london ♔ see how fast they fall apart

[nepotism]

♬ biting down - lorde

WHO || Fred Jr., Faye, Astrid, Taradiddle, Miles [Closed]
WHAT || CSI: London
WHERE || London, England
WHEN || Jan 12th, shortly before 4pm [forwarddated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The murder the Knights are sent to investigate took place in an abandoned warehouse, near the largest highway in London. The aging and dilapidated structure is covered with graffiti and bits of rusting metal.

Squad cars and emergency vehicles have surrounded the building. Outside the main entrance, police officers are questioning a small crowd of people when the Knights arrive.

Fred parks the car, and looks across through the passenger window.

"Must be the place. Let's roll."

Comments

[reallywicked]

[Faye jumps out of the way of the barrels (reflex 18) and joins Fred in the gun drawing. She's been practicing with Emma, so she might as well use it outside of the shooting range, right? She looks extremely pissed off at those dirty ass barrels being hurled in her direction.]

Get. Over. Here. [She says to this weird guy (???) in a harsh, dangerous tone (intimidate 19)]

[nepotism]

[ the guy scrabbles to his feet, using the wall as support, knees knocking together, his eyes wild. faye, and anyone else who hits a sense motive 15+, would recognize that the guy is in shock, and not acting normally, as he swings his gun wildly from one possible target to the next. ]

"Stay back! Stay back!! I'll shoot, so help me God!" [ as if to prove his point (again), he puts both hands on the barrel and fires the gun up at the ceiling. ]

[cuivre]

[Miles lifts his hands in the air in a surrender gesture, because this guy is clearly not in his right mind at the moment, having gone through an ordeal (sense motive 16).]

Relax, man, we're just here to figure out what happened. You're safe now. Everyone else, just chill.

[Diplomacy 18]

[nepotism]

[ miles' words seem to get through to him, sort of, but he swings his gun at tdiddle again, appearing to remember that she hit him and looking suspicious. but he doesn't fire. ]

[godblessyou]

[Oh yay this is working. Taradiddle scuttles away because she'd rather not get shot at. Again.]

Right. We're here to help!

[Despite the kicking.... diplomacy 10. At least she's probably not making things worse.]

[nepotism]

Shut up! Tell her to shut up! [ wow no he really doesn't like you, tdiddle :C ]

[pathology]

[it took like 3 action points but astrid managed to dodge that bullet barrel (ref save 21) and has now bounded over to the thick of the situation. ]

[to t-diddle:] Shut up! [and then] Why does she need to shut up? What's your damage?

[nepotism]

[ the guy rubs a hand across his face wildly, and seems to have a facial tic. ]

"You got no idea! NO IDEA WHAT I SEEN!"

[ fred holds up a hand, lowering his weapon down onto the ground slowly ] Hey, hey, let's all just chill out like Miles said and talk about it, ok? We aren't here to hurt you. [ (diplomacy 9) but the guy flinches as fred moves to lower the gun and he seems unable to even comprehend his words, too busy watching his movements like a hawk. ]

[cuivre]

You're right. We don't know what you saw. But we're here to make sure whatever you did see doesn't happen again, alright?

[Diplomacy 15 while he continues to hold still.]

[reallywicked]

[Faye rolls her eyes and lowers her gun. Twitchy McTwitchface is just pissing her off at this point. There's a nagging tingle at the back of her mind, which is how new spells seem to manifest for her. She frowns and looks at her hands, expecting a fireball or something. So far, those have been the majority of her spells, after all.

She'll just be over here trying to figure THAT out for now.]

[nepotism]

[ the punk stares at them for another long moment, before putting both hands to his face and sinking to his knees. he lets the gun drop, collapsing into a wreck of emotion as he starts shaking and crying. ]

Whoa, it's ok, man. Take a moment. You got a name?

[ through his shaking, he manages to get out: ] D-Desmond.

[godblessyou]

[Since he seems so anti-T-Diddle, she'll stay away, but she looks pretty miffed about it. She casually glances around to see if there are any other hints about the mysterious beast (spot 9).]

[pathology]

Hi Desmond! I'm Astrid. [she makes her best effort towards ... friendliness at the punk before turning back around to face the others and, quietly:] I bet he saw the [she makes a clawing motion with her hand] and that's why he's all ... [she winds her finger into a circle next to her temple.]

[nepotism]

[ Fred nods an agreement with Astrid and her assessment, and says: ]

Are you the guy who called?

[ Desmond nods ]

"I know what we did was wrong - we... we took some lady's purse and were running for it and... shit, it... it came outta nowhere, swear to Christ. And Rico...

It tore him apart, and I couldn't do a fucking thing..."

[reallywicked]

[The more the guy calms down and actually talks to them, the less Faye has that itchy magic feeling. Part of her doesn't like that. She wants to chase that feeling and find out just what was at the edge of her memory. But she focuses on Desmond instead.]

What was it? What did you see?

[nepotism]

[ Desmond grimaces, eyes dull as he recounts: ] "It... it was a monster. There were claws and... and pointy teeth and it had scales. I swear to fucking hell, it was probably a dragon or some shit like that!"

[cuivre]

Like an actual dragon? Or just because it had scales?

[He's pretty sure a dragon wouldn't just...be able to disappear like that.]

Any idea if it's still in the building? Or where it went?

[nepotism]

"I ... I didn't watch! I hid while it... while it finished chewing on him and then I... then I called the cops and didn't dare come out."

[ fred frowns and glances at the group, revealing the metal tag he'd found to the others, the one that reads 'Hilberger Tech-X 433.' ] We might have a place to start looking, at least.

[reallywicked]

So let's go. [Unless we are still in init, in which case just ignore me. But Faye is not interested in the spaz at all. This place is gross she would like to move on now.]

[nepotism]

"Are-- are you gonna turn me in?" [ desmond stammers, looking between them all. ]

Something tells me your purse stealing days are over. Sorry about your pal. [ he nods to the others. ] C'mon. We're burning daylight.

[ CLEAN CUP MOVE DOWN new thread ]