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asgardmeridiem2014-03-20 01:49 pm
liquidsky) wrote in asgardmeridiem2014-03-20 01:49 pm
Entry tags:
- alice liddell,
- alice liddell (novel),
- barty crouch jr,
- beatrice "tris" prior,
- claudia donovan,
- clementine,
- ellie,
- evelyn carnahan,
- hawkeye pierce,
- jane crocker,
- john allerdyce (pyro),
- leo valdez,
- maglor,
- merlin,
- natasha romanova,
- neville longbottom,
- pitch black,
- roland deschain,
- september,
- severus snape,
- the eighth doctor,
- the eleventh doctor,
- will graham
The school, the school, the school is on fire...
Who: Anyone who wants in on it!
What: The school is on fire.
When: Days 420 around sundown and after.
Where: The school in Odin's district.
Rating: We'll see!
The sun is slowly going down and Barty Crouch jr is in Odin's district, as he's been every day for a good while though, since he first realized how easily Will Graham fell into habits. The difference is that today he isn't headed to the cafe they always meet at right away. Instead he stands leaning against a wall, ever now and then glancing at the school and waiting for a sign. He has placed the mirror - a present from Albus Dumbledore himself - in just the right position fixed it to the corner of a building and waited for the sun to hit the reflective surface at the right angle.
Dumbledore had talked of smoke and mirrors and now Barty had found the right tinder. He waits until he can see smoke, faintly but there. It would be another hour, he suspects, maybe even more before the fire spreads far enough to be noticed. But it would burn, of that he had no doubt.
It is starting to get dark when he takes the mirror back, making sure to remain unseen, and he heads down the road to meet Will. He doesn't know if anyone is still in the building he just set on fire, he doesn't much care either way. The flames would rise high and Severus Snape would feel the heat.
[OOC Notes: I purposefully set this up like an event log, so just like for them, feel free to make a header comment detailing what your character is doing at any given time. If you want to do any more last minute plotting, head on over to the plotting post! Also, here is the IC post with some of what led up to this if you want to read up and/or still tag in! I backtag forever. Slowly.
If your character has been near/around/in the school before the fire started and would thus be a suspect and/or suspect other people he or she has seen, you can play that part out here too!
Times: Before the fire, during the fire, right after the fire. ...duh.
Places: The parts of the schools that will be affected are: The library, the auditorium and several classrooms as well as Evy's office.
Obviously you can also have your character be outside the school or in the hallways or any unaffected part if they want to use the chaos to, I don't know, mess up Snape's office a little.
I just ask that no one saw Barty do what he did, so we can have more fun with various suspicions cast about.]
What: The school is on fire.
When: Days 420 around sundown and after.
Where: The school in Odin's district.
Rating: We'll see!
The sun is slowly going down and Barty Crouch jr is in Odin's district, as he's been every day for a good while though, since he first realized how easily Will Graham fell into habits. The difference is that today he isn't headed to the cafe they always meet at right away. Instead he stands leaning against a wall, ever now and then glancing at the school and waiting for a sign. He has placed the mirror - a present from Albus Dumbledore himself - in just the right position fixed it to the corner of a building and waited for the sun to hit the reflective surface at the right angle.
Dumbledore had talked of smoke and mirrors and now Barty had found the right tinder. He waits until he can see smoke, faintly but there. It would be another hour, he suspects, maybe even more before the fire spreads far enough to be noticed. But it would burn, of that he had no doubt.
It is starting to get dark when he takes the mirror back, making sure to remain unseen, and he heads down the road to meet Will. He doesn't know if anyone is still in the building he just set on fire, he doesn't much care either way. The flames would rise high and Severus Snape would feel the heat.
[OOC Notes: I purposefully set this up like an event log, so just like for them, feel free to make a header comment detailing what your character is doing at any given time. If you want to do any more last minute plotting, head on over to the plotting post! Also, here is the IC post with some of what led up to this if you want to read up and/or still tag in! I backtag forever. Slowly.
If your character has been near/around/in the school before the fire started and would thus be a suspect and/or suspect other people he or she has seen, you can play that part out here too!
Times: Before the fire, during the fire, right after the fire. ...duh.
Places: The parts of the schools that will be affected are: The library, the auditorium and several classrooms as well as Evy's office.
Obviously you can also have your character be outside the school or in the hallways or any unaffected part if they want to use the chaos to, I don't know, mess up Snape's office a little.
I just ask that no one saw Barty do what he did, so we can have more fun with various suspicions cast about.]
immediately after the fire | outside
With Odin district right next door, it only takes a little while for him to smell the smoke. After a frantic check of the house, he realizes it's coming from the opposite direction, and follows the smell cautiously; it'd be easier with his heat sense, but after crossing the district border, the illumination of the evening sky is more than enough to point him the right way.
Although he's never been to the school, he's seen it, and he knows who runs it. He's a block or two away when he spies the smouldering mess, and his anger is immediately replaced with smug satisfaction, followed by a cold clamp of dread around his heart as the pieces leading to this event line up in his head.]
Oh fuck. Oh, fuck.
[He starts to back away, and if no one notices him in time, he'll turn to run in the opposite direction. He absolutely cannot be seen here. Of course, anyone just making it to the fire will find running in the opposite direction even more suspicious, won't they?]
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As she's missed most of the fire (it's hard to realize something is burning when you're in a place where other things are burning on purpose) this proves more difficult than one would think, especially since the wind is blowing away from her, but she's closer than she realizes. In fact, Claudia is just about to give up in frustration and check the network instead when she spots a fast-moving figure... a familiar one.
