ALL KNIGHTS ♔ AUDIO CALL

[wynn]

This afternoon, Sir Jeanne Gar was abducted from downtown London, and despite our best efforts to halt the attempt, was taken to an undisclosed location by a woman called the Mind Master.  This same woman worked with Dimitris Sarandis and his fellow cultists, and participated in the attack on our castle this winter.  

This woman is extremely dangerous, and I advise anyone who thinks they have a means to locate Sir Gar to work directly with myself and Sir Hasmed to do so.  I will not risk losing more Knights to these fanatics.

We will find her.  For now, remain vigilant, and I would advise you all to be cautious when venturing outside of the castle.

That is all.

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[supertardiness]

[He takes a deep breath before nodding.]

Yeah, okay.

[And he may flop back so that while his feet are still resting against the floor, he's stretched out across the foot of her bed. He probably makes it all the way across because he's so tall and lanky.]

[withasouvenir]

Be right back. [ and she jets out of her room. she's not a speedster, regardless of her cute nickname, so it takes her a few minutes to find what she needs. luckily the dragon's tongue wing is right next to the dragon's light so she doesn't need to go very far.

she comes back with a handful of potions and an entire bottle of tylenol, dumping them on the bed next to him. ] There we go. I have some of Ollie's clothes in here, so you can change.

[supertardiness]

[He flashes her a small smile in return as he pushes up again, reaching for two of the potions and downing them quickly (2 cure moderate wounds = +26 HP). Once that's done, he pops two of the tylenol to take care of he residual soreness, before looking up with a small smile.]

Thanks. I've had worse hits though, I'm fine. And some of it I kinda deserved.

[withasouvenir]

[ she gives him a look at that last comment, ducking her head into her closet to rifle around for oliver's clothes. she comes back out with a tee shirt and a pair of pajama pants that she sets next to him before she joins him on the bed. ollie's got a lot of weight on beanpole barry, but it'll do instead of blood stained clothes. ]

I doubt that's true.

[supertardiness]

You weren't there.

[He runs a hand over his face as he pulls his shirt over his head first, showing the blood stains left behind by the healing bullet wounds, before taking the t-shirt to pull over his head.]

I got whammied by that Mind Master person. She turned me on the team. If Wynn hadn't taken me out, I probably could have done way worse than punch Alex in the face.

[withasouvenir]

In what world is that your fault? You were being controlled, Barry. [ and honestly that sounds horrible, making thea's skin crawl in a way she can't really quantify. ]

[supertardiness]

I don't know. Maybe because I wasn't strong enough to resist it? That I ... barely even realized it was happening at all. It still felt like it was me.

[It's not like his body just suddenly started moving without his consent. He didn't even feel her in his head.]

[withasouvenir]

She's called the Mind Master, how are you supposed to fight that shit? [ she shrugs, feeling impotent to actually help. ] For what it's worth, I doubt Alex gives a shit.

[ she makes an idle mental note to check on him, though. ]

[supertardiness]

[He nods a bit as he changes his pants - STAR Labs got him over being body shy a long time ago - before he shrugs.]

He didn't seem that pissed off, but I did hit him pretty hard. I apologized but he was pretty blase about it.

[withasouvenir]

[ she doesn't look away, but she doesn't stare either. ]

He's like that about everything. [ he's either a dick, a flirt, or just doesn't give a single fuck, interspersed with small moments when he's just nice. thea likes the chill moments. ] And he can take a hit, don't worry.

[ he and thea have beat the shit out of each other in the training room before, she knows this is true. ] Just trust me on this one, okay?

[supertardiness]

[He nods a bit as he sits back down on the edge of her bed again, before shaking his head.]

I don't know, it's just doesn't really say great things about your capacity as a knight when the head of the knighthood has to knock you out to keep you from doing more damage.

[withasouvenir]

...wait, Wynn knocked you out. [ omg thea you're not helping! ]

[supertardiness]

[He nods a bit as he reaches to rub where he was elbowed in the head.]

Yeah, he elbowed me in the head. Though I'm sure if he didn't, Alex probably would have. I was in pretty bad shape at that point.

[withasouvenir]

[ she'd heard it the first time, but didn't really believe it? listen? it wasn't important at the time and she'd probably just transferred alex to wynn's position. alex knocking him out would be less unbelievable. ]

Oh, wow. [ she reaches over to take his chin, turn his face toward her, eyes keen as she brushes her other hand against his temple. when her eyes flicker to his there's understanding in them. ] You'll have a monster bruise to go with your undeserved guilt, don't worry.

[supertardiness]

[He laughs for a moment, before nodding as he flops back against the bed again.]

Yeah. Thanks.

[withasouvenir]

Thought that might help. [ she ducks her head with a smile, slipping off the bed to scoop up his bloody clothes and fling them into the corner before she settles back next to him, kneeling on the comforter. ] Aside from the guilt and the bullet holes in your back -- don't think I didn't notice them, what.. happened?

[supertardiness]

[He pauses, before shifting for a moment so that he's propped up on one elbow next to her.]

So, I was in the kitchen in the London office, looking for the sushi, and Sir Brink comes in saying that Wynn needs whatever knight's available for this last minute mission. I said I was in, and when we all meet up we find out someone's taken Sir Gar, and we were going to try and get her back. Wynn asked me to run ahead and meet up with Sir Hasmed and assess the situation before they got there so that we knew what we were getting into.

[withasouvenir]

Okay, I'm following so far. [ and she can easily follow why barry would just drop everything (sushi) to do so. he's like harry potter, he has that saving people thing. ]

[supertardiness]

Alright, so I get to this warehouse down by the docks and the first thing I see when I get there is this giant mass of tentacles coming from nowhere. It has this dark-haired woman - which, I understand, is what Sir Gar looks like, so I tried to see if I could free her, somehow, but the tentacles got me too.

Sir Hasmed was there, and he managed to make the tentacles disappear but it wasn't long after that that the Mind Master got in my head. I tried to attack Hasmed but he had some kind of magical shield on him. I couldn't touch him.

[withasouvenir]

[ she makes a face at the tentacles. she's not here for this anime bullshit. ] He's head of the Dragon's Fire for a reason, I guess. Similar to why she's called the freakin' Mind Master, probably.

[ this is why the bad guys shouldn't name themselves. ]

Who was shooting at you? [ because right now she's imagining it might have been alex in order to stop barry and that's a little distressing. ]

[supertardiness]

Probably the guys who grabbed Sir Gar. Or whoever Alex was shooting at - they looked like Sir Gar, so I was trying to protect them.

[He shrugs.]

Anyway, Alex, Wynn and the rest get there, and Alex starts shooting at what I think is Gar, and so I go after him instead. I punch him in the face, Wynn cold cocks me, and that's the last thing I remember until they woke me up in the car.

[withasouvenir]

Jeez. [ she squeezes his knee, assuming it's relatively uninjured. ] At least as far as missions go, you can only go up from being decked by the boss.

[supertardiness]

That is very true. And you know, it's not like I'm not used to failing the first time. I'd just kind of was hoping I wasn't setting a precedent.

[withasouvenir]

I hate to sound like a Hallmark commercial, but in this case I think trying your best really is the most important thing. [ leaning down, she kisses his cheek, resting her forehead against his for a moment as she adds, ] I'm glad you weren't murdered by tentacles. I'd have no idea how to cover that in your eulogy.

[supertardiness]

[He smirks a bit at that, before nodding his agreement. He appreciates the closeness, more than anything else.]

Yeah, I'm not sure how that would have gone down either. Here lies Barry Allen, eaten by Cthuhlu.