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Shit, guess that's possible after all.
[ He pushes himself up, heading to the door of the room. There's nothing in here that he can sense. If the vampire wants out they can keep watch just as well from outside. ]
Good to know you're not going to keel over. [ He heads out of the room, flopping down against the wall outside instead. It's time to talk strategy. ] We need to reach the castle's engines. I meant to follow the veins of lightning [ ...the wiring. ] but they've been hidden inside the walls since my ancestors last came here.
[ Dracula was absolutely the kind of dramatic fuck he had bare wires sparking all over the place until he had to childproof the castle. ]
[ He pushes himself up, heading to the door of the room. There's nothing in here that he can sense. If the vampire wants out they can keep watch just as well from outside. ]
Good to know you're not going to keel over. [ He heads out of the room, flopping down against the wall outside instead. It's time to talk strategy. ] We need to reach the castle's engines. I meant to follow the veins of lightning [ ...the wiring. ] but they've been hidden inside the walls since my ancestors last came here.
[ Dracula was absolutely the kind of dramatic fuck he had bare wires sparking all over the place until he had to childproof the castle. ]
If it was going to happen, it would have come to pass already.
[Alucard closes the door behind them both, looking a little better for simply being outside of that room. It's just too much right now, even if a very, very tiny part of him is glad too see his wolf companion capable of providing some comfort to someone.]
The wiring wouldn't have lead you to it anyway. It's all over the castle, and hardly any one route goes there. You'd have wandered until you were found or until you starved.
[Oh 200%[
[Alucard closes the door behind them both, looking a little better for simply being outside of that room. It's just too much right now, even if a very, very tiny part of him is glad too see his wolf companion capable of providing some comfort to someone.]
The wiring wouldn't have lead you to it anyway. It's all over the castle, and hardly any one route goes there. You'd have wandered until you were found or until you starved.
[Oh 200%[
Well, good thing you're going to lead us there.
[ Well shit, he thought that he was being clever by following the wires, like following a river to its source. He's maybe a little grumpy at having it pointed out that that part of the plan wouldn't work. ]
We get to the engines. I bleed on them, and then we get out. You should probably come with us, unless you want to be stuck in the castle while we figure out what to do with it.
[ ...He's missing the part of the plan where he explains how him bleeding on it would allow them to decide what to do with the castle. ]
[ Well shit, he thought that he was being clever by following the wires, like following a river to its source. He's maybe a little grumpy at having it pointed out that that part of the plan wouldn't work. ]
We get to the engines. I bleed on them, and then we get out. You should probably come with us, unless you want to be stuck in the castle while we figure out what to do with it.
[ ...He's missing the part of the plan where he explains how him bleeding on it would allow them to decide what to do with the castle. ]
[ Leon had been following the descriptions, eager to hear them. However, upon Alucard's great reveal, his expression is hard to read. It's like he's frozen in place, his smile and eyes completely still and unmoving. Had he heard correctly? He feels like his brain has been snapped in half, and he's unsure how to process what he's heard. It's not something he can fathom as possibility, much like the Church. ]
"A-A three-way marriage?"
[ Just double checking! He's not going insane right?! What is going on?! ]
"A-A three-way marriage?"
[ Just double checking! He's not going insane right?! What is going on?! ]
Edited 2019-08-14 13:10 (UTC)
[Alucard frowns, listening to the plan. He'll give Trevor that following the wires was smart. It was. But this part? Alucard shakes his head.]
And bleeding on the engines will accomplish what, exactly?
And bleeding on the engines will accomplish what, exactly?
Poor you... Should have captured some of the gummy army.
[There's a little oof, and a half debate of elbowing him in the side, but it is nice and he is a good hugger. The lack of his shirt does add to the whole experience as well.
Her mouth half opens to drive in the whole cheating thing and not doing that, but she nestles instead.]
I can accept that proposal.
[There's a little oof, and a half debate of elbowing him in the side, but it is nice and he is a good hugger. The lack of his shirt does add to the whole experience as well.
Her mouth half opens to drive in the whole cheating thing and not doing that, but she nestles instead.]
I can accept that proposal.
Give her control over them without having to see the things, hopefully. Assuming none of my ancestors were sleeping around in the last 400 years.
[ So it turns out that the speakers know cool facts about the blood of Leon Belmont that even his family didn't know. That it could bring them here. That it can strip away the protections on the engines. He has questions, but they've decided to answer exactly none of them. ]
Any comments about blood magic, and you go back in the box.
[ So it turns out that the speakers know cool facts about the blood of Leon Belmont that even his family didn't know. That it could bring them here. That it can strip away the protections on the engines. He has questions, but they've decided to answer exactly none of them. ]
Any comments about blood magic, and you go back in the box.
....I...fail to understand the connection between blood and the Speaker's ability to control the engine.
[Alucard frowns and tilts his head, not bothering to hide the confusion at the weird logic that's happening here. If there is any logic to be had in the first place.]
