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Opelucid

Verax: -He looks at the map- "... This is impressive. And ultimately necessary."

-He looks at Shun- "... It'll be obvious in a moment."

Ezran: "Ground floor, three subfloors. Reinforced front door. Gordes?"

Gordes: -He shakes his dufflebag- "Don' worry! I brought plenty of fun for everyone!"

Verax: -Nods- "Gordes is my resident demolitions expert and can blow that front door wide open for us. We do that, everyone in there is going to be gunning for us."

-He looks up at Volpes- "Which I assume, is the plan. This isn't our first rodeo, y'know."

edited 26th Nov '17 4:43:54 PM by Verax

Brie: -blinks a few times at the obscura map-

Well, at least we're not doing subtle. I've never been great for subtle.

"I suppose just cracking the door via hacking the controls is out."

JD let out a sigh, "And the situation doesn't call for the use of heavy artillery yet."

"Okay explosives are available. Guns blazing it is."

"Two 1v1s. Pick if you want A or B. First come first serve."

The elevator platform rose up, the Pen appeared before Pent, -Arceus. That's new. Didn't know the Jester's constructed minions could do something like that...-

The blue light followed them, "Oh you are doing wonderfully! Faced off against that horde quite magnificently! Bravo! Bravo! This is going to be a lot of fun!"

Snakeye stood up and grinned, <Okay boss. They want your star player.>

Silas nodded, "Alright. Ready Hacks?"

~Always,~ Hacks responded rolling one of his arms, a pop of bone being heard. ~So, what shall I-~

"Observe, let our opponent take the first swing."

edited 26th Nov '17 4:48:34 PM by EchoingSilence

Room 33

Jared: -looks to Volpe, then to Verax's group, then back to Volpe- Wait, they're a distraction? I'm guessing there's something in the base the rest of us are after, then?

Santalune

-Zumi and her Primarina have been eating popcorn this whole time-

edited 26th Nov '17 4:48:32 PM by Umbramatic

-Shun raises an eyebrow at Verax.-

Shun: ...Very well.

-He turns back to Vulpe, sweatdropping.-

Shun: I, um... I have no Fighting-types on hand, and I suspect shooting the door isn't going to do much.

-Lucius shakes his head.-

Lucius: I'm still thinking about it. I'll give you a list, and a dropoff point, and I'm gonna need all the intel you can give me. Like I said, I'm not committing to anything here, I just... I need to prove some suspicions before I make any big decisions.

edited 26th Nov '17 4:52:20 PM by Herbert40k

Driftveil

-When people get to Driftveil, they'll find Kaito talking with Anabel.-

Room 33

Mason: Damn, we're not doing subtle. I'm great at subtle.

-To Mason-

Well they're the diversion team, they're supposed to be loud.

Volpe laughs as he takes another puff of his Cigarillo as he turns to Brie.

Volpe: Not quite, not quite~

He turns to Mason and points to Jared.

Volpe: Slappy here is on to it. The Cipher Boys will be doing the non-subtle exploding business. You guys are gonna be the subtle ones~ And that's where you come in, Shadows.

He takes another puff.

Volpe: While the Nazis are busy dealing with "Cipher", you are gonna sneak in everyone else in with your powers and disguise. Ciphers take the elevator down, you lot take the back doors. While Flare take on "Cipher", you creep around and get to the Generators as fast as possible. Si? We'll go over it in more detail but that's the basic gist of it~

-Locke should see a Rapidash with Shaun on their back. This Shaun, however, lacks his glasses, wears his dark gray duster as opposed to the light gray trenchcoat, and isn't as clean-shaven. Also, his set of Poké Balls appears to be different - a Premier, two Poké, a Great, a Friendship, and a Heal.-

Shaun: "Sure. You keep using that word."

Farkas: <Go ahead, Shieldbrother.>

-Vilkas tries another Sacred Sword.-

-Shun smiles as Volpe explains the plan further.-

Shun: Ah, I see. The distraction team disguise themselves as Cipher operatives and launch a frontal assault, allowing the rest of us to slip into the base undetected and retrieve our mark. Simple enough. My team and I should be more well-suited for that.

Brie: ...Well. That's a little disappointing, I guess, but okay. Whatever works.

Room 33

Verax: -Nods- "Yeah, we're all going in dressed as Cipher to pin this on them. Better their ire directed at a separate and potentially more powerful paramilitary organization than the team."

Verax: "We do have spare outfits, if anyone needs them. But yeah, we're going P for plenty on that front door and then going straight for that elevator. Without wanting to stroke my fabulous ego, it probably isn't an overstatement to say me and my people have the most experience and qualifications to break into a facility like this."

