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Monet sends word to everyone to meet at her office at dusk; it’s a smallish room but with enough space for all of them. She keeps the window open for Leo and company, and enough chairs and refreshments for all of them. The plan is simple. Malicant needs blood magic, somehow. The bodies are perfect fodder, and no one quite knows what happens to them. Their goal is to be efficient and relatively undetected. Evandau isn’t likely to pursue them, but isn’t likely and will not hesitate are not that far apart, especially when his own subjects are the suspects.

'If we’re all clear on the particulars,' she finishes, 'let’s get to work. There’s some wine and refreshments on the table over there, we’ll meet back here at the end of the week with what we’ve found. Any questions?'

Cassie showed up just a little early... defiantly (against reasons that mostly have nothing to do with people here) in her Stature outfit, which her dad made sure she had, before she left.

She's listening carefully to the instructions, worrying on her lip a little.

"It's good to know what each of us can do, if just in broad outlines, if we're going to be acting as teams. I... can change size, going from very, very small, to very, very large. I guess the first one will be more useful, in this case."

Nilin arrives a little after Cassie and though she gives a brief nod in greeting, that's about all she says at first. She stands to the side, arms folded as she waits for the others and listens to what Monet has to say.

Once all is said and done and the question of what they can do is voiced, she speaks up. "First off, I'm Nilin. It's nice to meet you all."

She offers a tiny smile but it's gone a moment later. There's work to be done and none of what Monet has had to say is good. "I can fight, hand to hand for the most part but I'm willing to improvise if need be. Other than that, I can climb, I can destroy any physical barriers that might get in our way. Stealth and electronics of any form are another thing I'm good with."

And she can play god with someone's memory, but that's not much of a use here since no one else has a Sensen.

Korra's climbing through the window along with Raphael, Leonardo, and Mike. She was iffy on trusting Monet, but the turtles asking for some extra back up was something she'd never turn down. Arms crossed, she's hanging back by Raphael and letting Leo do the questions.

But introductions are needed, she doesn't know anyone else and vice versa.

"Korra. I can bend, or control, the four elements. Fire, air, water, and earth. Not a bad fighter either." Part sarcasm, but that's par for the course. "If someone gets hurt, I'll take care it."

There's parts she's leaving out about her abilities, and the power ring. But those are something she's not about to share in the open with people she doesn't know or trust.

Michaelangelo is a fierce warrior hardened by years spent mastering the martial arts, and it shows in how he's built and how he moves.

Until he smiles, and then he just looks like a giant doof
So really he only looks cool for maybe a fifteen count.

Sorry Leo and Raph.

"Hi. I'm Mike. I'm a Ninja.
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Does everyone know what a ninja is?"

Just ignore him, he's been working with a lot of small children lately.

Questions about the bodies will all be referred to the Healer's Guilds around the city. A visit to the establishment in question will confirm that a stock of precious liquid has gone missing and that this incident has been reported to Cherrywood Healer. Upon pressing for information, they will get the name of the liquid, "Im'ata", and that an investigation is currently underway but has made no progress. The healers will be hesitant to give out any more information after this.

TO LOOSEN THEIR LIPS FURTHER:
A) Provide an earnest argument,
B) Scare it out of them.

OOC plotting goes here! Please reply with the option that your team chooses.

Being a healer herself, Korra would want to provide an earnest argument. But she's not above resorting to intimidation if that fails.

Sounds like these two work the same. I'm all for this!

Raph would definitely be in it more for the intimidation, but he respects a lot of the healers in the area, so he won't be overtly aggressive. He'd be more apt to stand in the background with his "don't mess with me" face on while others try a more tactful route.

Nilin is all for an earnest argument. Her patience runs a little thin at times though so if words don't work she's more than happy to resort to scare tactics.

Threading space for considering and acting upon the options. Go wild :)

"Remind me to look more into this later." More a spoken note to herself while she looks around at the herbs and spices that are on the shelves. Healing in Keeliai is different than what Korra's used to.

Finally, the official the trio came to see walks out from one of the back rooms accompanied by two other healers. "You wished to know more of the foreigner process?"

Process.

Korra's upper lip twitches and her eyes move over to Nilin, Raph and then back to the official. "Yeah. About what you do with the bodies of those who go home." Souls go back to their world, but just that. Korra has a vested interest since Asami went home.

A straight answer isn't coming, or at least she gets the feeling it's not.

"Our part is simple, but it has been difficult since our stock has been declared missing."

Vague enough for Korra to eye the shelves for an empty spot that might have the name on the shelf, which of course wouldn't be on display.

Upon succsessfully coercing the full truth out of them, they will reveal the use of the liquid in the All Hallowed Redux event.

Nice. Korra's going to want to relay that something used to 'paint' foreigners back onto the right plane that's also being used on clone bodies ASAP. She'll want to see what the rest of the pieces of the puzzle are.

The second team, upon visiting their local Healer's Guild, won't have any luck getting information out of the tight-lipped healers, but as they leave, they may get the sense that someone is watching them. A younger apprentice is watching them, darting from pillar to pillar as they make their way to the front door.

