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.]

Comments

[daughterofursa]

What was the plan?

[It shouldn't be any secret, right? Especially since most of them couldn't participate and Zuko is against the restore function anyway.]

[freedom_engineer]

I'm wondering what Samuel overheard, yeah.

Like we've observed several times in the past fifteen minutes, kids do the strangest things with the information they've got.

[Careful, Zuko, you agree at least somewhat with Colin.]

[bastionpc]

When we heard about the previous try from Zulf, we figured that the reason their plan failed was that they were already being watched, because of Rucks' involvement with Zulf and Zia. But I was only an apprentice, and my master had the keys to areas that Venn would have been working in, so I think I can possibly get into the right building after-hours and claim that I was sent by my master. My hope is that they wouldn't want to wake him, so they would go to him for confirmation in the morning, after the device that caused the Calamity is already dealt with.

After I'm in, I can let other people in through a side door, so they can help me with wrecking that thing.

[daughterofursa]

...great plan.

[Sounds like a gigantic maybe.]

Did Mireille and Georges have some ideas on dismantling it so you don't just set it off again?

[freedom_engineer]

[Colin arches his eyebrow almost to the point of comedic over-exaggeration. To his credit, though, he otherwise keeps a straight face.]

I'm going to assume that the three of you will have more planning time on that one. It's got a lot of potential for things to go horribly wrong.

You're sure that's all he could have overheard? No other discussions took place?

[He doesn't actually believe a word of this. And he knows that's ridiculous. He doesn't believe ANYONE he's heard from today entirely. Anna may be the only one he actually has the most faith in...]

[bastionpc]

Well yeah, it's only a general idea right now. We still need to find two more cores, as well as convince everyone it's a good idea, so we have time to come up with something.

I have enough mechanical know-how to at least be able to identify the power source and remove that, and if the plans are in the same room as the weapon then I can read through those and fully dismantle it.

[If Colin doesn't believe him, he can stuff it, because Nate thinks he has a good idea.]

...I may have said a few things about the restore function bringing people back to life. I- everyone's lost someone, and seeing them again would be nice.

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko isn't good enough at reading people to know if he's telling the truth or just trying to cover his tracks, but between him and Zahi she's not convinced something else isn't going on here. She can't just chalk it up to "kids misunderstanding things." On the other hand, she doesn't know how to catch either of them in a lie just from talking to them.

If only Toph were still here.]

It's wishful thinking is what it is.

[freedom_engineer]

[If Zuko and he were on better terms, he'd warn her that she's putting her foot in her mouth. Well, if they were on better terms, and if he could do such a thing without putting his foot in his mouth.

I don't think you'll ever convince me that the restore function is the way to go, but if I get outvoted... well... Don't just plan for the technical. What you're talking about is a surgical strike on a hardened government installation. And you're not going to have time to read plans, unless the Mancers don't have round the clock security on their weapons projects.

You're going to need a lot of people with solid skills to pull it off... and an extraction plan to avoid anyone getting killed when you're done.

[He doesn't like the plan they've got, but he'll never fault someone for planning for the future, even if it's going to be the past. Oh dear, temporal headache...]

Anyway, we're getting off topic. If you think of anything else later on that may be related to all of this, please let us know. We're still missing too many pieces of this puzzle to say we've solved what's happened. And the last thing I want is to let a potential lead get away just because everyone overlooked it.