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tushanshu_logs2015-01-02 06:53 pm
highprofilerichkid) wrote in tushanshu_logs2015-01-02 06:53 pm
Catch-All for Operation Get Our Stuff Back
Characters: Tony, Sokka, Valdis, Gene, Cain and YOU
Date: December 12 onwards
Location: The Hotel
Situation: Tony is pissed about SI falling into kedan hands, and more levelheaded people have to talk him out of doing something stupid. Once sense and discretion have prevailed, it occurs to Tony et al. that the foreigners might be able to more rapidly regain some leverage in Keeliai if they worked together to befriend/infiltrate the gangs, especially the three major families. Devious plotting ensues.
Warnings/Rating: None so far
[1 - the common room of the Hotel - December 12]
Tony returns from his meeting with Zanru after less than two hours, and he is seething. Sokka had asked him about the status of his job at Stark Industries, and Tony had promised to go find out right away (he'd put off meeting with the new "boss" of SI long enough already). The meeting had not gone well. To put it mildly.
Now he's back at the Hotel, looking for Sokka, to deliver the bad news. And poor Sokka is about to get an earful.
[2 - around the Hotel - the following days and weeks]
Tony had - miraculously - been talked down from teleporting his entire lab and all its contents out of SI and permanently alienating the Metalworker family. A longer-term strategy of insinuating themselves into the families' good graces had been suggested, and Tony, grudgingly, had acquiesced.
Since then, word has been getting around. Anyone who hears about that discussion and wants to ask Tony about it or offer their help should be able to locate him pretty easily around and about the Hotel. That's where he's spending most of his time, after all, since he is currently unwelcome at SI.
[3 - Make your own starter!]
[ooc: the initial discussion will be closed to Tony, Sokka, Valdis, Gene, Cain, but anyone who wants to have their character hear about it second-hand is welcome to post a thread here. You can request a thread with Tony or any of the other original conspirators, but it isn't necessary - anyone can thread out anything related to this plan in this log.
Keep in mind that this is not (currently) a conspiracy to depose the families or destroy the gangs or take over Keeliai - merely an attempt to organize the foreigners so that they can pool information and coordinate their negotiations with the gangs without making the kedan more distrustful. However, this is supposed to be on the DL, so if your character accidentally or intentionally lets the plan slip to the kedan, expect there to be IC consequences!
The ooc plotting post for Operation Get Our Stuff Back can be found here.]
Date: December 12 onwards
Location: The Hotel
Situation: Tony is pissed about SI falling into kedan hands, and more levelheaded people have to talk him out of doing something stupid. Once sense and discretion have prevailed, it occurs to Tony et al. that the foreigners might be able to more rapidly regain some leverage in Keeliai if they worked together to befriend/infiltrate the gangs, especially the three major families. Devious plotting ensues.
Warnings/Rating: None so far
[1 - the common room of the Hotel - December 12]
Tony returns from his meeting with Zanru after less than two hours, and he is seething. Sokka had asked him about the status of his job at Stark Industries, and Tony had promised to go find out right away (he'd put off meeting with the new "boss" of SI long enough already). The meeting had not gone well. To put it mildly.
Now he's back at the Hotel, looking for Sokka, to deliver the bad news. And poor Sokka is about to get an earful.
[2 - around the Hotel - the following days and weeks]
Tony had - miraculously - been talked down from teleporting his entire lab and all its contents out of SI and permanently alienating the Metalworker family. A longer-term strategy of insinuating themselves into the families' good graces had been suggested, and Tony, grudgingly, had acquiesced.
Since then, word has been getting around. Anyone who hears about that discussion and wants to ask Tony about it or offer their help should be able to locate him pretty easily around and about the Hotel. That's where he's spending most of his time, after all, since he is currently unwelcome at SI.
[3 - Make your own starter!]
[ooc: the initial discussion will be closed to Tony, Sokka, Valdis, Gene, Cain, but anyone who wants to have their character hear about it second-hand is welcome to post a thread here. You can request a thread with Tony or any of the other original conspirators, but it isn't necessary - anyone can thread out anything related to this plan in this log.
Keep in mind that this is not (currently) a conspiracy to depose the families or destroy the gangs or take over Keeliai - merely an attempt to organize the foreigners so that they can pool information and coordinate their negotiations with the gangs without making the kedan more distrustful. However, this is supposed to be on the DL, so if your character accidentally or intentionally lets the plan slip to the kedan, expect there to be IC consequences!
