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[wynn]

This is War- 30 Seconds to Mars

WHO || Wynn,  Jack, Hasmed, Lis'sa, Dovan, Solace, Koraith, Christos, Tia, Nessa, Grant, Buffy, Myri, Finnick, Spike,  Gar, Archer, Des, Fred Jr., Dumage, Mark, Alainn, Zero, Colin, Lan, Eric, Val'drin, Risa,  Anastacia, Faith O., Max R., Belle, Kadir, Edain, Sydney, Zatanna, Aurelius, Jaina, Erky, Davin,  Riddick, Jordan, Henry, Leia, Willow, Kate, Allison, Francesca, Bo, Han, Aedan, Rocket, Drax, Nathan, Maxwell, Sam, Faith L., Cora, Dimitri, Alanna, Jaime, Klaus, Gus, Andrew, Stiles, Lydia, Gold, Jackson, Adam, Miles, Penelope, David, Derek, Andie, Kali, Cara, Nels, Taradiddle, Abigail, Astrid, Bambi, Frankie, Rose, Helen, Alaric, Alice, Lissa, Alex, Emma F., Cordelia, Zoe,  Sebastian, Malina, Alcide, Phineas, Fiona, Arthur, Faye, Mars, Kate, Lila,  Jameson, Felicity, Thoster, Adi, Brantley, Hook, Emma, Eleven, Alisha, Will, Dean, Grimrot     [Closed]
WHAT || Andres War Briefing
WHERE || Knights HQ, Round Table Room
WHEN || September 19th [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, please call dibs in the dibs plurk!

On the eve of battle, an impressive array of Knights gathers in the Round Table room of the castle.  The usually cavernous room seems tightly packed with this many bodies, and places at the Table are reserved for Wynn, the Section Heads, all those who have had any hand in the Talisman mission, including New York, and Christos, but who's going to argue with him, really.  The air buzzes with a mixture of impending dread and on some fronts, excitement.  It's hard to deny that there are those in the room who have wanted to make a move on Andres for years.

Wynn waits for the appointed hour, before nodding for the doors to be sealed and calling the meeting to order.  

"Before we begin, I'd like to thank each and every one of you, many who have traveled an extensive distance at a moment's notice to join us here today.  I understand that many of you have little idea what you have agreed to, but I hope that before the end of this meeting, you will come to understand what we are doing, and why it must be done.

Andres' Isle has been held under the sway of the man who calls himself their "Prime Minister" for nearly a decade.  In these ten years, he has turned what was once an idyllic country steeped in tradition into a tightly controlled fascist nation disguised as representative of its people.  

Andres is far from the only country to fall to such a fate over the course of history, and it has never been the prerogative of this Knighthood to enforce our own personal vision of some sort of world order onto any nation.  We are protectors of justice, and our enemy has always been both that which comes from the darkest depths of Shadow, and intolerance and prejudice that stems from this world. 

But Dimitris Sarandis has proven to be an exception, an embodiment of all the ideals we stand against, who has aspired to systematize the kind of violence and hatred that threatens the welfare of countless innocents under his rule.  He has used his position to exploit Shadowkind on the island to the point of conducting torturous experiments on them, designed to help him accomplish his goal of forcibly enslaving non-humans, so that they may serve what he sees as the superior race of homo sapiens.  

As if this were not enough, Dimitris knows of our existence, and wishes to tear down our organization, understanding that we pose a threat to all he seeks to accomplish.  To this end, he has conspired against us, kidnapped members of our organization and subjected them to brutal and vile torture, and attempted to blackmail us through detaining Sir Thomas Bancroft and now Sir Samcelot, into complying with his whims - to leave his regime alone entirely, to turn over our most ancient, powerful artifact, and for me to submit to death at his hand.  

Killing Dimitris alone will not stop the system he has created, and will not help free the people of Andres.  Most citizens of the country remain innocent, terrified into compliance, or completely ignorant of what Sarandis does behind closed doors.  These people deserve our help, and the only way to do so is to show them the evil that lurks at the heart of their government, gain their support in uprooting that evil, and assist them in stabilizing their country thereafter.   

To do this, we will need to go beyond the usual parameters of our missions, with a militant, strategic push into the island designed to seize the castle, and take down Sarandis' rule."   He pauses there, letting that sink in.  "What I will not stand for is a callous attitude towards the innocents who we seek to protect on the Island, during this insurgency.  Their safety will be paramount to our operation, and as such, speed is important to what we will be accomplishing.  Dimitris expects retaliation, but he also underestimates our tactics.  As such, rather than attacking the castle with an army, you will be deployed about the Island in a number of small teams, each with an objective that will help us cut off Dimitris from contact with his supporters, secure Sir Bancroft and Sir Samcelot's safety, free those who are imprisoned, and confront Sarandis, taking the castle in the process.

Details of these individual operations not withstanding, I imagine there are some questions.  I open the floor to you to speak."

Comments

[bigbad]

[Considering she literally feels like vomiting around him, he appreciates the sentiment.]

Apparently I liked kidnapping people and had a vampire girlfriend. And was evil.

[He smirks and manages to look unbothered and amused (bluff 21). But he doesn't feel evil.]

You'd think I'd be more... evil, right? If I'm as bad as they bloody say.

[littledhampir]

[Projection can do wonders for the whole, your existence make me wanna hurl problem.]

I think I dated somebody like that once... [The things you can make light of when you can't really remember the details!]

Well - right now? Are you feeling any overwhelming urges to cross the room and bite my neck?

[bigbad]

No more than usual. [Which probably isn't all that comforting, except he doesn't sound all enthusiastic about it, and he's not making any moves to attack her.]

[littledhampir]

[Oddly enough, comforting for Rose at least.]

Yeah that's not really that evil. [A beat.] Maybe I'd buy it if went all fangy on me but - I'm going to go with, they got their wires crossed.

[And yet she can't offer the same courtesy to Sam. Good job Rose.]

[bigbad]

One of them didn't even realize I was a vampire, so maybe there's just... another Spike out there.

[He doesn't sound too optimistic, though.]

[littledhampir]

Maybe... In a parallel universe... [Though, she doesn't like this idea very much, not with the way her nose wrinkles. To think, she'd planned on asking Spike about this stuff. Ya know. Cause as a Vampire he was old and therefore must just know things.]

Or maybe the veil just scrambled their brains. If it can make us forget stuff, maybe it can make us think stuff too.

[Not even rolling a wisdom check cause that right there is some kind of weird ass Rose!Wisdom.]

[bigbad]

I haven't heard of that happening before.

[But Spike's not an expert. He really doesn't know.]

Suppose I could ask Gar. If anyone'd know, it's her.

[littledhampir]

Me either but, I hadn't heard of a Kardashian before either and apparently that's a thing too, so.

[She shrugs because, Rose still doesn't actually know who or what a 'Kardashian' is. (INT 4).]

People keep telling me that. When all this is over, you're going to have to introduce me to her because the list of stuff I'm supposed to ask her about is getting kind of stupid.

[bigbad]

[APPARENTLY SPIKE KNOWS ALL ABOUT THE KARDASHIANS BECAUSE HE JUST GOT A NAT 20 AND I'M ANGRY ABOUT IT. I guess he plays the So he's gonna give her a judgy look like wow, how do you not know everything about the Kardashians.]

She's bloody brilliant. You really haven't met her yet?

[littledhampir]

[A beat.] We're still talking about Gar right? Cause, no. I've probably seen her a bunch but just didn't know who she was.

[And god forbid Rose bother to ask.]