knightsoflegend | Entries tagged with james watson

WHO || Japan mission group [closed]
WHAT || A strange development...
WHERE || Knight's hotel room, Hachiōji, Japan
WHEN || Today // now
HOW || Actionspam

Since the end of March, there have been forty-four more murders that have been identified as fitting the MO attributed to the case the Knights have been investigating. At least 12 other murders have been similar, and potentially connected, and yet no pattern has emerged between victims, no evidence has been discovered at crime scenes that might give them a real clue of where to investigate, and every lead they've followed has led them to a dead end.

Those interrogated seem terrified to discuss the subject, as if they'd rather die than face the consequences of spilling the truth. There's something unsettling about the way in which several of those held in custody for questioning about the incidents have committed suicide in their cells, or begged the police to kill them, rather than release them, even if they hadn't said a single word of use to the Knights or officials.

It's Lis'sa who announces she thinks she has something worth investigating, calling everyone together in the common room to meet, without slipping a word of what she's been doing with her nights to any of them beforehand.

lissatrinall

♬ Down By the Water - PJ Harvey

WHO || The Japan mission group (however many of you would like to go!) [Closed]
WHAT || A fresh body surfaces.
WHERE || Under a bridge, Hachiōji, Japan
WHEN || Wed, Mar 21st, mid-afternoon
HOW || Actionspam

It's raining in Tokyo, and it has been, at least lightly, ever since the group arrived a few days prior. The police department's offered to set the Knights up in a nearby hotel, which isn't five star by any rate, but has clean towels and leaves mints on the pillows. Except, of course, that Lis'sa advises 'do not disturb' signs at all times. Housekeeping doesn't need to find any of the Knights' gear hanging around.

There's a great deal of paperwork to sort through, files and photographs and information copied by a very grumpy looking secretary and delivered to them upon their arrival. It takes days to sort through, which is enough to give anyone a mild case of cabin fever, but they're free to go explore the city as well, and follow up any leads they might discover.

It's the next Wednesday that a new body is discovered, and the police chief calls to alert Lis'sa so that the Knights can check out the scene, as well. She gathers up whoever volunteers, and heads out that way.

The rest of you suckers can do whatever else you'd like with your day. (Just feel free to make new threads with a subject line label as to what they are for! Staying in the hotel rooting through paperwork, city exploration, hitting the bar before 1pm, whatever.)

lissatrinall

WHO || Andrea A., Dovan, Alainn, Haymitch, Eric, Lear, James, and Lis'sa [Closed]
WHAT || The Flight to Japan
WHERE || IN THE AIR.
WHEN || Saturday , Mar 17th
HOW || Actionspam

[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the Knight's plane ride to the mission site. Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc. The flight time is approx twelve hours. Get to know your teammates, talk about the mission, ask questions, etc. etc.]

wynn

♬ The Snake - Al Wilson

WHO || Wynn, Andrea Anderson, Dovan Ironsides, Alainn O'Rourke, Haymitch Abernathy, Eric Carpenter, Fyrel Lear, James Watson, and Lis'sa Trinall [Closed]
WHAT || Japan Mission Briefing
WHERE || Knights HQ, the Round Table room
WHEN || Monday, March 5th, shortly before 5pm. [BACKDATED]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

Just as before, accessing the secret room where the Round Table is housed requires using the Knight's access card to open the glass class beside the mural of the War in Heaven, located across from the ballroom entrance. Using the fire extinguisher as a lever to activate the "door" mechanism reveals the long torch-lit hall plastered in artworks depicting the Knight's history. The tenants of the Knighthood hang large and foreboding over the doors at the end of the hall, which stand open to reveal the brightly lit Round Table, and the majestic crystalline dragon statue presiding over it.

Come in, find a seat, meet your teammates if you haven't already. Wynn will be with you all shortly.

lissatrinall

♬ Analyse - Thom Yorke

WHO || Lis'sa Trinall, James Watson, open if people want to bang into them, just threadjack wherever.
WHAT || Lis'sa meets with her squire
WHERE || Knight's HQ, Dragon's Hoard wing, Lis'sa's office
WHEN || Wednesday morning
HOW || Actionspam

[The Dragon's Hoard's wing is located in the farthest corner of the first floor of the castle from where the squire bedrooms are, rather than immediately by the laboratory. Following the equipment briefing, Lis'sa had asked James to come to her office there on Wednesday morning so that they might get a chance to finally sit and talk about his squiring period. Hopefully, he has no problems locating the place.]

( Optional Rolls )

lissatrinall

WHO || Lis'sa Trinall, Katniss, Myrilandel, Andrea, Arthur, Merlin, Riddick, and James
WHAT || Equipment Briefing
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Dragon's Hoard Laboratory
WHEN || Monday, February 13th, 1:00pm
HOW || Actionspam; don't feel obligated to tag all threads! Just whichever ones you want to play out your char's reactions to / questions

Lis'sa meets the squires inside the laboratory, behind its "Biohazard" labelled doors. She doesn't really offer much of a greeting, or even introduce herself - just waits inside the strange multi-storied library section until everyone is gathered, and then instructs them to follow her up the steps. A great deal of models are suspended from the ceiling that look like space age designs for jet planes, cars, boats, and any number of other things. There are other objects that are much more inexplicable: a giant silver ball, suspended by several rods, for example.

