Season four preplay: Lay Me Down
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seaoftroubles1. Duke gets a call from Nathan to say "Duke get your ass back here Wade's activated." -- Also feat. Lucifer and Octavia
2. Duke, Octavia, and Lucifer arrive in Haven, find out only [wild handwaving because Haven is terrible at timelines] number of days has passed even though it's been months for them. Jennifer says she's settling in okay on the Sanguine Moon and is applying for a job at the Haven Herald. Duke is all "uhhhhh. . . . 'kay, that's a choice that I support I guess". Jennifer is adorkably awkward about being nervous for the interview. Wade arrives at the Gull to grab cleaning products and is cagey about the reasons. "Soda spilled in my car." He claims that he understand the trouble is terrible and isn't going to let it take over. Duke tries to talk him through it, but Wade just shoves him off and promises to head out of town. Duke tries to pretend he believes that this trip might be an easy one. Also there is a day-time drunk sleeping on the bench outside the Gull. FOR PLOT REASONS.
3. Later that day, Dwight comes by the marina to tell Duke that the drunk died mysteriously at the police station. Duke remembers Freddie, the drunk, was into watching bear documentaries at the Gull. Dwight asks about Jordan, wonders aloud if Wade's involved. Duke says no way. -- Lucifer and Octavia are welcome to join in or not
4. Duke dreams about trying to talk to Wade about their trouble and getting attacked when he gets a papercut. Wakes up when dream!Wade slashes him with a knife to discover GIANT KNIFE WOUND ON HIS ARM! Octavia has her own injurious dream. Lucifer freaks out/fusses over them.
5. Lucifer tries to insure Duke and Octavia stay awake. Audrey decides to compare Nathan and Duke's activities the day before since they both got hit by the trouble and survived. They make the connection to the Herald and call Dwight -- too late, he gets shot in a dream. We can also have Nathan fill the OT3 in on the non-dream murders at the same time.
6. Duke takes advantage of Dwight being sedated in the hospital to check what he's looking into, finds info on the murder with the broken knife. Puts two and two together and figures out it's Wade. This can happen off screen. He and Lucifer (and maybe Octavia?) head to the local boat rental he knows Wade used and gets access to the boat he used. He follows the GPS along the coast and finds Wade's dumping grounds, including Jordan's remains.
7. While Audrey and Nathan defuse the trouble, Duke, Lucifer, and Octavia go after Wade, stop him from offing a guy at a local bar. Wade goes all high and mighty, Duke yells at him. Wade tries to pull the "brothers" card to keep from being turned in. "You killed all those people, Wade. That's on me now, too." Wade threatens to expose Lexie's secret so the Guard tries to make Audrey kill Nathan. Lucifer knocks Wade out so they can lock him up on the Sanguine Moon.
8. Octavia guards Wade on the Moon while Lucifer and Duke try to figure out where to stick him and arrange their travel back to Fandom. Wade escapes and he and Octavia fight. Octavia is winning until Wade manages to draw blood and gets the upper hand. Enter Duke and Lucifer. Lucifer goes to Octavia to try to staunch her bleeding while Duke takes on Wade? (Since Duke can't interact with Octavia's blood and all. Maybe Wade managed to open her dream wound and it's worse than just a little cut.) Wade throws himself on Duke's knife and dies. The Crocker trouble dies too.
9. Duke wraps Wade's body in a tarp. When Duke reaches for Octavia's wound, she flinches back. Duke internalizes the SHIT out of that even though it's a natural move if they've been used to trying to keep their blood off him. Lucifer suggests they clear out, Duke agrees, so long as he can bury Wade first. He asks them not to tell anyone about the murder. Luce and Tavi are probably like "whatever, we don't want to talk to any of these people anyway."
2. Duke, Octavia, and Lucifer arrive in Haven, find out only [wild handwaving because Haven is terrible at timelines] number of days has passed even though it's been months for them. Jennifer says she's settling in okay on the Sanguine Moon and is applying for a job at the Haven Herald. Duke is all "uhhhhh. . . . 'kay, that's a choice that I support I guess". Jennifer is adorkably awkward about being nervous for the interview. Wade arrives at the Gull to grab cleaning products and is cagey about the reasons. "Soda spilled in my car." He claims that he understand the trouble is terrible and isn't going to let it take over. Duke tries to talk him through it, but Wade just shoves him off and promises to head out of town. Duke tries to pretend he believes that this trip might be an easy one. Also there is a day-time drunk sleeping on the bench outside the Gull. FOR PLOT REASONS.
3. Later that day, Dwight comes by the marina to tell Duke that the drunk died mysteriously at the police station. Duke remembers Freddie, the drunk, was into watching bear documentaries at the Gull. Dwight asks about Jordan, wonders aloud if Wade's involved. Duke says no way. -- Lucifer and Octavia are welcome to join in or not
4. Duke dreams about trying to talk to Wade about their trouble and getting attacked when he gets a papercut. Wakes up when dream!Wade slashes him with a knife to discover GIANT KNIFE WOUND ON HIS ARM! Octavia has her own injurious dream. Lucifer freaks out/fusses over them.
