knightsoflegend | after-party ♔ june

♬ Jeux d'eau - Ravel

WHO || Wynn, any and all Knights not currently on missions (if you are uncertain if your character would be at the castle for this, ask!)
WHAT || Squiring Ceremony Afterparty
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Ballroom
WHEN || June 1st, 2014, 6:00PM [backdated]
HOW || Prose OR Actionspam

The "afterparty" is rumored to be the real main event of the night. A black-tie affair in the lavish, opulent ballroom, it is every new Knight's chance to mingle and meet some of their new brothers in arms. Of course, a couple hours are provided following the ceremony for everyone to change, do hair and makeup, and choose from the vast array of formal attire in the closets of the balcony "dressing rooms" located at the top of spiraled staircases on either side of the ballroom. A separate dressing room exists for men and women, and they include full bathrooms (with, thankfully, very modern plumbing).

The squires are usually among the last to arrive, and the ballroom is full to the brim with a fancy array of people, of all shapes, sizes and species.

Hope you aren't shy. They're all here to meet you.

Feel free to make your own open threads for people to come congratulate your newly pledged knight.

ooc; also if your Knight wants to get all gussied up, you can make a Disguise (Cha) check for how good they were at hair/makeup/stylin', etc! This goes for... any time.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Was he on some mission and things went wrong or was this more of a preventative thing on that enemies end?

We were on Andres, for another mission, when we overheard rumors of two of our Knights being held in a secret facility there. Despite not having heard of their being missing, we broke in to see - and learned that Sir Spike and Sir de Tanos had been captured, replaced by a doppelganger who returned here in their stead, and held under brutal conditions, tortured and experimented on.

Thomas and I helped them to escape, but were captured ourselves in the process. The wretched man who leads them - Dimitris Sarandis - let me go to deliver his terms to Wynn, but kept Thomas on the island.

[She's with him right up until he says Sir Spike. Her eyebrow lifts slightly, because it's not like Spike is a common name. While he goes on to bring up the escape and Dimitri, she's thinking if there's a chance that Spike is here. The Spike she knows... well, the Spike she played a very wrong, very naughty trick on when she was wearing Buffy's body.]

Sorry - Sir Spike? Bleach blonde, big ego, British?

You know him?

[Well, that was an easy way to sum up Spike.]

Yeah. Well, not directly. I mean, I met him once, but I wasn't really myself. He won't remember me or anything. [That... sounds weird.]

He's got this reputation though. So, it's just weird that he's here. As a knight.

From what I've seen he's quite a successful one, at that. Do you mean that you've met him here, or are you from the same world as it were?

I didn't know he was here. He's from the same world, yeah. [She's just trying to get over the thought that a vampire, a vampire who was named "William the Bloody" could be considered a good knight. She's not even sure what the procedure is for bringing up that he's a vampire who took Angel's bag - the whole vampire with a soul thing was Angel's turf.]

You might be correct, then, in assuming he won't remember you, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. From what I recall, he remembers little or nothing of his life before this world.

How does that work? I mean, I'm pretty sure I remember everything. [Though, in fairness she might not and just not realize it.]

Did he just show up here and not know who he was?

They call it the Veil - the fog you may remember seeing before you found yourself here. It seems to work differently for everyone, for some taking everything, for others, very little. The specific phenomenon is known as the Gift of Lethe, because many consider it a gift not to recall a life they cannot return to.

Aspects of personality or morality appear not to lose much in the transition.

Are there a lot of people here who don't remember?

Our organization seeks to help defend those from beyond the Veil, and also defeat dangerous men and monsters who come through it. It's perhaps only natural that we attract a large amount of members from among those displaced from their own worlds, yes. How much they remember varies quite widely.

[She nods.]

It makes sense. Just sucks. Being somewhere new and not knowing who you were.

Perhaps one reason why so many are glad to find others who share their plight and understand it here.

Sort of like a group therapy thing, huh? [They had that in prison. Loads of fun. Sit in a circle and just chat about your feelings. Super awesome times.]</small

I'm not certain it's comparable, no. It's more about... feeling that one has a place where they can feel comfortable to be themselves.

[It sounds backwards to her. Comfortable to be themselves, but they don't remember who they are.]

Huh. [Because she doesn't know really how to figure out her response there.]

I guess I won't know.

That can have to do with more than just being Shadowkind. After all, some of us were born here.

Yeah, I'd figured that out. I mean, it'd be creepy to just have a place that only people from other places ended up.

Being the first one through would really suck if there wasn't already shit to do here and people to keep you sane.

Luckily, we've never had that problem. Traffic used to only come from one other world, however, and now we see those from worlds remarkably similar to our own.

[Faith nods.] Kinda hard to blend in when you're not like the locals, huh?

Particularly when one has scales, or no idea what an automobile is.

[Faith laughs, amused at the thought of someone all Back to the Future scared of the cars or something.] Yeah, I can see where that'd be an issue.

That's one reason we exist - to help those who might be disoriented by the transition.

What're the other reasons?

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