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

[adamance]

Lexa has her doubts about Shee, but she does know that Keya was laying a lot of her hopes on Shee Naraxa. As for Saridian Black, he seems unlikely as a target as he seems to be acting in the interest of his people. That might be spreading the operation too thin.

[wille]

we can discuss who else is worth investigating!

but given the rarity of the circle appearing, it seems wasteful to have ~40 people rousing a coast-wide ruckus bent on a single target, who still may not turn out to be an enemy agent. tactically, the group going in to the admiral's quarters should just be a handful, the fewer the better, but oocly it's better to have more characters involved, so here's one way

[adamance]

I think Donna mentioned that anything too weird going on would alert the Enemy, and that's where Lexa will also be approaching things. Too many targets means they need an efficient distraction to cover the entirety of the pilgrimage, rather than smaller groups. It's more a concern of too many baskets to put their eggs in when the baskets might be unstable (or whatever is an appropriate metaphor here).

[wille]

what makes lexa confident that investing all the resources to the admiral is a sound strategy?

[adamance]

Like I said, she's okay with exploring Shee Naraxa as well, but any further envoy spaces are going to create too complicated of a plan. They don't have the time to come up with a plan that will distract the entirety of the congregation.

[adamance]

also I realized I was vague in my initial comment: Lexa has her doubts about Shee being an agent but wouldn't be opposed to snooping there if they're in the belly of the beast already.