Week 2 Jaunt Summary / Week 3 Plotting!

[powersthatbe]

Week 2:


The end of Service Week brings with it a shipment of parts for the Solomon Ring - and the long-awaited protests regarding its installation. Feelings about those protests run the gamut from joining in to being deeply unsettled. Either way, security is out in force, in all shapes and sizes.

Claudia continues tracking down information on the Solomon Ring in general and the Kau Lung Incursion in particular - just in time for the Manticore Knights to realise their lost spy may have popped back up on the radar, and for poor Joscelin to end up in far hotter water than he realises. Malik is busy eavesdropping the old-fashioned way. Chie tries her hand at vigilantism… rather poorly, unfortunately, until she figures out her Persona is an option. Zoe gets some flak from protesters. Asa suspects this whole thing is vaguely familiar. Kanji settles into a job with a fashion designer. Yosuke stumbles into an Empowered ability to call his own, and isn’t sure he likes it. Tybalt trolls some protesters and sets up a spy network of cats. Tachibana reaches out to some local Empowered kids. Natsumi finds a job and parlays it into a chance to sneak around the wharfs and look for info. Minako makes an effort to, well, make an effort after noping out so hard in Rome.

The White Company hosts a garden party/recruiting session. The MacGregor family has its monthly dinner. Altair and Legion go a-heisting. Matthew puts his life-sensing abilities to use trying to find someone for Thorne; unfortunately, ‘Alan’ is long gone. Rosalie is determined to have a little fun, even in the midst of Kau Lung coming back to haunt her. Starburst makes the most of the night life, and finds a lost child, setting Imriel on the road to reuniting with his mom. Thorne snoops around both the protests and the Solomon Ring site, catching John and Mako’s attention in the middle of the week; she dies during their interrogation of her, providing the investigators with some information upon revival. Gregory gets ever closer to a literal meltdown. Lily tries her hand at helping people. Avery gets into a spot of trouble. Jouhei and Ai are at pretty serious odds with each other - too bad they’re stuck sharing a body. The Wraith is after information on the Solomon Ring.


Week 3:
Security sweeps mean confrontations, team-ups, and inconveniences for people on every side of the law. Are you for the surveillance state or against it? Sympathetic to the Manticore Knights, or to honest vigilantes and newcomers? It's a situation that makes for strange bedfellows, whether it's working a traffic stop together, being stuck in a holding cell, or hiding behind a dumpster with someone you only just met. And Investigators and Infiltrators have a good opportunity to learn about one another's abilities and coordination...

Comments

[awitchdidit]

I need to work that out, but she's primarily focusing on the mystical history of such devices and the mechanics of how breaches between the physical and spirit worlds can be controlled. Largely it's social engineering and hitting up old-fashioned libraries in disguise, but I imagine she'll know as much as anyone between her own research and knowledge being pooled on the psychic network.

And she has no interest in assassinating monarchs - not out of any particular empathy or altruism, but because she's been around long enough to know that that won't do anything but give the Manticore (personally and as an organization) license to go full V For Vendetta. She's all for trolling people, though. Always and in every universe.

[theflyingone]

12th century trolling at its finest.

Excellent. He may simply stalk her from the library unless you have a better idea. She may have to come up with a backstory for her knowledge from the psychic network, since that undocumented knowledge will be of most interest to him probably. This info dumping will probably be how she gains his trust.

[awitchdidit]

Well, she is a thousand year-old witch, and is perfectly happy maintaining that as her Empowered identity. It's a good explanation for why she knows things without actually being an explanation of how she learned them.

[theflyingone]

Do you want to make a starter or should i? Also, has "Madame Sphynx" done anything since her arrival that would merit attention or reputation?

[awitchdidit]

She...might have (did, we just haven't threaded it) monologue at a small child and send a demon to go fight her. Kid took it down easily, though, and an analytical man could determine pretty easily that Sphynx wasn't actually trying to hurt her. Other than that, she's mostly been carousing the seedier Empowered bars in this identity.

I will have a toplevel up tomorrow; got caught up in contract work the last couple of nights. If you want to do so first, by all means I can tag yours.

[theflyingone]

He probably would only have heard some rumor about Sphynx and a small child sparring with powers. It's not like he can be everywhere at once and see all the things firsthand.

I will tag into your toplevel i think! (The thing about stalking people is that he has to act or not act according to whatever Beatrice is doing.)

[awitchdidit]

You can hit up the IV prompt here!