[SNITCH SQUAD TWO: ELECTRIC BOMBGALOO]

[spellheal]

Who: Anyone interested in the Snitch Squad
Where: The Leisure Floor of the apartment building
When: Day 183
Open/Closed: OTA

[ For those unaware, Genette is stuck in a 2nd Floor apartment in the same building as the rest of the coven. Where is Brie? On that same floor, but right now she's probably at a convenience store. Her "go with the flow" ass isn't necessary right now.

Every apartment has received a flier slipped under their door that contains a drawing of their signet, signifying the message is meant for them. It also contains instructions to meet in one of the private game rooms on the leisure floor of the apartment building.

Don't worry about unsavoury guests entering out of curiosity -- Genette can become pretty stern when it comes to shooing people away.

Even though the room contains a pool table and numerous dartboards, this is certainly a place of stern discussion and business! There's a lot to attend to, and things have been happening rather quickly, lately.

OOC: Snitch Squad members are free to thread hop or happen upon conversations -- please be aware of this when you come into this post. It's a conversation about opinions and ideas, so expect threads to be messier. ]

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( OPEN DISCUSSION )

[spellheal]

[ The idea of the Snitch Squad is an open exchange of ideas on how to find out more about Shehui, as well as Genette's focus of finding Qri. Or, if you're interested but feeling awkward -- there are quite a few new faces, after all -- you're free to break the ice with a darts game or two. ]

[mesmerevenant]

... okaaay... I came pretty much out of curiosity, so does anyone want to fill me in about what is up with this super secret club?

[ jun got the flier after all, and more or less gets the idea of it. still, it's worth asking the room not just for himself but others as well. it seems there's a lot of history here, and a fuller explanation of the squad and its connection with Qri would be much appreciated either way. ]

[spaceforged]

We've been discussing what we should do about the Qri being missing, the city itself, and how much attention we want to draw to ourselves. [Shiro waves a hand to indicate the entire room. He can sum it all up fairly easily. It's frustrating how little they know.]

It's not much, but so far most of us here have felt we can't just wait around and see what the people of Shehui will do. The general consensus on how we should proceed is mixed. That about covers it, I think?

[He looks around for confirmation. If anyone plans to speak up, now is the time.]

[mesmerevenant]

Huh, that's a real good summary. Thank you...?

[ he prompts for Shiro's name. It's only polite! ]

[spaceforged]

Shiro. There were a couple of suggestions on how to find more intell, but it’s better they just get repeated. Feel free to speak up as you please. This isn’t a formal meeting of any kind.

[mesmerevenant]

Well, thanks for the reassurance Shiro. I'm sure the other newbies are glad to hear it too.

I'm Jun by the way.

( GENETTE'S IDEAS )

[spellheal]

[ One might expect Genette to be the more reserved person here, usually the first to fall in line with obeying the rules. Since Qri is somehow lost, though, she's going into something of a tailspin. ]

Based on the last meeting, I know that there are more people than just me who want to know more about this place. Their history isn't of much importance to me unless we can tie it to locations and information.

This recent "bombing" was certainly suspicious -- but my first thought is that if it wasn't just a mishap with some fireworks, who actually caused it and where? It obviously wasn't somewhere visible...but then could it be that a Shehui official themselves made a mistake, or someone else looking to cause unrest. If it was Qri herself, I feel like we'd know somehow...I would know...

I'm also of two minds about drawing attention to ourselves. I think we should begin to reveal more of our magic -- not a lot! Just enough that suspicion is put upon a few of us for now. If anyone has magic that might be useful for this, your volunteering would be helpful.

It may also help us in other ways. If we get enough monitors to guard our area, this leaves other areas less defended...they don't seem to hire monitors willy-nilly, so there has to be a finite number. When they aren't all over the city, we have more opportunity to investigate buildings and other locations in order to locate a base of operations.

...Do you have any thoughts?

[lohengrins]

No. We can't risk the safety of the coven...if anyone is to make their magic known to the public, it should be limited to a single one of us. Nothing more.

