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!

Comments

[ex_redxiii705]

[He doesn't look all that enthused by this news. Mostly on account of his own experience with werewolf packs. He just assumes the worst at this point. Though if she were any indication, maybe he was wrong.]

They happen to be around the same age as you?

[impetere]

[For Cora, pack is everything, but she hasn't had one in a really long time. She's getting used to having other wolves around, period, but she's considering it a good thing. So far most of them haven't been dicks.

Except for Jackson, on occasion.]

One is. The other is older, but not a lot.

[ex_redxiii705]

[That was actually good to hear. Not that he's keen on running around with a bunch of kids, but if they were still younger that meant they were less likely to be completely fucked in the head like just about every other werewolf he'd ever met.]

My name's Alcide Herveaux. [He manages to snake an arm out of the blanket without flashing her, so that he can offer up his hand.]

[impetere]

[Oh, there's still a good chance of being fucked in the head, but possibly in not quite the same ways. Still, she reaches across to shake his hand.]

Cora Hale.

[ex_redxiii705]

Pleasure's mine, though I wish it were under different circumstances. I take it you all are aware of what's going on?

[impetere]

[She nods a bit.]

I'll admit, it's not really what I was expecting when I decided to join.

[ex_redxiii705]

I don't know that anyone was expecting it would come to this. [The possibility had always been there, sure. But war was supposed to be a last resort. Given all that had happened though, it wasn't like this was a decision being made lightly.]

I realize it ain't proper to ask a lady her age, but you seem a little young to be caught up in a war. [Which makes him a little more apprehensive about the whole thing than he already was.]

[impetere]

I'm seventeen.

[Just to be clear. So yes, she wouldn't even be able to be legally drafted if this were the states, but at the same time.]

And it's not the first time I've been caught in the middle of a war.