"We're going to go in loud and proud and ideally that should draw enough attention to us that it's easier on you all, but you'll almost certainly still encounter stiff resistance, especially the further down you go."

edited 26th Nov '17 5:06:03 PM by Verax

-Savannah smiles back.-

Savannah: Okay.

-She looks down at her empty cup.-

Sh-should we go now?

Grandrai Dark

-Pent relaxes slightly now that they're on the elevator-

Alright, take a breath because we might get a fresh ambush after. The illusion protection is clearly not working hard enough.

Yep, and this is only the first of like six. Maybe the illusions will quiet down with the others but still thinking we need to just avoid removing them unless we really need to. He's trying to use Mindless Hero Instinct against us.

Driftveil City

-Pent is here and he's just kinda skulking about looking for something-

Phonespace

Room 33

Jean: And what exactly are we doing in the generator room?

Grand Darkrai

Duolis: <...Lovely.>

AU Opelucid

Locke: ...Shaun? Is that you? What are you doing here?

Route 5

Izaya: I'll be on it.

edited 26th Nov '17 5:14:22 PM by Umbramatic

Grand Darkrai

Daydre picks herself off the ground, rubbing the side she slid in on.

"Sliding in was not one of my smarter ideas... Oh, more 'fun'? Wonderful."

Room 33

Mason: "Shadows", huh? I could get used to that.

-He grins at Jared-

Mason: Way better than old Slappy over here. Glad to hear I get to do what I do best after all.

Driftveil City

The Plain Bean

Rose: Oh, yeah, probably.

-She gets up to leave with Savannah-

Nimbasa

Emolga: <And then they KISS!>

-The Emolga is excitedly listening to a radio drama with more enthusiasm than anyone not named Shun would likely express toward such a thing.-

Patrat: <Dude, you've been obsessed with this thing.>

Emolga: <It's my sound box though!>

Nimbasa / Route 5

Colton was walking behind Maggie, looking at his phone. Then he saw the most recent message sent to the whole J-Team.

edited 26th Nov '17 5:16:42 PM by AbsentCoder

Phonespace

Volpe looks over to Jared.

Volpe: Unfortunately for you, Slappy, most of the fun "running and gunning" beatdown of fashy pigs will be handled by the Diversion Team. Aww.

He looks back to the map.

Volpe: The entrance floor has a hidden stairwell to the left of where the elevator is, just passed the Security Gates. Speaking of Security, I should get into that.

The reason why I said that none of y'all are gonna be dressing up as Flarites and trying to pretend your way in. Even if you know all the salutes, the quotes, the phrases, the tongues, the passwords, the clothes. Even if you have all that and more, they'll know your a spy because, it turns out, Neo-Flare has microchipped all of it's employees with a tech specific microchip - again, work of the dude you guys are stealing, so not able to be replicated yet... We found that out the hard way....

Volpe trails off as he takes off his officer hat, placing it close to his chest.

Volpe: A greenhorn. Only his third mission too. Officer Platchkey was his name. We got a box one day in the office that contained nothing but his head and a note that read Avertissement...

Volpe goes silent, however, the stone silent Ninetails in the corner - speaks.

Ninetails: <Heahea is a long way to run....>

edited 26th Nov '17 5:27:44 PM by PippingFool

-Shun goes slightly green, and he grips the revolver in front of him tightly, saying nothing.-

-Lucius nods anxiously.-

Lucius: Okay. Well then... I guess I'll be in touch.

-He hesitates for a moment.-

Lucius: ...Thanks. I don't know how this is gonna work out, or who my friends are right now, but... with any luck, this should help clear some of the fog. So whatever I end up deciding, thanks for the help.

-He shoves his hands in his pockets and starts to walk off.-

edited 26th Nov '17 5:37:15 PM by Herbert40k

Room 33

Verax: "..."

Ezran: "... Sir, I-"

Verax: "They sent his head back in a box."

Ezran: "Sir-"

Verax: "No. It's fine. I like knowing what I'm dealing with. This is gonna be fun."

 Opelucid, yesterday 

See, this is why I never bothered trying making spies for Neo-Flare like I did with Illusion. Worse that would've happened to a compromised asset would be them getting thrown in the brig and us having to rescue them.

With Neo-Flare... what we'd have on our hands is a body retrieval operation.

Muddy: <Just like Lanius then...>

-Brie likewise looks a little green, and not just because of the fact that she's wearing head to toe green-

Brie: ...Ugh. Well, it's fine. I'm just as happy not pretending to be one of them, anyway.