whoops

[rootbound]

Who: Geir, Vern & you!
Where: Shehui (various)
When: Day 196 (backdated to just before the telepathic fail hijinks)
Open/Closed: Mostly open!

i. setting it up (closed to geir)

[this is it. they've spent days discreetly smuggling a small heap of Palai bones one by one to a public park in a less-busy area of the city. with traffic drawn away from it by the festival, and minimal risk of anyone actually getting hurt, it's time to finish up their plan and place the final bones. one to be the trigger, one as bait for the monitors...

they peer down the street.]

...I think we can go.

ii. kaboom (open)

[and if you're in that sector of the city today, you're likely to hear a thunderclap of noise and see a brilliant flash of light coming from said park. Shehui citizens and visitors around you exclaim and turn to look, and you may see monitors making their way through the streets to the source...

Vern speaks telepathically through the entire coven's signets before the dust of the explosion's even settled, voice clipped and abrupt]

Vern and Geir here. If you're walking the city today, don't go near-- [he names the neighbourhood of the park.] If you're already near it, don't actually go to the park; make sure there are eyewitnesses that you weren't there at this time. You don't know anything about this, you weren't involved. All right?

iii. in the aftermath (open)

[Geir and Vern don't actually get themselves arrested; they're on the ground floor of the coven house as usual that evening, if you want to ask them questions face to face in a reasonably private space. they look kind of pleased with themselves...? mission success?]

Comments

2

[bulletbiter]

[ There is a pause, before someone's voice cuts into the conversation: ]

You what?!

[rootbound]

We blew a hole in the park with Aimintas magic.

[there is a pause; oh yeah]

No one's hurt. We made sure there wasn't anyone before setting it off.

[rootandbranch]

Julius, it's fine, they might actually get upset enough that we'll find something out now.

ii

[dawninglight]

[it's too late she's already heading for the park, although she is at least keeping out of sight. for now.]

You can't just say something like that with no explanation!

[rootbound]

We just blew up part of a park and we don't want anyone from the coven to come under direct suspicion. It's a reasonable request!

[rootandbranch]

He did explain! He said you don't know anything.

II

[lohengrins]

By the Astrals—what did you two do? Are you safe?

[rootbound]

We just blew a hole in the ground with Palai bone -- we're going to see what happens. We weren't spotted there...

[a trace of nervousness, for a moment; he's not COMPLETELY sure of that, but]

We're okay. If everyone else just keeps away from the park for now it should be fine.

[rootandbranch]

We're fine. We just blew up a piece of the city a little bit.

[just a little. it's fine, honestly.]

What are the Astrals?

3

[witchwithoutacause]

...dudes, that was wicked, but what the hell was it for?

[ They didn't exactly explain that over telepathy. And yeah, Amanda's just hanging out with the express purpose of finding out about that.

[rootbound]

[Vern sort of slides into view over a loop of Geir's tail, mostly thoughtful but also slightly smug, in that relieved i-can't-believe-we-got-away-with-that way]

We need more info to go on for finding Qri, don't we? And for whatever magic we're supposed to be collecting here in the first place. We think we found a decent lead.

[rootandbranch]

[Vern is doing a better job of explaining their in depth reasoning, so Geir simply peers over his shoulder. oh! someone he hasn't met yet!]

Like he said -- just to make something happen, honestly. Who are you?

2

[mesmerevenant]

[ This event is familiar, to say the least. In the recent snitch squad meeting something like this was discussed after all. Still, Jun doesn't know these two nor does he understand the details of how and why it's being pulled off now - with no prior warning to the coven. To say that's frustrating is an understatement. He'll try his best to remain pleasant though. ]

... you know... when I suggested setting off a bomb in that one meeting, I didn't think anyone was going to actually do it...? Ah, actually, were you guys even there?

[rootbound]

[a little surprised]

Geir wouldn't fit in the room and I don't think I went; I would have remembered bombs. . .mm. Sorry to preempt?

