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

[aluminumandash]

Hey, so! Since their interests kind of intersect, I thought I'd offer Rust and Kaji for this. Ilde's welcome to vet them, Rust is a cop with extensive undercover experience/tracker and Kaji's a spy (though how candid he'll be about that remains to be seen). No enhanced abilities, but I'd put their stealth capabilities at solidly above average.

If everyone's amenable (and because group threads can get real unwieldy real quick) we were thinking we could split the manor team into two groups--Ilde and her handpicked team, and Rust and Kaji working with Lakshmi. (Rust and Kaji will also not be entirely forthcoming about what they find, but if you wanted to work around this via brainjacking or whatever, that'd be totally cool, since Ilde's an older and much more experienced host.)

This is pretty bare bones, I realize--I'm happy to talk things out in more detail if it sounds good!

[erbier]

Ilde won't have any objections to them, she thinks well of Kaji after how he handled Casiria and doesn't have any personal objections to Rust. I MEAN I'd have let you guys in either way, laughs, just for context!

I am completely amiable to whatever people want to do. Like I mentioned to Lily, Ilde kind of ended up pushing this because she'd already scoped the Manor, but I don't want that to curtail what anyone else wants. So I'm pretty much here to facilitate whatever people want to do.

Re: Brainjacking, this is *actually* something Ilde has practiced before... so if that's what we want to do: we could! We might want to talk about tactic and repercussions, she's very manipulative/subtle and wouldn't want to outright piss the guys off by breaking into their heads too overtly.

We can chat those things out here or on plurk, but I think this level of at least knowing who is going in and where will be enough for reporting to the mods, so they can write up the event log.

[ryohji]

After cobbling together our plans, we've decided that Rust and Kaji will be going after Shee in an effort to interrogate her about the beads. (Lakshmi will be disabling the guards, while the others are free to pursue Casiria). The interrogation will be conducted under the guise of pretend concern - Rust and Kaji will attempt to impart their sincerely held belief that Shee is in danger/has been framed, thanks to the intel they've gained from the bead. (And really, if Shee is deemed disposable enough that she'd be framed for murder, who knows what's in store for her down the line.) They're prepared to use their memory wipe vials if it comes down to it, and Kaji can be convinced to use his truth extortion on Shee, especially in the event that she's uncooperative.