OOC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

[LairdMaon]

Mallory doesn't have a much more to contribute to the ideas. Thinking hard isn't really a skill he has. He's much better was an object to hide behind when things go wrong. And there's solid intimidate potential in a guy who can invite knife wounds completely.

[Bennosuke]

Hi all. My sincere apologies if I have been MIA since the weekend. Work has been busy, and I have a family member in the hospital (and as the closest relative physician it seems like I am responsible for managing and translating everything for my family). I will have a lighter day today, and expect I will have a chance to read through everything and post in all games today.

Thank you very much for your patience with me, and again, my apologies for the delay!!!

[BananaPhone]

RL always comes first. Best wishes to your family!

[dojango]

No worries. Luis has both Inquiry and Intimidate and has gotten lucky with a few social rolls (as well as bombed several more) so my plan is to walk into HR, pretend to be conducting an investigation on the other guilders and try and convince someone to give him the personnel files directly. Plan B will be to bribe them with the new shiny coin, and plan F is, well, I'm sure you can guess.

It is funny that the organization that can call upon vast resources to shatter planets is being so stingy with paying its operatives, but that tracks to the real world pretty well.

So who's in which group? Is it Luis/Arl/Mallory in group Credit Guild and Hound/Marcella/Null in group Magos?

[LairdMaon]

I though Mallory was going to Magos. I might have misread...

[dojango]

Oh yeah, you were going to carry the badge. Guess it's just Arl and Luis going to the Guild.

[Bennosuke]

I think old team is sticking together and new team are sticking together; that was my understanding

[rax]

That's certainly what you wrote.

I think the only person who may be undecided IC is Marcella, but from Hound's POV her presence isn't absolutely necessary. He's more interested in trying to establish what part the Magos is playing in events than he is in certifying that the weapons have been properly disposed of. That can come later, if it seems certain that there's something fishy about the Magos.

[Bennosuke]

Based it off of:

"Perhaps it would be wise to divide our forces into two teams. One team can meet with Magos Petrovskii, the other can follow the trail of Sir Drimmle and his Credit Guilders. I would suggest that Regulator Mallory, myself, and Tech-Priest Null speak to the Magos and the three of you investigate the Guilders. This follows from the fact that - as Acolyte Luis has noted - you already have established covers as members of the Guild. I believe you were also provided with forged IDs to aid in the deception?"

to which Marcella replied:

"Splitting into two teams is the best route," she said, as it took all the earnest will at her command to pretend as if Luis' suggestion didn't exist.

"If you arrive at the Magos brandishing the authority of the Inquisition, you will appear as a team following up the report we openly said we would lodge. Thus you would already be expected, but not so soon, thus giving you an element of surprise. My only concern is in your ability to correctly identify them if they have not yet been disposed of."

Marcella then gestured to herself, Arl and Luis, "we will go to the Credit Guilder database and inform them of the need to investigate the allegation of fellow member activity in the underhive, thus requiring access to information. I would suggest that one of yourselves..." Marcella gestured to the new guys, "who has the gift of the gab come with us, as I imagine some social graces will be required, and, well..."

[dojango]

Marcella did talk about going to the Magos so she can psychically scan for the bad stuff, which could be useful.

[BananaPhone]

I think she first said she'd go to the credit guild, but she did also propose the problem of how the new team will be be able to certify the weapons. (given that they haven't seen them before and none of them can psychically scan it)

She can go with either group.

[Bennosuke]

Okay, I need a final decision to move things on

[BananaPhone]

Where you want her to go, guys? With the Magos team to help identify the weapons, or with the two feral worlders to the guild to protect them against Luis?

[Blindfolded Ape]

I think having her go see the Magos will be best, since the new team hasn't seen the weapons and thus it'd be easy to fake things.

[BananaPhone]

Sure, its decided then! Marcella will go with the new lads.

[Bennosuke]

Thank you everyone for the patience. That IC post was a long time coming. Hound and Luis have their thrones updated.

[dojango]

At the very beginning, we had cover as 'Guilders', which meant we had uniforms to look like them. Did the cover also come with fake IDs and/or an actual presence in the Guilder system?

[rax]

Hound will wait for Mallory or -Null to state our business.

[Bennosuke]

At the very beginning, we had cover as 'Guilders', which meant we had uniforms to look like them. Did the cover also come with fake IDs and/or an actual presence in the Guilder system?

Yes, your covers should hold up to fairly strong scrutiny and you were given fake IDs. They should hold up to visual examination but you are not sure if they will hold up to more high-tech scrutiny. But you should be able to enter the building and go through security without trouble.

[BananaPhone]

We really need to teach your character how to use better weapons, dojango lol.

[rax]

@Bennosuke
I thought the Credit Guild used yellow-gold capes/robes, as per the introductory OOC post? All your most recent posts describe them as red-robed.

[Bennosuke]

You are correct. Lazy posting on my part moving from red river tech priests. Will correct

[BananaPhone]

Sorry for not posting much. Ive been pulling 65+ hour weeks in prep for overseas travel at the end of the week.

[rax]

@Bennosuke
Any word from Blindfolded Ape? Since the Magos addressed his character directly, it'll seem a bit weird if Hound barges in to take over the conversation.

[Bennosuke]

No word, but I'll PM him now. Hopefully he (along with everyone else right now) is just very busy.

And no worries Banana. Hope things get better soon.

[Blindfolded Ape]

I'm not sure I've got enough apologies here, but I've got an explanation at least. Work ramped up to triple what I'd been handling previously, and I was already on a slow burnout at the time due to the hubbub around some home life things that arose. Pretty sure I felt my brain go "pop" at some point in there. Summing up though, I haven't had the brainpower to do much of anything that didn't fall under "necessary" for the past few weeks.

Entirely on me for not saying anything though. Hopefully with less on my mind (I'm down to a little less than where I was when this whole mess started), I should be a bit more active.

[rax]

Welcome back - glad to hear things are getting better. Burnout is no joke.

[Bennosuke]

Trust me, I feel you there! Normally I post about once a day, so you can see for how long I haven't been operating at my baseline.

[BananaPhone]

I'm settling into my 2 weeks quarantine, so I should be alright to start posting normally now.

[Bennosuke]

Hope you are okay man. 2 week quarantine after travel???