rootbound: (though the truth may vary.)
Vern ([personal profile] rootbound) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2018-01-14 07:50 pm

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?]
rootandbranch: (back to you.)

[personal profile] rootandbranch 2018-01-19 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Let's wait a few more minutes. Make sure it's totally quiet, that I don't hear anyone inside...

[Geir is pretty sure the park will be empty at this time in the evening, with the festivities in the main part of the city. but he's not quite sure. better to be completely certain.]

You still think this is the best way?
rootandbranch: (tomorrow it can worry 'bout itself.)

[personal profile] rootandbranch 2018-01-19 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
["best is a loaded word" -- what a very Vern thing to say. Geir shoves affection at him, suddenly and fiercely fond.]

I do too. I think it'll get a reaction-- I don't hear anyone, either.
rootandbranch: (coming off the shelf.)

[personal profile] rootandbranch 2018-01-20 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

If I don't respond right away once the monitors start getting here, don't worry, okay? I'll be listening as hard I can inside the park. Just smack me or something if you need me to look at you fast.
rootandbranch: (crack the reins carry the fight)

[personal profile] rootandbranch 2018-01-20 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Brace yourself.

[takes a deep breath, cradling the (comparatively) tiny bone Vern gave him securely in his huge talons, then.... closes his eyes and lobs it over the park wall.]