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

[nepotism]

♬ 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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[ex_ric243]

[Alaric already knows its Helen before he even looks up at her. He just stares at her hand over his for a long moment, like he's not sure that he should even say what's on his mind. Yes, he's worried about Elena--but more than that, he's worried about the other fresh-faced recruitst hat were going to be asked to potentially give up their lives for something that a lot of them might not even fully grasp.

Alright, so maybe Lila, Lydia, and Faye were a lot more with it than that, but still. They had their whole lives ahead of them and it made his stomach turn to think that something horrible might happen to any one of them.]

What if we aren't ready for this? [There's probably a million different meanings behind that question, but if anyone could understand the scope of what he meant by it, it was Helen.]

[daredtobelieve]

We aren't. [She responds quietly, because it sort of applies across the board.] But life doesn't always wait until we're ready. There are times when the only moment that matters, the only one that can matter is right now.