Bastion NPC ([personal profile] bastionpc) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-12-12 06:49 pm

Core Event: Day 259 [open]

Who: NPCs and you!
Open: Open
When: Day 259
Where: Starting in the Bastion, and continuing on the Skyway
What: A Core has been spotted! And....another Core? What is this?!
Format: action
Warnings: none

Starters are in the individual threads within the post. Important threads will be linked here.

IMPORTANT LINKS:

Start of the event

Continuing on

important metaplot things

Boss fight!
windgod: (Huh?)

[personal profile] windgod 2014-12-15 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Ippo nodded, leaving Colin and Zuko to their own devices as he set about checking any desks or other furniture he might run across. Eventually though, he did come across the key rack and stared at it quizzically, tilting his head as he looked closer at the cell block where all the keys were missing from, trying to see if he could find out which one it was.]

Huh...that's weird, all the keys are missing from this section. Maybe someone was looking for something there?
daughterofursa: (dubious)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2014-12-15 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Zuko takes a moment to check the view from the guard tower to see if there's anything of note before helping to search drawers for any plans. Not that she can read any of the documents they do find, but it's easy enough to recognize a map.

She glances over at Ippo.]


Inside a cell block?

[What would you expect to find there?]
freedom_engineer: (At Work)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-15 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That's never a good sign. Odds are very good that whoever broke in was looking for someone in specific. Or an individual looking to free a group of people. If it was the latter, we can only hope that they all got turned to ash in the calamity.

Are there any labels on those keys? I can read Caelondian. Likewise, Zuko, if you find anything that looks important and you can't read it, bring it over to me.

Also...

People have been in and out of here with enough frequency that it wasn't a one time thing. Nobody's been in this room for a while, BUT there've been people in here on several instances.

[He scans the mechanism, producing tools to start taking it apart. A system like this shouldn't be too difficult to lock open and disable completely.]
windgod: (Huh?)

[personal profile] windgod 2014-12-15 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ippo did take that outlier to Colin so they could figure out what it was...and with the information at hand, there were a few options they could pursue now.]

Well...it looks like something was going down in Cell Block 3...either someone was looking for someone or something. It might not hurt to take a look...maybe even the solitary confinement places might have something...can't hurt to go take a look, could it?
daughterofursa: (never happy)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2014-12-15 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Zuko throws Colin a sharp glance.]

It might be convenient for us not to run into any trouble, but I'm not going to hope whoever it was died. Just because they were in prison doesn't mean they deserved to be here, or that their crimes were that severe.

[Speaking as someone who got two of her loved ones (and herself, briefly) thrown in prison...]

It looks like the cell blocks are marked [somehow], so we should be able to figure out which one that is to check it out.
freedom_engineer: (At Work)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-15 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Colin takes a moment to curse in a decidedly foreign tongue as he studies the mechanism. He starts putting away the tools he was taking out, and he glances to Zuko. He starts to open his mouth, then he pauses and shakes his head.]

There are reasons for us to want this place empty, and that's all I'll say on the matter here. I'm happy to debate it, but this is the wrong time and place.

[Colin takes the key from Ippo, giving it a quick look.]

"Solitary." I'm curious what's down there. But we're not going to have time to search a whole prison. We still need to find a map to the prison's storage area. Or, y'know, the Warden's office. We could probably find a prisoner manifest there to figure out who was supposed to be in these cells.

Nothing else useful? No weapons?

[Not that he's surprised. If people have been through here, they'll have been looking for the same thing. His biggest hope now is to find a locked armory, or some overlooked caches somewhere...]
Edited 2014-12-15 23:59 (UTC)
windgod: (Keep looking forward)

[personal profile] windgod 2014-12-19 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, the Warden's Office was as good a place as any to start the search for anything of major import; even if they just found notes or clues, there were likely to be at least some of those lying around.

As well, Ippo would carefully pour around the desk or any cabinets looking for anything that might be useful, either to them right now or to the Bastion as a whole. Who knew what he might run into?
]
daughterofursa: (headscratch)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2014-12-19 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Between the guard tower and the warden's office, they still don't seem to be finding anything too useful. If there was anything, whoever came here before probably cleared most of it out, like the weapons Colin seems keen to find.]

I still don't see anything like a map. Some of these might be lists, but...

[It's gibberish to her. Lists of prisoners? Requisitions? The warden's personal grocery list?]

We might be better off going to check that cell block.
freedom_engineer: (Head cocked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-19 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Look, let's take just a minute here first. If we know who's in that cell block, or WHAT they were in for, we can know what we're likely going to find down there. Or not find, as it seems more likely in this case.

[Colin's going to leaf through the letters, paying special attention to that one with the Mancer's seal. He arches an eyebrow, and gives a low whistle.]

