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

[pathology]

Oh.

[good thing she has volume controls on her steering wheel so she can look less like like she's blatantly trying to drown out the feelings with music. (sleight of hand ... 14. lol.) FEELINGS ARE GROSS SHE WANTS TO RETURN THIS ADVENTURE FOR STORE CREDIT.]

[nepotism]

[ he doesn't seem to pick up on the attempt. which is a double-edged sword. ] I wish I could promise to kill him myself for all this. But I have a feeling I'll be standing in a very long line.

[pathology]

You could so kill him yourself if you put your mind to it. You're like, a juggernaut.

[nepotism]

It's probably not a question of whether I could take him. Just of getting to him in the first place.

[pathology]

Just teleport in front of him like "yo, bitch, kapow."

[^ wynn should have hired her as strategist tbh.]

[nepotism]

If only. It's too dangerous to just go jumping around like that. Especially with some of our people in his clutches.

[pathology]

Okay, so like, what if you teleported into his bathroom? You could wait for him to go in and do his business, then, yo bitch, kapow. Oh my god, it's too bad about the whole doppelganger thing, because then we'd have like ... the perfect Dimitris stand-in.

[nepotism]

Until someone tells Dimitris that they just saw him in one place and it raises all the red flags for him.

[pathology]

Um, he would be unconscious in the bathroom, were you not listening to my brilliant plan?

[nepotism]

Oh right. Guess you covered every angle.

[pathology]

Of course I did. [she either doesn't catch on or is aggressively ignoring his lack of enthusiasm. and soon ... eventually ... probably ... they make it into london/the steakhouse place fred wanted to go to!]

[nepotism]

That's the one. You've really never been here before?

[pathology]

No? I'm not vegetarian, but I'm still kind of like ugh about meat. You never really know where it comes from.

[nepotism]

Somewhere delicious. Isn't that what really matters?

[pathology]

[she snorts] You're such a guy. [wheee the car is parked, now she's getting out.]

[nepotism]

So observant. I can see why you make such a good doc.

[pathology]

Oh my god, shut up.

[nepotism]

Can't. First hand experience dictates I must tell the tale of your skill far and wide.

[pathology]

Yeah, yeah, put it on Yelp.

[nepotism]

Maybe I will.

[pathology]

You're so dumb. [but she's grinning so it doesn't sound like much of an insult. and now they're inside yay.]

[nepotism]

Hey, who was the mentor here and who the mentee? That should gain me some undumb cred. [ he moves to the podium, with one hand in his pocket, tossing up two fingers to the greeter. ]

[pathology]

Yeahhhh, maybe a little. But only just a little.

[nepotism]

We can't all be neurosurgeons or whatever. The world works better with some balance.

[pathology]

Well, yeah. Maybe that's why we make such a good team.