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Fredrick Jr. ([personal profile] nepotism) wrote in [community profile] knightsoflegend2014-09-02 07:05 pm

debriefing ♔ in the emptiness there's a solution | just look within yourself for absolution



♬ locking up the sun
- poets of the fall

WHO || Wynn, Buffy, Myri, Finnick, Spike, Gar, Archer, Des, Vi, Rafael, Fred Jr., Dumage, Mark, Rocket, open! [Closed]
WHAT || Andres Mission Debrief & Aftermath
WHERE || Knights HQ, lobby etc.
WHEN || September 18th [forward dated*]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.


There are plenty of missions that return to the castle a success - most of them, even. The defeated air of the solemn group that returns from their diplomatic mission to Andres Isle to hear the demands of dictator Dimitris Sarandis makes it quite clear that this wasn't one of those.

Starting with Sarandis' actual demands - for all Knights to withdraw from Andres under penalty of death, or for Wynn to offer his own head in return for Thomas' safe return - and ending with the unexpected, disturbing confession from Kat that she intended to stay behind on the island because she had "fallen in love with" the dictator, the events of the island made it very clear that Sarandis was cannily playing his hand to get the Knights where he wanted them.

Fred Jr. shoves open the doors with his unnatural strength, stalking in ahead of the group into the lobby. Whoever's on desk duty isn't going to have to roll a high wisdom check to see that these people are pissed... and distraught... and a myriad of other emotions on the bad end of the scale.

*I am changing the date of the briefing log and Andres log/live session to have taken place in September, to avoid us being in backdated hell forever, and to allow for a September squiring ceremony before apps are closed. Carry on... in the future!
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-08 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Without bloody, violent nightmarish montages of every war movie I've ever seen without the generic pretty boy actors running around all muddy?

[She forces a pained smile.] 'Cause I'm not looking forward to those. I 'm praying for a blackout.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-08 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Well you're definitely on the right track. [Bottoms up. Wow, tequila was some gross shit. But it was effective at getting him hella drunk hella quickly, which was the whole point here.]

Okay so have I been tripping on drugs for the past two months or are there some like, straight out of high school, fresh faced cabbage patch kids here? [And what the fuck were they doing sending them into a war zone?]
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-10 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
No, you totally didn't start tripping. I mean I get the between twenty-five and thirty crowd. We're fuck-ups with nothing better to do with our lives since college was a wash or a waste, but these kids. And they're all mostly Veil displaced, so it's like you poor bastards just enlisted in Dumbledore's Fucking Army because you've got nothing else.

[She pulls a cigarette out from behind her ear and lights it] Maybe they're the lucky ones.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-10 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
You totally just equated their plight to Harry Potter.

[Just ... pointing out the obvious before he throws back another shot of tequila. And then he makes a face because that shit still burned on the way down ok. But he's holding his glass and wagging his finger at her like he ain't drunk over here.]

I knew there was a reason I liked you.
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-10 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm a little ball of Philly sunshine with an ability to equate pop culture to everything.

[She balances her cigarette in one finger and knocks back the remainder of her vodka collins.] And if I didn't make light of it, I'd probably put this out in someone's eye. [She gestures with the cigarette and then calmly dumps the ash into someone's empty shotglass.]

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-11 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
As much as I'd like to see that happen to more than a few people around here, it's probably best that you save it for the assholes who are going to be trying to kill us.
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-11 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
If they catch me on my mid-battle smoke break, I just might.

[She blows smoke over her head and sighs.] You know it's a statistical improbability that everyone's gonna come back from this. Doesn't that just depress the fuck out of you?

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-14 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sort of trying not to think about it, hence the tequila shots.

[Of which he throws back another.]

But yeah, someone we know it dying for sure. [As he grimaces through the burning sensation, and sets the glass back onto the bar so that it can be replaced with another.] Could even be one of us.

[Wow what a fucking uplifting conversation. Debbie Downer and co. keeping it practical over here.]
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-15 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
A few more vodka collinses and maybe I will. Or not. I have an active brain. You can't turn that shit off.

[no wonder andrew called her morbid.] Could be. Unless we get crap jobs, like getting the snacks or watching the plane.

