open ♔ june/july castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || Any time after June 7th  
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.   

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:

Rafael, Buffy, Des & Wynn | Closed
Frankie & Lis'sa | Closed
Taradiddle @ the desk
Lydia @ the desk
Abigail @ the desk 
Adam @ the desk
Bambi @ the desk
Rebekah @ the desk
Dawn @ the desk
Adi @ the desk 
Stiles @ the desk
Felicity @ the desk
Will @ the desk
Han @ the garage
Ric @ the bars.  all of them.  also dragon's hoard lab.
Team NYC | Closed
Lila @ the kitchen/castle grounds
Kate B. @ castle grounds / training room
Aedan @ training / woods / common areas
Frankie @ front desk / garage / various
Maxwell @  rec room / training room / castle bar / forest
Will @ firing range / pond / castle grounds
Sven @ the woods
Adam @ library / firing range / London
Jaime @ castle tavern / training room / stables
Hook @ castle grounds / bar
Jack & Christos @ the training room
Damon @ the castle bar / castle grounds / woods / London / library
Sean @ castle ground / jumping out a window
Des @ the woods
Kate @ training / shooting range / castle grounds
Vi @ her room / bathrooms / pantry / dragon's light wing / firing range
Francesca @ training room / bar
Francesca & Val'drin | Closed
Kenzi @ training room
Lila & Bambi | Closed
Spike @ training room
Lissa @ foyer / Dragon's light wing / garden
Andrew @ his birthday!
Buffy @ Rafael's room / firing range / training room / dining hall
Francesca, Will, & Max | Closed
Faith @ Kitchen / London bars
Abigail & Will | Closed
Des | Dragon's Light wing
Jackson | Train station / training room / garage
Klaus | Bar / garden

Comments

[slay]

Yeah, I don't think you're gonna find the answer in the training room, Spike, so if helping Nadia's your distraction, you might want to try something more along the lines of the library.

[bigbad]

[Spike shoots her an annoyed look.] I can have multiple distractions. Got to keep fit for the coming fight, don't I? [And he is... crap at research.]

[slay]

You ... do know we're not some advance troop of soldiers in a war, right?

[bigbad]

How sure about that are you?

[slay]

Uhh ... [ Her eyes widen and she puffs out her cheeks. How to answer that. ] Four? On a scale of sure, I'm a four.

[bigbad]

[He shakes his head.] New York was supposed to be a recon mission. And that's in a city where the bloody authorities don't want us dead. Doesn't matter the mission Wynn gives us. Doesn't matter our intentions. There'll be blood shed.

I just intend for most of it to be theirs.

[slay]

Going in prepared to invade like some army is a good way to get Thomas killed.

[bigbad]

It's not like I'm planning on snapping the bastard's neck the moment I see him.

[Fantasizing, perhaps, but not planning on it.]

[slay]

No, but you look pretty ready to find an opening.

[ Stubbornly: ] If you kill him, there are a dozen more waiting to take his place. It isn't the way.

[bigbad]

You don't have to convince me of that. [He sounds tired. He knows. He knows, and it may or may not stop him when the time comes. It's all very well for Buffy to preach letting him live. She wasn't the one that was tortured. She didn't watch him torture Myri.]

Myri, on the other hand....

[slay]

Myri isn't a killer.

[ stuffs fingers in ears lala laala la ]

[bigbad]

You didn't see what they did to her.

[slay]

And I'm not gonna let them do worse. Spike, she's better than that. Better than all of us. I'm not going to let them turn her into a killer.

[bigbad]

He made her watch, you know. Forced her to endure other people's suffering. For two months. Her bleeding heart alone would've been enough to make it hell, but then there's her empathy.

If she gets the chance? She'll pull the trigger. Count on it.

[He shakes his head.] She might be better than us, but she's still human. And you can only push someone so far before they snap and start pushing back.

[slay]

You just don’t get it, do you?

All I can think about is what they did to her. What they’ve already done. I’m not going to let them take away who she is, too. I won’t let her do that to herself—they’re not the ones she’ll be hurting if she does.

[bigbad]

I do get it.

That's why I'll be killing him before she gets a chance.

[slay]

We are not going to Andres to kill anyone. We're going into this to save a life, not end one.

[bigbad]

Say it one more time, I might start to believe you.