telepathy to all

[splinten]

I need everyone who is down for a rescue mission to say what they can do in terms of wrecking shit and/or support skills, and any strategies they have for getting in. We do not need to be stalling on this. Peach is in the goddamned castle and Bowser has not been demonstrably a nice guy, so let's get the fucking hat on and move.

Skills, strategies, plans. Let's get them out and get going.

[ooc: threadhopping obviously allowed and encouraged here!

EDIT: some ooc plotting here!]

Comments

[allconsumed]

I'll give you that. With enough smoke you could choke a lot of them to death.

[allconsumed]

[Intently, Velvet has been listening in on the above exchanges before offering her help.]

You don't know me, but if you need another body for the infiltration team, then I volunteer. My name is Velvet. I can fight, and heal myself by drinking blood – which I've had a craving for, to be honest.

[Y'know, not to creep him out or anything??]

If you don't trust me with that, then fine. I could use any excuse to stab some of these jokers doing something else.

[teratias]

I....

I genuinely don't know. Where do you think it'll be more needed?

[teratias]

I...yes. That's one potential application, if we wanted a body count.

[witchwithoutacause]

I wanna be in the thick of things so I guess it depends on how uh... tough you think it'll be?

Listen, I'm not some... super combat android like we apparently have a bunch of. I don't wanna get in the way.

[allconsumed]

You don't think they're asking for it?

[telepathy]

[insubordination]

[ if only he had access to his alchemy, because then, this would be simple. but he does not, and all he has is a gun that riza lent him, as he had nothing on him when he arrived.

damn it. ]

I have the capability to convince people to lay down arms, to calm them, if need be. [ in theory, anyway. he's tested it once or twice, and it does seem to work. ] I'm also trained in close-combat and firearms. But whatever mission is being had, I'm going.

[ mistake number one, on shenhui's part, was taking riza hawkeye. ]

[argenteums]

» Whatever you guys need. You'll need cover either way for an infiltration, right? I can do that.

These guys took my best buddy and that isn't gonna stand. «

[lohengrins]

We may be able to use magic as a means of concealing Geir. If not, we'll have to potentially implicate him as a solitary thread — it's not a possibility I'm partial to.

We should scatter across the city afterwards. We can establish specific points — locations that would be within the sight or vicinity of the ordinary denizen, to both reduce their risk of being discovered and expose the government in the instance that they are.

[knighthooded]

Not sure. Used it on some birds - one of them came back from pretty bad shape. I also got rid of my own headache, so it works on people too. Not just the avian family.

[splinten]

It would definitely be keeping with Strider theme if it just worked on birds.

[It's a joke, and one that he immediately feels like he fucked up. What if Dave doesn't care about 'Strider' theme? That seemed true enough last time. What if Dave doesn't like birds? Or what if Dave doesn't want to joke with him?

He makes himself focus on the task at hand.]

Right now, we're looking at one team to distract and another to get in. Either could use a healer.

[splinten]

I'm not sure I'm convinced the ordinary citizen will give a shit. We'll be lawbreakers twice over at this point. The government will have every right to take us in to keep the peace and stop our dangerous magic.

[splinten]

We don't have a set date, but ASAP is the general idea.

I can't wait to get back to fishing.

[splinten]

It's your call, but my instinct is the decoy team. A smokescreen could help people evade capture at critical moments, as opposed to the attention it might get on the infiltration group. Not that the other team will be able to keep quiet forever, so if you think you'd be better at covering escape then that's the best place for you. Like I said, though, it feels like you could help the most people on decoy.

[deem]

You're aware of what I can do as a Scanner by now, I think, but... This place relies pretty heavily on technology. If it's electronic, I can hack into it

[There's something in that statement that may seem boastful, but 9S knows what he is. He knows what he can do. And more than that, he's not about to see anybody among their number get seized and imprisoned without doing something, human or not.

Granted, his core programming does have bias toward the former]

And if I need to fight, I can do that too.

[precedents]

Alright. Let me know if you need anything else.

It'd be nice not being forced into random rooming arrangements. Or being monitored over every little thing.

[ guess who loves her privacy. ]

telepathy;

[idolpedia]

I can heal if you need extra support. I apologize that I cannot be much help past that.

[Dia has never offered skills or even offered to go on a rescue mission. But she has to.]

They took my younger sister, I cannot forgive them.

[splinten]

We just have the information Vern and Geir got the first time. It's worth talking to the prisoners about anything they picked up, and possibly putting 9S or another hacker on gathering any data before we go in.

[splinten]

That's why I'm asking.

[Because being kidnapped sucks, but not being kidnapped is a different kind of shitty.]

So am I. At least we can talk to them, but with the moves they're making to try to get us on their side, I'm not sure what they're planning here.

[rootbound]

Hostages to our good behaviour, would be my guess.

[splinten]

[He can only offer the telepathic equivalent to a nod: that strong sense of agreement, that they need to get their people back. Friends, family. Their people.]

Cover it is. Good luck, bro.

[marakukaja]

...I'm sorry, you're absolutely right. This is no time to hesitate when others are at risk.

[ They're among coven members here; if magic was a thing shared amongst all of them, then it probably shouldn't bother anyone much about what she is. ]

The support I provide includes support skills such as enhancing speed, defense, and attack, as well as healing. My physical abilities can hit a wide range of targets in a certain area.

...And I am a machine, with all that entails.

[ Party-wide buffs and healing, along with AOE attacks, basically. And they're free to just throw her out there without a care since she can most likely take care of herself. Her last statement is quieter, but no less determined. ]

[splinten]

You too, man.

[splinten]

They abducted our people and are now bribing us to inform on them and are giving us weird drugs. I'm not fucking worried about what they think their justifications are. They're playing a game here, and I'm not letting them use our people to do it.

[splinten]

[The idea isn't alarming to him, of course. He grew up alone, with only the robots he built as physical company. If anything, her hesitation just makes him wonder if she's okay.

He goes with the practical approach, because the situation demands it.]

You're probably better off with the decoy team causing enough of a distraction to get people in and out. Having healers there is good anyway. If you're better at hacking, though, you might want to go on the infiltration team to get data. But your abilities sound better for causing some chaos.