I was formerly employed at the hospital — I can demonstrate my abilities on a patient there. Given that it's an institution operated underneath the government, it'll attract their attention without fail.

[reckoner]

A single individual might be easily written off. Two or three might be more appropriate, especially if we want to draw monitors.

But, that seems a good context. Both attention-grabbing and explicitly not hostile.

[ If their demonstrations were not only harmless, but helpful, communication might have a more favorable start. ]

[mesmerevenant]

[ plotting and planning subterfuge against a corrupt society like this is familiar, as well as contesting any initial ideas. jun listens attentively, then interjects firmly after he forms his own thoughts on the matter. he's quite wordy about it too. ]

It sounds like you have people willing to help out, but I'm new here and not really invested in all this, and you might have trouble convincing some other members of the coven to go along with that plan too. It's a little too dangerous for the supposed benefits. It would also leave a bad taste and bad morale to ask a single person to take all that on.

Objectively, I think it's a better idea to investigate who caused the bombings first and try to catch their specific attention. Maybe there was meaning behind it happening at that specific festival? And if we get someone employed into the local government somehow, we could find out who was on duty that day and question them?

A more extreme option would be that we could even set off our own bomb—in a safe place and without magic—and leave a coded message of some kind with clues of who to track down. While it'd also attract attention of authorities, no doubt any dissenters would be trying to find us too and could shelter us. It's also less likely to get certain people in trouble or ask them to volunteer taking on a lot of risk.

[osuni]

[This is the most words Okuni has heard Jun speak, tbh, she's impressed.]

I like the second option.

[Probably because Okuni is just chaos incarnate, but mostly because she's always been the type who favors extreme plans with high risk.]

Investigating the first bombing or making a magical spectacle of yourself are both fine -- I'm sure we can leave that to other people -- but in the meantime, I think throwing out bait will get us more results. The coded clues could lead to a number of us instead of just one... Though we'd have to determine how easy or hard we should make them. The real culprits could be just as stupid as the authorities in charge.

[Okuni is a good hand at leaving messages for people, but it's a different problem when you don't know who's going to get them... This would be easier with Baren, she thinks, but lets that thought go quickly.]

And speaking of the bomb, I know of a way to make one without any magic. I'll need lots of gunpowder though.

[maybe someone else could volunteer a better idea than MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF GUNPOWDER]

[mesmerevenant]

[ you haven't seen nothing yet, okuni! wait until he REALLY gets going. he seems pretty okay with the idea of a bomb though? wtf? ]

A manual bomb would work... but we don't want something that'd destroy any messages we might have either.

[osuni]

That shouldn't be a problem, as long as we don't write on anything flammable!

[PROBLEM SOLVED or something, Okuni is equally okay with the bomb idea. someone stop them]

( DISCOVERED SOLUTIONS )

[spellheal]

[ OOC: Left blank for now. This will update in a few days with a more concrete action plan, based on discussion and progression. ]

( BONUS: FILTERED AWAY FROM GENETTE )

[spellslash]

[ Haven't heard from her in a while, huh? ]

Listen. I know Genette is all up her own ass about going after these Shehui people, but listen --
if you draw too much attention to yourself, you may end up getting tossed into some toxic wasteland. I'm not going out there to save your ass either.

Until we know for sure what happens to people who disobey or whatever, your best bet is probably laying low. Don't let her sudden willingness to buck the system get you too excited. Stay grounded and think before you jump into any plan of hers.

Also, take this grain of advice: wherever you get dumped, they probably don't have Jumbo Marshmallows and that sucks bigtime donkey dick.

[mesmerevenant]

So basically, you're telling us to be smart about it rather than suddenly take charge of a coup of some kind. Noted.

Besides, the point about the marshmellows really hits home.

[reckoner]

[ Isn't this a good sign. Dissent among Qri's own, or nearest to. ]

"Until we know for sure what happens."

Unfortunately, as our direct inquiries were less than helpful to that end, learning that with any certainty might require a sacrifice. Though I don't disagree with the need for caution.