With a very incriminating name.
But he wouldn't... right?
She glances back towards the scent and makes a choice: even if she found it it's not like she'd be any use as a firefighter anyway. Calling to him seems like a bad plan, so she follows her instincts and gives chase. Just in case, her Tesla winds up in her hand. ]
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Alright. There's no reason anyone should think it was him. He pulled off an arson once, but the bar was owned by a faceless native and empty at the time, so no one really cared - this is going to be way bigger and probably spark off a witch hunt of epic proportions, but there's no reason to suspect him. He hasn't had a sign of anyone stalking his physical or network movements for months now. It's not reasonable to think someone could know everything that's happened with Snape. Only Snape himself will know, and he looked like a screaming lunatic in Barty's tirade against him, so who'll believe him?
Eventually, his breaths slow and even out, but he remains crumpled against the wall with his back turned to the mouth of the alley. As long as no one saw him there...]
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Someone is approaching, the pace quick but slowing down as they get closer, like the person is either cautious or searching or both. Can they hear him breathing? Then a slim shadow appears at the mouth of the alley. ]
Pyro..?
[ Whooooooops. ]
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Are you following me?
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I didn't do it. I was nowhere near it. I just followed the smell of smoke from the park and got the fuck out when I saw what was going on. Wouldn't you?!
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[ She's not going to try and put herself in his place, but she's also not going to put her weapon away just yet because he's angry and she's made really bad judgment calls about people before. ]
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[Yes, he's a selfish dickhead, rub it in some more. Like he needs the reminder again after what they did last time they met.]
Yeah, that's right. My name's Pyro, and not a single fucking dumbass in this city can get it through their heads that it means pyrokinetic. I don't just - [Okay, best to be totally honest here in case it comes out later.] - alright, I set one fire, when I first got here. Burned down an empty bar. Would a pyromaniac go that long without another one?
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[ They've gotten past a few things-- no, not the time. She glares, but decides to just take the chance at being wrong and holster her Tesla, holding her hands up in a gesture of peace. He says he didn't do it. She believes him. ]
You saw it? What burned?
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[He stands down as well when the weapon's put away, though, his shoulders slumping.]
The school. [There is something wary in his expression at that, but it goes unexplained for now.] Part of it, anyway. I don't even have anything to do with the school - if it was the second coming of Xavier's, maybe we could talk, but this one doesn't mean shit to me.
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[ Sighing, she steps into the alley to continue the conversation, so as not to draw more attention. ] Snape's school? [ It's hard to tell in this light, but Claudia pales -- she knows several people who might have been inside. ]
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Being there would've been worse. If I could teleport, I would've.
[And here his voice tightens, because without being able to make out the concern on her face, that kind of specifying makes him even more defensive.]
Anyone else running a school around here? Yeah, Snape's. The asshole who went nuclear on the network awhile back. I'm willing to bet he pissed off enough people with that to make any police lineup a city block long.
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Evy has class tonight. I'm sure, I wanted to take it but Snape told me I was too old to enroll.
[ She's going to wind up leaving a message...... Cuz yup. Yup. ]
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[Oh. Holy shit. The stakes just went up by about a billion.]
I need to get out. Way further than here. Maybe Utgard, if there's still an inn with vacancy.
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[Alright, if she's made the choice of trusting him, then she'll get the full story. See how she feels then.]
I threatened to kill Snape today, alright? And he knew I was good for it, I'd bet. He's been cutting up Euri's house even though I was really fucking clear how I felt about it, and I caught him at it today.
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If anyone died in there -
[His face twists, and he has to start again.]
Too many people saw what I'm capable of when it comes to fire. Not what I can do, what I will do. There's no way anyone else is gonna believe me like you are.
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[ She will seriously knock him out if he tries to leave. Unacceptable. ] Look, I've seen your posts. You have actual friends here, they'll believe you. Better than me, they'll just know without having to ask because they'll trust their own judgment that they know you. And we've got telepaths-- I know, don't even, but it's a thing. Do. Not. Run.
Maybe it was just an accident in chem lab, I'll cross all my fingers.
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So what do I do now? Go home the long way? It'll get me seen in as many districts as possible around the time of the fire and keep me away from the scene of the - whatever happened.
Damnit, why didn't Baldr hand out teleportation.
[He's talking about staying, though. This is an improvement.]
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He follows the scent at a run, ignoring whatever he'd been working on. He can fix it later. Someone might be dead and he didn't catch it in time.
He's about to plunge into the thick of it when someone else darts past him. It doesn't even take a moment to decide which way to go. He goes after the fleeing person and spots what he knows about the shape.
There are better people who can help with the burning building. People who aren't having flashbacks of when they were eight.]
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Someone who might get it. If he's lucky.]
It wasn't me, man. I just saw it and knew whose head would be first on the chopping block if anyone saw me there.
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[Very few people know about Leo's ability with fire. They'd seen him use crazy technology in the mirror world, that's it. Mostly. Besides,] But you know, running away from the scene is a bad move. That's textbook, look guys I'm connected to this! What is your connection to all of this anyway?
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As he rounds a corner, he comes to a skidding stop at spotting Mr. Allerdyce running away. Like a guilty man trying to evade his crimes.
An furious flare of his nostrils. Severus' expression grows suddenly dark and dangerous. "Oh, no you don't," he hisses at the man as he starts charging after him, and it's with a huge swell of anger that his Body Control magic pulses from within him and reaches out for Mr. Allerdyce, pushing under his skin, into his muscles, his legs, his arms, forcing him to freeze on the spot.