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[StormLord]

Friedhold presses one of his hands up to the crack of the door as he's watching and focuses on one of the cloaked figures as he attempts to pluck their mind with Thoughtseize.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thoughtseize: Remove a fragment of the mind and watch it crumble.
Marks one target with "Seized".  Seized targets reveal their intent for their next action at the end of the round, be it to attack, debuff, defend, support, etc.
Only one target may be Seized at a time, costs 1 Eve.

[kj1225]

Rory

The Faunus briefly considered saying something, or maybe trying some fancy move like sneaking up on the inattentive sentry, before a better idea suddenly came to mind. And so he looked for something like a large stone on the ground and chucked it at her head.

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Ehto
"I wish we'd arrived sooner too." The sorceress said. "How long has he been gone? The only reason we're here is because someone sent us a letter requesting help, and we're still not sure who exactly it was."

[AzyWng]

Tsubasa

The Barons retrieve the evidence of the roadblock from Tsubasa without much fuss, though when a Baron is handed the bag of Shills, they hesitate for a second.

Still, Tsubasa gets paid.

Gained 150 Shills (New total 225)!

Ehto
"Fellemo's been gone for almost a full week now. But in between attacks from Boggers, Rise, and opportunists from other factions..." Arint sighs. "I'll just be thankful you've arrived now and not later. At any rate... Fellemo had already called in a favor from an old friend of his, and..." Again, Arint seems frustrated and disappointed. "That friend - Rook - went into the Bog, too. Barons and Rise both. And neither of them have come back at all. I've got a few people gathered together for an expedition, but... like I said, there's a lot of fires to put out. I want to be ready for whatever's in there."

Friedhold and Nessa and Rory
Friedhold manages to grab a piece of one of the robbers' mind, and discovers that these people had some help conducting their robbery. More specifically, some Spark Barons are in on the theft, as well.

However, some of the figure's friends seem to notice the streak of of light that Thoughtseize produces, and start moving towards the door, weapons readied.

Rory's stone throw flies true, and the sentry collapses into the dirt unconscious. From inside, there's the noise of movement and someone mentioning how they spotted something.

[kj1225]

Rory
The faunus considered his options, with his route in secured he could use the distraction provided to sneak in and secure the area. Alternatively he could cause his own distraction... He finally decided to check the downed sentry for any valuables before entering the warehouse and beginning to search for the thieves and their plans to escape.

[Chevaleresse]

Tsubasa

Not bothering to reassure the Baron that she wasn't bribing him or something, Tsubasa goes to find whoever of the party is around.

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Ehto
"Right...how convenient for them you have to waste resources tending minor emergencies." The Sorceress muttered to herself. There wasn't a chance in hell the majority of this mess hadn't been rigged from the start. "What else do you still need done around here before things are ready?"

[StormLord]

Friedhold steps back from the door as the thugs start coming over to investigate.  He grabs Nessa's shoulder as he does and the light around him warps in a mirage haze as it folds to envelop the two of them, before becoming still once more.  Once out of sight with Houdini he steps away a few feet from the door along the wall and summons an Insect Swarm, directing it to the doorway to greet the thugs when they exit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Houdini: This Plasmid allows you to bend light around your body making yourself effectively invisible to the naked eye.
Reduces aggro significantly and enemies can't target you, costs 2 Eve to start the effect and disables Eve regeneration for its duration.

Insect Swarm: Summon a swarm of wasps and bees that viciously attack a target.
Swarm a single target for 3d6 poison damage each round for 7 rounds, Costs 4 Eve.

[AzyWng]

Tsubasa and Ehto

After a bit of wandering, Tsubasa manages to find the tent where Arint is. A Jarackle in an Admiralty uniform and a human Spark Baron both move to stop her, but Arint glances over and gestures for Tsubasa to be let in.

"You're back, good. How's the situation with the blockade? I was just speaking to your colleague about the... circumstances here in Grout Bog." Turning to Ehto, she adds, "I've been doing my best to take care of the most pressing issues - defending vital assets, ensuring that information and supplies get to where they need to be, dealing with troublemakers... But I think things here are about to come to a head soon. Some parts of the Admiralty and Spree... You seem to think it's all part of the High Priest's plan, but I think it's more that they've set their sights on Grout Bog and are sensing weakness. There's going to be a full-scale assault. As early as tonight, even."

