MISSION HYRYPIA: NIGHT OF DAY :038

[onemind]

A SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

THE FEELING OF DREAD RETURNS JUST AFTER SUNSET ON DAY :038.

If things weren't complicated enough already, that certains makes everything moreso. By the time the dread feeling returns, the NPC Hosts (Lyr, Rhan, Siva’co, and Collector) will have decided they need to positively and definitively identify the enemy agent. However, exactly how to go about it was unclear until the feeling returns-- from nearby. Should anyone chase after the sensation (though be extremely careful - if Lexa, Mat, Elliot and Pidge are right, the circles may act as a portal through which the Enemy enters the universe), they'll discover a third identical charred circle just outside the ring of light cast by brilliantly lit courtyard of the Whalsome Home.

Fortunately, who or what came through it is no longer present (which: phew - it'd be awkward/deadly to get caught running in that direction). Now it's just a matter of figuring out where they went.

Luckily, it hasn't all been setting fires and kidnappings this afternoon. After examining the charred circle at the prior night's crime scene, Pidge has determined that a rapidly fading radiation is left in its wake and she's designed a device to track it. As Casiria suspects the Admiral is responsible for her niece's death and it follows that the murderer is the Enemy, the best shot at either confirming Casiria's suspicions or ruling them out entirely is to get the tracker into the Admiral's lodgings and see if they can confirm there are traces of similar radiation on his stuff and/or find other clues.

However due to a number of unfortunate events - the death of Keya, the fire set to one of the Descendant’s lodgings houses, the attack on the Second Elyiad -, security in and around Whalsome Home has increased. To make matters worse, the Hosts will be working within under a strict time limit. There are only two hours before the remaining traces of radiation dissipate entirely.

Because of this, a contingent of Hosts will need to provide an adequate distraction (or distractions) while still remaining entirely covert while a smaller strike team infiltrates the Admiral's quarters. After all, identifying the enemy is only the first step of their mission. The second is making sure you can stay stick around to sabotage their plan.

Which is where we come to plotting! We want you guys to let us know what kind of distraction(s) the Hosts would come up with, what kind of teams they’d want to form, and who wants to take part in which actions. Based on what you come up with, we’ll come up with the full calendar for the evening of Day 0:38 and put up the IC event log. Please take the time to make concrete, fully realized plans - we'll do our best to incorporate as much as we can, but it will be easiest if everyone works together to nail down a definitive timeline of events.

This OOC plotting post will be open until Sunday the 28th at 11:59PM and the log with the finalized timeline of events will go up Monday.

Questions? If they're specific to the events here, ask them in the thread below. If they're concerning wider reaching Mission: Hyrypia details, please ask them here.

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Comments

[raw]

hey so here's some stuff

• right now my character elliot really thinks that nobody should take individual action unless it's for the good of the mission. so if your character is likely to try and go off and just do random shit on their own that jeopardizes the overall plan but you, the player, want to stop them, i'd be happy to have him try and convince them to stay on track, or even calm them if he has to. (if you don't want to be stopped that's fine too haha)

• he's also all about dissemination of information, and so am i, so if you would like to handwave telling stuff to elliot (or darlene who will tell elliot) or handwave your character learning about something through elliot (or darlene probably, though i haven't checked with cee on this) then go right ahead! basically if you need your character to know something to put forward an idea or participate let's try and make it happen!

oocly i am considering making a gdoc which anyone can edit OR an ooc post, for info people have that they want to be general knowledge but don't want to thread the same conversation a million times, and links to conversations or mod answers with that knowledge, just to have a central location for that. lmk what you think!

• thirdly and lastly, distraction brainstorming. bakugo's explosion power could come in very handy here, as people will often rush towards the sound of an explosion (and shep can ever have more fire) - if we could make it look natural, even better!

another thought i had was that these people have a real investment in hunting, if we could fake some kind of interesting creature or lure a real one a lot of the guards and warriors might choose to pursue that glory -- but i don't have a constructive idea of how to make this happen so it's just spitballing.

[sizeofyourbaggage]

an interesting creature you say

what if I had a really dumb guy with a pair of wings who wanted to look up folklore or fauna to see if they have any winged creatures he can impersonate

[raw]

oh my god i love this but also please don't let them actually friggin shoot u out of the sky, sam

[sizeofyourbaggage]

he's super good at dodging okay he's got this

sam's also on board with elliot's guys come on let's work together thing so he'll definitely throw his ideas out there and pass on anything he learned from.... the last fiery break in...

[raw]

yes so far sam, along with lexa, is one of two characters who elliot thinks is really good about sharing information and is keyed into what's happening so he will definitely be in touch

[incinerates]

gently presses my hands to this good good bulleted list

[coiledscales]

Pidge will totally support making sure people don't run off.

Asuka's in for distraction shenanigans, even if she doesn't have much to offer.

[raw]

distraction idea: flash mob.

everyone with no particular abilities in this direction gathers in the courtyard in their robes, gil and friends play some music, and everyone does the traditional carabuschian moon ritual known as "thriller"

[greentech]

fund it.

[sizeofyourbaggage]

hell yes

[earthborn]

.............shep could conceivably have that on her omnitool

[theycalledmeacurse]

Omfg yes. Yesyesyes

[adamance]

WHILE FUNNY, TOO ODD, WILL STAND OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB

[whereabout]

I really, really like the idea of a general info doc! Sometimes I wind up scratching my head a lot over what I should assume is going around the grapevine.



and I don't really have anything to add for plot stuff aside from OOH, I'M COVERT PICK ME PICK ME

[adamance]

be Lexa's less manipulative and abusive right hand man, Elliot, except when that robot asshole comes out.

[raw]

yes sounds good.

[nastygram]

definitely here to similarly help with passing around information and telling people things and knowing things, thanks

with the caveat that Elliot will always know the good stuff first (unless it's really good or possibly bad stuff that Darlene wants to keep to herself)

and 10,000x here for things getting exploded and set on fire as a distraction :]]]]]]