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Post by marvelousmoose on Jun 27, 2013 21:07:18 GMT
Alice walked slowly behind the guards, holding the prisoner's handcuff chain tightly in her hand. She had been so close to actually closing a case all on her own. But, of course, the QA had insisted on sending in other people, and now she was rescuing them from prison. This would make her more suspicious and could even blow her cover. When they reached the lobby, she waved at the clerk behind the desk and kept going, leading the other girl up several flights of stairs, through a maze of hallways, and into her office. As soon as she closed the door, she turned around and glared at the other girl.
"You couldn't even manage a single day without getting arrested? Really?" She demanded, "that's absolutely ridiculous. I've been here for almost three months and I haven't been arrested once. I'm actually in a position to arrest others. If it weren't for me, you'd be executed tomorrow morning."
"Woah, chill okay," Evelyn said, "I actually have no idea what I did wrong. I was dumped on this planet with no previous knowledge and no warning time in which to gain any knowledge."
Alice exhaled a frustrated breath and sat down behind her desk, motioning for Evelyn to sit across from her. "Well now that you're here, you'd better start acting more like a model citizen. Choose a clan and stick with them, or else you'll end up dead in an alley. You were arrested because you are dressed like a member of the Cult of Rakdos and because you are armed to the teeth, leading to the suspicion that you are an assassin. That itself isn't enough to arrest you, but you and your partner, who thankfully was properly dressed, entered a sanctuary for the Azorius Senate, which is almost enough to start a full fledged war. That war is what we are aiming to prevent, so overall, your actions were very unhelpful."
"I'm sorry," Evelyn said, "why don't you just tell me what you know and we can try to go from there. You never know, maybe me being a wanted criminal will work out for the best. I'm Evelyn, by the way."
"I'm Alice. Everything I know that is written down is in this folder," she said, placing the massive folder on the desk in front of Evelyn, "I suggest you start reading, I have other work to do."
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Post by wulfie13 on Jun 28, 2013 12:08:11 GMT
"Normally, I would suggest we switch tracks, and go free Evelyn. However, I'm confident there are other people who can take care of that. We would be best off locating the meeting place of the rebellion. If we can get a pinpoint location for that, we can get it to HQ, and see what their response is." Hollie said, after a few minutes reflection.
"HQ? I would have thought we'd send it to the Azorians." Nabarl said, but immediately spotted the flaw. "No, wait. They have a plant, don't they?"
"At least one. There are a few of us on the world, not all in the Azorius Senate. nor involved in this quest in particular. However, those of us who are have seen a worrying trend - every lead we get on a rebellion hide out ends with no traces of them, and occasionally somewhere along the line, a Rakdos ambush. Either every piece of information we get is bad, or..."
"They wouldn't be able to mask the information that well. Even if some of the information is bad, someone else is filtering what you get and making sure that you get there too late." Nabarl sat and thought for a few seconds. "OK, I'll agree with you that we need to report the location to HQ rather than the Azorians, but I would think that they will want more than just a location."
"What makes you think that?" Hollie asked confused.
"Chances are they'll want to take a few people to squeeze for more detailed information. The stuff that would take us too long to find out by infiltration."
"So what do you want us to do first then?" Hollie asked. "We're firmly in your area of expertise here..."
"First..." Nabarl started. "First, I need you to tell the colour codes for the guilds. Then, we need to get some new clothes..."
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Post by marvelousmoose on Jun 28, 2013 14:24:01 GMT
Evelyn looked through the folder, awed by the detail of Alice's research. Literally everything was written down in ridiculously small, neat handwriting. When she was done she leaned back in her chair. "Wow," she said as she exhaled. Alice looked up from the papers she was filling out. "What?" "You officially win the award for most prepared." "I'm thorough," Alice said, barely looking up, "so what do you think?" "Well, clearly there are other people here," Evelyn said, flipping back through the papers, "QA and otherwise, but the problem is going to figure out who and what to do about them. I would suggest sending out a message to anyone QA affiliated to meet in a safe place. But that would look suspiciously like a trap or a setup, and would expose everyone. I should probably get back into contact with my partner, Nabarl, but I have no idea how I'm going to go about doing that."
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Post by marvelousmoose on Jun 30, 2013 13:10:02 GMT
Alice rummaged around in her desk until she pulled out a cell phone. "Um, isn't that otherworldly or something?" Evelyn asked. There had to be rules about that. "I'm QA. Half of my belongings are otherworldly," Alice said as she started to dial a number, "I'm going to call HQ and have them send out a mass message. Hopefully, your friend will get it too. I'm thinking of having everyone meet in a very poor part of town with lots of taverns. The dress code is going to be green and white, we'll need to look like members of the Selesnya Concalve."
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Post by marvelousmoose on Jun 30, 2013 20:38:11 GMT
Alice led Evelyn out of the building through a different entrance than the one where they had entered and through the twisting streets until they reached a derelict black(?) house. Alice opened the door with an old, rusty skeleton key and waved Evelyn in. "The second room on the left has clothes in it, find something green and/or white that fits you," Alice said, making her way toward the back of the house. Evelyn followed her instructions and entered the room. What was clearly intended to be a living room had been transformed to a department-store style walk in closet. Evelyn found a soft pair of forest green leggings with a matching shirt, cloak, and gloves as well as some silver-white armor, a white sword belt, and light-brownish leather boots. She changed in a small adjoining room and made her way back to where Alice was. The other girl was sitting in front of a mirror removing her light blue eyeshadow. "You look lovely, now find some makeup that isn't whatever you're wearing, you look too dark and it doesn't match the outfit well," Alice said, handing Evelyn makeup remover in the sketchiest makeup remover bottle she had seen to date (it was a dark brown glass sphere with a neck). "Why do you have all this stuff?" Evelyn asked, "not to pry, but there is way more stuff in there than is necessary." "As I said before, I am thorough. I acquired most of the clothing before arriving on-world and brought it here with me. I am prepared for almost every situation that may arise." "You are way too organized," Evelyn said as she applied dark green eyeliner where she had had black, "I like to just go with the flow." "And you ended up in jail." "Point taken."
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Post by Sierra on Jul 1, 2013 2:52:01 GMT
((OOC: Hey guys, I was wondering, as technically this challenge quest wasn't finished before the month was up (therefore meaning that the challenge has ended), if you guys minded if I jumped in it. I've really been enjoying it and it's just the kind of quest I wanted up on this world ))
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Post by wulfie13 on Jul 1, 2013 7:14:26 GMT
(OOC: I've got no problems with that. I think all of the scheduling problems doomed the challenge side of the quest from the off in the end anyway, so it would be nice to finish it up and see where it goes.)
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Post by Sierra on Jul 1, 2013 12:07:31 GMT
((OOC: Awesome, I'll wait for MM to reply first but as long she's cool with it, anyone got any preference over which of my characters is put in this?))
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Post by marvelousmoose on Jul 1, 2013 18:44:33 GMT
((OOC: Absolutely no problem here, I don't have a preference about your characters, and it's probably a good thing because I'll be busy most of tomorrow and almost all of wednesday and then away for next week))
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Post by Sierra on Jul 3, 2013 19:26:33 GMT
((OOC: I'm gonna jump in with Meyla as part of one of the Gruul clans. I'll make her QA Ambassador for them or something, so if you guys can get to the point where there's the meeting of the questers in various guilds, I'll jump in then.))
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