whoops

[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

[teratias]

[WE'LL JUST HANDWAVE ALL THAT FUN STUFF AND SAY THAT WAVER TOTALLY GOT IT.]

If someone could snag a warehouse job by it then, that'd be good to start with. And yeah, duh, you can't tear the lock off the door. You have to at least put the lock back so that no one suspects anything.

[rootbound]

True. Geir's too big to finesse it, though, and I'm not experienced enough with these machines. Maybe 9S can figure something out.

[teratias]

...Yeah, that's a good place to start. It'd help if someone in the coven had invisibility powers or something similar. You'd get around easier.

[rootbound]

[clicks his tongue, a little irritated (at the thought of continuing to deal with everyone else in the coven at length, really, not at Waver)]

I don't know if the list is up to date...but yes. I suppose the only thing for it is to ask around.

[teratias]

Yeah. And...just go from there. Try to be sneakier, I guess is the only thing I have to add.

[rootbound]

You could come. Emergency smokescreens are a kind of sneaking...?

[teratias]

....It'd work better if it was just fog at night. Less suspicious that way.

[rootbound]

...can you manage that, or do you know anyone...?

[teratias]

I mean, smoke can look like fog. It'd be worth a shot.

[rootbound]

[with the smallest smile]

All right. I don't know if I'll be running the show on any followup, but you should let whoever does know. That's a good idea.

[teratias]

...Got it. Just let me know when you need me.