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

[witchwoman]

[All the chaos going on makes it a little hard to follow but she understands enough to see that she can try to talk them out of this madness. She doesn't want to leave Vi alone but if she can help save these people, she needs to try. She moves towards a group of people that Nick has held and starts to try to talk to them, asking them to remember the people that matter most, trying to help them remember what they have to live for (diplomacy 25).]

[littledhampir]

[Rose keeps doing her thing, moving on to those who haven't been caught up in the spell only because she has the strength to at least slow them, leaving the rest to those who were much better with words than she was. If she was successful on snapping out of it, she asked them to help them (Diplomacy 22 - good time to break out the good roll). If not (Because I have to assume at least a handful of people might not have loved ones to think of) they received a blow to the head.

Her way is slower than mass urging but she's trying to convert some helpers in the process (Wis... Nat 20?! IDEK if that's a Nat 20 worth of Wisdom but this IS Rose so lets take it.)]

[bigbad]

[Spike is gonna stick to the punching out people method for those not caught by the unicorn bubble or vi's spell because he's really good at it and sucks at diplomacy. It probably just takes one hit for most of them too cause how many have even have 5 hp. He does a double take when Nick shows up, though.]

Bloody hell, that's a unicorn. There's a unicorn in New York.

[Hearing about it and seeing it are totally different things, ok.]

[craic]

Well fuck me. [ It is a unicorn. Spike's reaction is kind of gratifying, and after eyeing the actual unicorn for a minute new guy lifts both hands in a 'who the fuck knows!' gesture. And then turns back to knocking people out, though since more and more of them are stood still by the spells, he attempts some talking at them as well (Diplomacy 19), deciding who gets which approach mostly based on how much he likes their face. ]

[desperatewarning]

Yes, thank you. Please do keep shouting it. Bad enough there's going to be a bloody unicorn on the telly.

[NICK HAS BEEN IN HIDING FOR AGES, OKAY. HE WOULDN'T DO THIS FOR JUST ANYONE. But, sadly, this is a very desperate time. He trots off to join the O'Keefes.]

[asuma]

[Klaus also pauses momentarily to steal a glance at this majestic creature. BECAUSE HORSES, LIKE BIRTHDAYS, ARE A THING FOR HIM OK. But he realizes there will be time enough to stare later.

He's since abandoned the slow process of attempting to dominate these people in favor of knocking them the fuck out, for the record. This bargain bin domination bullshit is really making him miss his compulsion.

And, given his strength, incapacitating these people with a well-placed blow is is a much swifter alternative to trying to talk to them so he's sticking with Spike's method of getting shit done.]

[isisagent]

[Archer has been flexing his muscles helping the team punch people out. In the chaos of running around, cracking skulls, he's snagged up a sign and is using it as a makeshift club of sorts.]

It's like Whack-A-Mole. But with people! [Archer's enjoying himself. Then there's a...]

UNICORN! WOOOOOOOOO!! [Archer is going to do his drunken best to mount Nick, with a ride check of 19.]

[desperatewarning]

[ARCHER YOU ARE FUCKING LUCKY AS SHIT BECAUSE NICK GOT A NAT 20 WILL SAVE TO TOLERATE THIS. Either he's too shocked by the situation to properly be offended or he's here to remind everyone he's des's friend and thus used to this shit. he even lets archer get settled before turning to anastacia.]

Bit of a strange lot you have with you. [he misses your old friends, ana.]

[isisagent]

[It's the best day to be Archer! He casually smashes heads in with his sign-club, as they walk through the crowd.]

HEIGH-HO [CRACK!] Heigh-ho, [BAM!] it's off to [POW!] work we go! [WHAM!]

[telekinection]

[ ♬ to rid the disease - opeth

everybody contributes to the strange and bizarre act of preventing shadowkind from reaching the river... and what's amazing is just how many people they're able to save all told. of course, the river goes on quite a ways in both directions, and they know that they're only covering one section of it ... but they're still able to save an impressive amount of people.

those who are knocked unconscious wake up with no idea what was going on, whereas those who were talked into stopping seem to realize what was going on and many of them are willing to help stop others from meeting the fate they almost met themselves.

finally, the trickle of shadowkind ends, within half an hour of when it began, and as they settle exhausted to a halt, tia looks down the river further, where several bodies that were already too late to be saved are floating silently.

her expression hardens into grim resolve, as she turns back to the gathering others. ]

I think we all know what this is. [ she looks across each of them, drawing their attention away from the horrible sight. ]

This is a declaration.

[ she closes her eyes, and takes a deep breath ]

This is war.

[telekinection]