The ooc plotting post for Operation Get Our Stuff Back can be found here.]
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If nobody comes to call after we've started moving in, I think we can safely claim finders keepers. [Because "squatters' rights" is such an ugly term.] It's not like the place plays a low profile. And I doubt anyone would object to some good-natured renovation.
[Make the process as winsome and inoffensive as possible...until it's too late for the kedan to do anything about it. It's a strategy Gene knows well.]
Darn you for making me watch that link, Gene.
That's it! That's the plan then. That way, no one can say that we didn't give them fair warning, and by the time they come forward to protest, if they do, it'll pretty much be too late. And if they insist on it not being too late to protest, well... we'll just force them to give us an alternative on the spot! Which will either mean the plans will go forward as expected—which means they'll lose face on the matter—or they'll have to give up something to us to cater to us—oooh, that part is nice, nice...
And if we make it kedan-friendly, too, well, no one can say we're looking out for our own, and it'll just make any protests unpopular!
[Yup, we're geniuses.]
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...but that probably won't happen. Probably. It's a better plan than anything Tony has to offer, at least.]
Okay. Whoever's going to give the kedan the heads up... shouldn't be me, I'm gonna say. [His mouth twists in a disparaging smile, though it's not obvious whether his scorn is for the kedan, or himself, or a little of both.]
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I'll do it, [Gene says.] I'm a bit of an unknown quantity to them at the moment. Might as well try and get off on the right foot. [Before he fucks everything up.]
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[...soooo is anyone going to make him apologize to Zanru? No? Well, sweet.]
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Give me a little time to get in touch with everyone, see what opposition we might face. But I wouldn't be averse to surveying the area to get the upper hand.
[And yes, Tony, you still have to apologize to Zanru.] Though repairing the relationship with Zanru might take some time. [And he gently whaps Tony on the back of the head again.]
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I can start poking around the palace to start surveying it in the meantime. See what sort of condition everything was left in, see if there's anything still usable there. Maybe start sketching up plans for what to do with it. [He shrugs as he looks to Tony.] You're more than welcome to join if you're interested.
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[...aaaand wow that sure is an engaging and appealing proposition you've just made there, Sokka! Let's talk about that!]
Sure, I'm interested. We probably shouldn't be going in alone, anyway. There could still be some nasty surprises left over from when Big Ugly ran the place.
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Sounds like a good idea. I may join you, if only so I can see the state of things these days. And I'd be interested to see any plans you come up with.
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Oh is that how the relationship works? Gene is a wild animal? What does that make Tony? The prey? Is he ravaged every night? Is there blood involved? Never mind, I don't want to know.[Sokka smiles at Tony, glad he's coming along, though when Gene decides to tag in too, well...]
Wanting to have all the fun too? [He's being a little facetious and joking there; he doesn't really mind.] Probably for the best to check it out with a group for just that reason, [he says, gesturing to Tony.] I've never met the guy, but if Eshai was as devious as the stories I've been told, well... it makes sense to be on our guard.
And I'll make sure to keep you up to date on the plans I draw up. [There will be pretty artistic drawings of the palace. Completely with rainbows. In watercolours. It will be amazing.
[So is he really going to get out without telling his stories? Or is that for another time?]
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My, my, Sokka. Quite the imagination we have, there.]I'll have the armor, too. That ought to protect me from just about anything the Palace can spring. We didn't run into anything too nasty when we explored it the first time around. Other than... you know. [Other than all the corpses. Not dangerous, but... Well. A small shudder runs through him at the memory.]
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Sokka, please. They're not that messed up.]Of course I should have all the fun, [Gene scoffs.]
And you're gonna have to tell those stories, you know. You can't just drop that kind of tidbit and run.
So help me, if you gagtag "That's rough, buddy" to me...
[Sokka has no idea what you're talking about, Tony. Please elaborate.]
Those stories? Oh, you mean all that world leader stuff?
[Well, that's... okay.]
Well, okay. Well, I'll just go through them in order.
