spellbinders | whoops

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?]

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[it's a little too late to take it back now, at least.]

I'm thinking, follow the monitors to see where they go when they're done cleaning this mess up -- wait and see if there are other opportunities. I hate waiting, and we've done enough of it already, but I can't think of anything else!

I share the same sentiment, but... I can't shake the feeling that we may be in more trouble.

[ He can pass off as a non-magic user, but... ]

II don't want anyone to get hurt, is all.

I don't want anyone to get hurt either! I'm sure they'll get more nervous about us. But they're going to kick us out in a few weeks, anyway. We need to learn what we can before then!

[he's sincere enough: it's not that he didn't genuinely believe that something needed to happen here before he decided to start causing mayhem.]

That's true. We don't have much time left.

[ He can accept this. ]

We'll need a way to protect everyone if they do decide to leave us to... whatever's outside.

I don't think it makes sense that they'll escalate things that fast... if they do, you can just turn on us and get them to cast us out alone. I'm pretty good at surviving things, and I can protect Vern! But if we thought that would happen, we wouldn't have pushed it.

[ without hesitation ]

We're not leaving you to bear it alone. [ That's unfair and viscerally upsetting, but he manages to rein it in. ] Whatever happens, I'm going to help with it.

I don't think anything immediate will happen -- not that drastic. We aren't planning to get caught! They might get more suspicious of us, but Julius, we do need to do something. There's just not that much time left.

What exactly is this time limit you speak of? Did the monitors decree it?

No-- they talked about it when you got here, didn't they? The thing about us only having enough credits to stay a few weeks before they kicked us out.

I think we need to know where Qri is before then...

... I think I might not have been lucid enough when they told me.

[ But anyway... ]

Are you back at the apartment yet?

It won't be much longer. Wait for us?

I will. I'm going to the lobby.

[ Reading a book, or at least looking like he is ]

[he ducks his head in invitation as he passes Julius to head into his room; as before, the whole first floor has been cordoned off for him and Vern.]

[ Julius slips in and finds a seat next to Geir, as always. His book is closed and set down next to him. ]

So... how long did it take for the monitors to see what you did?

Not very long. About as long as we expected.

[Geir reaches to touch Julius with his nose, carefully; it's more of a reassurance for himself than anything, that Julius is safe and well and whole. he can't help but want to check.]

They showed up fast the first time something blew up, too.

[ Julius still smells the same compared to a few days prior, but he looks more well-rested now. Everything is fine for now, but there's tension in his frame - no doubt related to the cause they're about to discuss. ]

Like most police would, I'd expect.

[ But, something he's been considering: ]

Did you see if they had any 'magic detector' things with them?

Hmm...

[he'd been trying to stay mostly out of sight, so he didn't get as good a look as he might have. but--]

I don't think so. Mostly, they seemed to be low level servants. They were taking the bones somewhere else, not staying and figuring out exactly what happened.

[ So they wouldn't have known, either... ]

Were they shocked by the bones, though? Or did the bones run out of magic?

They were blown up, except for the one we left as bait! That one shocked them a little. Just a bit-- the way they did in Aimintas.

The monitors gathered up the fragments and the bait and took them to some kind of underground place.

[ He heard a bit from Vern, so: ]

And they just left them there? Wouldn't they think that the magic items cause some kind of other explosion?

I don't know what they thought, I suppose. Maybe they have some way to contain or separate them down there. We couldn't follow them that far...

You have the physical coordinates, at least? We could go back again.

Of course! I'll pass them along to anyone who wants to check it out. Shehui's leaders might not like it, though.

I'd believe it's for a good cause, still.

[ And then they talked a bit more about bombs and then some funny stuff about Geir's food and... stuff happened. ]

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