Vern (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rootbound) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
spellbinders2018-01-14 07:50 pm
rootbound) wrote in spellbinders2018-01-14 07:50 pm
Entry tags:
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?]
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?]
ii
[He sounds, despite the words, like he's not trying very hard to conceal his amusement.]
no subject
[he sighs.]
It's only a little terrorism, as far as I understand that term.
no subject
[That's a little more serious, though not really alarmed; victimless mayhem seems more like Vern and Geir, somehow.]
Can I ask what the idea was?
no subject
We were careful, mother.
And bones aren't traceable to a coven member directly. We still enough on hand to make a bit of a hole in the ground and leave one aside for bait...that's all.
no subject
You want to see how they'll respond to an unknown threat?
no subject
We want to see where they take it, how they analyze it. If they have some sort of decent magic sensor it should show up, so.
no subject
no subject
no subject
Do you need help? I can make sure I'm not seen.
no subject
We'll let you know what we find in a bit; if they do provide us a location we'll need more people to deal with that. But for now let's trust Geir's eyes and ears.
no subject
You're not worried about being seen, though?
no subject
no subject
True enough.
I'll trust you lot for the moment, then. Let me know if you need anything.
no subject
[Geir sounds brightly interested. A NEW WORD!]
no subject
Violence in a public place that subverts the government. Generally.
no subject
[Geir's voice warms in response to the fondness in Jay's; Jay can hear his grin easily enough through the signets.]
Everything's okay, I think. I don't believe they saw us. There's too much arm waving and shouting.
no subject
What exactly were you trying to do?
no subject
no subject
[But he says that levelly, like he's still trying to work out how he feels about this.]
no subject
[the greatly intensified signs of surveillance so far haven't been lost on Geir -- he didn't really feel any reason to push for such a drastic step as this until he felt the trap start to tighten.]
This way, we figured we'd at least be able to turn ourselves in as a distraction if it really came to it...
no subject
no subject
It's fine if people want to be mad about this. If anything bad happens we'll try to help. But, it still doesn't seem as risky as doing nothing...
no subject
Let us know what you find out.
no subject
[there's silence for a while, then:]
We have a place, I think. They're taking the bones somewhere.