Do you know what insubordination in the heat of battle is punishable by?
[Rex will find that not only is his attempt at scanning the PA system to trace the message unsuccessful, he gets absolutely no data from it at all save the general sense of someone going, in a metaphysical way, "no, fuck you" at him for even having the audacity to try.]
[Apparently whoever handles the Tower of Adamant's wards is significantly more competent than their command staff.]
[...Actually, the Tower of Adamant is known throughout pretty much the entire supernatural community for being, among other things, extremely skilled with warding magic. Which makes this entire situation all the more troubling.]
[Bellona and Mellona were nasty enemies and vicious fighters, but neither of them should have been able to just break in. How did they manage to get through to the Tower in the first place? It's an alarming thing to leave as a loose end...]
Cadet, shoot him.
Wh-! [Cadet Winters makes an alarmed sound at a pitch high enough that several of the unconscious hellhounds twitch reflexively in their sleep and finally completely abandons their attempt at military discipline to attempt to simultaneously hide behind the little hound and still shield it with their own body. It's not working very well, but there's something admirable about the attempt.]
[The janitor steps up.]
[He gives Cadet Winters a calm, reassuring pat on the shoulder, then continues past them and makes direct eye contact with the camera.]
[And flips it off.]
[Holds the position for a long moment.]
[And turns around to face the Daybreak group, pulling something out of his pocket, and holding it out to them.]
[It's a keycard.]
What do you MEAN he has access to-?! [From the PA, there's a sudden burst of static and slightly fainter voices talking all at once, as though the people behind the microphone have leaned back to have a furious argument.]
[The keycard is labeled EMERGENCY BUNKER 0: AUTHORIZED STAFF ONLY all others will be shot.]
[Any halfway-competent military organization has a backup site, in case everything goes to Hell and they need to duck down until the artillery fire stops.]
[But the people high-ranked enough to know about those sites don't usually like to mop the floors themselves.]
[Presumably, Bellona knew enough to know there was a bunker- she just didn't know how to get in. She certainly didn't know that this man had the key on him, otherwise she wouldn't have been using him as a chew toy. Not if he had something to bargain with.]
[The various officers on the PA are getting creative, sounding flustered as their yell orders and threats too contradictory to follow even if one wanted to.]
no subject
[Rex will find that not only is his attempt at scanning the PA system to trace the message unsuccessful, he gets absolutely no data from it at all save the general sense of someone going, in a metaphysical way, "no, fuck you" at him for even having the audacity to try.]
[Apparently whoever handles the Tower of Adamant's wards is significantly more competent than their command staff.]
[...Actually, the Tower of Adamant is known throughout pretty much the entire supernatural community for being, among other things, extremely skilled with warding magic. Which makes this entire situation all the more troubling.]
[Bellona and Mellona were nasty enemies and vicious fighters, but neither of them should have been able to just break in. How did they manage to get through to the Tower in the first place? It's an alarming thing to leave as a loose end...]
Cadet, shoot him.
Wh-! [Cadet Winters makes an alarmed sound at a pitch high enough that several of the unconscious hellhounds twitch reflexively in their sleep and finally completely abandons their attempt at military discipline to attempt to simultaneously hide behind the little hound and still shield it with their own body. It's not working very well, but there's something admirable about the attempt.]
[The janitor steps up.]
[He gives Cadet Winters a calm, reassuring pat on the shoulder, then continues past them and makes direct eye contact with the camera.]
[And flips it off.]
[Holds the position for a long moment.]
[And turns around to face the Daybreak group, pulling something out of his pocket, and holding it out to them.]
[It's a keycard.]
What do you MEAN he has access to-?! [From the PA, there's a sudden burst of static and slightly fainter voices talking all at once, as though the people behind the microphone have leaned back to have a furious argument.]
[The keycard is labeled EMERGENCY BUNKER 0: AUTHORIZED STAFF ONLY all others will be shot.]
[Any halfway-competent military organization has a backup site, in case everything goes to Hell and they need to duck down until the artillery fire stops.]
[But the people high-ranked enough to know about those sites don't usually like to mop the floors themselves.]
[Presumably, Bellona knew enough to know there was a bunker- she just didn't know how to get in. She certainly didn't know that this man had the key on him, otherwise she wouldn't have been using him as a chew toy. Not if he had something to bargain with.]
[The various officers on the PA are getting creative, sounding flustered as their yell orders and threats too contradictory to follow even if one wanted to.]
[The janitor is smiling.]