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

[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!