There's another set of doors at the end of the balcony, and she swipes an access card through a reader besides them. They depress with a space age his. revealing a clean white laboratory, with rows and rows of tables and lab equipment set up. Numerous knights buzz around in white lab coats, working under microscopes and on computers, conferring over a number of projects.

"This way," she instructs simply, not sparing the lab a second glance, heading for a door on the left hand side of the room. She presses a hand against the panel there, and the red light changes to green, unlocking the door for everyone's access.

Beyond is a very long room, with rows of labelled cases and cabinets with transparent glass revealing what's inside. Lis'sa steps crisply to the other side of the large stainless steel table.

wynn

♬ Can't Take It In - Imogen Heap

WHO || Wynn, the new Squires, any and all Knights
WHAT || Squiring Ceremony Feast & Afterparty
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Dining Hall & Ballroom
WHEN || February 9th, 2012, 7:00PM / 9:00 PM
HOW || Prose OR Actionspam

While every dinner served in the Knights' exceptionally large Dining Hall manages to have a sense of occasion, given the sheer quantity of food necessary to serve the hundreds who take their meals there, the 'feast' Wynn's ordered for after this squiring party outdoes the norm. It's not a problem to produce so much food at the drop of the hat when mages can magically summon up entire banquets, and so the room teems over with the smells and spices of hundreds of unique dishes. Centerpieces built with peacock feathers and sweet smelling flowers dot the table at intervals. A silver cage in the very middle of the table includes several live birds, their feet and tufts each appearing to be silver as well. A banner hangs from the top of the cage, with the Knight's symbol of a black dragon on a silver field.

The food has a distinctly medieval flair to it today, which several of the older Shadowkind Knights express their boisterous appreciation for as they dive in. The first course consists of a civet of hare, a quarter of salted stag, a stuffed chicken and a loin of veal, the latter two covered with a German sauce with gilt sugar-plums and pomegranate seeds. At each end of the table is an enormous pie, surmounted with smaller pies, which form a crown. The crust of the large ones is silvered all round and gilt at the top; each contains a whole roe-deer, a gosling, three capons, six chickens, ten pigeons, and one young rabbit. Serving as seasoning or stuffing, a minced loin of veal, two pounds of fat, and twenty-six hard-boiled eggs, covered with saffron and flavoured with cloves.

A second course follows: aroe-deer, a pig, a sturgeon cooked in parsley and vinegar, and covered with powdered ginger; a kid, two goslings, twelve chickens, as many pigeons, six young rabbits, two herons, a leveret, a fat capon stuffed, four chickens covered with yolks of eggs and sprinkled with spiced powder de Duc, and even a wild boar.

Next came wafers and stars; a jelly, part white and part blue. A fourth course of cream with Duc powder, covered with fennel seeds preserved in sugar; a white cream, cheese in slices, and strawberries; and, lastly, plums stewed in rose-water.

Besides these four courses, there's a fifth, entirely composed of wines, and of preserves, which consist of fruits and various sweet pastries in the shapes of dragons.

( The Afterparty )

All open feast threads should be made under the FEAST heading below. Any other threads below will be for the after-party. Feel free to make your own open threads for people to come congratulate your newly pledged knight.

wynn

WHO || Wynn, Arthur Pendragon, Merlin, James Watson, Riddick, Myrinlandel de Tanos, Katniss Everdeen, Andrea Anderson, and open to current Knights attending the ceremony
WHAT || A second February Squiring Ceremony...? WHAT GO ON
WHERE || Knights Headquarters, the Great Hall
WHEN || February 9th, 2012, 6:00PM
HOW || Actionspam
MUSIC || ♬ King Arthur - Steve Mazzaro

The incredibly sudden announcement yesterday of an impending Squiring Ceremony to occur today has caused considerable uproar among the more seasoned knights, who have been talking non-stop about what in the world the break from general tradition could be about. Mentions of an incredible feast to follow, before the usual ball aren't doing much to die down the gossip either. So it's hardly surprising that the Great Hall is packed to the brim with everyone who could potentially attend, craning their necks to try and see what the big deal is. As before, the Knights stand in ranks on either side of the wide stretch of red carpet, each wearing the traditional set of ceremonial armor in their possession, worked in dark blue and silvers.

Wynn seems to be waiting with a great deal more expectation than usual for the doors to open and reveal the squires, each garbed in their own newly fitted suit of armor, as is the tradition for the ceremony. It's striking as always how much of a sense of importance the event is given just by the uniform appearance of the Knights, as they stand shoulder to shoulder in rank and file to receive their newest pledges. Wynn's eyes are fastened on the door at the end of the Hall, seeming to stand more proudly than ever, one hand on the sword† hilt at his side.

The music sounds: loud, bold, proud swells, a military march. Just as the group did last week, the seven new squires are ushered inside as the large doors swing open slowly, walking in a line, side by side, past the ranks of their soon-to-be brothers and sisters in arms. There's a lot more hushed whispering rolling through the crowd this time, however, as people speculate what in the world is going on here.

Now would be a really awkward time to face plant, squires.

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Knights of Legend

Entries tagged with james watson

mission ♔ japan

mission ♔ i lost my heart under the bridge

TRAVEL ♔ come through this storm

briefing ♔ but instead of saying thanks that snake gave her a vicious bite

orientation ♔ no time to analyse | to think things through

equipment orientation ♔ monday afternoon

feast & after-party ♔ empty my heart | i've got to make room for this feeling

Squiring ♔ and i won't cry for yesterday

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