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Who: Blaine, Killian, Akito, Gabriel, Julien, Soren, Skyler, Magdalene, Sho, Neku, Gerald, more tba
What: Log for Children Are Dumb, The Plot. A few NPC children have gone to search for Karate Bugman in the underground. Cue a numbered rescue mission, since the unnumbered authorities are unfit...
Where: The underground & the outskirts of the dead district.
When: January 15th

Please thread freely with each other and NPC the children and the Blood Keys yourselves. There are short descriptions of the children at the bottom of the the plot post.

Please don't reply to the post itself, reply to the thread starters that will be up in a moment.

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There is a good way that they have to walk underground before they find the children. Darkness, rats, the cold, and it might smell badly sometimes, the sewers are a part of the underground too after all... but no actual trouble.

Blaine is equipped with a GPS handheld device that looks vaguely older than one would expect, and will mostly lead the group.... for a while. After a bit, she waves the next best person over. "Hey, you. C'mere." Names are obviously for losers ~~or rather, she bothered to remember none of the new ones, with other things having priority in her head.~~

Fay, for all that he can be painfully fussy about some things, seems pretty fine with walking through over slippery ground in the mirk, even with the smell. He used to live pretty close to a rather old-fashioned turkey farm, and there are honestly few things that quite beat that stink.

He does, however, yelp a bit when a rat runs past his foot, and accidentally scewers it on a sudden claw. Looks a bit embarrassed and tries to play nonchalant when he's waved over by Blaine. "Is it much further, you think?"

"I don't think so." Implied that she's not quite sure - also she saw your reaction to the rat.

Which makes her mostly think that he's probably not used to places where there would be such animals. She still doesn't quite know what to think about him - he seems sheltered on the one hand yet... didn't quite give her the vibe that he was. "But they might have moved." And if they have moved too far, locating them with her short-distance sensor will be impossible... and that would mean an actual search.

Well, technically there had been rats in the building he lived before he moved together with Youou, and roaches too. But... well, there are roaches and roaches, after all. And he can swear that one had been the size of a fully grown schnauzer. And it's true that for all that he's had some rough patches in his life, he's always been good at gliding with the stream and not getting into too much trouble. And that, in his book, included sewer-diving for any reason.

"Well, that's a bit of a bitch. You think they know we're coming after them? Or would they have k- gotten rid of the kids if they thought that?"

"I don't know." She shakes her head briefly. "We'll assume that they are alive until proven otherwise...

...If you don't return, will someone be searching for you?" It only occurred to her now - it's unlikely, but what if something happens to the group or parts of it? Depending on how interested people will be, they might have to find a better way to have bodies be "found" than just leaving them where they are.

Fay blinks in surprise at a question like that, because it comes a little bit out of left field, but at the same time he can understand why she asks.

"Well, my sister's still in the city, so she'd probably wonder where I'd gone after a while. Haven't seen or talked to the rest of my family in seven years." A small shrug. "Youou's family would definitely stir up heaven and earth. But we're intending to return, right~?" An sweet little sing-song, not quite sardonic but close.

"Oh, we are. And with our firepower I don't think that it should be an issue - at least not from down here. Still." She shrugs. "Knowing if there's a place to deliver the body to, right?"

Not that anyone would care if she herself didn't come back - they'd notice that she didn't come into work, Julien would have to find a new flatmate. That is about it. Not that she minds so much, but she's aware that other people might have more caring going on.

Fay's thoughts run up against delivering Youou's body to his parents, having gotten there far too quickly, and he swallows down a wave of nausea. Thinking about things like that is just stupid.

"Mmm, and I think I might just be rather hard to kill regardless. I heal pretty damn fast." That is obviously mostly a way of distracting himself from further ghoulish speculations. "Anyway, yeah, I can't imagine many things that we couldn't handle, all of us together." You say that now, Fay...

And so does she. Not that she hopes to have to do it, because that might scream all types of things to the world that she really want to keep to herself. "Skyler and Soren seem to be particularly useful - they will both be in your group." It's almost like all the overpowered people go with the kids and the relative normal, but trained in combat ones go with Blaine...

Yes, he has already speculated a little about that, but in a sense he supposed it made sense to him. Put the really powerful people to protect the kids, let the others deal with whatever else comes up. Wasn't that human nature?

