drakenet | [video]

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[ meanwhile, back at the ranch...

the keijen blade concert was televised, for anyone curious to watch, although many of the failboaters had cautioned (including a sign taped to the TV by kat) to keep it on mute, lest they get brainwashed by blade's voice.

the cameras did not last through the entire thing, but what they did see was... disturbing. at one point, in the giant concert hall, a large glass pane lifted between blade and the audience, as he sang a taunting number, at the end of which, the ceiling split open pouring boiling hot lava onto the hundreds of concert attendees, who were boiled alive. Some might know that they had friends away on that mission, friends who had said they were going to be in the crowd as back-up. The last images broadcast before cuts to a live newcast trying to make sense of what was happening as the cameras melted seemed to confirm the deaths of anyone inside.

The panicked reporters spoke of unusual sightings in the area, a horribly darkening sky above the concert hall. Monsters appearing out of nowhere. Chaos.

Los Angeles is burning.

Feel free to play out text or IC reactions to the broadcast here ]

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[Stiles doesn't know how to process what he just saw. Lava pouring from the ceiling isn't something that actually happens in real life. And it definitely doesn't happen when real people he knows are in the audience. When the woman he loves is in the audience.

He texts her. When she doesn't respond within 5 seconds, he texts her again. And again.

Eventually, he texts Cora:]

Have you heard from Abigail? I'm on my way to Will's room to see if he knows anything.

[Annnnd there's a plaid blur bolting down the castle halls to head for Will's room. Stiles knocks on the door, breathing heavy and trying not to have a full on panic attack.]

[The moment the news hits the internet, Andrew springs into his version of action. He grabs his laptop and heads for the computer lab to set up shop. A lot of their people are at that concert. Figuring out who made it out of there seems like the most useful thing he can do from the castle.

He posts on the drakenet: DOING SOME DIGGING ON STATUS OF KNIGHTS AT BLADE CONCERT. ANY INFORMATION AND/OR HELP APPRECIATED.

He's doing his best to hack into security feeds, trying to track cell phones, cross checking different news stations to look for inconsistencies in their stories. He texts everyone on the mission, but doesn't expect to hear back from them anytime soon. Even if they all make it out alive, they'll have bigger things to worry about. But until he gets some answers, this is what he has to do.]

[ once gus had gotten over his stress that felicity is a knight (SHE IS HIS BABY SISTER OK), they'd gotten into a system: text at the start, text at the end, text at home. it's worked for them, especially because home often came with a hug soon after if time and missions allowed.

gus has only gotten one of those texts, tonight.

he gives it about five minutes before he is walking out of the castle and into his section of the woods. yes, he has his own section for druid shit. he's getting his shit together in the small clearing when his phone chirps and he begrudgingly answers, recognizing malina's ringtone. ]

I'm outside.

You're safe, right?

Wynn didn't send you to that concert?

Are you home?

[ when they come across a picture of rose on the stage, skye knows that it's her who has to go check in with sam. there's nothing from after — nothing to indicate one way or another if she's alive or dead — and the records of the knights' cell phones haven't finished updating.

no magic, not even the technical kind, is instantaneous.

she puts her laptop in sleep mode and slips out of the computer lab, heading instead for the library where she knows she'll find sam. it's where she always knew she could find sam. she just never wanted to look. ]

Hey.

[ it's stiff, to say the least. ]

Where are you? Answer me!

[It's not the first text he's sent today, and it's certainly not going to be the last if it goes unanswered. He's been texting and calling since the concert had gone sideways, and when he'd tried to contact either Rose or him, Sam had come up empty.

He had no idea what the hell happened to her, and Dean was nowhere to be found.

It's safe to say that Sam is Losing His Shit.]

[Barry hadn't needed to hear the concert for the chilling visuals to have their effect. He's never encountered Blade before, nor did he know much about the mission at hand, but it's horrific enough to almost have him wish he had been.

Maybe he would have been able to save more of them. Maybe he could have stopped it.

Maybe he would have melted to death with the rest of them.

Still, his eyes stay transfixed on the screen until his phone buzzes, and he glances down to see a text from Cisco, asking if he was okay.]

Yeah, I'm here in the castle. I wasn't on the mission. You?

[ lila copy/pastes the same text for ease of relaying that the message is from both her and faye: ]

Are you alive? Asking for me and Faye.

[check in textssss. Feel free to thread or tell me if handwaving is preferred. I'm good with both.]

Hey, you alive?

[She isn't going to be able to check on her in person, so...]

Please tell me you're not in Los Angeles.

[Helen has been checking on... Well, everyone. She's also doing her best to keep the castle as calm as possible. She's checked in with all the sect leaders that she could find and let them know that she's available for anything they need.

Basically she's trying to mother an entire castle at once. No big deal.

She's moving quickly through the halls when she spots a familiar face from the Hoard.]

Sam! Oh, thank god you're alright. [There's a hug incoming. She's giving a lot of these out.]

[It's definitely not a great time for this to be happening. In fact, it might be the absolute worst time, but babies straight up don't give a fuck. So here the Dennis-Gatewood parents-to-be come, Andrew pushing his very pregnant wife into the Light wing in a rolling office chair.]

We're here! [He exclaims, as if everyone already knows what's going on.]

[By the time she is alone again, after she and Stiles have gone their separate ways, she goes back to the empty room where her dog is waiting, and the room feels too empty all the same. The room is covered in touches of Abigail, the way she'd helped her decorate, the things that they'd brought each other back from trips and missions - there were moments where this had been their room more than it'd been just hers.

She stands there for a moment, trying to figure out what she's going to do, before she glances down at her phone again, before pulling it up and beginning a text to her boyfriend:]

Where are you?

[i mean they probably actually had ... a couple dates right??? wibbly wobbly handwavy time. but astrid has the attention span of a gnat. even for people she actually likes. anyway this text goes through some rough drafts.]

hey liam what's up how about la right I ALMOST DIED hey liam all the like death and stuff made me think of you. not because it's death and stuff, i was just worried. about you. 😭 😨 so text me ok 🖤

[Pretend like this was back when everything first went down, and I'm not garbage.]

You okay?

are you seeing all this?

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for will and cora

open; single thread

➙ malina ( open to people that live in the woods i guess?)

lila

& sam