5. Lucifer tries to insure Duke and Octavia stay awake. Audrey decides to compare Nathan and Duke's activities the day before since they both got hit by the trouble and survived. They make the connection to the Herald and call Dwight -- too late, he gets shot in a dream. We can also have Nathan fill the OT3 in on the non-dream murders at the same time.
6. Duke takes advantage of Dwight being sedated in the hospital to check what he's looking into, finds info on the murder with the broken knife. Puts two and two together and figures out it's Wade. This can happen off screen. He and Lucifer (and maybe Octavia?) head to the local boat rental he knows Wade used and gets access to the boat he used. He follows the GPS along the coast and finds Wade's dumping grounds, including Jordan's remains.
7. While Audrey and Nathan defuse the trouble, Duke, Lucifer, and Octavia go after Wade, stop him from offing a guy at a local bar. Wade goes all high and mighty, Duke yells at him. Wade tries to pull the "brothers" card to keep from being turned in. "You killed all those people, Wade. That's on me now, too." Wade threatens to expose Lexie's secret so the Guard tries to make Audrey kill Nathan. Lucifer knocks Wade out so they can lock him up on the Sanguine Moon.
8. Octavia guards Wade on the Moon while Lucifer and Duke try to figure out where to stick him and arrange their travel back to Fandom. Wade escapes and he and Octavia fight. Octavia is winning until Wade manages to draw blood and gets the upper hand. Enter Duke and Lucifer. Lucifer goes to Octavia to try to staunch her bleeding while Duke takes on Wade? (Since Duke can't interact with Octavia's blood and all. Maybe Wade managed to open her dream wound and it's worse than just a little cut.) Wade throws himself on Duke's knife and dies. The Crocker trouble dies too.
9. Duke wraps Wade's body in a tarp. When Duke reaches for Octavia's wound, she flinches back. Duke internalizes the SHIT out of that even though it's a natural move if they've been used to trying to keep their blood off him. Lucifer suggests they clear out, Duke agrees, so long as he can bury Wade first. He asks them not to tell anyone about the murder. Luce and Tavi are probably like "whatever, we don't want to talk to any of these people anyway."
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-20 05:05 pm (UTC)"The bee sting guy did have a Herald on his end table, though," Audrey mused.
"I read the Herald at the station yesterday," Nathan said.
"Are you sure you didn't do anything with a Herald yesterday, Octavia?"
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-20 06:00 pm (UTC)Who with was none of their business.
And anyway: "But -- isn't that thing all around town? Shouldn't it have hit way more people?"
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-20 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-20 06:23 pm (UTC)"That's a good point, Octavia," Audrey said, ignoring both him and Lucifer. "Maybe the rest of the readership didn't have any nightmares?"
"That seems remarkably healthy for a town like Haven," Duke said.
"D'you have nightmares every night?" Nathan asked.
". . . No comment," said Duke.
"Or maybe there's something about these specific copies of the paper," Audrey mused, ignoring the banter again. She frowned when Nathan hissed and pulled out his phone. "What?"
"I got the paper off Dwight's desk," Nathan said. "So, if I was affected... It means Dwight could be too."
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-27 03:15 pm (UTC)The frown turned to wide-eyed alarm.
"... Where does the lumberjack live?"
Look, he cared about exactly one other person in this murderous hovel beyond his partners.
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-27 04:35 pm (UTC)So, she had her own, suddenly concerned priorities: "I'm calling Jennifer."
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-27 08:19 pm (UTC)Nathan had stepped aside slightly, and hung up from a very short, terse conversation on his phone. "Dwight's been hit. Getting an ambulance to him now."
"He fell asleep?" Audrey asked. Nathan nodded.
"I hate this town," Duke muttered, pulling out his own phone. "I'm calling Wade. And Gloria. And . . . I don't know, maybe we should run an air raid siren all night or something. Jesus."
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-29 04:36 pm (UTC)Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-29 06:33 pm (UTC)But it took until the hesitant "... Octavia?" from the other end of the line before she actually turned away
from them.
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-10-29 07:01 pm (UTC)"We'll go talk to him at the hospital," Audrey said.
"Yeah." Duke nodded, not yet making his phone calls. ". . . Uh, by the way. Are you, uh. 'Out'? Around town?"
". . . Out?" Nathan asked.
"I'm Lexie." Audrey gave him a little smile. "To everyone else, I'm still Lexie."
Re: 5. Exposition times
Date: 2022-11-02 05:41 pm (UTC)(She wouldn't have taken well to the smiling.)
Bit busy catching Jennifer up to speed - after interrupting whatever that had been about the job interview. Something about a background check? "We can talk about later, just don't touch any more of the Heralds, okay?"