open ♔ september castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || First half of September, any time between the September squiring ceremony and the War announcement on September 18th
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of the first half of the month.    Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Drax @ the desk
Kate Bishop @ the desk
Sam @ the desk
Henry @ the desk
Kate Bishop @  roof/dining hall/library/grounds/bathrooms/desk/Dragon's Hoard/etc
Abigail @ Movie theater / library /firing range / training room
Francesca & Val'drin | closed
Penelope & Sam @ the woods
Emma Frost @ the library
Spike @ rec room
Lydia, Stiles, Astrid, Adam | closed

Comments

[reallywicked]

[She rolled a crap wis check so she just looks at him like he's dumb.]

Still what?

[undealt]

Before you vanished, one of your spells backfired. [He cants his head to the side.] Your eyes changed.

[reallywicked]

Oh, that. [She hasn't checked it out at this point.] I think so. I don't really feel different so it's hard to tell. It's not a big deal.

[undealt]

Right. [He breathes a small sigh of relief.] So no one seems to have taken any permanent damage from that ordeal. We can all be grateful for that.

[And not... murder GLaDOS?? Not that he cares about her well-being. He just wants more information on Luckman. And okay maybe he feels slightly bad, but it's because of the stupid wild magic.]

[reallywicked]

[faye looks less convinced of that. She's just on edge right now. But there was one thing she wanted to say so she's going to swallow her anger for now to force it out.]

I'm glad the rest of you made it out. And...thanks for asking Hasmed to find me.

[She was hyper aware of how easy it could have been to just call it a wash, to decide she was hopeless. But from the sounds of it, none of them did.]

[undealt]

Of course. [He gives her a kind, albeit surprised smile.] I wasn't going to abandon you when there was a way to get you back in my reach.

[reallywicked]

[The normally confident girl seems to shrink even more at the answer.]

It would have been easy to just walk away. Everyone seemed so ready to do it in the facility.

[undealt]

There's a difference in being pragmatic during a mission and abandoning people, Faye. I never would have left anyone behind permanently. [okay, maybe he would have left astrid or mars. it would greatly depend on how bad he'd look for doing it...] Whatever happened, we were all going to make it out of that facility. And we did. And regardless of what Ms. Swan says, I think we can call that a win.

[reallywicked]

[Faye keeps her gaze from him, afraid of going away too much if she tres to discuss it further.]

Are we any closer to figuring out something for Amara?

[undealt]

We might be. I don't agree with Luckman's methods or his ambitions, but there may be something to all of this- something we can use. Which is why I insisted GLaDOS return with us. It's not ideal, but it's more than what we had.

[reallywicked]

So who's going to interrogate Gladys anyway?

[She heard the name correctly. But Faye is a petty bitch and won't call her by her real name. Fuck her, basically :) ]

Because I'll totally play bad cop.

[undealt]

I imagine Hasmed will be doing most of that. Perhaps Lis'sa, as well.

[He might join in because he's.. actually gotten through to her, but that's neither here nor there.] Hopefully, "bad cop" won't be necessary.

[reallywicked]

Did we go on separate missions? She's psychotic.

[undealt]

As a machine with an entire facility under her control, yes. As a human, she's powerless. Far more powerless than Amara is, who, as you'll recall, came to us under similar circumstances.

[Look at that logic, Faye. (Diplomacy 23)]

[reallywicked]

[squeaking by with her stubbornness with a will save of 24]

She killed Emma. She would have killed us all. I can't believe you want to help her.

[undealt]

I don't want to help her. I want to know what she knows. It's just more pragmatic to get her to cooperate with us rather than torturing her.

[reallywicked]

She think she's smarter than the entire fucking world. What makes you think she would ever cooperate with us? [She tilts her head at him.] Don't tell me you've gone soft while I was gone.

[undealt]

[He scoffs]

Of course not.

[Bluff... 25...] That's why I thought perhaps Lis'sa could speak with her. I'm certain she's intelligent enough to interest our formerly mechanical friend.

[Her IQ is like 1000]

[reallywicked]

[Her sense motive was crap. She doesn't want to believe that he could ever change like that.]

Can I watch? [Arms folded over her chest, daring him to say no tbh.]

[undealt]

If you think you can sit through Lis'sa and Hasmed interrogations, I am certainly not going to stop you. [He waves a hand. It's gonna be boring, girl.]

[reallywicked]

[Faye shrugs.]

So did anything weird happen to you guys after I left?

[She means him specifically but it's not like she was worried or anything...]

[undealt]

[....]

Not that I recall. It was all happening so quickly...

[...He critfailed that bluff check, so he definitely looks flustered and not convincing in the slightest.]

[reallywicked]

[Yes, well... She got a 16 sense motive so she is just squinting at him. Is this what being Emma Swan feels like?]

Bullshit. [She steps closer to him, a little more aggressive because it's important to her. Especially if he felt the need to lie.] What happened?

[undealt]

[Crap. Crap. Crap.]

I, ah... That is to say, one of the effects of Luckman's machine seems to have had a debilitating and... likely permanent effect on me. [He stares sheepishly at his hands clutched around his cane.] Using magic causes me to feel... Well, guilty.

[reallywicked]

What do you mean guilty? [The concept is so hard for Faye to grasp.]