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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[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.

[ Amanda's pretty chill with a big ol' dragon at least. ]

And you wanted to keep the number of people getting into trouble to a minimum. ...I didn't even know where to start with that kinda thing, honestly.

I mean, I like non-explosion avenues as much as the next person, but since the monitors have been unhelpful and the citizenry doesn't really seem to know much about the whole magic thing, we were getting pretty short on workable ideas.

Hey, at least we'll have each other if we all get thrown out at once, right?

[ ...seriously, being on her own and probably starving to death is the only reason she's not causing more trouble herself. ]

Something like that, though the idea was to get information without getting us all thrown out. We didn't get information on what's outside the city.

Also we found out the government keeps some kind of contraband magic stash, so we probably want to think about stealing that first.

Oh shit really? What kinda stuff are we talking about?

[ She's definitely perked up a little at the mention of 'stealing cool things'. ]

[he makes a face]

I wish they'd gone into that much detail. They just mentioned that the bait we left might be added to a 'stash' of some sort. Maybe it's just a whole bunch of mixed stuff.

You don't happen to be good with technology and locks...?

[ Maybe they have wands that work like her worlds'??? Please? ]

Hmm. Don't wanna waste my time if it's all junk but...

[ But the excitement of messing things up is worth it, sometimes. ]

I can pick a regular tumbler lock no trouble, but I'm not exactly a hacker.

Oof. Yeah, I can handle a simple lock, too, but this one's technological. We don't have anything like that at home...I guess we need to ask around if we want to try and get in there.

I wonder if we'll find Qri just...on top of a pile of runes or something.

[ HUFF HUFF IF SHE HAD HER WAND ]

Hey, once the locks are out of the way I bet I can get past anything else on a broom.

A--broom? I mean, we have those, but why a cleaning supply?

What, you've never seen a witch before?

[ Find her a broom someone, she's not sure where she left the mop she was messing around with earlier. ]

[he adjusts his glasses; his look's a little sharper after that remark (...in the paying stricter attention way, not, like, the angry way)]

I've met a few, but none of them had the power of flight. Perhaps things just work differently where we're from.

[ Adjusts glasses and looks attentive. A smarty boy. ]

Where you're from sounds boring.

That's a really loaded assumption, but honestly, I'm pretty glad to get away from it for a while, even if this city is incredibly annoying.

Okay, lemme change that.

It'd bore me at least after a while.

Just because of the broom thing, or what?

If there's some other way to fly I'd get used to it I guess? Under my own power, I mean.

If I figure out a way we can all wind-walk I'll let you know.

What other magic can you do? I mean...normally.

Normally I can do, y'know... all sorts of stuff. Potion making and transformations and setting stuff on fire...

And now it's just flying? Qri has a lot to answer for.

At least she let me keep that. I guess a lot of people got totally new stuff? And I'd need my wand back anyways, to do most of it.

If we get in, maybe we can grab you one. Won't help right in this city, but maybe when we move again.

I just have to hope it works the same way, because like... I totally slept through or skipped or ignored a lot of classes. I dunno much about how they work.

Hope for the best? A lot of magic works on willpower, doesn't it...

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