mission ♔ chicago

[shootfirst]

WHO || Gar, Kat, Mark, Dumage, Martha, Myri, Buffy, Sven, Spike [closed]
WHAT || Settling into the mission HQ
WHERE || Knights' hotel/various locales in the city(?), Chicago, IL
WHEN || Friday Feb 24th through Sunday Feb 26th
HOW || Actionspam

Arrival in the city involved picking up any weapons or equipment that they had sent to meet them here and moving into their oh-so-fancy hotel rooms on the top floor. It consists of four adjoining rooms with a shared living room space and kitchenette. Each bedroom has two separate beds and roomies are:

Kat & Gar
Buffy & Myri
Martha & Dumage
Spike & Sven

Mark's agreed to sleep on the couch, since there aren't any spaces with five separate adjoining rooms available.

Gar's new job will begin on Monday, which gives the Knights the weekend to explore the city if they like, do research on the Hoffman Institute, scope out the Institute's campus, set up surveillance plans, or otherwise unwind before the real work starts. Feel free to start threads for anything, and use subject lines to denote which day it occurs on! Also don't be afraid to jack multiple people into threads, as now is a great time for some TEAM BUILDING 8) ... Try not to kill each other, in other words.]

Comments

[shootfirst]

If you don't learn how to deal with your strength, though, this is just gonna be something you have to worry about happening over and over again, right?

[slay]

I know. But, I'd like to learn about it in like ... a controlled environment. Population: me. Where nobody else is gonna get skewered by some stray superfreak Buffy slash.

[shootfirst]

You're allowed to practice on non-live targets too, you know.

[slay]

Which is exactly what I'm gonna do. Until I know I'm not gonna go all ... She-Ra on the next person I fight.

[shootfirst]

Hey, if they're a bad guy looking to decapitate your buddies? I don't think any of us would complain about the risk of you busting out the She-Ra action. [DING, the doors slide open]

[slays]

[ And out she heads into the lobby. She chuckles a little, tone wry. ] I'll keep that in mind if we come up against any baddies intent on chopping heads.

[shootfirst]

In this line of work? Wouldn't rule it out. [Annnnd she shoves her way out the doors of the lobby.]

[slays]

Anybody ever tell you that you guys really suck at easing people into this? [ It's said with some levity to it, at least, and she's flouncing out of the hotel alongside Kat. ]

/sneaks in one more

[shootfirst]

I never really saw the point in not just going full hog from the start. I mean, if we're going to be heroes, it's sort of a package deal with all the lethal danger stuff.

i love your sneaking. <3

[slays]

Maybe 'cause you'd have crazy high mortality rates among your squires? Well, that, and we'd probably screw up the missions real quick.

<33

[shootfirst]

Actually, surprisingly few squires ever kick the bucket around here. It's usually the lifers, and it's really not as common as you'd think either. Plus, most of the time, they get rezzed anyway.

[slays]

Rezzed?

[shootfirst]

Resurrected? [She glances over at her, reaching into her pocket and drawing out a pack of smokes. She smacks the bottom to take one out.] Brought back to life via cleric magic. [She holds out the box towards Buffy, as if to ask whether she'd like one]

[slay]

Oh. Right. Obviously. [ She tries to make it sound like a duh thing but ... after a long pause she gives Kat a bewildered look. ] ... That's a thing that happens a lot around here?

[shootfirst]

Not all the time. [She slips the pack back into her coat, digging for a lighter] I mean, it hasn't really happened to anyone I know.

[slay]

How do they decide who ... ? [ This seems like a hot mess in the making. ]

[shootfirst]

Who what? They try to rez?

[She stops looking for a lighter and yanks a wallet out of her backpocket. (Yep) And then flips over her license and shows it to Buffy.] People who don't want to be check the little box labelled DNR - "Do not rez, do not resuscitate.'

[slay]

[ Buffy's eyebrows shoot up and she takes the license from Kat, checking it out. Wtf ... She hands it back over. ] That's ... convenient, I guess. So, people who are with the knights just get to be immortal unless they decide not to be.

[shootfirst]

Oh, not at all. I forget not everybody knows about this stuff. [She slides her license away and goes back to lighting her cigarette] Mortal bodies are only designed to handle so much, so you have to be pretty tough to survive a resurrection in the first place. ... Though I'm not sure 'survive's the best word when you're already dead if you're being rezzed...

Either way, [she clicks the lighter shut] you come back a little weaker, so it gets progressively less likely you'd survive another rez, unless you work to buff yourself back up pretty hard.

And aasimars and stuff can't be rezzed at all. Since they're like, not from this plane originally so their connection to here is too strained to summon their spirits back once they've gone "home".

Basically, the clerics can give it their best shot when someone goes down, but there's a whole tense waiting period of not knowing whether it's gonna work or not.

[slay]

[ She nods her understanding along as Kat explains, looking progressively more in line with understanding and accepting than being overwhelmed and bewildered. ] I'm still working on processing the part where it can work out at all. I mean, yeah, tense period, but it's still might-not-be-mourning period. [ She shrugs. ] I mean -- I guess it's just one thing to watch them heal someone from, like, how Arthur was. It's another to think about bringing him back if he'd really, you know. [ They're walking down the street, la la. It's very cold. Buffy hunches her shoulders, folding her arms across her chest to draw her jacket in closer to her. ]

[shootfirst]

Yeah, I mean, it can't be easy or anything, since... you're stuck not knowing whether to mourn or not for who knows how long. But it's also a reason to be more hopeful about the whole situation, you know?

[slay]

Makes sense. [ She seems to give this some thought. She glances behind them, satisfied with their distance from the hotel, then fixes Kat with a look. ] ... Can I ask you something? You've ... You've been a knight for a while, right? So, with all this ... rezzing and DNR and missions and -- You've probably seen everything.

[shootfirst]

[Kat glances over, as if giving that some thought, taking a puff and shaking some ashes onto the sidewalk] Yeah, sure. Totally. Why?

[slay]

What do you know about vampires?

[shootfirst]

Vampires? [The question seems to take her by surprise, and she tips her head to the side, thinking] Bad news bears. Undead, soulless, blood drinking, that kind of thing. Not a big problem here in London though. I mean there's this whole secret organization bent on wiping out all the vamps in England, so that keeps the population pretty low.