[Alucard frowns and tilts his head, not bothering to hide the confusion at the weird logic that's happening here. If there is any logic to be had in the first place.]
Right. Because it makes no fucking sense.
[ Well shit. He was kind of hoping that this would make more sense to the vampire than it does to him. Looks like he's going to have to explain something he doesn't fully understand himself. He huffs. ]
The speakers say this place's defences have a big old Leon Belmont-shaped hole in them. And no, I don't know why. Assuming that the stories can be trusted, and assuming that any fucking family can manage four centuries without a secret bastard or twelve- [ He sighs. It's hard to advocate for a plan, even his own fucking plan, when it's based on something he has so little faith in. Honestly he thinks the 'Belmont blood is magic bullshit' thing is much more likely than the 'and after 400 years every Belmont child is legitimate' part. ] -look, I don't have high hopes. But whatever the chances of this working are, they're higher than anyone's chances against him in a fair fight. So I'm going to bleed on an engine. And then if that doesn't work, we consider something grounded in reality.
[ Well shit. He was kind of hoping that this would make more sense to the vampire than it does to him. Looks like he's going to have to explain something he doesn't fully understand himself. He huffs. ]
The speakers say this place's defences have a big old Leon Belmont-shaped hole in them. And no, I don't know why. Assuming that the stories can be trusted, and assuming that any fucking family can manage four centuries without a secret bastard or twelve- [ He sighs. It's hard to advocate for a plan, even his own fucking plan, when it's based on something he has so little faith in. Honestly he thinks the 'Belmont blood is magic bullshit' thing is much more likely than the 'and after 400 years every Belmont child is legitimate' part. ] -look, I don't have high hopes. But whatever the chances of this working are, they're higher than anyone's chances against him in a fair fight. So I'm going to bleed on an engine. And then if that doesn't work, we consider something grounded in reality.
If I may be so blunt, perhaps now is the time to be working on a plan based in reality down to the detail - especially if said plan also involves being within the castle?
[Alucard understands that magic works. That blood is magic in and of itself, but the particulars have never been a strong suit. So he can be sympathetic to exactly how much trust Trevor seems to place in this plan being successful.
What that doesn't mean is that he'll allow for something half baked to go as planned without some kind of damn back up.]
[Alucard understands that magic works. That blood is magic in and of itself, but the particulars have never been a strong suit. So he can be sympathetic to exactly how much trust Trevor seems to place in this plan being successful.
What that doesn't mean is that he'll allow for something half baked to go as planned without some kind of damn back up.]
[ He sighs again, more deeply this time. ]
I’d meant to poison him, but from what we’ve overheard he isn’t taking blood. Which means he’s weaker than he ought to be, but- fuck, that still isn’t saying much.
If this doesn’t work, you take her to safety. She and her people can help people to leave Wallachia. They bring bodies to the forgemasters every two days. I stay and hide among them, then kill them when I’m brought to the forges. If he doesn’t have his army, there’s time for people to evacuate. He’ll have to dirty his own hands. There’ll be chances to catch him in sunlight.
I’d meant to poison him, but from what we’ve overheard he isn’t taking blood. Which means he’s weaker than he ought to be, but- fuck, that still isn’t saying much.
If this doesn’t work, you take her to safety. She and her people can help people to leave Wallachia. They bring bodies to the forgemasters every two days. I stay and hide among them, then kill them when I’m brought to the forges. If he doesn’t have his army, there’s time for people to evacuate. He’ll have to dirty his own hands. There’ll be chances to catch him in sunlight.
[He isn't taking blood. Alucard puts a lot of effort into not reacting to that statement. His father's revenge quest is going exactly as anticipated - unsatisfying and only prolonging the misery of this far too long suicide note. But it hurts all the same.]
That plan will fail.
[Alucard says it with a very cold determination, hardly caring how it comes off.]
And even if you remove him, then what? His generals will fight for this place as a seat of power, and continue to destroy Wallachia. They all need to be destroyed in one fell swoop.
You two need to leave and rethink your entire approach.
That plan will fail.
[Alucard says it with a very cold determination, hardly caring how it comes off.]
And even if you remove him, then what? His generals will fight for this place as a seat of power, and continue to destroy Wallachia. They all need to be destroyed in one fell swoop.
You two need to leave and rethink your entire approach.
Alas, I failed to think so far ahead.
[Alucard's relieved when all Sypha does is get comfortable. He'd be a liar if he said he didn't account for his shirtlessness being a boon in finishing this conversation.]
Can you also accept an apology for gaming the system?
[Alucard's relieved when all Sypha does is get comfortable. He'd be a liar if he said he didn't account for his shirtlessness being a boon in finishing this conversation.]
Can you also accept an apology for gaming the system?
A half vampire is bedding your grandson and the concept of loving two people at the same time is what you're going to focus on here?