"Well, I still hope we won't have to use our little gifts. Thinking about waving my claws around with kids close by makes me a bit nervous, but... needs must, and I have good reflexes." He sighs, scanning the gloom with eyes that seem to reflect any light in a rather catlike way. "And the fact that the kids might see us do things normal people shouldn't, how do we deal with that? We don't want to make them targets, right?"

"They'll think I have friends who are superheroes, and nobody will believe their story." She's quite sure of both parts of that, and clearly thinks that the thought of herself having friends, even more this many, is rather ridiculous.

And putting more powerful people with the useless ones... someone has to make up for that. It's supposed to even out in the end. "I doubt that anything will come out of it even if they tell an authority - they've been talking about superheroes and how they are everywhere for too long. Like how conspiracy theorists won't be believed even if they really do happen about something."

"I guess. I'd keep an eye on who they talk to still. Some of the people who are after us seem just about trigger-happy enough to go after children just for saying they met a bunch of super heroes." Okay, so the whole network thing has made him rather paranoid, alright? He manages to smile a bit feebly, as if aware of the fact, shrugging his narrow shoulders and then pushing them up as if to ward off the cold. "Regardless, after what happened with that poor boy's family, I feel pretty sorry for the people who have a lot of family and friends in this city, people who might get in the line of fire."

"What poor boy's family?" She'd hate for her efforts here to go to waste, so she'll actually do the keeping an eye on them thing... but then they aren't her family and she has little official ties to them, that might make them be safer.

"You know, that kid that got killed on the network?" He grimaces, tasting gall even now to think about it. "Those bastards got to his family too, burned down their house I think. They had nothing to do with the network, but they still... just killed them. Probably to stop them asking questions when he disappeared." He shakes his head hard, trying not to think about how he does have a family in the city now, even if it's not his own. "It's a pretty scary thought, right?"

"If you have family, I guess." She shrugs; she doesn't even have a friends-family or close friends of another type, much less blood relatives that she would care about.

"Mm, yes." He doesn't really consider himself as really having a family either, considering the seven-year gap, but... there's Jenny. And not just her anymore. "Or if you know someone on the network who does." A family that had been really kind to - if perplexed by - you, for example. "That's what I meant, though. Those on the network with fewer connections to other people have less to fear."

"Just another good reason to not even start with that." She shrugs. "Getting attached and all that." She checks the gps. "You seem to be an awfully caring guy."

Fay winces and shrugs, staring at the GPS too for somewhere to look. "I used to could be pretty good at the 'not being attached' thing. That usually only leads to complications, right?" He sighs, more confused than exasperated. "But when things started happening for serious, almost the first thing I remembered was Youou and... well, now it's kinda too late, ain't it?"

"So you knew him in your former life, too?" It... makes her worry. What with that strange blond girl, Chloe? Well, woman, but.

Point. She'd rather not echo ridiculous attachments, even if she guesses that it could be worse, the girl is rather cute...

"Yeah. I'm pretty sure we loved each other back then too, even if there were... issues. Or more like prescriptions from the look of it." He laughs a bit wryly, pulling a hand through his hair. "But yeah, we just saw each other and there was that creepy heartbeat feeling, and... I just knew he was important." And that he wanted to taste his blood, but that's less relevant. "It seems there's quite a few people being drawn to people they used to know in one way or another."

"Oh, I think there are people here whom past me knew." She pockets the gps for the moment. "Just nobody like that." Yup denial is totally the way to go ~~it will be impossible by the evening anyway~~. "I'd not even be surprised if half of them want my head."

"Ah, really?" That takes him a little bit by surprise, but as he thinks about it... "Well, I guess it makes sense in a way? If we can meet old friends, or even people we used to love, then I guess we should be able to meet people we didn't like too." Still, that makes him a bit uncomfortable. He's not sure what kind of enemies past-him would've had, but he can't imagine they're pleasant. "So there's no one among them that you remember... you know, caring about?" Fay, wow, that's a personal question.

"No." She shrugs. "From the little that I know, former me and current me seem to have had a lot in common."

Just ignore that she just rallied a group of people together to save some kids. She totally doesn't worry about them, it's just because their vanishing would get her in trouble. Yup.

"Mmm, really now..." Yes, he can't help noticing that while her attitude is harsh and she no doubt does keep people at arm's length... Well, they're still down here, and he's pretty certain it's not just because she'll get in trouble, should the kids go missing. "I suppose we're all more or less alike them, depending." That sure was a diplomatic answer. "And alike or not, I hope no one from you past life actually does come for your head. It seems a bit silly to hold on to grudges in this life, doesn't it?"

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