Fell in love with a chieftain's daughter, but she was already engaged to another guy. Who—I should add—was a complete jerk! [Ahem.] Anyway, she doesn't like him, but does fall in love with me. Volunteered for a dangerous mission to go raid some Fire Nation guys, but because I got into a fight with said jerk because he was a complete bozo and idiot, I got kicked off the team. [Harumph.] But! But the chieftain gives me an even more important task: the special task of being his daughter's own personal guard. And I did so quite expertly, I must say, and while I did protect her, the bad guys... well, they managed to kill the moon. And so in order to make life not be completely horrible, the chieftain's daughter sacrificed her life and became the moon.
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Anyway, Sokka's already moved on to telling his "diplomacy" stories, and there's plenty to discuss there. Starting with:] Wait, how do you kill the moon? [Did they blow it up? Based on what Sokka's told him about his world, there's no way they had the level of technology to do that.] And how do you become the moon? Are we talking about the same kind of moon, here? Big glowy rock up in the sky that comes out at night?
"I will KILL the President, thereby BECOMING the President..." "That's not how it works."
[SUCH ELOQUENCE. IT BRINGS A TEAR TO YOUR EYE.]
How dare DW kill your Dr. McNinja reference!? /outrage!
I may not have a big awesome metal suit, but I do know what the moon is.
[Seriously, for real?]
Don't ask me how it works, because this is way way waaaaaay outside my realm of expertise, but apparently there's some little fish that's the moon spirit... or spiritual incarnation of the moon... or... just ask Aang about how that works, okay?
Anyway, Captain Grumpypants invades the north and kills the fish, and then everything goes dark. No more moon. And then Yue gives up her life to be inside the fish, and then the moon comes back.
[Seriously, Sokka's just flailing at an explanation. And his arms are flailing as well, as if trying to handwave all the parts he doesn't understand.]
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So... your girlfriend is the moon. Or, she's a fish...? A fish spirit that is also the moon? [This hurts him in his science, Sokka.]
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Okay, but why did they want to kill the moon?
[Asking the important questions.]
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[Don't worry, Tony. Sokka filed it under in the Magic Crap file too. It just so happens to be subfiled underneath Magic Crap that Sokka Is Okay With Because He Used to Date It. Kind of. It was totally dating her despite that she was engaged to someone else. Right? Right? Bueller?
Thankfully, Gene's question was easier.]
Well, it's because the moon controls the tides, right? [Finally something that Tony might like!] Waterbenders get their ability to bend from the moon. And the ocean. Or maybe it's the Moon Spirit and the Ocean Spirit? [Whatever.] Anyway, no moon, no waterbending. The Fire Nation could just sweep through and take over the entire Water Tribe, leaving only the Earth Kingdom to stop them.
If it had worked, of course. [The important caveat.]
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[Why are countries divided by bending anyway? Does everybody in each nation have the same kind of bending? Do you have to move to another nation if you have the wrong kind? This sounds like one of those chick-in-a-future-dystopia movies that are so popular at home.
Hm.] Zuko's a firebender. Does that mean he's from the Fire Nation?
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Also wait. Gene is thinking. If Sokka understood his Chinese invective, then...] Are the elements in your world the same as the ones in the sectors here? Like the Wu Xing? Or are they different?
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They're... similar, Gene, [he says, though he's also talking to Tony as well since the questions are more or less the same.] Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, and Water Tribe, sure... those we have. But the fourth one is the Air Nomads. For us, metalbending... well, that's just a fancy sort of earthbending. But at least three of the sectors feel right at home!
But yeah, Zuko's from the Fire Nation. But he's a good guy from the Fire Nation... except he used to be a bad guy, except he eventually joined our side to help take down his father. But yeah... Admiral Zhao from that country was a little bit... you know, crazy in the head.
[Sokka totally puts his finger to the side of his head and waggles it in a circle to illustrate.]
Which kind of leads into us trying to kill the Fire Lord anyway. I planned an invasion deep into their capital city to try to take him out. Still annoyed that Zuko's sister knew all about it in advance.
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Right, I remember you talking about your metalbending friend Toph. You planned an invasion into the capital city of a hostile nation? ...Wow. [Your resume keeps getting more and more impressive, Sokka.] I mean, I've taken down an evil dictator before, but that was because Gene can teleport, and Doom kept himself cooped up all alone in a crazy Fortress of Solitude in the middle of nowhere.
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So if Zuko's sister knew about it, what happened then?
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