[A dhampir is not impressed.]
[A dhampir is not impressed.]
They won’t continue. Dracula has the influence to keep the his subjects from acting up about the idea of having no humans to feed from. Nobody else does. Whoever succeeds him will - it’ll be shit, but it’ll be the kind of shit people are alive to be miserable about.
[ He narrows his eyes at the suggestion that they leave, then shakes his head. ]
I’m not going anywhere. Not before we’ve tried the shit with the engine.
[ He narrows his eyes at the suggestion that they leave, then shakes his head. ]
I’m not going anywhere. Not before we’ve tried the shit with the engine.
You're making too many assumptions about how things will be in the power vacuum that will exist after my father's death.
[Alucard shakes his head.]
Has she spoken of past prophecies?
[Alucard shakes his head.]
Has she spoken of past prophecies?
We’re a possibly concussed speaker, an asshole with an inconvenient family name and an overdressed fuck who can’t vampire his way out of a coffin. We’re not going to be able to do this cleanly. There’s going to be survivors and fallout, and nothing I assume or don’t assume will change that.
[ irritation is starting to slip into his voice. He swallows it back. ]
A soldier. She says there’s a soldier here that we need to find and rescue. It sounds like shit to me. More than the engine. If there’s anyone else here, they’re probably already dead. Dracula’s not feeding, which means he has no use for prisoners.
[ irritation is starting to slip into his voice. He swallows it back. ]
A soldier. She says there’s a soldier here that we need to find and rescue. It sounds like shit to me. More than the engine. If there’s anyone else here, they’re probably already dead. Dracula’s not feeding, which means he has no use for prisoners.
All the more reason to retreat, regroup, and come in with a two fold plan that can build out of failure in the engine room. Having something flow seamlessly increases the likelihood of success.
[Alucard folds his arms over his chest, hating Trevor's shitty ideas the more he talks about them. But the rest...yes. That's familiar.]
Rescue usually implies escape, does it not?
[Alucard folds his arms over his chest, hating Trevor's shitty ideas the more he talks about them. But the rest...yes. That's familiar.]
Rescue usually implies escape, does it not?
If we go without dealing with the engines, the castle moves. We don’t get a second chance unless we can seize or destroy the engines.
[ He leans back, hitting the back of his head against the wall a few times with a quiet snort of air each time. ]
Fine. Help her find this soldier and get them out of here, if you believe in that shit. I’m staying.
[ He leans back, hitting the back of his head against the wall a few times with a quiet snort of air each time. ]
Fine. Help her find this soldier and get them out of here, if you believe in that shit. I’m staying.
He'll recover the engines, rearrange them, and render all your work and effort moot anyway. The three of us leave and fight another day with a better plan.
Or I go back in the box and you're out her prophecy.
Or I go back in the box and you're out her prophecy.
Always capture an enemy for later interrogation.
[Sagely, although she is hardly one to speak of such things seriously.
She shifts a little, to quirk an eyebrow at him, and in particular, his choice of words. Gaming the system... Cheating. But she doesn't need to say that out loud, does she?
She hums a moment before a finger pokes at his bare side.]
Well, you are doing a very nice job of trying to get on my good side.
[Sagely, although she is hardly one to speak of such things seriously.
She shifts a little, to quirk an eyebrow at him, and in particular, his choice of words. Gaming the system... Cheating. But she doesn't need to say that out loud, does she?
She hums a moment before a finger pokes at his bare side.]
Well, you are doing a very nice job of trying to get on my good side.
Noted, and files under Speaker wisdom.
[That's only a little bit of a joke. There will be days ahead where they actually do need to take care of that, he's sure.
He said cheating without using the word cheating! That's just something to be proud o-- hey!
Alucard huffs a little at the proding.]
Well, I apologize, and I won't do it again.
[That's only a little bit of a joke. There will be days ahead where they actually do need to take care of that, he's sure.
He said cheating without using the word cheating! That's just something to be proud o-- hey!
Alucard huffs a little at the proding.]
Well, I apologize, and I won't do it again.
Of course you won't, because I would be far more specific in the future.
[Including an if you cheat, you automatically lose clause... Sypha may have had a fair amount of time to stew over her 'loss' the last few days. But, she is more than happy to just have playful banter and jests in the future, like they always have.]
... I suppose at least Trevor was super clean.
[Including an if you cheat, you automatically lose clause... Sypha may have had a fair amount of time to stew over her 'loss' the last few days. But, she is more than happy to just have playful banter and jests in the future, like they always have.]
... I suppose at least Trevor was super clean.
That's fine by me.
[Kissing the top of her head may be overkill. Who cares? Alucard does it anyway, stupidly warm and relieved.]
Well, after being more than a little filthy.
[Kissing the top of her head may be overkill. Who cares? Alucard does it anyway, stupidly warm and relieved.]
Well, after being more than a little filthy.
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