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[siesinddasessen]

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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Williams Street: Gathering

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As detailed in the message, Blaine is leaning against a van that is standing near the entrance of William's Street, wearing a blue hoodie, while the quite sizable van blasts music. She will wave those that she recognizes over and tell them to get seated inside the bus, and to wait there until everyone has arrived.

At the entrance to the underground: Briefing

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After they get out of the bus, everyone will be given the equipment that Blaine promised them, and those that will be responsible for the children will be given backpacks with food and drink for them in them.

After everyone is ready, Blaine will hold them up a moment longer to give them a short briefing.

"Our plan is simple. Get down there, get the kids, resurface as quickly as possible. We don't want to fight with snake statues. If they show up, we'll protect ourselves, but if we can solve the situation with slowing them down and running, that is what we will do. Julien will pick us up when we are back on the surface.

Since this will most likely be near or in the dead district, we might encounter Blood Keys. In this case, we will split up.

Youou, Kara, Gabriel. You will run with the children. Magdalene, you will support them with that as necessary and otherwise join Killian, Fai and Soren with keeping an eye out for potential Blood Keys and fighting them if necessary. If you hit a dead end, Soren can carry you over obstacles but will be slow, so you other fighters might have to make time for him.

Everyone else. You will be coming with me in this case. Our secondary goal is to kill them, so they can't blab. If that is not possible, we will buy some time and then run, because there is no reason to lose anyone to them because of this.

If all of this fails, we will try to meet up with Julien before we have have gotten rid of them, or find a different solution.

You." She turns to the group that might have to run with the kids. "Agree on a leader. Someone who will make decisions when there is no time for discussions.

Also, everyone get Julien's number. Any questions?"

(ooc: If someone is unhappy with their grouping, PM me please.)

Underground

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Underground: Searching for the children

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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.

Underground: And they found them!

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They'd been walking for a good while, when suddenly voices can be heard from down the tunnel. Children's voices. They sound scared, but not acutely so.

Underground: Snake attack!

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Well, this was too easy, really. Just when they are preparing to get going with the children in tow, two moving state statues approach!

Above ground

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They have just emerged from the sewers at the outskirts of the death district, and Blaine was about to call Julien when a group of Blood Keys on bikes comes around the corner. They stop, look at the group of numbers and children, and then talk to each other for a moment and drives into their direction. Their faces don't look friendly at all, and at least half of them aren't quite human anymore...

Blaine points to a small street with too much rubbish on the ground for the bikes. "There. RUN." Time for plan B.

Group Save The Children

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Now the groups have split up. The plan for this group is to hide with the children, then get to a safe meeting spot, contact Julien and have him take them the heck out of there. But are plans just plans, or...

It seems like one of the enhanced Blood Keys noticed that they broke away. Is he coming after them, and is he alone?

Group Deception

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The groups have split up. The plan for this group is to get the enemy away from the other group and preferably kill them, but if that turns out impossible, just distract them long enough for the others to escape and then escape themselves.

(Eventually, the Blood Keys will chase this group into a dead end and then into a building and up to the top of this building, where the "final battle" should happen. Please NPC as many or few BKs as you thing will work for you, there's no set number on purpose.)

[youngestone]

It takes Killian some time to get to the van, largely because he had to dig through his work clothes to find something that didn't smell like horse too much. Still, he's there in plenty of time.

He's never actually heard the Tinymon theme, though, so when he approaches the van he looks a little perplexed. "I think I'm supposed to meet someone here?"

[strikeraid]

Skyler gets there a breath after Killian does, and jogs up in time to hear that question. Shit... He knows that Killian would be there, but he hadn't really worked out whether he'd talk to him or not. He'd really rather not put himself into a position where he could drop hints about what he's really up to. Well... Better to be natural, right? It'd be weird if he just avoided everyone during this. It's not really his style. (He thinks. He's pretty sure he liked people once upon a time.)

So he just gives Killian a customary check with his elbow as he passes. Hello, face he knows. "Lots of someones. I think you made it." He's got his brown contacts in and a bag around his shoulder, and is absolutely not wearing the same clothes he would wear as a Key. He's pretty dumb, but he's not an idiot. No, just a regular Raiders hoodie and some jeans, his hair up in its unkempt spikes.

so this could go epically awesome or epically not

[youngestone]

Killian grins when he realizes who elbow-checked him. He actually hugs Skyler with one arm when he sees the other boy. So far only Chloe and Doc Strider (who he was not thinking about going off-Network, nope) had gotten anything like that from him before.