Well, well... looks like Zulf, Raile, Zia, and Rucks' little plan hadn't been going unnoticed... This letter's saying that they'd been planning to arrest the old man.

And given that it's at the top of the pile, seems likely to me that this was shortly before the calamity...

[He glances at Ippo and Zuko with a grin, then he looks around the Warden's office with some new curiosity.]

I need a prisoner manifest, and I want to see if there's any more of these Mancer-marked letters... it strikes me that there's some good information to be had here.

[He also isn't giving up hopes for cache of shards or weapons or SOMETHING, but he knows this place has been heavily picked over already. He wouldn't be surprised if the Ura hadn't already raided this place to free their countrymen...]

Especially for Cell Block three. That's where all those keys seemed to be missing for...
windgod: (Huh?)

[personal profile] windgod 2014-12-19 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Well...that was certainly news to be sure. He'd heard about the group through the grapevine, but that was about all...things considered, it was disconcerting to say the least. Still, he'd continue rummaging around, looking for the things Colin had suggested...the more information the better after all.]

But...what do you think it all means?
daughterofursa: (headscratch)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2014-12-19 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Zuko hasn't heard too much about them, and the fact that someone was going to be arrested doesn't mean much to her. How are old arrest records going to be useful information? Still, she starts rooting around to see if there's anything else with that seal.]

You think they kept Ura sympathizers here?

[Maybe the people who came in here before were from the Ura camp?]
freedom_engineer: (At Work)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-19 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that the Caelondians were like every short-sighted victorious force in a war that sought to dominate rather than repair.

[Just a trace of bitterness in his tone there.]

Other than that, I don't know. I suspect that the Mancers had domestic spies that were looking for dissent and treason anywhere they could find it, but... until I find something more, I've got no proof other than historical precedent.

[He's going to leaf through the mail pile first, though he suspects there's not going to be too much more useful stuff in there... then he's going to start going through the warden's desk. And probably taking it apart. Experience has taught him that everyone in positions of power have things they don't want other people to see, and in a pre-information age, that means hidden compartments in places they view as under their strict control...]
freedom_engineer: (Default)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-20 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[You better believe that he's taking that desk apart. Fortunately, with the combination of his eye and his engineering expertise, as well as a predilection towards breaking things, and understanding how things are made, that's not too difficult... With all this reading material, though...]

Okay, there's going to be plenty of stuff to read for later.

[Into the satchel it goes.]

If you've found anything good, let's see it... if not... Well, do we wanna check the possible mass breakout, or do we wanna check whoever was important enough to separate from everyone else?
daughterofursa: (serious face)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2014-12-20 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Nothing but paperwork, Colin. Zuko hands over what she's collected for his satchel.]

We still don't know where solitary is, do we?

[Plus it's not like they'd find anyone alive in there after all this time.]
windgod: (Keep looking forward)

[personal profile] windgod 2014-12-20 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
I guess not...so, to the cell block then?

[It would have been nice to check Solitary, but Zuko made a fair point as she usually did. It was better to take a shot where they had multiple chances at finding something rather than one big gamble.]
freedom_engineer: (Head cocked)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-20 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like our best option, then.

[Colin glances around the Warden's office one more time, growing disappointed... He'll come back later to check there service quarter, but he honestly doesn't expect to find anything. This is either the best planned prison, or the absolute worst...]
windgod: (Man...)

[personal profile] windgod 2014-12-20 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Ippo grimaced at the scene, surveying the levels of destruction around him. It was never easy to see, and while it wasn't his first time seeing dead bodies, the smell was horrendous enough to have him tucking his face into his shirt. He did however bother to check what cells he could manage to bring himself into; for all he knew, he might find something under a bed or mattress, but in between all of that he found the journal, which he tossed to Colin.]

I found this! Can you read it?

[He wasn't going to pat the bodies down for goods though...it just didn't feel right to him to rifle through someone's body looking for stuff.]
freedom_engineer: (At Work)

[personal profile] freedom_engineer 2014-12-20 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Careful with it, it looks like it's been through a lot...

[Colin follows Ippo in, his hand shooting up to catch the journal and hopefully find it without extra damage.]

Let's see what language this is in, first... I'm guessing 60-40 it's in Ura... Maybe a slim chance it's in some third language that we have yet to discover around here...

[He's not so sure he wants to let it be known that he knows how to read Ura... not that it will STOP him from reading it, of course... Just stop him from sharing later.]
daughterofursa: (I know)

[personal profile] daughterofursa 2014-12-20 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[About Zuko's only experience with dead bodies was Night, and the sight of the few here clearly makes her uncomfortable. Part of her just wants to avoid those cells entirely and part of her has to remind herself that they don't have time for funeral pyres.

She can handle the dried blood and the ripped open cells, though.]


Somehow I don't think this was a metalbender. [Which means, probably not a human.] Does it say anything in there about a monster?

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