Union: The 9pm @ Founder's Falls Recap Thread

Last night at FF...

To Catch a Demon

Isaiah Creed received word from Cassandra Baudin that her tracking spell had been a success, giving her the location of a warehouse in Independence Port. She also warned that there was a large magical trace around the building and that the team should expect heavy resistance.

Upon arrival, Richard went ahead to distract the demon, while the rest of the team caught up. It was not long before a hostage had been found and freed. Dr Nathaniel King, a physician and empath who had been kidnapped just after his shift at Crowne Memorial in Kings Row several days before. He did not leave the building, and insisted on helping the heroes where he could. Unfortunately, shortly after being freed, a large group of Circle mages and demons attacked and downed several team members as well as the good doctor. He was mediported to the hospital and the team continued on, now reinforced by the arrival of Michael.

After clearing several parts of the warehouse, the team caught up with Richard and, realising she had been tricked, the demon attacked.

A short but vicious fight later, and the heroes were triumphant in bringing Sha'Atael down. Once Michael had released his binding spells, Isaiah took her to a secure facility to await separation and banishment, while the rest of the team went through the building to check for any more hostages.

Fortunately, there were no more, and the only casualty was Ellie's magic pendant which had protected her in the market several days before.

Upon returning to the fountains, some left shortly after, while the others who stayed got to speak to Issa over web cam via Theo's laptop (which spent a large amount of time balanced on the edge of the pool!) about various subjects, including, but not limited to, things you should never say to a pregnant woman, the fate of previous laptops, and the possibility of Issa borrowing Richard. Shanna also called the hospital and was relieved to find that Dr King was in a serious but stable condition and they were hopeful that he would make a full recovery.

...and then I was falling asleep at the keyboard so I (and Shanna) went to bed.

Thank you to everyone who came along on the mission and for helping me wind up that part of my plot. For anyone who wants to run it, I'll be leaving it up for a few days. "To Catch a Demon" #529631

Oh no no no no... that was -Issa's- Laptop. Theo would never had put something electrical of his own so close to falling in a fountain.

Tonight Tarvin showed up in a wheelchair. The group was happy to see him. Shanna, however, was not so happy to see him OUT OF THE HOUSE and had a go. Thus proving to him that she cares. He went back home, claiming K was making Chicken Kievs and "he'd not killed it first last time. it had such a look on it's face when he inserted the garlic butter..."

If this is true or not is unclear.

Last night, Keevan flummoxed Shannas plans to have a go at him for letting Tarvin out of the house by thanking her straight away for convincing Tarvin that the house was the best place for him. He mentioned near 24 hours of non stop pestering. And revealed that Tarvin HAD actually set fire to the bathroom after trying to use a camp gas mini stove when K banned him from the kitchen for setting that on fire with the toaster...

Not entirely sure how many people give a damn, but it's relevant to anyone who does:

Really struggling to get my brain into IC gear, recently, and I'm snowed under with various bits of work too, so me-related plot and/or FFmeet appearances will be put in stasis for a while until said issues have cleared. Worst-case I won't be able to pick it up again until January, best-case I might be able to sneak another mission in around the 17th. But no promises. Apologies to people who care!

People care!

However, don't sweat it! December is usually a busy month for everyone, and RL beats RP every time.

Agreed! People definitely care!

I hope things sort themselves out soon, and I look forward to more plot based shenanigans!

Yes! Any time you're ready for RP, one of my characters will be around and ready to go (RL permitting here too, but I rarely turn down RP!). Just give us a shout over the forums beforehand so I know where/when to show up .

Last night, Tarvin turned up. Not in the best of health but able to walk. And fight a bit. This was good as Malta hold a grudge and attacked for some prior reason ((I.E they attacked in major ambush style some 30 minutes after I arrived and caught me completely by surprise)) and, with help from the station security bots and an arriving Richard, they were fought off.

Nothing much else happened but Ellie may be about to pierce the veil and get through to Toppa.

Sunday night at FF (as the forums were down by the time I got round to posting...)

Shanna arrived to find Tam and Richard discussing Ellie's departure and the hopes of being able to get everyone back home quickly and safely. Tam was highly suspicious of a big ol' robot brain-inna-jar guy who was looking for the hotdog vendor before briefly joining in the conversation. As it turns out, Dr Richard Heddingly(?) was quite a nice chap although his current form was no longer quite dexterous enough for him to continue his work as a neurosergeon. The question over how on earth he was going to actually eat his hotdog was answered when he put it in a slot just below his mouthpiece!

The good doctor left, and Cara arrived shortly after. Shanna decided that as she'd missed lunch and dinner, she was having pizza! The idea of which perked Tam up rather a lot. After taking requests, Shanna headed off and Raurí arrived (after having met and teased Shanna at the pizzeria over the number she was ordering) bearing pepperoni pizza and a bag of peanut butter cups for Helena to add to her slices. He was mean to Tam and refused to share, stating that the potential wrath when he got home with only a partial pizza was not worth it.

He left and Shanna returned with vegetable goodness. News was confirmed. There was chat about how boys were only after one thing, how Richard needed to be called a dirty old man, and about Tam not leaving any leftover pizza for anyone else.

And then everyone went home.

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Last night at FF...