"Dumbass. You're in on this, too?"

no matter what happens in this thread it's going to go hella sideways after killian finds out crie

[strikeraid]

-- Fuck. Skyler doesn't shrug away from the hug, but he pretends that his arms are pinned too awkwardly against his sides for him to reciprocate it, letting the moment pass as smoothly as he can. He doesn't know and I think we're friends now FUCK. The automatic, dumbass grin that starts spreading on his face doesn't help his own case. Nothing could help, actually. He's here for the kids, he reminds himself. He's just here so he doesn't think about what would have happened if he had been there.

Man, he's down for hugs though. The dumbass grin doesn't go away.

"Sure. Gotta make sure you don't go all one-man army on some Keys, right?" The question in that is pretty valid. Whether he likes it or not, he doesn't really want Killian to lose his head in all of this.

sob (also that last part is hilarious because GUESS WHO'S GETTING A RECKLESSNESS ECHO)

[youngestone]

"Please, I'm the sane one of this group!" Well, comparatively anyway. "I'm just here to distract the bastards and shoot a few with sharp pointy sticks." Killian gestures to the four dozen arrows he has. One is in a quiver but the other three are in his bag. "They're not bullets, but arrows hurt more getting pulled out."

[ursoreckless]

Shou drove to the meeting place, switching out his sport car for something a little more bland and less showy, but he couldn't keep some of of his natural dramatics at bay. So while he wasn't driving a flashy car, he was dressed like something out of a movie - long white trench, black leather pants and black sweater, his hair pulled back into that odd braided hair style. He had his gun and a few spare clips and was carrying a few other items he might need - like a flashlight and a lighter and a pack of smokes.

And sunglasses. He definitely needed them.

But there he was, wearing stuff he had gotten from past pulses and not looking like himself so much. Then again, he needed to focus less like himself and more like someone who wouldn't care about hurting someone to protect someone else, especially kids.

"If they wanted to see a Karate Bugman, all they had to do was ask if I met him," he grumbled, trying to keep that accent in check.

KILLIAN NO

[strikeraid]

He pushes Killian off gently, punching him in the arm just under his shoulder. "Whatever. If you do anything stupid, I don't want to have to be the guy who pulls you back." He checks out the arrows though, whistling low. If this is enough for a distraction, going in for an actual fight would probably knock Killian over. "You said some of these explode?"

WELL NOT STUPID just like "keep shooting at the wargs while everyone else runs for cover" type

[youngestone]

Killian returns the punch, grinning. "No, these just hurt. The person we're meeting said they'd find some exploding ones or something for me," he explains. "I've just got so many because one, cyborgs and two, better safe than sorry."

*KILLIAN. NO.* DDDD|

[strikeraid]

"So what you're saying is that you're gonna get another bag of these." Skyler nudges Killian's bag with a finger. "You planning on running at all tonight?"

:'D?

[youngestone]

"I don't run, period," he retorted. "I'm going along for long range stuff and if all else fails stabbing people with pointy sticks." Killian pulls an arrow out and demonstrates, stabbing the air. "And, y'know, saving the kids."

:'(

[strikeraid]

"Right, 'cause that's what we're all here for." Skyler gives Killian a stare, his eyebrows raised in an incredulous expression. "That is what we're all here for, yeah?"

[youngestone]

"What, saving the kids? 'Course. I mean, unless you're a massive dick who's along to sabotage but I don't think even the asshole cop impersonator's that much a dick." There was that Numbered Sherman Lapdog but...still. Killian's pretty sure that not even they'd be that much of a jerk.

[strikeraid]

That legitimately takes Skyler by surprise. "... That's weirdly specific. These are kids, I don't even think they're on the network. No one's that much of a dick." He means it too. He is actually here for the kids.

[youngestone]

Killian shrugs. He's a weirdly specific sort of guy sometimes. "I'm just saying, with things the way they've been lately?" He shrugs again. He couldn't be blamed for worrying about that, right? Not that he felt anyone here would do that, but. Still.

[espigeonage]

It's early. Julien's brought coffee in a couple thermoses and a stack of little cups, and a mesh bag full of Cliff Bars and the like. He's availed himself of both and set them out for anyone to sample, trying to ignore how irritating it is to keep hearing that song at close range.

All in worn pale grays, his hair netted and covered with a knit cap, he's somehow kind of hard to notice when he's not making eye contact. Which he mostly is.

[strikeraid]

"Yeah. That one police person who was threatening to turn us all in around New Years, remember them?" He was definitely on the kill-them-and-get-it-over-with camp, but since none of them had been arrested yet, he figures that someone talked them down.