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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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.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link's experience of mining mostly boils down to smashing - or exploding - really big chunks of rock until something interesting falls out. For anything more skilled than that, you'd need one of the Gerudo.

Fortunately, Link doesn't need to have that kind of experience. But what he can do is keep on lookout, watching the corridors while Senshi works. He'd downed a sneaky elixir before they started, dampening every sound he makes - and making it that much harder for anyone to notice him.

He glances down the tunnels, before making a quick gesture towards Senshi - one that says that they're in the clear. No one's arrived to interrupt them - not yet.

[tisfinished]

Rather than speaking, he gestures - holding up a spread palm, then pointing the way. Mimicking a bird falling over and then pantomiming a pair of legs running for a certain direction.

Five more charges to place. Next one's this way. If the canary faints, abort mission and run for the exit.

[newmemorywhodis]

Right, the canary. Link should remember to keep checking on them.

He lifts up the canary's cage to peer inside. The little yellow bird chirped at him - still happy and healthy. The canary wasn't dead! Link gives Senshi a nod, and a little thumbs up. They're safe!

Then he steps towards the direction Senshi indicated. Slow and silent, he moves forward, keeping his eyes peeled for anything - and anyone - that might interrupt them.

Bluvink

[upupatomway]

A. Entry

From afar, the guards outside the factory appear to be walking assigned routes as described by provided intelligence. Atom is confident in his ability to navigate the factory, having the blueprints stored in his data, but avoiding the guards still poses a challenge. Blueprints didn't say things like how fast the guards walked or how noisy the doors were when they were moved.

Atom frowns, thinking over their situation. "...I could... try to observe their routes and average walking speed from afar?" he suggests one possibility.

B. Scanning

After a successful entry, Atom gets busy scanning their surroundings. His eyes light for a moment, a bright green, then go back to normal. He turns to the others and nods to them.

"No guards nearby- I don't see their body heat signatures," he reassures those who are with him, voice a cautious whisper.

B

[straykitty]

Renne had watched the being that appeared to be a young boy with a faint smile. She nodded without complaint at his report.

"Shall we get to business, then?"

[upupatomway]

"Better compare our position to the map and the pass the charges around," Atom agrees. He removes the knapsack he had carried inside once they were able to get past the guards, and starts by pulling out the curled up paper map on top. He holds it out to her, having already added it to his data.

"Generally, the bigger the room, the higher the roof, and the higher the climbing for some of the locations will be." He better point it out before anyone claims a specific area, just in case there are any with a fear of heights or those who excel at reaching high places.

[straykitty]

"Elevation will not be an issue for me," Renne replies confidently. "Were we wanting to avoid hostiles or... neutralize them?"

[upupatomway]

"Avoid. If they find out about our presence, they'll be curious why we're here. We don't want anyone to call for a sweep of the factory and finding the charges," he explains.

He sure hopes it won't come to neutralization. He also wonders how much experience she has despite being a teenage human, but they don't have time for that conversation.

He starts pulling charges from his bag and offers a couple of them to her while the others who had carried in charges start passing them around too. "You were there for the demonstration, right?" he asks everyone present, just in case anyone in the group missed the meeting or had forgotten due to nerves. "As long as these are placed within ten feet of the noted location on the map, it should be effective. So if there's a place out of sight, take advantage of it. The one exception are the marked load bearing beams- make sure the charges are placed somewhere on the beams themselves."

[straykitty]

"Well that's no fun." Renne jokingly pouts a bit, but still listens attentively and watches with sharp eyes, nodding once after the explanation is finished.

"Understood. Shall we?"

[upupatomway]

The group starts to split, with several people already sure of which locations they're taking care of. Atom turns to Renne and points to a few of marks on the map. "Can you join me placing the charges at some of the higher up locations? I can fly, but the ones at the far end here are close to some of the storage areas that I need to avoid while using flying."

A

[theriflespiral]

"A few ideas occur. One is entry from above. That would only work for someone who could fit on gliders with the payload, but would gain us roof access and the run of the maintenance walks. Problems there: I don't know where the thermals are, and if they have searchlights, we'll have to think of a way around those."

"Slipping in with the shift makes us difficult to discover, but makes smuggling in the payload intensely difficult."

