Event: Day 336 [open]

[bastionpc]

Who: NPCs! and you guys
Open: Open
When: Day 336
Where: in the Bastion
What: A plan is made, a letter is mailed, an enemy is cracked, a thief is caught
Format: action
Warnings: none




[Lots of things are happening today. See the individual threads in the post to find out what is going on.]

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an enemy is cracked [open]

[bastionpc]

[A second attempt for talking to the captured NPCs, Red and Grey. You can talk to them individually or together, just specify what you want in your comment header. Also, unless stated otherwise, for this thread it is assumed each conversation happens separate of each other.]

uhhh both together?? also anyone else welcome to join her

[countingthunder]

[Who let this girl in here? From her body language, it's like River accidentally wandered in, and she barely glances at either of the two prisoners.

No, the first thing she does is walk over to one wall and place her hand on it. She draws it back sharply to inspect her finger as though she pricked it on something, but there's no sign that she's hurt at all.]

[bastionpc]

[Red gives no fucks and doesn't even bother paying attention to River. She's busy with her own thoughts, though she is present.

Grey, however, is watching her curiously.]

Hey, did you hurt yourself?

[countingthunder]

[River pauses and turns back to look at Grey, just staring at him for a solid minute.]

That's why you're here.

[bastionpc]

...what?

[Grey gives River a confused look.]

I'm here because I asked if your hurt yourself?

[countingthunder]

Everyone's hurting.

We brought this on ourselves.

[Or so some people like to think. She glances at Red.]

[bastionpc]

[She definitely thinks that, yes.

She is thinking other things too. Like how she is sure her group is falling over themselves trying to stay fed and healthy without her there to lead them, or how her daughter is doing without her there. But she still doesn't speak to River, beyond thinking 'You DID bring this on yourselves' in River's general direction. Not because she thinks River can actually hear her, but rather because she is angry and bitter and thinking things at people makes her feel better.

Grey speaks up again.]

Look, Red's not going to do anything, but we can work something out, can't we? It might just be all one big misunderstanding, maybe if we all talk calmly we can find a solution?

[countingthunder]

Might be too late. Even if you hurry back, it takes a titan to hold up the heavens.

[bastionpc]

But we have to go back, we're needed to keep everyone safe, and we need to find those cores too.

Just Red

[twinked_witch]

[Megaera has put this off for too long because of mun difficulties, but now... If she's not going to succeed as a Wizard, she'll damn well try to succeed as a Succubus. And right now, that means getting as much information from them as possible. Having them separated before the arrives, she walks in towards Red's cell. As soon as she is in sight of her, she's quietly using her Charm Monster spell-like; if Red fails to resist (I'd say she's got anywhere from a 10-30% chance of resisting, depending on her willpower), she'll perceive Megaera as a trusted friend against her usual judgment.]

Good morning. You all right?

[bastionpc]

[Red is watching Megaera carefully, not yet betraying any emotion other than caution. Meg cannot yet tell if her charm worked or not.]

...as well as I can be. Why are you here?

[twinked_witch]

There are simply things we should discuss, if we are to keep a large situation from getting much worse.

You have told us some things, but they've been a spot confusing. I'm hoping some friendly conversation might provide some clarity.

[Megaera hangs off on trying a second spell for the moment, testing Red's reactions.]

[bastionpc]

[She is still wary, but she isn't as angry as she was before.]

What did you want clarified?

[Is she not affected by the spell? Or is she just a normally short and to-the-point kind of person?

The latter is definitely true.]

[twinked_witch]

[Megaera, naturally, stays on guard.]

I apologize if I make you repeat yourself with things you've said to others. First of all... Well, 'who are you' isn't quite the question I wish to ask. 'Who do you represent', I guess would be a better one.

[bastionpc]

[...she actually has to stop and think about that one.]

You know, I don't think we ever named ourselves. It didn't ever seem important, and we had enough trouble trying to understand each other anyway.

[twinked_witch]

Hrm. Who are 'you' in the collective sense, then? I know you have said your names from 'before' are irrelevant, but...

[bastionpc]

A group of people, trying to survive. [She pauses for a moment, and then decides that there's no harm in telling a bit more.] For the first couple of months, it was just a group of us from the same building. The building I worked in, it was very large and held several companies. When the fires came, those of us who were in the elevators survived. We were lucky it was just a quick burst of fire, so it didn't have time to heat the elevators up like an oven. And the people in the bank on the first floor, they saw the fire coming, so many of them got into the bank vault and survived.

Then a few months later, we met other groups, but we couldn't understand each other. We stayed together for survival, but all of our efforts were focused on surviving and trying to find ways to communicate with each other.

just grey - and this willl be zuko & azula team fire nation

[fireburn]

[it wasn't that azula didn't trust other people to get answers (okay maybe that was also true), but mostly she wanted to interrogate them for herself. at least that was the initial plan, but plans change and zuko tagged along with her for some true sisterly bonding via interrogation.]

Hello there. Are you comfortable?

[actually her tone is anything but caring but you know, appearances.]

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko is here partly to see for herself what Grey has to say, and partly to make sure that inflicting her sister on the prisoners doesn't turn out to be a really bad idea. Azula's never really needed violence to get information out of people. It should be fine, right?

She's going to hang back and let Azula lead for the moment. Zuko doesn't exactly cut a more intimidating figure here, so much as a more frowny one.]

[bastionpc]

[Grey is a little nervous about being by himself with these too, but Zuko kept Red alive, so he will be a bit more respectful towards her.]

As well as can be, I guess. I mean, I wish I could go explore this place a bit, but I understand why I can't.

[fireburn]

You did attack one of our parties. That tends to make people unsympathetic.

[daughterofursa]

[Unsympathetic is right. If wanted to explore the Bastion, he's missed his chance.]

It was your choice to approach as an enemy.

[bastionpc]

[Grey looks away at that. He definitely did participate, but he doesn't seem to have as much of a grudge as Red does.]

Based on the information we had...

[But he trails off there. Ignorance is no excuse.]

[fireburn]

[maybe not an excuse, but he definitely opens the door for interest, and sometimes that's enough for Azula.]

Oh? What information was that?

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko doesn't say anything, but she remembers Red's accusations, that they'd been "far from peaceful" and that the ambush was their own fault.]