CHAPTER THREE ♔ what's done in the dark will be brought to the light

[wynn]

♬ god's gonna cut you down - johnny cash

WHO || The Knights
WHAT || The aftermath of Chapter 2
WHERE || London, England and variou
WHEN || Evening of June 7th --> onwards
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

In less than twenty-four hours, everything has turned on its head.

A Knight and her allies were kidnapped by Iscariot agents for execution in Rome, barely escaping with their lives.

A mission meant to free one Knight from the influence of a dark god succeeded - at the price of another's life.

A simple recon mission at a Keijen Blade concert nearly led to two Knights committing mind-controlled suicide in front of an eager crowd.

Several Knights went to see Draken Crombe, leader of the Church of the Lord's Humanity, speak in person, and learned just how sinister his religion's dogma is.

A call from Sir Hathaway alerted Wynn to the escape of the doppelganger from the Knight's dungeons, an escape perhaps aided by Elena Gilbert.

A demigod interrupted what might have been a simple smash and grab retrieval of an artifact.

And most horrific of all, in the middle of the night, hundreds of Shadowkind in New York City awoke, and walked in a mindless trance down to the Hudson River to drown themselves. Only the quick thinking and combined efforts of the Knights present and their allies prevented all of them from succeeding.

Beset on all sides, a dark time awaits for the Knighthood - who were already suffering from the capture of Dragon's Claw Sir Thomas Bancroft at the hands of their long time enemy Dimitris Sarandis of Andres Isle.

In times such as these, the light can be difficult to find. Hope itself seems somewhere just out of reach.

Comments

[bigbad]

We're hardly a crowd. Everyone else here has heartbeats.

[likedillinger]

Which means I'll keep a special eye just on you.

[bigbad]

Flattered, mate, but I don't swing that way. I know a bloke that'd appreciate it more, though. I can introduce you when we get to the castle.

[likedillinger]

Very funny. But we'll see who's laughing if I have to cram a stake in your chest down the line.

[bigbad]

You're welcome to try.

[likedillinger]

Cute how you think I'd need an invitation. Your kind's the one who can't do without that.

[bigbad]

Yeah, but your kind can't do without a neck, and if you tried to kill me, yours might suddenly get a big, gaping hole in it. That wouldn't be fun for one of us.

[likedillinger]

You think this is my first fanged rodeo?

[bigbad]

I think you've never fought me.

[likedillinger]

The part where you're still unalive and kickin' says you're probably right about that.

[bigbad]

Please. I've taken down bigger and badder than you, mate.

[likedillinger]

I'm not your mate, either. Let's get that clear up front.

[bigbad]

Whatever you say. Poofter.

[likedillinger]

Pretty sure you just heard otherwise.

[bigbad]

[Spike rolls his eyes because since when has he ever cared about people's actual sexualities when insulting them.]

Just do us all a favor and keep it in your trousers for the rest of the plane ride. You reek.

[likedillinger]

Curb the green-eyed monster, Count Chocula. Just because that whole Twilight vibe isn't working for you doesn't mean you have to get pissy when the rest of us get some.

[bigbad]

[Wow that

still isn't funny.

Spike shoots him an annoyed look, starting to walk away. He's 1000% done.]

You should hang out with Archer. He'd love you.

[likedillinger]

Most people do.