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Spellbind Mods ([personal profile] spellbindmods) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2018-02-05 09:13 pm

[WORLD TWO | JAILBREAK]

[ Fifteen days ago, twelve members of the coven were selected to be captured and put under major scrutiny by the Shehui government. Today, they become freed.

Well, that's a pretty dramatic tag line for it all, but it's a dramatic moment isn't it? The coven members who have been taken have been subjected to some pretty hideous conditions, and their captivity and abuse has been reported to their fellow members via telepathy. With this information, and even just the knowledge that coven members have been taken at all, a plan of attack has been orchestrated.

Whether or not you're actively involved in this plan, the effects will likely be noticed immediately -- but it's up to fellow coven members to decide just how wide spread their pandemonium is. SImply put, there will be distracting forces and also those who go in for attack. Helpers and fighters. It's up to you what hand you have in helping your fellow man! ]

( ooc: Since there are a lot of different roles that can't be subsidized to their own prompts, the main given prompts in the log will be for pre- and during the jailbreak. You can have multiple prompts that take place in both situations in the event you have a multi-tiered role.

pre-jailbreak: Anything not directly involved with the government porthole location OR something leading up to the onslaught at the porthole.

during the jailbreak: Directly at the porthole and/or inside of the government hall, so labeled Lower Admin Hall C with a large connecting and locked door in a room that leads to Lower Admin Hall D. )

Let it be known that the monitors won't go down without a fight. No upper level government employees show their face, but when attacked monitors will indeed go in for the kill. However, they are initially taken by surprised. They aren't aware that their technology can be hacked, or that they have a large force that's about to come in against them.

If a monitor is felled, it's possible to take their ID card and use it to break prisoners free. They will all have clearance to access holding rooms, as well as testing centers and interrogation rooms. Use these keys to find coven members -- but characters will also find more monitors as they go through the hall.

Because this is a lower level administration area, searching the place won't find much in the way of information. This is something of the equivalent of a government prison. Weapons, medicine, files on ALL coven members (which can be taken), and similar items can be found. What's certainly more interesting is found in Lower Admin Hall D.

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hacking results: Capable hackers like 9S will be able to hack into the entrance of the government building eventually, which allows for an easier flow of movement in and out. This won't be the only reward reaped from the hacking: there are tons of locked archives that are concealed within the Shehui mainframe. Most are boring, governmental gobbledygooks, aptly named things like watersystem//upperdeck and the like. Three offer some intriguing information, titled contrabandlist//highlevel, adminhalld//accessrequirementoverride and notefile//banned//writtenrecord.

The first two archives are much easier to crack open and give information as follows (with irrelevant information omitted):

contrabandlist//highlevel
  • Four (4) small bone fragments, electrical in nature. Dangerous ##04. Contraband Room 5.
  • One (1) inanimate golden box. [MODIFICATION: When collected, box was magic in nature. Expended Three (3) smooth black stones predetermined to be filled with void magic in opening said golden box for investigation. Not currently deemed dangerous. Contraband Room 1.
  • > RETRIEVAL: One (1) body from inanimate golden box. Still living, suspended animation. Held in Contraband Room 4. DO NOT INCLUDE OTHER CONTRABAND. CONTRABAND ROOM 4 NOW OFF LIMITS FOR NEW MATERIAL.
  • > DETAIL: Clothed. Height: [measurement translation to 6' 3"]. Weight: Indeterminate. Dangerous ##77. Antima Formula RE5 inserted in constant IV. No obvious name, planetary association.

    adminhalld//accessrequirementoverride
  • This archive contains a program that can be transferred from ID card to ID card. Anyone who has this .exe in their ID card can give it to someone else. This will grant access to all Lower Admin Hall D rooms, including contraband rooms -- there are six in total. These rooms can also be looted! All magical items within these rooms won't be immediately obvious in how they are magical, but there are plenty of items there that may be looted.

    notefile//banned//writtenrecord
  • ????

    new objective: jailbreak qri Utilizing this new information, coven members have the opportunity to find Qri and her golden box. While the box does seem somewhat non threatening and useless, unbeknownst to coven members it does contain void properties that allow Qri to use it as a space pocket for all the coven's shit. If you left it in the box, then you're shit out of luck if the box doesn't come to. Qri is surprisingly light, but still unconscious. Because of her size and condition, it will likely take more than one person to move her...but her body may potentially be a good meeting point for coven members. The room is isolated, and she's somewhat awe-inspiring being a large, albino-alien lady.

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    post-jailbreak There's certainly a hullabaloo going on in the government building as the coven members try to fight to take their monitors. One thing is for certain -- there's no going back, now.

    After a while, all coven member IDs go black -- including those belonging to uninvolved parties. For some, this is only temporary. Shehui is watching, and they know who they can potentially make loyal. However, anyone involved in the break-in, as well as the Chosen 12, their IDs will remain black. All credits have been taken and their capability to unlock any door will be removed.

