[PLAYER PLOT] MAYISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE ROOMBA INFEYLTRATION

[predomination]

CHARACTERS: EVERYONE who wants to be involved in the player plot
DATE: Between April 30th and mid-May
SUMMARY: Urahara calls some lucky members of Guild Ophelia to action so they can infiltrate various political buildings around the city and bug their cleaning robots. Isn't this how SKYNET starts?






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The chips are made available through Rost’s hideout- as usual, the rules about not everyone coming in at once apply, so it’s best to send one member of any group of infiltrators to collect the goods before heading out. Anyone involved with the process of making the chips may be in and out to answer questions about the mission, and to offer suggestions about what places groups should hit first.

As the data begins to come in, some volunteers will need to stay to listen in on conversations to see if there’s anything useful so it can be pounced on immediately, which can get inane and dull, as not every deli order or memo dictation is worth making a fuss about. You might be here awhile, so get comfortable. At least you’re probably not alone, though be careful not to get too distracted.


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As one of the most important (and largest) locations necessary to be hit, several groups will have to go in on separate occasions to make sure a wide enough area is covered, under the cover of darkness or well-thought out disguise. The Vakdir presence is high here, even if you take advantage of the patrol schedules that Kylo Ren and Rey found out, so be on guard.

Especially since the guard dogs- both robotic and real- don’t adhere to any set schedules.

Even getting past the guards doesn’t guarantee success, keen eyes and sharp minds will be required to deal with electronic security, ranging from normal alarms that can be disarmed with a keypad to more complicated measures that may involve bypassing lasers, because what’s a heist without having to limbo around a few lasers?

As exciting as it is to explore and take advantage of this opportunity, however, there’s work to be done, and since the aim is to break into what is essentially a few maintenance closets at various points in the complex, you won’t have to worry about too many extra alarms once you get that far. Just don’t push your luck.


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Near the DDC stands the Prime Minister’s magnificent penthouse, another prime target for espionage, and also, due to the current sociopolitical climate, heaviliy guarded. You can expect to find the usual high Vakdir presence, on top of more guard dogs outside.

All you’ll have to do once inside is find the place the building keeps its Roombas and Tidy-Bots, place the chips on the underside, and get out quickly. The apartment, itself, is isolated, but the farther you go up, the higher security gets and the harder it’ll be to keep your presence a secret, so it’s safer if you stick to the lower floors, and don’t try to press onwards blindly.

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MISSION SIGN-UPS

[predomination]

The mods will be giving out information via RNG. For your group to be included in that, please sign up here! Groups should be somewhere between 2-4.

SIGN UPS WILL CLOSE ON APRIL 12TH

[justbeingknife]

Signing up with Majima and Rohan!

Rohan can use his specialization to get past some of the keypad alarms, or create some small devices ahead of time to help with unlocking rooms since he has resourcefulness going on. Majima's excellent at listening in on conversations, blending in, and bullshitting his way out of being questioned.

CLARIFICATION

[predomination]

Hey guys! The mods wanted me to get with you to see whether you’ll be bugging the prime minister’s home or the DDC so they can dole out findings appropriately! Thank you.

DDC FINDINGS

[predomination]

Among the hours of audio footage, there is a recording of what appears to be two Vakdir. They are speaking in hushed tones, as if they're on-duty and are trying not to get caught talking: there are rumors that the rebels known as Rost have suddenly bolstered their numbers and are being more aggressive in their terroristic actions against the government. With so many rebels, they're bound to be caught soon, but before they can continue their conversation, they abruptly stop speaking.

[forcevisions]

Rey, D, and Lissa will be bugging the Prime Minister's penthouse!

Lissa will be acting as a cute distraction and lookout, Rey will be using her Force powers to influence any living security guards to take a break, and then D will use his inventor technical skills to bypass security, keypads, and cameras.

PENTHOUSE FINDINGS

[predomination]

Among the hours of audio footage, there are recordings of Ivarson muttering to himself. Most of it is unintelligible, but occasionally a few snippets filter through: paranoid ramblings about how he can't trust anyone, and how he'll weed out dissenters until he's safe.

[evenslimmer]

Scott & Jason are also heading to the prime minister's penthouse!

