catchall, early November

[ruinsprofessor]

Characters: Raine Sage and OPEN
Date: first week of November mostly, some flex if necessary
Location: various around Keeliai, including her suite (Tu-Gai)
Situation: also various, mostly involving catching people up to the situation as it stands and seeking possibilities for dealing with things under the shell.
Warnings/Rating: violence/gore in Anton's thread; probably all-over discussions of mind control etc.



While the suspicion of someone willingly working with Malicant is something that never quite leaves her mind, for the most part Raine's of the opinion that dispersing information can only help right now. Not via the network, of course, but she spends much of the first week of November seeking out people she knows to catch them up to how bad things are, to make sure the vision Wan and Valdis had gets shared out, and to see if anyone has any helpful input at all. She's done about as much as she can within her own head; now it's time to get outside points of view.

When she's not busy doing that, she can mostly be found in the Earth sector, either at her suite, which she hasn't made a significant effort to hide, or in one of the assorted nearby parks, running through artes over and over in an effort to improve her casting time and focus or simply swinging her staff in the most basic of forms.

Comments

Gene; actually a little earlier than November, aka one or two days post-possession attempt;

[ruinsprofessor]

Once the vision has had a little time to sink in, one of Raine's first priorities is to talk to Gene. She doesn't know for sure how far the powers of his rings extend, but if there's any possibility that the one they were testing a few months ago could help provide answers, it's worth following up on. While she touches base with him briefly via the network to arrange a time and place to talk to him she doesn't provide any details on what it's about, beyond 'important.'

When she turns up to meet him she's about as put-together as ever and alert, but there are faint shadows under her eyes that suggest perhaps she hasn't quite been sleeping enough.

[gathersnomoss]

Zelgadis has been building stockpiles of medical supplies, especially kits that could be hauled to whatever part of the city that needed them. He knows there's trouble, and he doesn't know what he can do... and, working made him feel less helpless and miserable and betrayed.

"do you have anything else I should be doing?" he asked Raine. Because there were only so much busywork he could find on his own.

[royalguard_style]

Dante had been trying to get his hands on any information that may let them finally kill Malicant. He was forced to finally acknowledge that he was outmatched here, and that meant he had to get any information that may give him the upper hand. Therefore, the second he found out that Raine had all the information he need, he burst through her apartment door by kicking it down.

This only looks bad.

The Midnight Hotel; early November

[gistful]

There were few patrons in the Hotel these days, or at least patrons who were using the rooms. The cultists had figured out that they were allowed to enter as much as anyone else as long as they behaved. They had also figured out that Anton had no issues with ejecting them when they stopped behaving, or using the gangs to help, and didn't quite care.

Anton's original policy had extended only to patrons. He'd expanded it when the gangs used the Hotel as a meeting-place. Now the gangs and the cultists were the only people left, and the cultists were cocky. The gangs were, inside the Hotel, on Anton's side--outside the Hotel, he was just another Foreigner. The Hotel's lobby was a powder-keg waiting to happen and Anton did not like it at all.

The time was going to come, very soon, when he would be forced to kill any number of them to assert his authority, and while the gangs understood to some degree they also wouldn't exactly hide it from the rest of the kedan. It could turn ugly.

Then again, it was war.

Either way, Anton was watching the cultists in the lobby very, very carefully while he worked the desk. They were packing the building and he knew it; many of them had paid for rooms they wouldn't use just for the right to remain. Fortunately, so had the gangs.

Outside

[whitelotustile]

Iroh is doing his own exercises... not so much obvious bending forms, but lifting weights and calisthenics, the sorts of things designed to boost strength, flexibility and endurance. Today, he's out for a run before work. "Good morning. I'll get the tea on when I get back."

Solomon; after talking to Tony;

[ruinsprofessor]

Not too long after a frankly very awkward conversation with Tony, Raine dropped by to visit Solomon again, in itself not a wholly unusual thing, but this time with a point of curiosity a little less serious than most of late. She'd sent a quick message beforehand to check that he was actually there and if not free then at least interruptible, and shortly thereafter turned up on his doorstep without much other explanation.

Tu-Gai, mid november, pre-endplot

[denyamenti]

In light of their last conversation, Raine had asked him to procure more information regarding a Foreigner that had been present during the last round of Foreigners. It was something that Bakura had heard in passing, but agreed that it had been worth pursuing. It had taken him a while to track down that source, during which he'd had an interesting conversation with Tony Stark, but ultimately he had given his word to bring Raine the information and so he arrived on her doorstep fairly early one morning.