Arint rubs her temples and lets out a deep sigh, like whatever's holding her together is reaching its limits.

"There's still the issue of the tech sale that needs to be conducted - the buyer is trustworthy, but I'm concerned with security from external threats. Besides that, I've heard reports of... an automech running around causing chaos in Grout Bog. So far none of my teams have been able to catch or corner it.

You could each do one of those jobs seperately, or go on both. What do you prefer?"

Friedhold and Nessa and Rory

The Insect Swarm scares the thugs - they start swatting them away as they turn tail, shouting to the others about The Bog trying to kill them. It's not long before all the bandits begin running out of the building through the opposite door. The giant snail moves with surprising speed only to slam against the closed door in front of them.

As Rory searches the downed sentry, he notices a small map. A quick glance shows it's a map of Grout Bog - and that the locations of a few camps are listed here.

Before Rory can take any more or sneak into the building, a whole mess of thugs start running out the back entrance, followed by a swarm of bugs that they try helplessly to swat away.

[Sutoratosu Akira]

Ehto
"I'm better suited to hunting than providing security," Ehto said, "tell me more about this Automech and I'll do what I can to track it down. Do you need it back functional, or does it not matter what happens to it?"

[Chevaleresse]

Tsubasa

"The blockade is dispersed," she says simply. Tsubasa briefly wondered just how poorly their forces were being managed that a trio of poorly-trained goons hadn't been dealt with already. "As for the sale, I can act as a bodyguard. There aren't many things that can defeat my vision."

[StormLord]

Friedhold follows the fleeing thugs as they run back into the building and towards the back exit.  He withdrawals a chunky syringe of bluish liquid, pops the cap off the needle, primes it, then jams it in practiced motion into a tattooed spot on the inside of his forearm and presses the plunger to empty the whole vial.  Dropping the expended hypo his other hand writhes with weeping blisters and pits that drip and coalesce into a long tendril of water.

Brandishing it like a whip Friedhold lashes outside the bubble of invisibility he was hiding in and the tendril surges into four huge watery octopus tentacle directed at the fleeing snail creature.  They wrap and flow around it, dragging it down and attempting to pull it back into the building, or at least hold it back for a few moments while it's handlers fled.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Undertow: Your arm becomes a writhing mass of tentacles that can be used to restrain enemies.
One target becomes stunned and three become knocked prone, costs 2 Eve.
Prone: Enemies lose defensive bonuses from abilities like "basic defense", and lose dodge bonuses(at GM's discretion) until their next turn, abilities with multi-turn activation are also interrupted.

[kj1225]

Rory

The faunus couldn't tell if he was very lucky, or if this was gonna be on the lower end of days he's had. Still, he wasn't about to let a bunch of second rate thugs get by him. As a first rate thug it'd be far beneath him after all.


Rory quickly draws his stake launcher and launches a stake about a meter in front of the group, forcing them to stop or end up in the blast range.

[AzyWng]

Tsubasa and Ehto

Arint nods at the two. "Good, good. The Automech is... It's some kind of fusion powered by a mixture of Spark and Lumin. Normally those two substances react violently when making contact with one another, so attempts to utilize the two together have never made much progress, but... somehow, it exists. Some Heshian heretics created it by modifying an automech named... 'Steven'. Taken all the way from Pearl-On-Foam. I chose to let it be, but now it's beginning to disrupt operations. Distracting Barons and workers, even attacking people sometimes... I'd like it back functional - there's no record of anything like it existing - but the most important thing is that the attacks stop."

"As for you, Tsubasa..." Arint marks a point on a map of Grout Bog - farther away from both worker and Baron facilities. "The meeting point will be here. We've already arranged the goods, simply pick up the contact, head to the spot where the goods are being held, make the exchange, and escort the shipment out of Grout Bog."

Rory and Friedhold and Nessa

In between the explosive and the sight of a human somehow morphing into a part-tentacle... thing, the bandits panic and drop their weapons.

From there, it's an easy enough matter to round them up and capture them.

The giant snail - still laden with some of the cargo - is captured as well. It seems just as scared as any of the people present.

[Chevaleresse]

Tsubasa

Tsubasa takes a moment to memorize the location and get her bearing relative to it. "Where's the person I'm escorting?"