YOUR OPTIONS ARE:
A) Follow him,
B) Ignore him.

OOC plotting goes here! Please reply with the option that your team chooses.

Monet would opt to follow him and possibly scare him into telling them why.

Terry would be up for a plan like this too (because Batman) and he has stealth mode to do tracking with.

Threading space for considering and acting upon the options. Go wild :)

At the third location, there's a very chatty healer, who lets slip that severely injured kedan are taken elsewhere to heal. Her uncle is a foreman for one of the workers involved, and provides them with the address. When they track the place down, however, it is closed, and bolted, no doubt with heavy security.

YOUR OPTIONS ARE:
A) Use stealth to break into the office,
B) Fight your way past all the security measures.

(Both options may result in the police showing up if it goes awry. Choose wisely.)

OOC plotting goes here! Please reply with the option that your team chooses.

Cassie is very good at stealth, but that's because she can go really, really tiny. Up to Mike and Leo whether to try that way.

Mike is a good deal smaller than Leo is, but he's still got the shell, so the spaces he'll fit through are limited by that. Also, any breaking in from him is going to further be limited by his 1980s era understanding of technology.

Personally? I'm all for being sneaky, and then having to fight one's way out...or in, if being sneaky doesn't exactly go according to plan.

I think we're overall a pretty stealth-oriented team, actually, which works well for the subject matter. If Cassie can get through some of the bolts/locks for Mike and Leo, they can take care of other security (and by 'take care of' I mostly mean throw ninja stars at or tie up and stuff into closets).

That sounds good to me, and, yes, Cassie can get under doors or even inside the locks and take care of them!

Threading space for considering and acting upon the options. Go wild :)

Cassie crouched on the rooftop across from the office, then looked over at her two teammates.

Who were literal ninja turtles. Huh.

"I can get in there. Unless something's airtight, I can probably go small enough to sneak into anything. What do you guys think for some... quiet, to start with?"

They could have other ideas, of course. Which was why she wasn't going small and rushing towards the building already.

Leo's used to three-man teams by now, so when he ends up huddled on the edge of a rooftop with his cousin and a stranger, he only feels slightly out of his element. He's quiet as they sit surveying the yard, his eyes flicking from building to building and the high-stretching fence surrounding the area.

"Security's heavy," he notes, though he probably doesn't need to - it's as clear as day. "Quiet is probably a good idea."

He turns back to the team, mouth pulling into a thoughtful line. "All right. Mike, you're with me. Cassie, you take point for recon and infiltration. Find us a way in and leave a path for us to get through. We'll take care of any security we find so we can get out of here - fast." He pauses, glancing towards the warehouse. "We're in, then we're out. No funny business."

Famous last words.

Once inside, they can find a list of damaged "healing chambers" in the files scattered across the foreman's desk. These files will contain further information, including the limited authorization for usage and the damage suffered during the Jiangshi invasion.

Cassie will suggest they bring the results in to the re-meeting point and getting out of the office ASAP, but, if they're the first who end up getting back, maybe looking into some of the healing chambers?

After putting the investigated pieces of the puzzle together, the Foreigners will discover their final stop: an unmarked section in the Water Sector, the existence of which indicated only by matching kedanese symbols etched onto both the shell damage charts and the map of broken chamber locations. Upon arrival to the remote area, the Foreigners may note a thick wall of moss and fronds, stretching yards in length, settled within the otherwise desolate scenery. Pushing through this foliage reveals a rough section of the shell sloping down and curving inward, where it eventually disappears into a carved-out tunnel leading further undeground.

Proceeding into the cavern leads the Foreigners another ten or so feet before they reach a wider opening that presumably leads into a much larger chamber. The entrance, however, is fenced off by an official Alderwood seal, robust and bold in contrast to the bleakness of its surroundings. A sign nearby warns off tresspassers with the threat of incarceration or execution, stating that any presence in this area could prove detrimental to Tu Vishan's health. Within the chamber itself, a gentle blue light shines from the domed shell overhead, casting the room in a soft glow. The cavern sits at around a thousand square feet in size, and is populated by endless rows of oval pools that shimmer in the dim light. Each pool is 2-3 feet deep and filled to the edges with glinting liquid; the Foreigners may recognize it as the missing Im'ata.

In approximately half of the pools lie nude Foreigner bodies. Closer examination of these bodies will reveal that they are alive, but minimally: their vitals are rock-bottom and there are no signs of brain activity. Attempts at psychic contact will prove fruitless, and they will not react to external stimuli. By all accounts, they are in complete vegetative states. Even if the investigation team recognizes some of the bodies, none of them belong to Foreigners who disappeared prior to Eshai's murder, nor is everyone who has ever disappeared from Keeliai present.

OOC plotting goes here.

Threading space for IC things.

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BRIEFING;

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INVESTIGATIONS;

TEAM ALPHA: RAPHAEL, KORRA, NILIN

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TEAM BRAVO: MONET, TERRY, KURT

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TEAM CHARLIE: LEO, MIKE, CASSIE

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EXPLORING THE CAVERNS;

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