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

[beatupgrass]

[...Goddammit, Drax. Lie down before you hurt yourself.]

No, he's probably- [He cuts himself off, because he doesn't want to say that Quill is probably traversing the galaxy, mooning over Gamora and forgetting they even exist, even if he has spent a few difficult, bitter nights thinking it. If he says it, he might really start to believe it.]

Forget it. He ain't here. He woulda turned up by now.

[spinerip]

Perhaps. They say the veil can rob you of memories. [And Quill was an imbecile to begin with.]

[beatupgrass]

Tell me about it. [he ]scratches his ear.] I got gaps in my head you could drive a ship through.

[spinerip]

[Drax goes quiet for a moment before saying hesitantly:]

A ship of metaphors?

[beatupgrass]

[omg he even knows better than that. it somehow just makes him completely upset that it keeps slipping his mind that you have to speak plain when talking to drax.]

Yeah. [he sighs miserably.] It's been a rough year stranded on this d'asted planet, Drax.

[spinerip]

I do not remember my wife and daughter.

[He remembers their names, that they existed and were killed, but their faces, all the details, all the good times he assumes were had, they're all gone. It makes thinking of them less painful, in some ways, but it's devastating in others.

At least, whoever they were, they can rest peacefully knowing their murderer is dead.]

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket looks even more disheartened hearing that. He's not completely without sympathy, especially when Drax has took a few levels in zen and hasn't tried to take vengeance on the VEIL for taking his memories. And he knows how much it sucks to not remember how he met Groot... Or honestly a good chunk of his life in general. It's mainly the bad parts and then... well.]

It's like everything before Xandar and meetin' you guys barely happened.

[spinerip]

At least I remember you. And our other friends. [He gives a vicious grin.] Our friendship is too mighty for the veil to conquer!

[beatupgrass]

Yeah.

[Rocket is just looking at him like "bro you're making me look decidedly unmanly. stahp."] Exactly that.

[He pats him on the leg because he cannot reach his shoulders.] C'mon. I need a drink.

[AND THAT WAS HOW THAT OTHER THREAD HAPPENED.]