EVENT #05: FIREWORKS FOR NEW YEAR PREPARATION

[vivalamods]

EVENT #05: FIREWORKS FOR NEW YEAR PREPARATION

With winter’s chill already setting in, Corsair laboratories are hard at work pumping out explosives for the operation to come. After extensive training, the crews of the Corsair airship brigade bring the infiltrators quietly to the Isles Above, all cabin lights doused to move stealthily to the drop point. There, Corsair specialists will disembark and plant explosives, as well as, perhaps, make contact with local workers and evacuate them if time permits. With all crews operating with quiet efficiency, the time is almost nigh to strike at the heart of the Empire itself.

Any mission marked Critical must have at least one log in progress by the end of the month to be counted as complete. Missing Critical missions will have major negative impacts on the Execution mission in the following month. Supplemental missions can be completed or not, completing them will go toward achieving optimal results during the Execution mission next month. As with Critical missions, Supplemental missions must have at least one log in progress by the end of the month to be counted as complete.

SUPPLIER MISSIONS

Create Explosives: Characters will need to create explosives and munitions for deployment.
Priority: Critical
Challenges: In order to get explosives that will make enough of a dent in the Imperial forces, Corsairs will need to develop them from the live rounds dropped above the vault. Logs can involve recovering salvage as well as construction of explosives.

Develop Precision Explosives: Characters will need to develop precision explosives to avoid undue damage to the civilians of Bluvink during the attack.
Priority: Supplemental
Challenges: This will require some research and development from suppliers to find explosives that will detonate at very specific levels in order to not cause the volatile materials within the Bluvink factory to ignite and cause wide-scale damage to the town.

Develop Communications Hijack: Characters will need to develop a tool that can hijack communications within the Empire.
Priority: Supplemental
Challenges: This will require recovering some Imperial communication technology from salvage or from the Vault and finding a way to dominate Imperial airwaves so they can’t shut down the Corsair propaganda.

INFILTRATOR MISSIONS

Set Explosives in Bluvink: Characters will need to sneak into the Bluvink factory and set explosives, preparing for them to explode during the New Year attack.
Priority: Critical
Challenges: The factory has regular guard rotations that can be figured out with proper observation, they will need to be avoided. The facility will also need to be properly cased so that the explosives can be set in places they will not be detected.

Set Explosives in the Vindess Mines: Characters will need to sneak into the Vindess Mines and set explosives, preparing for them to explode during the New Year attack.
Priority: Critical
Challenges: The mines have regular guard rotations and are constantly manned by serfs and servants. All will need to be avoided in order to set the explosives, and those manning the mines must be avoided at all costs.

NEGOTIATOR MISSIONS

Miner Negotiation: Characters will need to convince the miners to evacuate and to join with the Corsairs, as well as not tip off the Imperials.
Priority: Supplemental
Challenges: Many miners are distrustful of the Corsairs due to Imperial Propoganda, and several are Imperial loyalists even under the current circumstances. Several miners may need to be subdued in order to safely evacuate the area without their captors being alerted.

VILLAINS

Villain plots will be planned this month and will happen in the following month. Potential villains may post here to start workshopping potential plots that they may take part in next month.

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Comments

Questions

[vivalamods]

[theriflespiral]

I have two major questions:

1. Do we know if the Empire has a way to detect disabled suppression collars at close range?
2. How certain are we that they store munitions in the same factory as they build their Armors?

[upupatomway]

How important is it to avoid creating sparks or flames inside the factory? Like, would one have to be right next to the munitions or volatile chemicals or are we saying there are entire big rooms where sparks in the air in general could easily lead to explosions and fire? Are munitions and chemicals stashed away at all for the safety of the factory workers or are they lying around with open container lids, etc.

[upupatomway]

A question came up in a thread about the factory security. Is the factory owned by the empire and guarded by soldiers, or owned by a noble and guarded by private security?

Final Group Planning

[vivalamods]

[purplexing]

Donnie's good for either assisting as a Supplier or Infiltrator.

For Supplier he'd be better suited for either explosives development or working on how to hijack communications. Leaning more towards the latter.

For Infiltrator he'd throw in on Bluvink because he's not going near any more mines if he can help it, at least for a while.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link would be most useful for the Infiltrator missions! He can make some Sneaky elixirs/food to help with stealthing in, and there's probably a way to misuse Fuse in order to place explosives.

No preference for either Bluvik or the Mines, Link could do either.

[upupatomway]

In the Supplier category, Atom could help with any of the three prompts. Fetching explosives might be slightly less dangerous for him of all people. Prepping the explosives or the communication hijack device are fair game with his basic mechanic/physics knowledge. I'll choose based on where others end up going to help cover more prompts.

Infiltrator-wise, Atom is probably most useful at Bluvink so he can scan the place and make careful calculations to keep the future explosion in check despite the volatile chemicals present.

Also an option: Backing up the mine explosion team by crunching numbers quickly for them based on information such as video, measurements, and maps they send him via the network. If you'd like, you're welcome to handwave this communication happening by dropping a brief mention of it in your thread. I'm also open to threading it if anyone wishes.

[freearcadia]

Harlock would work the best as an infiltrator, he's happy to go to either the factory or mines, leaning towards the factory

Thomas would be more of a negotiator - BS an official reason to go and try to convince the miners to run... or forged orders to transfer as many as he can.

[redprayer]

Rezo's definitely going to be working primarily as a Supplier, working on explosives and development of precision explosives. I think I might also have him work as a Negotiator and try to convince the miners to join up with the Corsairs.

Re: Final Group Planning

[straykitty]

Renne is good for the communications hijacking, it's definitely her forte, and can also help either setting bombs or being around to execute any turncoat miners if needed.

