Planning Post - A British (Spy) Invasion.

[bikerbarbie]

Okay kids, who wants to punch spies?

At some point (probably next month unless a lot of things are happening there), Daybreak is going to get a visit from a group: the British Men of Letters (Wikia)

The short version is British Spies that fight monsters for Queen and Country. Also known as: A bunch of wankers. They are not Daybreak's friends, because the Men of Letters have taken a zero tolerance stance on non-humans. In that they find killing anyone that isn't human a really good idea.

Seers will find the days around the attack really goddamn unnerving as there are no visions of the school for those three days.

They're breaking in to rob the school of anything of academic value: new tech made in the forge, exotic unusual artifacts, old dusty books written in languages nobody speaks anymore. They are not trying to kill anyone (but if you're a monster and in their way and they have the time they will try to kill you). They are on a schedule, so they won't extend a fight past what they have to do. They will mostly be focusing on the school buildings, and not the dorms (in case you want nothing to do with this plot).

After all this breaking into the school, stealing of things, possibly kidnapping students if anyone wants that. There will be a mission to go break into their HQ and see how they like it (and also steal stuff, of course).

I'll be putting in a few specific sign-ups for this event, but the major event will be Open to all.

NPC Duty: If anyone wants to help play British Dudes with fancy spy toys in threads. Ever wanted to play James Bond but he's even more of an asshole, this is your chance! (This is a Player sign-up, not a character sign up.)
Specific stuff getting Taken: Does your character own an ancient tome with dark secrets, or have they made a fancy new runework electric toothbrush? List out what you wanna have stolen.
I've been Captured: The British Men of Letters might try to take anyone who has an 'interesting' ability so they can- you know, study it. Especially if they think it can be weaponized, they do love making new toys.
Stealing our stuff Back: After their big throwdown in the school, of course, a collection of students with at least one adult supervising, have to go to England and Metal Gear Solid all up in this bitch. This is a mission meant more for Stealth not raw power. The British Men of Letters HQ is well fortified so it's best not to Leroy Jenkins this one.

Depending on interest it'll be either 1 team of up to 6, or 2 teams of up to 5 (+ Control Room folks, if there is interest).
...And Maya is one of the slots on the Stealth Mission because Stealth Mission.

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You can use this post to plot among yourself for cool spy fights and being rescued from certain death, all that.

Comments

Questions

[bikerbarbie]

NPC Volunteers

[bikerbarbie]

I'm thinking two or three people helping me play out stuff is fine?

Note: I have no idea what I'm doing.

[yokeye]

I'll likely have the time, so volunteering for NPC if needed. I've never done it before though.

Stuff to Steal

[bikerbarbie]

What'd you got that the Men of Letters might find interesting?

[morelikeisabeast]

Isabel has a magic book that lets anyone with the right color of aura (red) control paper at will. More importantly it also is possessed by the spirit Eightfold, who is her partner and possibly her best friend.

If they got their hands on that Isabel would be VERY angry and go on the warpath.

Re: Stuff to Steal

[aduration]

Alt has a mini-library of Alchemy tomes and very rare reagents including unicorn mane in his room, so he'll be very crossed if those get swiped.

[arcadianvampire]

I want the Men of Letters to steal Valvatorez's very... "valuable," singing fish that's in his office, that happens to be possessed by some kind of low level spirit/daemon. All it does is sing more songs than a singing fish should, be a little sassy in what songs it does sing, and occasionally sing songs in creepy dissonant ways like its mechanical parts are busted.

Look, they can't all be winners, and Val wants it back because he likes it.

Potential Research Subjects

[bikerbarbie]

Any reason they might decide to just knock you out to kidnap you for study?

[soft_focus]

PLEASE STEAL MY SMALL MAGICALLY DRAINED/MAGICAL AMPLIFYING CHILD

i mean what

gon's just a werebear he's not Cool enough for this

More ahem, clearly; Reira if studied closely has had all magical potential (of unknown origin) drained. It's the likely reason her flame came in the way it did- but what's interesting about her is...That flame. Aside from the empathy, she's extremely easy to possess- and whatever possesses her, gets their magic boosted.

So that might be neat. weaponizable, rather,

EDIT: ok so Gon's cool for his own reasons, so just give me a good ol' coin flip if we get too much going on here

/SLAPS THIS DOWN

[leekspins]

Orihime's got all kinds of kooky abilities, the 'healing' one being the one on the books. Lots of potential for profit (why search for a cure for cancer when her ability can cure cancer), study (she looks human but they might sense her fey heritage + it might expose her other secret abilities), and/or manipulation to make her use her powers for them.

When the rescue comes she might be able to help the other subjects break out depending on whether they know about Tsubaki or not and how subdued she is.

But this would be so fun to play with!

Mission - Steal our Stuff Back

[bikerbarbie]

First come, first serve.
1-2 staff. Second will be on reserve in case of a large group.
4-7 (+ Maya) students.

Make a note if your character is in a control room slot instead of on the infiltration team.

[nor_iron_bars]

Diiiiiiiid somebody say stealing? :D

Because Jail is absolutely up to steal literally everything from these people that isn't nailed down or on fire.

...and then come back with an extinguisher and a crowbar for round two.

Re: Mission - Steal our Stuff Back

[thebreakfastbug]

Signing Bee up for infiltration.

[eudaimonikos]

Michael's just a master of illusion who likes to lie and screw people over 8D

[foolishjustice]

Did someone say infiltration and looting?

[heromedal]

Rex hasn't looted anywhere in a while and he would love to see how Maya's developing with his toys...

Smithers, release a hound.

[bikerbarbie]

For Claire:

Claire will run off into fights with these guys the moment she gets the feeling something's wrong. And once she knocks out one or two she'll figure out who they are and go alert the nearest person who can kickass. And probably wound a lot of these guys (she will avoid killing them... mostly because she knows what they're about).

She is around to rescue people!

For Mal:

As Mal is fae, her weakness is really exploitable so while she starts out strong one of them is just going to cold iron her and she'll need saving. As Mal would be out and about during the night doing nefarious Mal things to find out the school is being robbed.

And involve herself to mess with people who she can get away with messing with.

For Maya:

If you want Maya you can have her (during the attack anyway, she's in the stealth mission), but otherwise she'll be out of this one to keep my ability to do NPC (as needed).

But if you want her she can sneak up on pretty much anyone until the Men of Letters realize there's someone their toys can't see (and pull out old fashioned heat sensors).