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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

[teratias]

[Waver nods. That's good enough to his ears.]

Okay. Just...be really careful when you do, okay? And if you think they might be verging on you and this place together, you have to let people know so we can scatter.

[rootandbranch]

I'll let everyone know. Is there anything we can do to prepare, do you think? I don't know what sort of wizard tricks you have...

[teratias]

[Wizard tricks?!]

Start planning escape routes. Make sure you know the area really well, and I mean like, every single street if you can.

[rootandbranch]

I can do that. I'll get a map in my head that I can think to people with the signets-- that's a really good idea. Anything else?

[Geir sounds determined -- he's not going to let anyone down.]

[teratias]

[Waver pauses, trying to think.]

Nothing springs to mind.

[rootandbranch]

All right. Well, just tell us if you think of anything else. Whatever happens, I'll be right there dealing with it!

[that much, Geir can promise.]

[teratias]

Mmm. Don't do anything too rash again, please.

[rootandbranch]

I'll think about it-- really, I will.

[it's a concession, and a sincere one.]

end thread I think?

[teratias]

[Waver nods in approval.

Not that anyone asked for it, but.]

Good. That's fair to everyone.