CHAPTER FINALE ♔ as i went down in the river to pray

[telekinection]

♬ dead bodies everywhere - korn

WHO || Tia Ellison, Rose Hathaway, Sterling Archer, Spike, Klaus Mikaelson, Violet Reedhym, Finnick Odair, Myrilandel de Tanos, Anastacia O'Keefe, Faith O'Keefe, Nick Starkweather, various others
WHAT || The night following Luthir's death and the concert
WHERE || NYC, New York
WHEN || June 7th to 8th, 2014, middle of the night.
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

The night has not gone as planned.

With the help of the unicorn Nick Starkweater, Faith O'Keefe used her dreamwalking powers to take Violet and her new husband Luthir into Vi's dreams to face down the shadow remnant of Malaak'a that had consumed her nightmares and prevented her spirit from returning to full strength with the return of spring. Keijen Blade's warning, however, that such an attempt would end in blood, proved true: Luthir gave his life to allow Vi to do what must be done.

Meanwhile, the 'reconnaissance' mission meant to gather intel on what Keijen Blade was doing at his concerts went south when several of the team members fell prey to Blade's compulsion. After almost prompting Archer and Rose to commit suicide onstage in front of an eager crowd, Blade let the team walk out with their lives, which was almost as unsettling as the power he'd displayed in controlling such a large mass of people.

No one is really in the mood or shape to take a flight that night, so it's crashing at a hotel for the Knights tonight.

Some people might need the sleep, while others may be less than able to get any. Feel free to single-thread tag what your character is up to at 4AM or so.

Comments

[bigbad]

[He exhales and slumps back against the couch again. Not all that comforting. Especially when the chances of finding Elena and Rose are the equivalent of finding a needle in a pile of identical needles. They're already out of bloody time.]

Anything else we should know?

[wynn]

For now, that's as much as I know.

We'll be in touch. [ and he's hanging up because HE'S GOT SHIT TO DO ok ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri is gonna head on over towards Spike and place a hand on his arm to offer a little comfort. They're both antsy and with good reason. She doesn't have any questions for Wynn because all she wants to say is that he's wrong about Elena, that he has to be wrong. But she won't say that. She'll just think it.... quietly.]

[65]

[hope no one wanted the rest of that scotch bc finnick is claiming the bottle as his own now. this is a shit cherry on top of their already formidable shit sundae.]

[graveflowers]

[ the shower shut off a little bit ago, but with her listen check fucking 36... she pretty much heard every word before she even left the bathroom. toweling off her hair, she crosses the room to finnick. but only to steal his drink. desperate times, fish. sharing is caring. ] Whatever Elena did or didn't do, she did or didn't do it for a reason.

[silvermaid]

I'm sure there's an explanation. There has to be--

[ anastacia is cut off suddenly by the distant chiming of bells outside announcing the hour. ] ... We can't assume anything yet.

[bigbad]

[Spike stands up, expression going blank, and walks towards the door. Rose follows him.]

[witchwoman]

[She blinks, pulling her hand back as she stands.]

Spike? What are you-? ...Wynn said to wait here.

[bigbad]

[Yeah Spike's ignoring her and opening the door.]

[moonheart]

He said to hold our positions. I think he just meant not to fly back to England until morning as planned.

[witchwoman]

[Myri glances at Faith, but that's not making her feel much better. She's worried about what he'll do out there tbh.]

Spike. [Ignoring her is not okay. She moves for him, grabbing for his arm with... more strength than she normally musters (str 15).] Would you just stop. Both of you. [She doesn't know Rose but splitting up is a bad idea right now. She wants to herd all of them in one place to be able to keep them safe, basically.]

[asuma]

[Klaus' paranoia senses are tingling, considering they were both compelled mindraped earlier. His motto before all of this shit went down was trust no bitch. He side eyes glaces toward Archer, half expecting him to do the same.]

[isisagent]

[Archer takes that glance the wrong way;]

Hey, while you're out, grab some more scotch, dick [Archer's still pissed about Spike's love-drunk sucker punch at the concert. He wasn't whammied by Keijen when that happened... Also, he hurls an empty bottle at the back of Spike's dumb vampire head. Ranged Atk of 23. IDK what bottle damage is. 1D6? 4 Damage-ish. He's a vampire so it'll tickle, as it shatters to a million pieces on Spike's skull.]

Er... Please, and... whatever.

[bigbad]

[Spike doesn't respond to either the cajoling or the thrown bottle, just calmly extricates himself from Myri's grip (str 17). And keeps walking.]

[65]

[finnick is the one who replies to archer:] I doubt they're coming back. They're probably taking the next plane out. [his tone is still flat — bcuz he still thinks that's a stupid idea. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A MILLION HOURS TO GET BACK TO ENGLAND. ELENA AND KYP'S HEAD START IS GOING TO BE TOO EXTREME FOR IT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.]

[isisagent]

I...

...

I literally don't know whether to be more concerned about our vampire going all "frankenstein's monster", or the fact that he's not planning to bring me more scotch.

[He looks from Finnick to Klaus;] No, seriously guys. What should worry me more right now?

[witchwoman]

Something's wrong. [s-so helpful right now.] He wouldn't just- I mean he's brash, but... [Words are hard.]

[bigbad]

[Dynamic duo here is making their way down the hall now. Neither of them thought to get the door either. Yes, I reused this tag from earlier. Fight me.]

[graveflowers]

[ vi could stop them, tangle them up in some vines and drag them back, but she doesn't give enough fucks. so it's with a very tired sigh that she asks myri, ] Do you want me to stop them...?

[witchwoman]

[She glances around the room at the others, trying to take a quick poll to see if anyone else finds this odd. Maybe she's just hurt that Spike would shrug her off like that. She doesn't feel like this is normal behavior for him. Was she just seeing something out of nothing? She can hear how much Vi doesn't have the energy for it, so doesn't answer. She just... goes out into the hall after them. She doesn't need anyone to do the dragging for her. She'll just be running after them on her own. Peace.]

[silvermaid]

Why don't you follow and see where they're going? [ that seems more reasonable than... tying up our friends. maybe. ]

[65]

[i decided to roll a will save to see if finnick would be a lil bitch and follow after his fiancee ... and he got a nat 20. :| WHERE WAS THIS IRON WILL AROUND OOGIE BOOGIE FINNICK WHAT THE FUCK. he just slams the bottle down on the counter so hard it cracks a little. (str 18) good thing it's empty now.]

[moonheart]

[ faith is over here looking out the window now and she speaks up again as spike and rose make for the door out of the hotel ] Uh, guys?

You might want to see this.

[graveflowers]

[ idk vi thinks tying up is a splendid idea. and no, she doesn't want to see. because anything prefaced with "you might want to see this" is bound to end in bad. but she moves over to the window anyway. ]

[65]

[finnick joins vi at the window, even tho he ... equally doesn't feel like actually seeing it.]