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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

[rootbound]

[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.

[witchwithoutacause]

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

Where you're from sounds boring.

[rootbound]

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.

[witchwithoutacause]

Okay, lemme change that.

It'd bore me at least after a while.

[rootbound]

Just because of the broom thing, or what?

[witchwithoutacause]

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

[rootbound]

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.

[witchwithoutacause]

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

[rootbound]

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

[witchwithoutacause]

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.

[rootbound]

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

[witchwithoutacause]

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.

[rootbound]

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

[witchwithoutacause]

Sounds like Akko...

[ Amanda shrugs. ]

That's a big part of it, but not all of it. And I'm awesome but like, still kinda young.

[rootbound]

[tilts his head a little]

Do you not want to be here?

[witchwithoutacause]

I mean... I've already met some cool people, and it's all new and interesting, but this specific place is getting boring unless we can stir things up some more.

[rootbound]

[hm. he's kind of charmed.]

Well, I'm out of explosives, but some mayhem getting to what we need to get to seems pretty unavoidable to me.

[witchwithoutacause]

[ Amanda is charming as shit. ]

Thank god, I've been waiting for something other than getting a job. Ugh.