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[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

[rootandbranch]

Sure, that sounds like a good idea. I didn't think of getting in touch with them!

[Geir doesn't really care about being scolded in this circumstance, which makes it easier to just hold a productive conversation about next steps. his tone is sincere enough, if unchastened.]

We're just keeping an eye on the monitors for now, but I wonder if anyone else suspicious has shown up... I'll see what I can see of that too. From a distance, though! And they might show up after the monitors leave...

[mesmerevenant]

[ Geir's easy-going nature seems to help Jun relax somewhat, purely because having a productive conversation and being listened to is reassuring. ]

Well... At least it'll say something if no one shows up too. Like, those responsible were caught or uninterested in being allies...

[rootandbranch]

We'll wait a little longer than we planned to and make sure.

I followed them the night of those explosions, too. The monitors. I couldn't really find anything out, but they didn't seem to know what was going on either-- that means if they have an enemy from outside, they might not exactly know about them either.

[mesmerevenant]

Interesting. So maybe they're dealing with something more or less unknown to their society, like with us?

[rootandbranch]

They must be. Or at least, they don't know about it at the level of the monitors. I've never seen their kings or warlords, so I couldn't say about them.

These guys sound like they're mostly complaining. According to them, they don't get paid enough for this.

[mesmerevenant]

That's a common complaint anywhere you go, it feels like... well, thanks for letting me know.

[rootandbranch]

Honestly, I would like Qri to pay us more too...

[mesmerevenant]

True. We've really been given a raw deal here.

[rootandbranch]

We can bring it up when she talks to us again.