andres ♔ i've turned into a monster

[likedillinger]

♬ monster - imagine dragons

WHO || Alainn O'Rourke, Sydney Bristow, Felicity Braddock, Jameson Bennett, Dean Winchester, Rose Hathaway, Will Graham
WHAT || Two teams of Knights are tasked to find the source of Sarandis' control over Kat Samcelot and stop Kyp and Elena Gilbert from interfering with the Knights' plans
WHERE || Andres Isle
WHEN || September 19th, 2014
HOW || Actionspam

[ Two groups stow away on a barge bringing imports onto Andres, aided with invisibility and silence spells.  The members of both groups sneak away from the docks, to congregate between warehouse buildings.  Dean checks his weapon in the dim light, glancing down towards the mouth of the narrow alley, and then glancing back at the other group. ]

Castle can't be more than a half mile.   Odds are that's where Elena's headed too - that or the prison in the woods.  Depends on what they're here for.

Comments

[littledhampir]

Walking right through the front door would have worked well but without a disguise... If we could take down a couple of guards... but I don't know how long we'd have until they'd be noticed missing. [Musing out aloud.

She can almost feel the side-eyeing she was probably going to get for making a statement like that with complete confidence and with a shrug she adds.]

I might have, done something like this before. [#lookatyourliferose.]

That would still give us the greatest access, also provide us with an a way of listening in on their conversations, assuming they'd have comm devices but... Service entry would probably be safer.

[mydesigns]

[he tries to be gentle with his criticism bc he doesn't want to get into another bickerfest ... but he's will graham. so. imagine how well that goes.] It's a small island. I wouldn't be surprised if Dimitris was at least familiar with most of the guards. I'm not saying that we couldn't impersonate guards, but we would probably need some sort of disguise magic in addition to uniforms.

[littledhampir]

You're right. [No really she, wholeheartedly agrees. Shocking we know.] Just... sneaking in. [A beat.] What about servants? Most Royals don't care about the hired help. [(Wis... Nat 20. Yet this is Rose wisdom so IDEK.)]

[likedillinger]

Still gonna need to hijack some kinda uniforms to pull it off. [ also... make spot checks! \o/ ]

[mydesigns]

[spot 29. will sees ALL OF THE THINGS.]

[littledhampir]

[Welp, Rose sure did Crit Fail that spot check so I guess she's just, thinking way too hard about uniforms.]

Yeah well... I hadn't gotten that far in the planning. [Added wryly.]

[likedillinger]

Might be able to get some from-- [ it's at that moment that will notices between the trees, a porsche parked, practically hidden back here, that looks familiar... dean stops when he notices will's expression, following his gaze ] What is it?

[mydesigns]

[yeah will's expression is werwatey??? Plus oh shit. He nods toward it before saying] Porsche.

[littledhampir]

[Well now she sees it, (spot 29) and Rose raises her finger to her lips, calling for silence as she attempts to listen for movement or chatter through the trees. (Listen 28).]

[mydesigns]

[will is also listening ok. but his elf ears aren't as good as his elf eyes. (listen 22)]

[likedillinger]

[ dean slowly draws his gun, and approaches, as they hear no noise issuing from or around the car. he steps in quickly, aiming his gun at the window and looking inside ... then checking the backseat as well. ] ... Clear.

Who the hell parks a Porsche in the woods?

[mydesigns]

Someone who doesn't want it found. [aren't u glad u brought him?????] Could be stolen. Doesn't seem like the sort of thing someone who actually owned one would do. It's a status symbol of a car.

[littledhampir]

[They would be so lost without him.] Same one that sped past us before, right? [Wisdom 16 enough?! Eh close enough to raise the question.] And I'm guessing whoever was in it is either headed to the Castle or the prison... [Makes all the Wisdom checks (18.)] Can we track them?

[likedillinger]

[ same one. that sped right past them. straight up. dean glances around for tracks but his survival check was a 4, no shit. ] Probably not in the damn dark. [ he pulls up a flashlight tho and shines it inside and around the car. right over a splotch of what looks like blood on the trunk, which a spot of 17+ can catch.

he sure didn't ]

[mydesigns]

[ after glancing down at the ground and making a vaguely displeased face because what did he expect to find in the dark (survival 13), he stares at the car thx to dean's flashlight and ... immediately locks on the blood. (spot 24) this is his area of expertise, ok.] There's blood. On the trunk.

[littledhampir]

[Rose sure did, which, is impressive cause she rolled a 3 but fuck yeah Dhampir! (Spot 18) and she stiffens, focused on the trunk as she moves closer to the car, concern etched across her features as Will points out the very thing she's just noticed.

Dragging her eyes away she looks around the car, bending down to try and see something in the dark and thank god they can roll one okay Survival Check between them! (SC 15)] And tracks.

[Rose follows their direction, gaze slowly raising to the looming structure in the distance.] And they lead towards the Castle.

[Dun Dun Duuuuuun.]

[likedillinger]

[ dean comes over to check out the blood, and with a look of growing unease, flips out a lockpick and jams it into the trunk lock. after a moment, it pops open, and he takes a step back, bringing the flashlight to bear, his expression going entirely grim as he looks inside, then back up slowly at the others. ] Think we're on the right track.