    Suddenly the fuzzy black cards begin to emit a high-pitched noise. All monitors still underground and alive will immediately freeze at the noise. The black ID cards will begin to flash a very blinding, red message:

    TRUCE
    ALL STAND DOWN
    PEACEFUL EVICTION INITIATED: [TRANSLATED DATE: 20TH]
    NO MORE HARM WILL COME TO YOU HERE


    No matter where they are, monitors all standing completely still, hands up in surrender. Take a few more shots at them if you dare -- they won't defend themselves. Though your credits may be frozen and your identification marked, this is a war you've won. This war anyway. This war, here. ]
  • witchhooded: (regardless of warnings)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-10 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
    [ it wasn't on purpose. if it was - or perhaps if jade were a little more cranky - shirley would have gotten an earful. as it is, the worst is a just barely tight smile. ]

    Sort of! They are pretty good for kicking if you need it. Here!

    [ and without another word, jade raises her hand. in tandem, a thick vine snakes out of the ground, parting the soil and flooring with a low groan. it curls at the ceiling and coils back down into the ground, making it twice as thick. ]
    hearsthesea: (sure wish Merines had a job description)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-10 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
    Oh.

    [Shirley's eyes widen, and she's honestly kind of impressed. The astonishment helps clear her mind a little, and she relaxes a little as she looks back to Jade.]

    I never...I'm not used to punching or kicking things. My--someone I used to know would have been better at that.

    [She doesn't really want to think too much about Senel. Especially not now.]
    witchhooded: (she shines)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
    Does that make a difference? Being used to it, I mean! I might not be used to cooking but I still learned because I wanted to.

    [ that's a bad metaphor - shirley could be a pacifist for all jade knows. ]

    You just seem like you need to let a little steam off. That is ok to do, you know.
    hearsthesea: (but that was just an illusion)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-13 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
    [Shirley opens her mouth to decline, then hesitates. She is angry, less so than she was a few minutes ago but still hurt and humiliated. Letting off steam sounds nice, but throwing objects and beating up vines seems so far from who she ought to be - or what a proper Merines ought to be. Maybe that's the issue here.]

    I never really thought about if I wanted to learn how to fight, or hit things. It wasn't my place.
    witchhooded: (seconds march into the past)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-14 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
    [ something about that really frustrates jade. it's not a mountain of frustration - more than anything, it's a little shoe in her pebble. but it bugs her, so she can't let it go easily. she can't imagine feeling like it wouldn't be her place to do... anything she wants to do. no wonder her response to accidentally hitting someone with an id card is to apologize! ]

    Well, I think your place is wherever you want it to be. Do you want to learn how to fight?
    hearsthesea: (can't get depressed and run away)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-16 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
    Do I want to learn?

    [This is the strange and terrifying thing about being in the coven, Shirley thinks. She never knows what the right thing to do is, and she doesn't know anyone she can trust enough to talk to about it. But...there is one thing she knows.]

    I don't want to be as powerless as I was when they took us all. If that means learning how to fight, then I'd gladly do that.
    witchhooded: (sandbox)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-17 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
    [ jade listens, and she thinks about shirley's shorts. the tone in her voice. the way she repeats jade's question, and the way she stops to think about it. it warrants more investigating, but she also imagines she wouldn't have any problem teaching shirley how to throw a few punches or something of the like. hm. ]

    You are not powerless if you do not know how to fight physically... surviving what we have been through was also a form of fighting!

    [ jade even pumps her fist, as if that punctuates her statement. it doesn't, but she gives her all into the movement regardless; just this morning, she couldn't move that arm at all. moving it now seems like a privilege she can't stop indulging in. ]

    If you want to learn, I can show you some stuff I know, but if you want to decide on things for yourself, then you should!! That is also ok.
    hearsthesea: (that's just selfish)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-17 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
    [Survival as a form of fighting...does that really work? Shirley hadn't felt like much of a fighter after being rescued in the past, so she isn't so sure. Still, if Jade is offering then she doesn't really want to disagree. Now that the idea's planted in her head--she wants this.]

    No. I definitely want to learn, if you'd be willing to teach me.
    witchhooded: (dog days are over)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-18 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
    [ well, she'll give then. if that's what shirley wants...

    jade puts one hand on her hip, and the other on the vine made punching bag. ]


    Okay! Show me how you usually make a fist.

    [ oh, but then she remembers her manners (which she logically doesn't have, so this isn't surprising - jade "literally raised by wolves" harley). ] Oh! I'm Jade, by the way.
    Edited (ok i should have proof read this one LMAO) 2018-02-18 05:21 (UTC)
    hearsthesea: (just waiting won't change anything)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-18 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
    And my name is Shirley. Thank you for your help.

