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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

[rootandbranch]

[it's not that Geir is particularly anti-social, or unwilling to help. apparently, he just tends to wander away from the group when they don't seem to be doing much, or he doesn't see a clear path forward for them.

that's... not reassuring, exactly! it means that you have a large, powerful presence who's distractable. but on the other hand, he's not at all unwilling to be brought back to the fold.]

Mostly, everyone has seemed grumpy about anyone doing anything the whole time we've been here. Even Brie told us not to try anything because she liked the food.

It'd be good it if everyone made decisions together, though. It's a nice thought.

[allbroea]

[ jusis isn't nearly as flexible as rean is ... or as much of a natural leader. he's almost entirely responsible for reining in a small, powerful presence who's distractable, though, so ideally geir being a dragon doesn't make him that much harder to deal with.

brie is ... one of the elder coven members, as he recalls. he grimaces. ]

Goddess—she must have been joking. No one could accept living in these conditions for good food.

[ please. the coven's organizational skills are already clearly in disrepair, but what little faith he has left in standing leadership depends on this.

... then again, he can probably think of at least two people who might accept a grim fate for good food, so you know what. ]

[rootandbranch]

I don't think she was joking. Genette and Brie don't really know what to do with any of this either.

[Geir wouldn't call the two original coven members "leadership" by any stretch, even if Genette's made some spasmodic attempts at it now and then. if it wasn't for Genette's relationship with Qri, he's not sure he would even give her any points for being an authority figure at all.]

[allbroea]

[ maybe he would have a different opinion if he arrived here at a time where he can't walk out of the apartment building without getting a dirty look or three. ]

I think I can understand where your frustration stems from.

[ actually, speaking of brie and genette ... ]

Have either of them responded to what happened this evening?

[ he doesn't envy them for being unwillingly thrust into a seniority position, but he would expect them to be more useful than they seemingly are. ]

[rootandbranch]

No word at all. So you can take that as you like. We didn't wait for agreement for anyone, but we didn't hide what we did, either.

I guess it's up to us, now!

[allbroea]

Right. [ anything but pleased, but it is what it is.

a sigh. ]

I suppose there's nothing that can be done immediately, in any case. I'm sure many of us, including yourselves, are exhausted. I maintain that I would appreciate it if you would keep in touch and communicate your future plans with the rest of us. In the meantime, I'll start looking into the coven's potential to organize.

[rootandbranch]

Thank you.

Um... who are you, again? Sorry-- I never got your name.

[allbroea]

[ !! he actually looks a little flustered that he forgot to introduce himself, but he shakes it off quickly enough. ]

Ah—pardon me for the late introduction. My name is Jusis Albarea. While the circumstances for our meeting were not ideal, I think it's been a pleasure, Geir.

[ if it were formal fluff, he wouldn't have said it at all. geir is ... a surprising mix of thoughtful and reckless, but jusis thinks he's well-intentioned, which is a plus. ]

[rootandbranch]

[Geir grins sharply (he doesn't really have another kind of grin) at Jusis in reply. it was an interesting conversation, and he doesn't really mind being scolded if the person he talks to is willing to hear him out as well. in that respect, it's been a very pleasant talk.]

And for me, Jusis Albarea!

[allbroea]

[ that ... is only a little bit of an intimidating grin, but he has no reason to suspect it's harmful. in this instance, at least. ]

Please, Jusis is fine. [ introducing himself with his last name is ... something of a formality. ]

[rootandbranch]

[it must not be meant to be harmful; Geir ducks his head shyly, still smiling.]

Jusis it is.