than she already has.]
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End this.
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[Well There's no time to reload, damnit.]
Heads up, chuckles!
[Archer begins to sprint over to the two, but before he runs, he just throws his shotgun at Des. - using an action point to boost this roll, b/c there's going to be millions of negatives for an improvised weapon throw... ATK roll of 19+6 from AP = 25. I'm assuming they're about 20 feet away, so -2 from range increment penalties and -4 from improvised and -4 from throwing into melee. Total ATK 15. If that hits one or either of them, Damage... 13 (Yep. Critical Shotgun Toss. Only Archer.)]
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which is on fire.
just a little bit, though, and a few really dedicated stagehands are trying to put them out. meanwhile, those two remaining behemoths? are fleeing towards the back door, the bodies of the other two sprawled here. ]
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Stop it, love. You're hurting yourself.
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When Spike crouches beside her, touching her, and jumps, looking at him with wide, scared eyes.]
She's... she's alive. [And she is... in the loosest sense.] I don't think we can move her. I tried-! I... [Even with renewed hope, Myri knows that it's bad. Jade isn't waking up. The bleeding seems to have stopped, but she's lost so much blood already... And there's no telling what damage the bullets have done that cannot be reached. Glancing down, she sees the blood on her hands, the blood on the stage, and the unconscious woman.
Her gaze shifts quickly, and she stands, dazed. She doesn't step away from her, but raises her voice in the direction of Des and Rafael. Her voice cracks with emotion as she speaks.]
She'll be gone soon. You need to say goodbye. She needs to know you loved her.
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Fitting, really. She doesn't know him from Adam.
He shoots Rafael a hateful look.] Well, go on, Fluffy. Tell her you're sorry. Tell her you just couldn't stand that she didn't remember you. [He grunts and rolls over to his side, cringing through pained laughter] She did it for you, you know. She couldn't stomach living without you. That's why she couldn't remember. So go and tell her how much you loved her. Maybe if you didn't, she'd still be alive.
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she marches towards him, reaching out a hand to shove at him. ]
You! [ her hand meets air as he easily moves out of her way, turning like he'd already seen the move coming. she stumbles, then turns wildly to glare at him. ] What did you do!?
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orlando bloom turns to face her... and when he makes eye contact with her, it's enough to make her forget how to breathe.
it's hard to explain what it is that she sees in his eyes, but it's impossible to look away - and deep behind them seems to glow some kind of bright, warm physical light, in which it seems like she can see the unity of everything in known existence turning somehow. his expression is neutral, except for the deep pain she can see reflected there, but there's something much, much stronger than that, a sensation that immediately swells up inside of her unbidden.
hope. and love. not of the romantic, melodramatic variety people had displayed so much of tonight, but something richer, and more all-encompassing, and deeper. it feels as if it threatens to overtake her entirely, and with her will save of 10, she'd be moved to actual tears herself, perhaps without even realizing it.
he doesn't answer. just continues to look at her evenly, as if he knows what she's seeing, and it's a better answer that any other he can give. ]
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but yeah he's just standing there in the audience. not moving. essentially frozen in place. just thought u should kno.]
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Wake the hell up Rafael [Archer slaps him]
My God do I have to do everything?
[He shrugs, then goes and retrieves his discarded pistols]
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Buffy...?
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but buffy doesn't get a chance to answer. because chris knows my life, and it's at that moment that the police burst in on every side, guns drawn and pointed at everyone as they move into position,
the scene shot in dramatic slow motion."Everyone, weapons on the ground, hands in the air! Nobody move!"
across the stage floor, paramedics rush in, wheeling in a stretcher and moving double time to the stage. gar, kat, and mark, comply instantly, weapons dropped, hands up, and orlando bloom looks towards the oncoming medical help, breaking buffy's gaze and giving her relief from the emotional flood, although the feeling of having a lot of her darker emotions burned out lingers a bit. when buffy and spike follow his gaze and then look back at him... he's gone. as if he was never there.
the police move immediately to pull out handcuffs, approaching archer, des, and rafael in particular to cuff. rafael offers no resistance whatsoever, his eyes skidding back to jade, as the paramedics reach vi and myri and jade, and move to take over transferring her to the stretcher, the police holding off any resistance the girls put up.
as rafael is pulled away from the scene, isabella shouts his name in protest across the stage, but he merely shakes his head and says, very quietly as he's led away: ]
It doesn't matter.
Nothing matters anymore.