They'll be using their specialty's as negotiators to infiltrate the area and pretend they belong there among the members of the Prime Minister's staff in order to bug the Roombas, including bullshitting whatever cover stories they might need about why the "usual people" aren't here if noticed as interlopers.

PENTHOUSE FINDINGS

[predomination]

Among the hours of audio footage, there is a recording of Ivarson speaking to one of his maids -- Rost will recognize her as one of their secret sympathizers who recorded the original footage of Ivarson's clandestine meeting (from the Electric Sheep log). Ivarson asks her very probing questions about her whereabouts on the day of the break-in at the Broadcasting Station; she admits nothing, but after she departs, Ivarson makes a call to an unknown person and simply tells them "follow her."

[datapoint]

Aizawa and Aloy will be bugging the DDC!

DDC FINDINGS

[predomination]

Among the hours of audio footage, there is a recording of a call between between Ivarson's secretary and an unknown person; the footage only picks up one half of the conversation. His secretary is confirming with the other person that they will be filming Ivarson's birthday party as per usual, and that they should check in with the Polischef for their security clearance before the festivities begin.

[feytality]

Signing up Jhin and Maya! Maya can use soothing words + potentially her natural affinity for animals (she helped a cat and dog become friends in canon once and cross-examined a parrot.................... i'm not making this up i swear) to subdue the guard dogs, as well as telekinesis for distractions (maybe to work on the locks and alarms as well) for the Vakdir, while Jhin is a super fly (secret) serial killer who is great at stealth and whatnot... he can probably get past the alarms and etc. he is also a tinkerer!!!! he can use those skills too

CLARIFICATION

[predomination]

Hey guys! The mods wanted me to get with you to see whether you’ll be bugging the prime minister’s home or the DDC so they can dole out findings appropriately! Thank you.

rohan kishibe

[opensup]

[ for closed prompts! i'm open to plotting though, so feel free to pm if you want to do something. ]

-> majima

[opensup]

[ the patrol schedules are useful, so much so that rohan made certain to memorize the provided information to best absorb everything needed. for the moment the two men have managed to get around the vadkir, but as they move through the DDC the presence of electronic traps becomes the more frustrating aspect. and at the moment they stand at a corridor with an arrangement of lasers on the walls - no vadkir should come by if they adhere to their schedule, but the faint sound of patting on the floor indicate dogs may be near. ]

You would think this was the Louvre and we were phantom thieves stealing the Mona Lisa with this security level.

Re: -> majima

[justbeingknife]

That's a really fuckin' specific example. You given that some thought?

[ He didn't like that sound of padding footsteps. He also didn't like that it seemed to be getting closer, along with the click of nails against tile. ]

If we wanna get down this hall, looks like we're gonna have to get past the lasers. So lemme ask -- how flexible are ya?

-> maya

[opensup]

My, my, my... this place is magnificent.

[ sorry maya, they just got inside the prime minister's home after avoiding the vadkir presence and they need to find where the cleaning bots are, but the prime minister's house is a work of modern elegance. naturally the prime minister has the swankiest place in all of drakstaden and he can't help but stop to admire it. ]

Do you think we could get deeper in? Maybe if we're lucky...

[feytality]

[ honestly... her priorities aren't too far off. she's not exactly thrilled to be working with rohan again, but there are worse people..... in theory, and this place is pretty sweet. she's extremely curious, herself. ]

It really is. I guess this is where all the money goes!

[ she's already trying to touch things, so really, who's worse out of the two? ]

We should try! I wanna snoop around.

The Misadventures of Jason & Scott: Go Big or Go Home

[notthatjason]

[This was no longer the simulation of HQ, this was the real deal. Jason was glad he'd been paired with Scott for that reason. This may have technically been their first real mission together, but their time in the simulator plus their conversations on Hanabira had confirmed for Jason that, at the end of the day, they had a certain compatibility when it came to completing a task like this. Jason didn't want to get ahead of himself, but he was pretty confident that even with the increased Vakdir security, the dogs, and the security system, that they could get through this.

He was careful not to voice this, however, as he did not want to completely jinx them before they'd even started either. He'd brought with him a few tools, the chip, and the special flashlight from the elevator exercise. He wanted to be as prepared as possible, even if he didn't have a magical tool belt like a certain friend of his back home. He scanned the outside of the building once more, before they could even get in though they'd have to scale a short perimeter wall.]

