knightsoflegend | essen ♔ where not a single soul gets through

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essen ♔ where not a single soul gets through

WHO || Sydney B., Andrew, Diana, Felicity, Sebastian [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a hacker friend of Andrew's who has gone off the grid
WHERE || Essen, Germany
WHEN || Jan 10th, shortly before 7pm [forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The flight to Essen is very short, only about half an hour, and Sydney makes good time flying them there. Wynn has a car already rented and waiting for them as usual and then it's a short drive to the coordinates Lady Nell sent them.

While the neighborhood in question was once a very nice residential development, it now shows decades of neglect. There is a squat, one-story storefront across from what appears to be a riot control vehicle that appears severely battered.

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[Yeah, that's totally not traumatizing at all. She stares at the body for a moment, her hand shaking, before steadying herself with a deep breath and glancing back to Andrew.]

You okay?

[Please say she didn't break you somehow over some weird mental link that you had with the creepy child she just killed.]

[The haze pulls back from Andrew's mind and he feels... intensely shitty.]

Sorry. For... shooting at you. [Not that he hit anyone...] What the hell were those things?

[ syd is standing over them, staring down too, and it's hard to miss what she sees - where felicity's bullet went through the little girl's head, some kind of internal wires are sparking through the brain matter. it looks like a combination of organic and robotic. ] I think that's the question of the hour. [ her gaze raises slowly to rake across the women here. ] They were protecting whatever's going on here.

[Even better. Creepy cyborg spell casting children. That only makes her feel slightly better about shooting a child in the face. But only slightly.

That being said, she turns her attention to the rest of the mothers.]

Do you think we should get them a doctor? An actual non-terrifying, not mad scientist doctor?

The sooner, the better. Andrew, do you think you could see if there's anything in those computers? [ she nods at a bank on the far wall ]

[ Sebastian felt a little ill having watched the girl get splattered but it was time to suck it up.]

I want to know what they are protecting.

[Nodding, Andrew goes to fuss with the computers, trying not to think about how fucking weird this whole thing has been (computer use 28)]

[She shifts to fish out her phone, staring at the screen for a moment as she considers.]

112 or should I be calling one of our doctors?

[Basically, will the women be safe with normal doctors (knowledge 17 for knowing the number for EMS in Germany - it's an important thing to know)?]

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I'd call the local authorities, unless Andrew finds something to indicate they were in this place's pocket.

[ meanwhile, andrew finds no such thing, but what he does find is bone-chilling.

during something called project icarus, a secret eugenics experiment in applying cultured biotech to unborn fetuses. first one, then another of the subjects were born healthy, magically active, with fully operating bioware, and without the loss of magical potential usually associated with the implementation of bioware into grown adults. the project was officially shut down, but secretly relocated to this facility and attempts to replicate the results began.

the project brought in new personnel, who were 'disappeared' by the corp and now live their lives in secret, repeating the experiment. they have thus far failed, and have abandoned in vitro experiments in favor of using "natural" subjects. this seems to mean that they kidnap healthy young women who have recently become pregnant and have a family history of magical activity.

files exist about the two children who were the products of the original successful experiment: theseus and ariadne, eight and six years old, who evidence suggests were brainwashed to serve the project. ]

Oh god... [Not exactly the sound you want to hear come from the mouth of the guy doing the research for you.] They made them. All of this is some breeding center to try to make a batch of bioware implanted kids who have magical potential. Fucking Christ...

[Is about to start making the phone call when she hears what Andrew says and .... nope. She takes a few steps closer to peer at the screen over his shoulder.]

What?

They didn't know any better. This was the only life they knew- the only one they let them know. [He's not trying to push blame on Felicity by saying it. He's just horrified at what's going on here.]

These women- they're pregnant with more of them, more kids who they want to use as... I don't know weapons or something. We have to get them out of here.

[Yeah, she's trying not to think about that. On the one hand, the kids didn't know any better. It's not entirely their fault. But at the same time, they weren't going to stop either.

It's a hard call, but someone needed to make it, or they all were going to wind up dead.]

I'm calling EMS now.

[Yep, hitting send and putting the phone to her ear as she steps away.]

[ syd steps up behind andrew into the place felicity had been, and squeezes his shoulder ] This is what Alice was trying to uncover. [ insert joke about down-the-rabbit-hole ] The best thing we can do for her is to make certain it ends.

We've got to get these women out of here. Maybe we can save their children, won't let them become like... [He trails off, glancing over his shoulder at the dead kids.]

[Her voice is shaking as she calls, not really feeling solid enough to keep as calm as she should but in the moment that lent itself to the call (bluff 10).]

Hello? I was driving out by - [insert location here] - and I heard something. There was a lot of noise I think they might have been gunshots? You should send EMS someone might be hurt.

[there's a pause as she goes through the various "uh-huhs" and "okays" before she hangs up and turns back to the team.]

We should be clear before they get here.

[her eyes then fall on the unconscious boy on the other side of the room.]

And we probably shouldn't leave him here.

If you guys keep an eye on creepy mind powers. I'll carry him.

[ Sebastian offered, since there was really not much else he saw for him to do.]

I don't think she's coming back any time soon.

I was just worried maybe he might have it too. So, you want me to get the kid up off the floor then?

[ He's viewing her as leader here.]

I think we should let the police find them too. What happened here needs to get out.

[Felicity hesitates for a moment, before glancing back to her.]

Think the local cops can handle him?

I can hack the police files tonight and check up on them. If anything looks off, we can handle it then. [And if the press don't pick up the scent, he'll make it viral too. The world will know about this shit by morning, basically.]

The Knights aren't in the habit of taking prisoners when we can hand things over to the authorities. What would we do with him if we took him with us?

[She wasn't thinking prisoner. But she also didn't have an answer of what they'd do with him either, so she just nods in agreement. It's entirely possible it was her guilt talking anyway.]

Right. Good point.

[She jerks her head to the door, and this is more directed to Andrew who was doing the tech stuff.]

If you're good, let's go.

[ Sebastian looked down at the boy still then looked to them.]

I'll catch up, go on.

[ he spoke as he moved to go look for a sheet to tear off a gurney. A moment of sympathy here.] If he wakes up he doesn't need to see his sisters corpse.

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