    [If Jade were another Ferines, Shirley would give her true name; it would be the polite thing to do given Jade's favor. But she isn't a Ferines and explaining would be out of place right now, so Shirley skips that and balls one hand into a fist, thumb tucked inside her other fingers. Was that how Senel used to do it?]
    witchhooded: (regardless of warnings)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-18 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ jade nods, and grins, acknowledging shirley briefly. really - jade wouldn't get any kind of social protocol at all, so in addition to preserving her culture, she's avoided the awkward situation of explaining anything normal to jade. it's a win/win situation.

    she approves of shirley's fist method, though, and then dips behind her to grab hold of her arm and raise it. with a loose grip, she tries to maneuver shirley's other arm to match the position. ]


    Soooo, you wanna hold a boxer pose, I think it is called. It evens your posture out. When you're ready, go ahead and punch as hard as you can! Don't worry if you move it or don't... We just need to see how hard your hit is right now, I think.

    [ she's looking for any indication of a history with fighting that shirley's stance might give off. jade's more of a shoot'em up girl, but she has a comfort with fist fighting as well; depending on shirley's experience, she'll know how much she can teach her in one go. ]
    hearsthesea: (can't get depressed and run away)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-20 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
    [Shirley tries to mimic what she remembers of what Senel used to do, but...for someone she spent several years with, she hasn't seen a lot of his fighting. He'd never let her get that close to danger until there was no choice. Between that and her inexperience with even magical combat, more of her posture is guesswork than not in the end. When she lashes out with one fist, she ends up flinching and glancing off the vine with little force.

    Shirley takes a step back after that, face reddening with embarrassment.]


    I'm sorry. I've never done this before today.
    witchhooded: (we all become one)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-21 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
    [ ah, she's been in this situation before - with roxy, jade had insulted her. not that jade was of the right mind at the time, but still. in this situation, she should be more like dave, though? she thinks. ]

    That is ok. Everyone starts somewhere!

    [ it had meant a lot to her at the time. she hopes it means the same for shirley. ]

    As long as you still want to try, then there will be no more apologies. I used to be a whiny little girl who thought she would not mean much. Now, I am a terrifying doggy girl and one of the most powerful beings in the universe! Well, before Qri picked me up, at least.

    [ her eat twitches. still a terrifying doggy girl, all in all. ]

    You will become your fully realized self, too, but you cannot do that without taking the first step, Shirley.
    hearsthesea: (the reason for my existence)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-23 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
    My fully realized self...

    [It's a familiar idea, and yet entirely foreign to her current situation. Being the Merines back home was her fully realized self. Without Nerifes and the Merines' power, Shirley can't achieve that. And yet, today she picked up a physical weapon for the first time and Jade is offering to teach her how to fight. It isn't the same thing as regaining her power, but it's not nothing either.

    That is, if she doesn't just stagnate early and remain ineffective despite any efforts. Shirley isn't sure it'll work and the idea of confirming her own uselessness terrifies her, but Jade seems to believe she could do it. Shirley doesn't want to disappoint her.]


    I don't know if I can be that. But I think I want to try.
    witchhooded: (in you and i there's a new land)

    [personal profile] witchhooded 2018-02-23 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ jade gets the distinct feeling she will need to gently employ newspaperkind on shirley at some point - or maybe showing her that she was once a young girl who could not even control when she fell asleep would be helpful. she's not sure. she still wags a finger at her, leaning forward with one hand still on her hip. ]

    Trying means not telling yourself you cannot do it! There is someone very important to me who encouraged me this whole time, and he never let me say I could not do it. And now I can, and so I will not let you say you cannot either. It makes you feel bad about yourself, and then you will never do your best, but accept second or third or even last!

    [ so when jade leans back and stands at her full height (which admittedly isn't that grand of a height at all, but...), she's smiling with her brows knitted. ]

    I want you to punch the vine again, but you have to think about everyone who made you angry enough to want to throw your card again this time. No buts, Missy and I do not want to hear "I'm not sure I can" either!!
    hearsthesea: (don't flee down the easy path)

    [personal profile] hearsthesea 2018-02-26 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
    [Fenimore. Jade sounds like Fenimore right now with her sheer force of personality, and Shirley instinctively straightens as Jade commands her attention. She couldn't argue with Fenimore, back in the village, and she can't argue with this either.]

    I--okay.

    [It takes a moment to come down from the shock, but she stares at the vine and tries to remember. The sea's rage, which she's already drawn on in captivity; the cruel callousness of Crusand's army, and the sight of long-spilled blood; the despair of Fenimore's death, and the realization that not even her own people cared enough to try and save her. And now Shehui's promise of a truce, like they really care to coexist with the coven after two weeks of captivity and relentless experimentation.

    She throws a punch and lands it solidly this time. It's definitely a step up from her first attempt, although she still winces and rubs her knuckles afterward.]


    Ow...that hurt. But I did it, right?