Shanna arrived to find Mar, Alex, Keevan and Ellie discussing the successful return of Toppa, yay! (Mean Forse is obviously saving the Mean for later! )

There was talk of Christmas presents and the good news of everyone making it home okay. Mar thanked Shanna for the previous night's pizza as he'd got to have some for breakfast!

...And my brain shut down at various points, so I know I have missed quite a few points.

Last night...

Richard turned up at 9 and left when nobody else had arrived by 9.15.

People were there when Ellie arrived at about 9:20ish...

Clearly I arrived at 9.16pm. >.> Sorry about that Shad, I got distracted with writing.

PMs going out to people now, will grab Shikky to clear Brie's part too.

First part will go up now of the finale, the second part is pending the replies to PMs.

Would have been doing all this yesterday, but boards were down!

Just thought I'd let people know, tonight I cancelled my sub. I'll probably still be around for RP for a bit, but I won't be able to post on here from the 9th.

Those that need to know, know where to find me.

Sick of all the problems lately, and other things call.

the boards will seem oddly quiet.

Last night, Keevan did NOT leave early to tell Tarvin Ellie had become a mommy... If he knows, it's probably co-incidence.

In honour of the new kitty...

Last night at FF...

A poor little lost silver tabby kitten was rescued from a tree. He was wrapped up in Richard's cape (which he will never be able to use again now that the kitten's through with it! ) and later a blanket that Keevan was sent to get. After a little uncertainty, he also polished off the saucer of cat milk he was given.

So far, not much is know about him other than the fact that he is a Great Hunter of hands and tails (although he's currently still too wobbly to be a real threat to them) and that he has the good taste to give Theo Attitude.

Once he had curled up to sleep, Ellie took him to the tower to be checked over etc.

Shortly after Ellie and the kitten left, Shanna arrived, having had a falling out with some Malta operatives - for some reason, they didn't seem to understand why she objected to them kidnapping people. There was a little more chat, Shanna was cheered up by tales of Cute, and then she and Richard went off to explain, yet again, to Malta why their usual mode of operations is frowned upon.

After last night we are left with one vitally important question; what will the kitten be called? Lol, Eddy or whatever Tam comes up with?

Last night at FF...

...Cassandra arrived and informed Richard and Mar (and later Tarvin after he'd turned up) that she may have found a solution to the empty body that's currently secured in the Nachthaus. The main problem being that it would be very risky to get the additional information required, with no guarantee of success in the end.

There was a bit of general chattage, and then there was a grumpy little girl who needed emergency hugs, so I left.

Last night at FF...

The Return!

Shanna arrived at FF and was busy looking through a file that she had been given recently. She was joined after not too long by Squish, and after the obligatory happy new years (as they hadn't seen each other for a while) there was discussion of the well-being of friends and family and of new tattoos.

Shortly afterwards, Richard arrived and the chat turned to monster trucks and if Garmr was capable of squashing three cars at once. The rebuilding of Helena was touched upon along with the complications of Four passing a driving test. There was also musings on the wisdom of building a moat around Huntington Manor, but it was decided that such an improvement would be a Bad Thing.

You do know that thread Necrophilia is forbidden, right?

Shush you. It was fun last night RPing as Squish again. I really do want to get back into RP. Still going to go for the not-every-night thing though. I'm trying though .

Also, Garmr would totally squash all three cars at once if they were piled up like Shanna suggested. Not from just standing on them though, but Squish intended falling on them from height.

...Totally didn't actually go do that, because Richard wanted to video such a thing and Squish took him literally.

Rumours of this thread's death are greatly exaggerated.

LAST NIGHT...

Richard, Shanna and Squish had a very silly, relaxing conversation about not a lot.

There were puns! Rumours! Laughs! Elbow-nudges! And one small fireball!

And it was good.

Last night at FF...

Shanna arrived at the fountains to find Tam and Richard chatting about something. She was informed that Theo and Issa's baby had been born on the 2nd of March and sent the proud father a congratulatory text. Tam then accused her of cheating at the guessing game when Theo's reply included the baby's name.

There was much giggling over rumours at the fire station and a new sport involving trampolines and swimming pools was invented, although Shanna would really prefer it if her name was kept out of it. People also got to sort of see Jane as she returned to impart vague warnings and pop culture references.

Then she called it a night citing the need to be on her game for more spying and gossip acquisition at the station!

Ah, Russell Darren Dray aka "Ru/Rew" (To his daddy) aka "Dare" (Name already pencilled in as a nickname by Tam, not that he's cleared it with anyone yet).

Tam helped invent Shanna Splash, a game of trampolining a cannonball into a swimming pool... or is Tam the cannonball? Either way, there'll be rings of floats in the pool worth varying amounts of points.

Tam wants it in the olympics. He also almost shattered his knee attempting to hop on one knee on concrete. Shanna's strained expression of sheer worry stopped him. Jane was egging him on. Jane Darc showed up a little after and almost ghost-snogged him for knowing Futurama references.

(There was -two- Jane's there last night right?)

Last night at FF...

There was cooing over baby Drakkins, congratulations at Jane joining the world of the corporeal, discussions on faking a scandal for the Tattler to report on, and instructions to never ever allow the twins to get a hold of one of Jane's knotwork root thingies.

There was chat, giggling and teasing, and as Shanna was about to leave, a warning to be careful around DA these days.

All in all, a rather pleasant and relaxing evening.