[ when they look inside, they see one guard... bound and gagged, apparently unconscious, stuffed next to what is clearly another guard - dead, bleeding out of both the kneecap and the massive gunshot wound that obliterated half his face. ]

[mydesigns]

[oh shit.

will's eyes get big, but that's about the extent of his reaction. this is another day at the office, okay.] Stand back.

[he asks them to stand back like he's actually ... going to do something badass, but he's not. only in ~his mind~. other people too close up in his business get in the way and distract him. as he gets closer to the trunk full of dead guards, a pendulum starts ticking in the bg will seems to go into a trance-like state while thinking of the potential events that could have lead to this. (investigate 30)]

[likedillinger]

[ ♬ dreams - bastille ft. gabrielle aplin

the clues click together in his mind like puzzle pieces, as he examines the bodies, noticing tiny things that add up to a clearer picture:

the only signs of blood in the area are on the car itself, indicating that the man wasn't shot here. the slight difference in the uniforms, indicating that these are specifically palace guards, not the soldiers they saw out in the city proper. the head wound on the back of the skull of the unconscious soldier, and the bits of hair almost too easy to miss, barely sticking to the front of the engine lid. the crappy job that's been done of tying him up in the first place. the position of the gunshot wounds on the second guard.

just like that, he finds himself mid-replay.

elena and kyp stealing the vehicle, wearing the faces of either the vehicle's owners or other locals who wouldn't be considered suspicious. stopping outside the castle, parked right on the roadside, drawing a guard away from their post at the castle with some kind of story about car trouble.

guard #1 leaning down to look at the engine. the lid cracking down into his skull, rendering him unconscious.

one of them, maybe elena, less experienced, tying the knots. possibly interrupted in the middle of it, taken by surprise, by the approach of the other guard? no. she had her weapon, she was ready for him, on some level. maybe something had gone amiss with the plan, and her hasty tying had been tinged with panic over the alteration.

the second guard approaching, one of them shooting him from behind - in the knee cap, a shot clearly intended to disable, not to kill. the other shot was from the front, incredibly close range. maybe one of them less concerned about keeping the guards alive than the other.

the bodies stuffed together in the trunk. the car abandoned here in the woods, two brand new covers attained for the dual doppelgangers. covers guaranteed to get them entrance into the palace. ]

[mydesigns]

[ presumably rose and dean gave will his weirdo space bubble, so he is living that replay in his head for a minute or two. until he snaps out of it and cranes his neck back to them.] This was Kyp and Elena. They did this. They took the car, posed [you know … a very literal sense of posed] as locals, stopped outside the castle with a story about car trouble. Lured the palace guards over to help, and then … [he frowns.] It had been just one. The unconscious one. Something took her by surprise, or something went wrong, made the other guard come over. The two shots came from different people. The kneecap was from behind, meant to disable. The headshot was from the front. The range was closer. Then they stuffed them in the trunk and left them here.

They'll be wearing their faces. All-access passes.

[littledhampir]

[Rose lifts her head, watching Dean's face and slowly stands, hesitant for a moment as she looks at the trunk without actually looking in it and yet before Will utters the request to for space, she steps closer, her face paling, jaw and grip on her stake tight as she takes in the guards, staring long and hard at the gruesome sight of the half missing face and it's almost as if it provides some answer that she's not entirely ready to receive (WS 12). She doesn't even need Will's request to step back, she needs to do it for herself rather than stare at what's inside as words she'd spoken earlier came back to her;

'Three months is a long time to be with somebody.'
If Will's explanation was supposed to in some way make this better, it doesn't show, Rose's face a serious mask of near permanently etched lines as she tries to see the scenario he describes in her mind, replaying it several times with both of them cast in each role.

Something close to regret touches her features but she gives an infinitesimal shake of her head and sighing heavily, drags her gaze away from the bodies to focus on the Castle beyond the trees.]

Get a good look at them. [Almost sounding detached.] Knowing what we're looking for will make this easier.

[likedillinger]

Yeah, well it'd be easier if one of 'em had a face left. [ Dean's mouth curves down in a deep line, and he turns to look at Rose, his thoughts loud and clear on what this says to him, as far as Kyp and Elena are concerned. ] We've got an ID on one at least. If we work fast, maybe we can catch 'em before they swap again. [ He hesitates a sec, and then slams the lid back down. ] We'll come back for him later. Hopefully Sleeping Beauty won't wake up and get twenty years of future therapy outta tonight before then.

[mydesigns]

[he was hoping he wouldn't have to be the one to say it ... but he'll be the one to say it before they leave the car.]

We have access to one intact guard uniform now.

[littledhampir]

[When Dean catches her gaze, the mask she's forced into place falls away and she's broadcasting loud and clear herself about how she really feels about this. That momentary flash of regret from before returns, stronger now, like maybe she's about to throw this mission out the window, all to move a body.

Once again however, wisdom prevails (17) and she shakes her head but it's likely more apparent to both Will and Dean how much it's costing her to do this. (WS 8).]

No - We can't afford to waste time. They're headed for the Castle and we have people in there, we have to stop them before they can do anymore damage. [Her gaze slides back to the trunk and she adds;] Leave him with whatever shred of dignity he has left.

[mydesigns]

I guess getting past security's not really the issue anymore, when ... [they're over here mostly dead in the trunk.]