knightsoflegend | nyc ♔ don't want your hand this time

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nyc ♔ don't want your hand this time | i'll save myself

WHO || Rafael, Isabella, Kat, Gar, Mark, Buffy, Spike, Elena, Archer, Des, Keijen, Dumage, Nadia [closed]
WHAT || The Knights head to Keijen Blade's NYC club, after Isabella storms off into a trap alone
WHERE || New York City, NY
WHEN || Saturday, March 15th [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam

What has already been a long, eventful night promises to end with a bang. (Maybe a literal one, if Archer has anything to say about it). The Knights' 'night off' at Burt's club was crashed by not only an actual goddess, but also included a visit from Nadia, extending an invitation on Keijen Blade's behalf to come to his club across the city that night.

They smelled an obvious trap, but their debate over how smart it may or may not be to walk into was rendered moot when an emotionally distraught Isabella, having admitted her feelings to a bewildered Rafael to no avail, ran off to the club alone.

Knowing that Blade has a particular interest in Violet, everyone agreed it's for the best she keeps her distance, and she returned to Des' apartment with Finnick and Luthir while the others headed to the address Nadia provided.

Gar, Kat, Mark, and Elena are remaining in the car as back-up, while Rafael, Buffy, Spike, Des, and Archer will be heading inside.

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[The address Des gives the trio puts them smack in and around the area of New York that RENT would have made chic if RENT hadn't stopped being cool ten years ago. The five-story brownstone apartment is one of the oldest buildings still standing on the block, but it seems like that's due to be changed any day now, given the state its in. There are bricks missing here and there and the entire fifth floor seems to be boarded up (at least from what you can see from the street)- fascinating since Des's apartment number would put his on the fifth floor.

Inside doesn't look any better. It seems to have functioned as a hotel at one point before whoever bought it decided to make it an apartment building. The lobby carpet is a disgusting shade of red and a fake plant in one corner actually seems to be dying, given the state of it. There's two ways to get upstairs- a rickety old elevator (the kind with a cage) and a stairwell. The elevator, however, doesn't go to the fifth floor- in fact the button to the fifth floor has had a post-it note covered in tons of packaging tape placed over it with a hastily scrawled "fifth floor unavailable sorry :(" written on it. You can take it as far as the fourth floor and then take the stairs from there... or you could just take the stairs all the way up.

The fifth floor seems to have been in the process of renovations, but whoever started the project must have abandoned it months (if not years) ago. Past the stairwell is a deadzone of cobwebs and dust and boarded up rooms and at the end of the hall, the window seems to be covered in a thick sheet of plastic instead of glass. The only section of the entire floor that seems to have been touched is a ten foot square around the stairwell and right across from it is Room 501- Des's apartment.

The depressing thing is this apartment was supposed to be the penthouse suite when the building was actually in its prime. As it stands, it's two rooms- a large kitchen and living area and a smaller bedroom. Most of the furniture is mismatched and secondhand and while Des has only returned to it recently, it seems to have been properly cared for- there's no clutter, no mess beyond the piles of food cartons on the counter where Des ordered ten tons of takeout and left the boxes to fend for themselves (there are probably cockroaches over there- be wary), but the lack of clutter or distinguishing features makes it seem lonely. The apartment could belong to literally anyone and gives absolutely no indication of who Des is behind closed doors.

But the couches and chairs are comfy and the TV gets what can only presumably be stolen cable, though there's not much in the way of food around. In fact the fridge is barren save for a half-finished bottle of whiskey and an empty milk jug and one jar of salsa that's about a year out of date.]

Edited 2014-03-22 04:19 (UTC)

[ so vi does not trust that elevator, thanks, she's going to be taking the stairs. this is gross, she is grossed out. and probably excessively complaining the entire time and judging des' life because he's a million years old, does he not know how to open a swiss bank account and accumulate interest to be used in renting an apartment in a building that won't give her a communicable disease?

and then the actual apartment is worse. ] Four thousand years old and the fucker doesn't know how to take the trash out? Anyone else expecting a vagrant crack fiend of be hiding in the bathroom? [ she pokes at the couch gingerly, wiping her hands on her dress. ] It's like he actually hates me. Why... why would he offer us this place unless he wants us to die from typhus. Which, wow, loads better than insanity, I guess.

[ yeah, no. no, it's not. ]

[yeah that elevator looks like a death trap. much like ... this entire building. finnick is starting to gain an appreciation for what district 12 must have been like. not that he can share this with vi since she wouldn't understand that reference. where is katniss when you need her? seriously tho wtf is this shit. he's in awe with grossness.]

Maybe the crack fiends will protect us. [what wishful thinking, finnick. he'll reward his own optimism by ... braving the fridge.] Oh hey, whiskey.

Yay. [ such yay, much bland excitement. she continues poking around and when she pokes at a pile of old take out cartons a cockroach or like a flock of them, idk, one is enough, scurries out from underneath it and she shrieks, jumping back both because she's startled and disgusted. ]

Oh my god, I'm going to choke him to death with poison ivy so when he wakes up he'll still be itchy, this is disgusting.

[ there is a lot of judgment in his luthir's ancient elvish heart rn but he's doing his best to try to... avoid direct contact with anything. as he looks around in mild contempt. ]

DES'S APARTMENT } Vi, Finnick, and Luthir

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DOMINION | Rafael, Buffy, Spike, Des, Archer

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BACK-UP TEAM | Gar, Kat, Mark, Elena

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Descent | Rafael, Buffy, Des

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