[rootandbranch]

[Geir's mental tone is matter of fact and a bit distracted -- he's trying to keep an eye out for people who might see them.]

Was that the one Genette wanted to have in that tiny room? I didn't go. Is that what you talked about?

We've been thinking about this ever since that first explosion. I couldn't get any information about where the monitors were going then. Second time's the charm...

Wait, who's this?

ii

[allbroea]

[ he is way, way too deep into honor and nobility to ignore someone all but announcing a crime over the signets?? what kind of shady organization ... ]

What did you do?

[ he has half a mind to check himself, but he doesn't think it'll do him any good getting arrested under suspicion, either. ]

[rootbound]

We blew a hole in the ground and left a magic item to check the monitors' response just now.

[sorry, no shady organization, just your shady fellow coven members reporting for duty, apparently]

ii

[rebells]

. . . this sounds suspiciously like you're about to commit an act of terrorism.

[He sounds, despite the words, like he's not trying very hard to conceal his amusement.]

[rootbound]

Actually we just finished committing it...

[he sighs.]

It's only a little terrorism, as far as I understand that term.

C

[teratias]

[It's...kind of hard to ignore that explosion. But rather than yell about accusations or anything like that, Waver waits until late in the evening. Vern's the kind of person Waver thinks would make a decent mage, and so he's not going to assume that the explosion was without purpose.

He'd like to actually hear any theories involved, actually.

So he knocks. Twice. Not very loud. And waits.]

[rootbound]

[Vern opens the door pretty shortly afterwards, raising his eyebrows a little; doesn't seem displeased, though]

Hello, Waver. We seem to be quite popular tonight.

ii

[drizzle]

Of course it had to be that guy again.

[She's talking about the bossy dragon from before that didn't leave much of a good first impression on her.]

Before I head on over to help out with checking on the potential citizens you may have harmed, what exactly did you do? Depending on your answer will depend on my final decision on complying or reporting you.

[After she is a princess from a foreign land, if someone from her own country used their powers to harm another land's citizens, she will report them and execute a sentence after they served their time in the place they harmed.]

[rootbound]

Small gods and the Tree, lady, if we'd actually done something that injured or killed someone, do you think we'd just suddenly broadcast that?

We just blew a hole in a park. No one was around to be hurt. Do NOT come over here and ruin our cover.

II,

[humenity]

[ Well, that's... Eleanor doesn't even have the words for it. ]

What exactly happened? Are you alright?

[rootandbranch]

We're okay, no one's hurt, everything's fine. We just made a big bang in one of the parks. We wanted to get a better look at what the monitors did afterwards without anyone else around to get caught.

[oof -- he hopes that covers most of the questions that people have been asking.]

ii

[splinten]

Guys.

[rootandbranch]

What? Look, look, everyone's been chattering our ears off, but it's done--!

[Geir's trying hard here, okay. keeping track of all these conversations and watching out for the monitors is work.]

ii

[sluggard]

Whoa, was that whole mess you? Nice job!

[Impressive, really.]

[rootandbranch]

It wasn't even that messy! It was mostly just a noise!

[Geir's response to that one is amused-indignant; it's a change from everyone asking how dared they do something without arguing about it first.]

i.

[rootandbranch]

[Geir's following Vern's lead on this one -- Vern's much more experienced than he is in illicit or stealthy activities. still, next to him, Vern is almost invisible on the street. he steps out on command, nonchalantly.]

It'd be really useful if I could get smaller for things like this...

[rootbound]

[a noise of amusement, as they make their way down the empty street]

Then we'd never find you again, if you didn't want to be found.

ii

[skincares]

You what?!

[EXCUSE ME? WHY ARE YOU BOTH CAUSING TROUBLE?]

[rootbound]

[calmly enough]

We've set off a magic bomb to track the monitor reaction, so we would prefer not getting a live gawker show over in this neighbourhood.