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etrayalogs2024-08-05 12:05 pm
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OPERATION: YOUTHFUL DISOBEDIENCE
WHO: Members of the grand curfew-breaking plan!
WHEN: During the Moorecroft event.
WHERE: Various Moorecroft locales.
WHAT: A bunch of youths have gotten together to break curfew in tandem to get to the bottom of the mystery at heart of this place -- but what they find leads to more questions than answers.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Probable violence, death, emotional trauma, cursing. All the fun stuff! I'll be putting the log headers for pre/during/post-curfew breaking logs in the comments, so just hang tight while I do that, though all members are of course more than welcome to post their own logs if that suits their tagging style better.
WHEN: During the Moorecroft event.
WHERE: Various Moorecroft locales.
WHAT: A bunch of youths have gotten together to break curfew in tandem to get to the bottom of the mystery at heart of this place -- but what they find leads to more questions than answers.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Probable violence, death, emotional trauma, cursing. All the fun stuff! I'll be putting the log headers for pre/during/post-curfew breaking logs in the comments, so just hang tight while I do that, though all members are of course more than welcome to post their own logs if that suits their tagging style better.
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Oh, also, Gorgug nods at Adaine's reply to the question turned to the both of them, a ] Yeah [ added in agreement.
(Also, let's be real: it's Gorgug's Gorgug Aura that doesn't help him be good at hiding.)
But he doesn't feel the need to add any further to the arguments put forward. There's plenty with Adaine and Fabian speaking to him, and maybe it will be enough to make him concede--but he will say, maybe just to cement where he is with this: ]
If you two can't make it with everything we've planned, I don't see you making on some extra speed or hiding alone. Or this wouldn't be a big mystery.
[ He doesn't want Riz to take it a bad way, but he's also assuming that there are others out there who could've figured things out if this was just about stealth and speed. Right? ]
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[ And that's the thing, isn't it? The rest of them have plenty of strengths to their name. Fabian is a dancer and a fighter, a people person, charismatic and capable, and Gorgug has somehow wormed his way into being the brawns and the brains, picking away at all sorts of incredibly machinery as though the very same hands aren't capable of crushing a man's skull, and Adaine's the smartest person he's ever met, as lightning quick with a strategic spell in the heat of battle as she is with plucking some archaic fact straight out of her head.
Riz's is stealth and deduction. Pinning those on someone else just feels wrong. ]
If I got caught, I'd leave. That's the heart of the whole plan. I'm just thinking logically here.
[ And turns out to be the exact opposite of what they wind up doing, but -- details, details. His gaze dwells on each of them, one by one, looking a little betrayed by this whole thing, like a dog who was told that he was going to the park and wound up at the vet's office instead. He sets his jaw. ]
I can do this solo. [ Even if his friends don't seem to think so, it seems important to him to repeat this, to truly cement his own faith in himself and his abilities. He needs to be the best at this, because everyone else is the best at what they do too. ]
...but you guys aren't gonna let me, are you?
[ At the end of the day, he'll concede. He doesn't want to. It sticks in his throat. But he cares more about his friends being on-board with this than he does sticking to the original plan, even if the idea of needing someone to pick up the slack in his inevitable failure stings a little. ]
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And the stakes here aren't exactly low.
So Fabian huffs. ]
Come on, The Ball. You're acting like we're doing this because we don't believe in you. [ And Fabian knows that isn't the case. Gorgug and Adaine are total sweethearts in their own way, especially when it comes to Riz. If they agree with Fabian, then Fabian can't be on the wrong path here. ] What if I just want to come with you, huh?
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[ She could probably have done what she could to monitor the distraction and infiltration teams on her own. But she's going to be better able to do it because she's pairing her own arcane abilities to the machines which Gorgug has built. She knows that they complement each other, not detract. ]
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...so he's just going to echo his friend's words this time, trying to offer reassuringly, if only in tone: ] We trust you. We trust the both of you.
[ Spring break, and all. ]
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He still doesn't quite buy it. Not really. If it wasn't that they didn't want him doing this alone, then they wouldn't be having this conversation. It would be him stealthing ahead like he always does, staking out the place, sneaking back and reporting in so they can figure out what to do next. But this time...
It's not that the stakes are higher. They're plenty used to high stakes. But there's something about this place that's rendered them helpless, at the mercies of what's thrown with them, of powers greater than they can research or magic away or beat to death. This is less important, but it feels like it's more important in a way, their first act of actually seizing power from the guys in charge and giving them a final fuck you.
He turns to Fabian, blinking curiously. ]
...but okay, sure. [ He's not against Fabian having a more active hand in things, per se. But this month has been... well. Besides, Riz has never actually been with him on a stealth mission before. It's adding more variables to the mix. ] It's not like I'd say no if you really want to come. Just not if you feel, like... you have to.
[ He's been pushing for this. Hard. No matter the dangers. He knows that they do things as a party, but there is no life-or-death crisis happening here, no end-of-the-world disaster that will happen if they don't jump in and do the stupid thing, no grade contingent on it. The rest are on-board, of course, with Gorgug hopping right into the conspiracy with him on practically day one, and Adaine's constantly ticking mind, but Fabian? It's not like is something he'd want to do on his own. ]
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[ He doesn't sound fully offended, because he definitely gets where Riz's hesitance about him in particular may come from. He did kind of cry all over him only just the other week, after all. But Fabian feels awkward about the idea of that influencing the way his friends think about him when it comes to this. He doesn't think he's weaker for it - doesn't like to think he is, anyway - and so he wants to do what he can, shove aside that impression of him in Riz's mind - and Gorgug's mind, likely, considering he kind of did the same around him..
Especially when this entire thing is clearly important to Riz. Isn't that why they're all there? Fabian is pretty sure Adaine and Gorgug feel the same way regarding this as he does. ]
But that means we are all in agreement then! With all four of us in on this plan, there is absolutely no way it is going to fail!
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Quietly, she puts her hand in the middle and starts a chant, slowly growing louder and louder. ]
Hoot growl. Hoot growl! Hoot growl!
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Gorgug absolutely cannot let Adaine down, and so he excitedly puts his own hand in next to hers, while another is absolutely banging a fist on the table for a beat. ]
Hoot growl, hoot growl, hoot growl!!! Team Riz! Team Fabian!!
[ Maybe he should've said an 'and' instead of 'team' again there but he got caught up in the excitement!!! ]