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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]

[Geir's voice slides lower, conspiratorial; he can totally get in on this joke.]

I dunno. I reeeeally want to, but half the coven wanted to yell in our heads about it...

[witchwithoutacause]

I wanted to get in on it.

[ Eyes wide with excited mischief. ]

[rootandbranch]

Hahaha! I don't think it'll be us alone if it's right away. I don't want my nose to get snapped off.

[he's pretty amused at her expression, though-- this human is a real troublemaker.]

I think the best thing we can do right now is keep an eye on what they do next! That's where the real action's gonna be...

[witchwithoutacause]

[ Trouble is what she lives for. Fuck the police and all that. ]

I'll try to keep an eye out for any openings or weird stuff. But yeah, guess I won't run off without some kinda plan just yet.

[rootandbranch]

We can let you know what we saw, and maybe people can stake it out... let's see if they're much more suspicious of us first, though. We're going to need other people to help after this! Except when we can really plan it out, I'm not very stealthy.

You're in, right?

[witchwithoutacause]

I can do stealth if you need it.

[ Without all her magic it'll be harder - but Qri let her keep what she's best at. ]

I'm so in.

[rootandbranch]

Great! Just be really careful. I know Genette super wants to know where Qri is. I do too, honestly. She promised she'd talk to us again and I'm ready to actually hear it!

[it's always nice to have co-conspirators.]

[witchwithoutacause]

This isn't my world so I don't know how everything works. I can wait for better intel.

[rootandbranch]

Should I look out for anything for you? I don't know what you can do, you know! Since we just met.

[he grins at her, pleased all over again for the help.]

[witchwithoutacause]

I can fly. On a broom or on stuff close to it, like... mops and stuff too. So if you need someone to zip into somewhere I can do a pretty good job.

And if we can find a wand I can at least nab it and give it a try when we get to the right kind of world.

[rootandbranch]

How close does it have to be? Would a tree branch work?

[Geir's already thinking of the pragmatic part of this.]

We should go flying sometime! Maybe when they're not after us, though.

[witchwithoutacause]

Gonna have to try that one out next, but I bet I can manage.

[ Technically, it'd work with the magic she used back home, just... not comfortable. ]

I'll make sure to fly circles around you.

[rootandbranch]

Ha! You wish. Even a pipsqueak like you is gonna have to work hard to outpace me in the air!

[two very modest individuals here.]

[witchwithoutacause]

You aren't all that big for a dragon yourself, far as I can tell. Probably makes you more of a challenge.

[rootandbranch]

What?! How big are the dragons you're used to--?!

[THOSE ARE FIGHTING WORDS.]

[witchwithoutacause]

I met this one super, super huge dude who our school supposedly owed a bunch of money.

[rootandbranch]

How super huge? And did you pay him?!

[maybe... maybe all dragons are the same, in some ways...]

[witchwithoutacause]

Way bigger than you. And a snobby rich bitch figured out he was lying the whole time, so we didn't even have to do anything to him.

[rootandbranch]

[oh-- that's a reassuring commentary, at least. Geir unruffles.]

If he was bigger and stronger than me, he should have made you pay anyway. He was probably weak then.

[witchwithoutacause]

He got pretty lazy. I mean, who ever heard of a dragon playing the stock market?

[ Like, with a multi-monitor internet setup. But a lot of people here won't know what that is. ]

[rootandbranch]

What's a stock market? It gives you money?

[she got it in one. it's probably a good thing that there isn't a stock market that Geir can access on his world; he would be much too excited about it.]

[witchwithoutacause]

Slowly and really boringly unless you like taking big risks.

[ Her parents probably have TONS of investments. ]

Guess he was getting old.

[rootandbranch]

[decisively:]

I want to see one. But... maybe later.

[witchwithoutacause]

I'm sure we'll all end up somewhere with a bustling stock market eventually.

(end thread possibly)

[rootandbranch]

Ha! Let's count on it!