EVENT #05: FIREWORKS FOR NEW YEAR PREPARATION

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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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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."

[straykitty]

"Not a problem," Renne says confidently. "I can scale that easily." With a small smile, she takes the charges and nimbly begins jumping and climbing up to the requested locations.

[upupatomway]

What Atom sees of her ascent to the assigned places makes it clear why she was confident in her ability to scale the factory. She's like an acrobat, he notes, reminded of robots and people from the circus he was once a part of.

Atom kicks off the cheap sandals he was wearing and fires up his feet, flying up to plant his share of the explosives high on the support beams above. At least if the Imperials caught on that something odd was happening at the factory, they would have a hard time finding the charges that were higher up and facing away from the floor. He hurries to return to the ground, not wanting to keep an open flame alight for long even with the wide space away from the danger zones. He slips his sandals back on and looks around to check on others' progress.

[straykitty]

"That was interesting."

Renne casually emerges from the shadows behind Atom, her tone mild. "I don't think I know an art that can cast fire from your feet."

[upupatomway]

Atom was mentally checking locations off the factory map that he knew had been planted, but perks up at the sound of her returning from the task. "Oh, I'm only a beginning spellcaster," he insists, looking bashful. "The flame emitters were built into me so I can fly."

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?"

[lightnovelexperiences]

"No illusions or transformations," Deedee says. "What I've got are the power to call and direct gale force winds, supernaturally good athletics - superleaping, forcing open windows, kicking down locked doors. Subtlety isn't my strongest suit, but if we need to go loud..."

She squares her stance and puts a fist in her hand.

[upupatomway]

Atom looks around at the group of people they need to sneak in. He's sure just the three of them could make it easily in less than two minutes, but with multiple more following, it's more risky.

"Maybe we can combine the ideas? Deedee is acrobatic enough to leap where the guards aren't looking. Do you think you can create a noise to draw their attention away from the factory entrance, then rejoin us without being seen?" he asks her.

Atom then looks to Natalia for her opinion. "In the meanwhile we can take advantage of the delay of the guards and sneak the group in with more time to spare."

[lightnovelexperiences]

“I can knock things over with wind spells for your distraction,” Deedee says, frowning. “And from there… I think I can manage avoiding attention long enough to rejoin you. I’m a little worried about how much Qi - Ether I’ll burn but I’ve been working on my capacity.”

Ziel’s breathing techniques did not come easily to Deedee, but she had been practicing, and they were working.

[theriflespiral]

"... if you can make them even a little less than gale force I'm pretty sure we can just get the gliders over that way-- our own personal updrafts. But... if that dips into your Ether too much... Nn..."

She pauses, sketching out a few thoughts in the snow, before humming in thought. Definitely not frustration at these new physical laws she's working with. "I don't know enough about the energy consumption to say."

[lightnovelexperiences]

"Doing it with less force is easier. Yeah, I can help you catch a ride with little trouble. Hell, if Sylphan was here he'd probably make it easier because it's in service to tweaking the noses of tyrants."

[theriflespiral]

"The... Only other problem is, it would still leave you in a precarious position-- You would have to be our literal tailwind." She wipes the picture in the snow away. "I would volunteer to be your guard."

[upupatomway]

"I'd volunteer to give a lift, but my flight is flashy and draws attention. I better stick with the group and make sure the placement of the explosives gets started without a hitch as soon as we're inside. So if we're agreed on the distraction, Deedee, it sounds like it's up to you if you feel you could use the backup."

He taps the side of his head. "I can turn up my hearing, and listen for your distraction to help with the timing on this end."