[She would freakin' love a crap job at this point.] Which let's be honest, I might get that job. You, not so much... But I think you have a decent shot.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-15 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, thanks for the vote of confidence.

[Like was that shit supposed to be uplifting? Because it wasn't.]

They're probably going to use most of us as cannon fodder anyway.

[Meaning, the squires who had no business there whatsoever.]
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-15 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Cut me some slack. If you want uplifting, go to the Tongue. I'm future Hoard. We just lay out the facts.

[100% unapologetic.] Nah. They'll use the old knights for that. The future belongs to the young. When they all die, the squires inherit the castle.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-15 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Good, because some of these decrepit assholes need to retire already.

[Seriously when your face starts resembling your sac, what's even the point anymore.]

Anyway, after pouring my heart out to the boss, he'll probably be looking out for me.

[He nat 20'd that shit ok. And it was Backstreet Boys. It's safe to say Adam is drunk.]

I'll be sure and put in a good word for you, don't worry.
Edited 2014-09-15 23:36 (UTC)
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-15 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You better. I was the inspiration behind that tearful soul-wrenching performance.

[She snorts.] Maybe we'll be made Dragon's Claws.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-15 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh myyy fuckingg godd. [He's not even slurring it, he ain't that far gone. But like, apparently the idea is just so amazing that he feels the need to overemphasize every word in that statement.]

How badass would we be though? [Like why weren't they Dragon's Claws already tbh.] We're totally walking away from this shit with a promotion. You just fucking nailed it.
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-16 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[She clinks her glass against his.] Down with the old, up with the new, Slick. There's your silver lining.

[Suddenly she's JLaw, I guess.

/takes that from Astrid too.]

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-16 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[His dick is in so much peril rn udek.

But he's tossing back another shot like cheers bitch we're gonna be rich and famous.]


Seriously though. I'd make so many changes for the better. Pink slips for days.
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-16 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Who would you fire first? [She taps her cigarette ashes into the empty shot glass again.]

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-16 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, let me count the fucking ways. This vampire prick named Damon, for one. I'd give him the boot in the middle of the day and watch his ass fry.

[You fuck with my friends, I fuck with your life basically.]

Then there's this asshole named Jaime. Knight in shining douchebag type. Emphasis on the douchebag. His ass would be gone so fucking fast.

[He pauses for a second like gurl we should make a burn book, then thinks better of it.]

Bandit the raccoon. Or maybe I'd just force him to get his shots and subject him to group therapy.

[Motioning for another shot keep 'em coming you lazy ass barkeep.]

Plus all the geriatric types running around with scrotum neck and barking orders at everyone like the first stages of Alzheimer's haven't set in.

What about you?
Edited 2014-09-16 05:25 (UTC)
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-16 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[See Bambi was about to say ASTRID FUCKING MADCHEN, which would have been terrible, but she gets stuck on the raccoon, as most people do, and ends up gagging on her own cigarette smoke.]

I'm sorry. Did you say something about a fucking raccoon? I thought Astrid was roofied at Starbucks and talking crazy.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-16 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Small world, I guess. :')]

Nope. That little fucker attacked me and everything. Hence the sentence of rabies shots and anger management.
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-16 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[And Bambi... does not make the connection between "Astrid's boyfriend got attacked by a raccoon" and "Adam got attacked by a raccoon."(wis 8) She assumes raccoons are attacking everyone.]

Jesus fucking Christ. Okay. I'd fire whoever brought that thing in here for starters.

Aw fuck it. I'd probably fire everyone who wasn't attractive or useful. [She extinguishes her cigarette.] If I'm a Dragon's Claw, I'm allowed to be a shallow bitch.

[personal profile] ex_psionic439 2014-09-16 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
That's like eighty percent of the people who go here. I like the way you think.

[He will drink to that too.]

Plus anyone who gave us lip. We'd rule this castle with an iron fist.

[Because Wynn wouldn't still be their boss or anything. Shh, don't ruin his buzz.]
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[personal profile] theshameofcain 2014-09-16 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Like freakin' Stalin, man.

[Because that's such a great image to aspire to... She seems to realize this.]

Okay, maybe not like Stalin. We are going into battle to overthrow the communist regime of Soviet France.