MISSION HYRYPIA: NIGHT OF DAY :038

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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

INFILTRATION IDEA

[shri]

Lakshmi has somewhat of an in with her previous relationship with the Admiral, namely that she previously offered to do a mourning ritual with them.

Which was already her attention if only to further a relationship with them so she's got half the prep done, but since Keya was the one that Levallan died to save?? (If I've remembered it right ) she will go to the Admiral with whoever is willing to come do the checking and the sneaking to provide both a distraction for them and try and get some info out of the Admiral about who dunnit. She'll angle to call together as many of the descendants as she can to lead a prayer for Keya.

This, of course, pending on mod approval and who might be into it. So if u would like too, have further ideas, etc, etc. Requires something of an ability to be sombre and serious to the event, etc.

[wille]

I LIKE THIS! actually covert A++

they can probably make up some convoluted ritual that requires them to ~shut their senses to the world~

[shri]

.... Lakshmi has the 1000 names memorized as one of her old habits... if that... would be a thing that adds to it...

[perroquet]

I like this too! And I wonder if you'd be down to combine this with Gildor's Enthrall spell? It would keep at least some of them distracted for an hour at most, while they sing a very very VERY long Caraboosh prayer for Keya.

+1!!!

[wille]

[wrackful]

I think the majority of the Descendants are already shut up in Tyrisson House doing a mourning ritual of their own? Unless I've got my timelines muddled.

[shri]

NOPE, THAT IS ME WHO GOT THEMSELVES MUDDLED thank you for noticing that, I would have made a right tit out of myself.


RIGHT, IDEA PART 2... is mostly the same, but mostly involved around tying up the guards at the front to then go and sneak in while some people are a feint / asking to join them in their ritual to get in.

WHICH I am perfectly happy to have Lakshmi be a feint, that makes the most sense and so other people can do the sneaking etc !!

[deployed]

I think Ilde is infiltrating this gathering too! There's some details about their mourning ritual in their planning thread Vee and the mods had.