Re: Final Group Planning

[theriflespiral]

Natalia can help Develop Precision Explosives (calculating the energy needed), Develop Explosives, or act as an Infiltrator. Given she has a personal glider and a long-range weapon, if she's to assist an Infiltration it's probably at Bluvink.

Re: Final Group Planning

[harlequinchimera]

Oki would be good for Supplier or Infiltrator.

For Supplier, hijacking communications tech is something she has quite a bit of experience with, from both the technology end and the surveillance/snooping end.

For Infiltrator, she could help with both cover and gathering intelligence, as well as actually doing the planting of the seeds.

Re: Final Group Planning

[tisfinished]

Senshi will be Setting Explosives in the Mines and also Negotiating with the Miners. It's personal for him... not to mention he used to be one of the miners and knows something of what they've been through.

Re: Final Group Planning

[lightnovelexperiences]

Infiltrator Deedee hears Bluvink is nice this time of year, and perhaps such a hardworking town deserves a branch of her spa and bathhouse?

This can go horribly wrong horribly fast.

Re: Final Group Planning

[chosenkingoflucis]

Noctis will do best with Infiltrator missions. He has plenty of experience with infiltrating enemy bases and stealthing through them.

He can set explosives as well. Probably more in Bluvink than the Mines.

Sorry everyone for disappearing. I was in the hospital for a couple weeks, then had complications after release. Hoping to ease back into things.

Villain Plotting

[vivalamods]

Re: Villain Plotting

[esperbuthuman]

Terra will be deploying in Bluvink to chase some terrorists, I can take up to 4 folks who might be interested in an encounter!

Supplier Missions

[vivalamods]

[upupatomway]

A. Create Explosives

Every step of building explosives is dangerous, but as long as everyone is careful, the most dangerous part of this process has to be the retrieval of live Imperial ammunitions from the test field over The Vault. While they do go up under the cover of night to avoid revealing their presence to the Empire, the Imperial test firing of experimental weapons remains relentless at all times of the day, making it a very risky task.

Atom volunteers to go up, being both a smaller target and resistant to shrapnel and the sharp remains of used targets. With his scanners, he can see in the dark and locate desired material easily. But his stature comes with short arms that can only carry so much, and they'll need a lot of material to make enough bombs for both target locations.

Finding the material is one thing. Carrying it back safely under fire in the dark is another.

B. Precision

As one of the people planning to go the Bluvink factory, Atom takes time to prepare and do his part in determining the amount and strength of explosives needed. He starts by looking over the provided blueprints of the factory and flipping through books from the Vault library on chemicals and the armor manufacturing process. He goes quickly, speed reading books like- well- a machine.

Another down... Next... He grabs another book from the pile.

Anyone who knows him is used to his curious and friendly nature, but he looks different in this moment. Focused, intense, even grave. Nobody in this world would know, but there's a clear resemblance to his creator in him as he studies like this.

Eventually he starts writing notes. Those who are good with chemistry or engineering might want to discuss their thoughts on the progress the group has made so far.

[harlequinchimera]

III: Hijack

In what felt like her first real task since arriving and getting equipped and outfitted, Oki turned her eyes to the Vault's gathered intelligence on the communications of the Empire. It started with a visit to a storage area, where the chimera clomped in, gathered up a large, unused table in her arms and simply hefted it and took it to a corner of the Vault's facilities, found a spot free of anything too large or fragile for her to haul aside. Her next movement was to gather whatever plans, books and notes she could find - modest as the collection was - on the state of the art of signals technology, and the present state of affairs in the Empire. All of this, she stacked, organized and filed for relative ease of access along one side of the table, and she sat there and began to read, and assimilate information. She also began to take notes, using the local language, her hand practiced and her handwriting tight, even blocky.

A Little R&D (Explosives Development)

[purplexing]

Donnie's always been more of a hands-on learner, more so because books have only become an available option to him after his joining the Corsairs. Even then, he's still working his way through having a thorough grasp of the written language he's otherwise grown up knowing, and while he's improved, it's still difficult picking through texts with specific terminology.

So instead, the turtlekin relies on information he's learned from others and from experimentation, and from his personal experience in working on and with armors and their related gear.

In this particular instance, he's taken to doing some test detonations in a designated section of the Vault, taking note as he does so in regards to material, strength, damage radius for x amount... Of course it's rather loud in here and he's got his earmuffs on so one might have to put some effort into getting his attention if he's not already aware that they're present.

Infiltrator Missions

[vivalamods]

[tisfinished]

Senshi never mined at Vindess, but Senshi knows mines. Knows their stifling darkness, how quickly the air can turn acrid, how treacherous the stones around one can be. He knows it because those stones betrayed him and his, once.

It's why he must save who he can now.

He didn't come alone. Not only his teammates from the corsairs are with him, but he's bearing the proverbial canary in a cage, with a setup to revive it, with conjured air in the worst case using an Air Ether crystal - he didn't have a crystal large enough to revive a fully grown person.

He but very carefully places a charge against a wall, and unspools the fuse.

Negotiator Missions

[vivalamods]

Re: Negotiator Missions

[tisfinished]

Senshi never mined at Vindess, but Senshi knows miners. Knows the camraderie between freely employed miners and pride in a job well done, measured by the pound and the ton. Knows that they're inured to discomfort, so long as they are paid well; knows that they burn with resentment that they're being replaced by unskilled slaves who don't know the signs of strain.

It's why he must save who he can now. And for now, this means joining the line, canary cage strapped to his chest, demonstrating that he is one of them.

Convincing the miners unionists that they're being had isn't hard. It's convincing them to have compassion for the slaves - to help them evacuate as well when the time comes - that will be the trick.

"Oh, Vindess is a terrible place, where they rub wet clay in the blackleg's face..." he sings, in time with passing loose rock down to the waste carts.