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meadowlarklogs2019-07-26 08:19 am
forcevisions) wrote in meadowlarklogs2019-07-26 08:19 am
OPEN PLAYER PLOT: OPERATION LOST BOYS
WHO: Anyone
WHERE: A research outpost not far from New Amsterdam proper
WHEN: November 28
WHAT: The Displaced arrive to save the captured Morningstar agents, including one of their own.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: Violence, mentions of interrogation/torture, etc.
WHERE: A research outpost not far from New Amsterdam proper
WHEN: November 28
WHAT: The Displaced arrive to save the captured Morningstar agents, including one of their own.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: Violence, mentions of interrogation/torture, etc.
| > DEPARTURE BY TRAIN Early in the day on November 28th, Prompto and Poe will conspire to get an out-of-service train car onto the same tracks where the Displaced were guided by Cassius earlier this month. By all measures, the train car doesn't look operational. There are telling dents in the side, and it does not appear to be powered on. Yet those involved in the rescue operation already assembled are climbing on board like they know that this is their ride. Inside, the train is fairly battered. Some of the seats on the far wall seem to have been damaged when the train collided with something during the EMP, and the rattling of the crash took out some of the internal handrails as well. Once everyone is settled, though, the car begins to move. At the front of the car, Poe uses his power to move the train car on the tracks and out of the city. As they hit a checkpoint, the car doesn't slow down to be inspected; instead, it accelerates and blows right through the barrier, which makes for a pronounced jolt for all the passengers inside. Once the train is rolling outside of the city limits, the Displaced can grab scrambler masks that have been provided by Morningstar for use in infiltrating the outpost when they arrive. It is imperative, El suggests, that they don't allow their identities to be compromised. They will also remind the Displaced to keep this project under wraps, lest Morningstar as a whole has its operations compromised. This is a good time to solidify any plans about what to do when the outpost is reached. The train ride won't be especially long, but long enough for some tension to settle over the car. > INFILTRATE THE OUTPOST The outpost they arrive at is a less grimy version of what the Displaced saw earlier in November. The interior is almost identical to what was present there, with some wings repurposed as jailing sites. There are bright, fluorescent lights with white walls and a sterile smell throughout. Even cleaned up, these labs do not recognize any of those that the Displaced may have seen in their dreams. The description below is borrowed from the arrival log for reference: The building is six stories tall. The first floor has a lobby/waiting area, a cafeteria, and some office spaces. The second floor is the dormitory floor, which is where the employees would usually sleep if they chose to stay at the facility while working rather than returning to the city in between shifts. This is where the new arrivals woke up. Floors three through five are dedicated to lab spaces, which is where the actual research work is usually done. Most of these laboratories are going to be locked, but that won't stop Displaced from breaking into them if they want. Some of the lab rooms also have exam rooms. Displaced will be able to swipe lab equipment and medical supplies, such as syringes, vials/beakers, first aid supplies, scalpels, bandages, multi-lens microscopes, etc. The top floor is dedicated to offices for higher-ranked scientists, so think of it as the C suite. All floors also have bathrooms, of course, and the dormitory wing also has showers. ✦ Notably, this outpost is also empty of scientists. However, stoic soldiers stand guard at every door. These well-armed warriors are with the UNA, who has taken over the outpost. These soldiers are not an easy fight. In the fights with UNA soldiers, PCs might die and need to be revived in New Prague by Morningstar.Once the agents are freed, the Displaced can make their way back to the exit of the outpost, where Poe Dameron waits in an armored truck liberated from the UNA. This flying truck is meant to transfer large numbers of UNA soldiers for load-outs, so despite the Displaced and rescued agents' numbers, it will be sufficiently spacious to fit them all. Though it flies, it's smarter to stay low in the interest of staying off trackers on their way to New Prague, where they can hopefully wait out the heat of pursuit by the UNA.✧ DISTRACTION: Some of the PCs may choose to deal with the UNA by attempting to distract them using wit, charm, or apparent helplessness. PCs may search for a way to draw attention away from some of these doors to let others sneak past. > NEW PRAGUE When they arrived in New Prague, El contacts local Morningstar agents to escort them to a safehouse. Notably, El will warn the Displaced that no other parts of Morningstar know about zeir identity as an AI. El is hoping that the Displaced will keep their secret, but is more concerned with helping than with keeping them separate from the New Prague Morningstar chapter. These Morningstar agents will bring the Displaced to an abandoned chain convenience store at the edge of town, Zesco. The convenience store is located near the edge of the city, and it's meant to be a temporary stop. The upper part of the store is just an empty space, though there is a wall where it's clear that there were once icee machines. All of the Morningstar agents will be held under an abandoned convenience store. ✦ The inside of the safehouse is like most safehouses, but since it's meant to be temporary, there aren't any clothes or food in place to help someone out. There will be Morningstar agents who come in to supply these things throughout the stay, showing up about an hour in to help out.> THE RETURN✧ It will be apparent that this safehouse is not one of the ones that's typically used in New Prague, but instead one of the miscellaneous ones that they've had around. Unlike New Amsterdam, most of the safehouses in New Prague weren't compromised. Of course, there is a high likelihood that this safehouse will be decommissioned after all of this.