There should be a gap in the patrol coming up soon...but we'll have to move fast if we want avoid being seen. The problem is I'm not sure if there are any dogs on the other side.

[evenslimmer]

[ Scott still can't shake the little voice in his head that whispers, every situation, how much easier it would be if he only had X. He doesn't have X. There's no Wolverine here to sniff out the trouble. But he and Jason have practiced this before, and they're no stranger to danger. They can get this done. ]

I can't believe they actually have dogs in this city. [ It seems cruel. Unkind, what with the conditions, the lack of space and open air. ] Don't suppose you know how to talk to animals or put minds to sleep?

[ It's worth asking. ]

urahara kisuke ⚛ ota ⚛ THE GUY IN THE CHAIR

[predomination]

𝐢. "𝐐" & 𝐀

[Of course, Urahara isn't going to be doing any of the heavy lifting himself- with several good reasons, though the main one is sheer laziness. He stepped in quite a bit during the war back home- far more than he's ever done in the past, and having a good excuse for a break is nice.

Besides, he can do just as much from the safety of the Hideout.

Anyone who arrives to collect their chips and discuss the plan of action will find Urahara getting super into this gadget introduction. It's almost like this isn't a life or death situation.]


𝐢𝐢. 𝐈 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘'𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐄

[Of course listening in on the roomba spies is also a very important- and boring- work. Urahara doesn't stay glued to the headphones, though he does take down notes when anything is caught, though... so far it's not really anything of import.

He's also been at this for awhile now- between this and whatever other projects he's got going on, he hasn't been sleeping much, so if you come into the Hideout later on to report back or see if anything's been found, you'll find him facedown on a table with scattered notes written in sloppy handwriting, fast asleep, using his hat a a pillow.

This is fine.]

𝐢𝐢𝐢. 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒

[Text him about how things are going terrible and he's terrible for sending people into a place with robot dogs or just come talk to him about other shit while this nonsense is going down.]

ii

[justbeingknife]

Hey.

[ Hopefully Urahara was going to catch this canned coffee, because Majima sure was throwing it in a high arc that would terminate right on the side of Urahara's head if he didn't. ]

You sleepin' on the job?

i.

[datapoint]

[Aloy has done her best to help in creating the chips, though her Inventor skills can only get her so far at this level. She's envious of people who have more experience with this level of technology than her, but pushes the feeling down before it can evolve into bitterness.

She stands up and stretches, then pauses with one hand on the work table to glance over at Urahara.]

Remind me again why you're not going out with the rest of us?

jhinventures

[feytality]

[ well, before they hit the prime minister's penthouse (which maya is extremely curious about, for the record --- they check out the complex, as advised by urahara. they know the vakir's patrol schedules and maya's confident she can distract the guard dogs --- whether or not it'll work remains to be seen -- so she nudges jhin with a finger as they creep inside and gives him a big grin. in a stage whisper: ]

Do you think we could reprogram some of those poochbots?! And keep 'em?

[ priorities... ]

[fourscores]

[Even Jhin will admit to being somewhat curious about the penthouse, though for much different reasons. How many would be upset if he simply gave the government a beautiful end and left the solution for a new one up to everyone else... Probably too many. At least he's on this little mission with Maya, anything goes wrong and he doesn't have to worry too much about using Whisper. It's almost nice.]

I'm certain we could.

[He's far from a tech expert, but the team's done similar before. Had to be doable, right?]

But why would we want to keep them?

closed: aizawa

[datapoint]

[The patrol schedule is helpful, but Aloy knows as well as anyone that patrols can be interrupted, so she's trying not to rely on it being 100% accurate. Doing this at night makes it easier in some ways, but more dangerous in others -- people are more on edge at night, jumping at shadows, so they'll have to be as quiet as possible.

The roof of the DDC is as high as a mountain, and the wind and rain whipping at her face doesn't put Aloy any more at ease; even with the blue silk she normally keeps at her throat tugged up over her nose and mouth, the rain stings what skin is still exposed, and she's itching to get down through the ceiling and away from the weather.

She glances up at Aizawa from where she's crouched over a glass skylight, and reaches out to him through magitek.] Once I open this, can you use that scarf of yours to lower us down gently?