"... Or, someone could make a diversion. Load an ether stone into a completed Armor and joyride as long as you can. It's sure to get their attention and obscure our target. Problem is, they'd still zero in on the factory, and you'd need to lead enough forces away to make entry easier.... And if we do it, it'd have to be during the planned comms blackout, which might be a very limited window."

Re: A

[lightnovelexperiences]

“I could get on the roofs from on foot,” Deedee says, more confident about this than the overall mission. “One of the perks of mixing kung fu with magic. The difficulties then become letting the rest of you in without getting caught.”

[upupatomway]

"A distraction is a good idea- it should give us enough time for our entry. I just worry that the guards will become more paranoid if they realize there's clearly a trespasser. They might come looking for more of us. Is there anything we could distract them with that could be blamed on an animal or a malfunction?" Atom asks. "Do either of you have transformation or illusion abilities?"

[theriflespiral]

"As far as transformation techniques go, my best is an Imperial soldier's uniform." Are those imperial soldiers down there? Or is it more of a 'this noble owns the factory and is supplying a Guard, with the local garrison for backup'-type deal?

[upupatomway]

"The factory is owned by a noble, and they've hired their own guards. I wasn't told whether the guards are any more or less adept than most imperial soldiers."

Movement catches Atom's eyes and he zooms his view in to confirm who he's seeing. "The guards are looping back around again." He points to where they're emerging from out of the shadows with their lanterns.

[theriflespiral]

"So... About two minutes, maybe less, to get over the wall and around. Doable. Any desync on the routes?"

Bluvink - Location Scouting for Ideal Distraction Site

[purplexing]

Trusting that the explosives he's helped finalize are in good hands, Donnie decides to put his other skills to better use. They still want to make sure the collateral damage is at a minimum, and after talks with Harlock, working out a way to draw people well away from the area they're going to wreak havoc in seems the best route.

At the same time, they don't want to get anyone hurt there either, so finding somewhere that will get enough attention but still not be too big of a threat will be ideal. Bonus points if it burns real bright!

The turtlekin hunkers down in the shadows of a rooftop, scarf pulled snug enough to hide the bottom portion of his face, hood shadowing the rest. He pulls the collar of his jacket closed, thankful for the warmth as up here it's even chillier. His eyes scan the streets below, and he slips his notepad out to add to the rough map he's made.

"I'm thinking..." he says, speaking into his ENC bracer, "-that we'll probably need to aim for somewhere a little closer to the target for this distraction to be effective. If it's well on the opposite side of the city, the people we want to draw away from that point might not feel bothered enough to investigate."

Re: Bluvink - Location Scouting for Ideal Distraction Site

[theriflespiral]

This is Natalia. There's a few buildings from which we hope to infiltrate; we'll want it away from those as well. SE of factory?

[purplexing]

"Hm... Got it. I'd assume such buildings would still be too close within range anyway," he considers as he reads the text that comes up. It's still faster for him to talk then type, but he's getting better at the latter.

"Southeast, huh..."

[theriflespiral]

I was mostly herded between Servant's Housing and the factory, so someone else who knows the layout better might have a good target.

Ancillary process factory? There was storage for volatiles

Someone had to make them, and the closer they are, the less stuff they have to spend getting it here-- and the less care they'd have to take.

[purplexing]

Donnie nods to himself as he starts crossing the rooftop, keeping low until he has to jump across to a neighboring building.

"Doesn't hurt to ask. But an...an...cillary?" Ugh, he wishes this thing had a dictionary built in. "-external volatiles storage would be excellent, actually. -Or maybe too good. Something neighboring it? That will be enough of a threat to the actual storage facilities, and they'll probably want as many hands on deck to take care of things before it can spread to there."

[theriflespiral]

Ancillary process factory, read: the people that make the stuff the factory uses.

note I am speculating.

I do not understand Imperial logistics.
You would know better than I.

Barring that, threaten civic buildings or a loading yard.

[purplexing]

"Speculation is still better than nothing, and even if you don't understand Imperial logistics, we're dealing with more of a civilian presence."

He settles back against a chimney, nudging his goggles down t scope out the buildings on this side.

"All suggestions will be taken under consideration. Harlock and I talked about setting a fire, which is why my concerns about anything storage-related that might have volatile contents."