✦ Beyond the safehouse, New Prague is a large, beautiful city housing around 30 million people. Unlike many of its brethren, it pays homage to the "Old" Prague in a number of ways: there are impractical cobblestone streets, and the architecture adheres to an older, gothic style throughout the city. In fact, there are ordinances that demand the city continues to look as if it harkens to an older past and time. Above all else, New Prague is very green: there are trees everywhere. The train ride back to New Amsterdam will resemble the ride to and from New Tokyo, but it is a considerably shorter trip. There is no stop for the train at New Amsterdam, so they will need to devise a way to get off the train without dying in the process - this will be difficult, but not impossible. This should not be too much of a surprise, as some of the New Prague Morningstar agents will join them on this train ride, and will explain the situation. Once they're outside the city, these agents will get them back into the city, as they've done this rodeo before. They can sneak in easily through the opening made by Cassius earlier in the month, which if it has been found, has not yet been addressed. |
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[ Put plainly, because Rey knows no other way. For all that she's put thought towards recruitment and encouraging people to join, she doesn't have the charisma or grace to have some kind of recruitment spiel. All she has is honesty. But there's something about Rey's bald-faced simplicity that is persuasive on its own. It's real. ]
Fighting the UNA. Protecting other people from them. Trying to make a difference for the people who need it most. [ She won't push, though, so Rey pulls a light smile and says, ] Something to think about.
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What she wanted, as a cosmic mistake, was a purpose. Alaric's school had given her a little of that, at least.
She looks down at the ground, scuffing it with the toe of her shoe as she chews thoughtfully.]
That's what I was doing at home, anyway. [When she wasn't in class, she was usually getting dragged around by Alaric because he knew she could handle whatever they ran into.] Protecting people who were different and had nowhere else to go.
[That's what the entire school's purpose was, after all. Granted, she was one of those people with nowhere to go, but she didn't think she needed protecting.]
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[ Rey shakes her head, not following. ]
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One would hope, at least.
Finally, she looks back at Rey, her voice dropping a bit lower.]
Kids who aren't human. Who have powers. If they're not protected, they could get hurt, or they could hurt someone else. I lived in a place where we could make sure that didn't happen.
[She gestures vaguely to herself.]
It's not exactly the same as things here, but it's similar.
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You had a power before you came here. [ Obviously. It seems to be a common trend that the people most invested in helping those who are different are different themselves. ] I did too. [ She smiles. ] There ... wasn't any place like that for me where I come from, though. The children you help are lucky to have had you.
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[It's a blessing and a curse, honestly. There's less chaos going on inside her body at all times, but it also feels like parts of her have been cut away, almost like a lost limb.
She smiles at that, though. It's nice to have someone understand where you're coming from, not assuming that whatever she was before all this made her a freak, even if she absolutely was one.]
I was one of those kids, too. I was sent there when I was seven or so, and it was brand new back then. Technically, I'm still a student there. [She ponders briefly before she asks:] Do you know Caroline?
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[ Rey's brow furrows. Caroline's quite young, and this is a purposeful segue, she imagines. ]
... Does she go there with you?
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[Caroline is impossible not to love, it's true. It's hard to think of Caroline as a 'friend,' though. She was more like...an Aunt or something, in a way, though that was changing with their circumstances here.]
It's her school. I mean, she started it and she's the headmistress. She and my Dad were friends before I was even born. I'm about...20 years ahead of the one that's here.
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[ Thirty-five, for Rey and Jyn maybe. But still, it's more data. ]
... Does that mean Caroline has powers too?
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...I was going to say small world, but I guess it's more like 'small multiverse,' huh...
[She just shakes her head a bit; it's hard to wrap her mind around it, honestly.
Her teeth tug briefly on her bottom lip before she nods.]
We're used to having to keep that kind of thing a secret. But I'm sure she didn't want anyone to have to grow up the way she did.
[More accurately, Caroline probably wanted to give her daughters a safe place to figure out their own abilities in a way that she didn't get to have for herself, but it amounted to the same thing. She made it a place for all of them.]
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[ In other words, she gets how Caroline grew up. ]
It's good that Caroline built one. You're lucky.
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[The empathy is genuine; she can imagine what her life would have been like without Caroline's school, especially after her parents died.]
Yeah, I owe her a lot. I think my being around is really weird for her, though.
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[ Would that be weird? Any weirdness Jyn had about the war, Rey only interpreted as Jyn's general attitude. Not the situation itself. ]
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I think she and my Dad has a thing before I was born, for one. There's just a lot of stuff about her life that she probably shouldn't know yet, considering she's just a teenager, but she knows it's just sitting in my brain.
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[ At least Rey doesn't know anything personal about Jyn. That saves that particular interaction from being weirder than it already is, knowing about how the war went when Jyn has only barely started fighting it. ]
But you two still talk?