THE ISTHUL CRISIS

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

WHO: All Agents and Enforcers Currently Assigned to Isthul.
WHAT: Handling a very tricky diplomatic issue -- and solving a mystery or two in the process.
WHERE: Isthul.
WHEN: Soon after deployment.
NOTES: This log will have separate threads going for different Enforcers.

Phoenix has to admit more people have arrived than he'd expected. At least there's a couple other Enforcers; it's a relief, really, as he doesn't like the idea of managing something this big by himself. If he had his choice, he'd focus entirely on the mysteries at hand -- but obviously, he really doesn't.

Stay calm, Phoenix. These are the times where you just have to put on your best poker face and hope for the best. After all... there's a lot more people relying on you and everybody involved to get to the bottom of things in a satisfactory fashion. And if we fail... I don't want to think about it.

He nods to the arrivals, looking calmer than he feels. "Nice to see you guys. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, so we'd better make sure we have a plan of action."

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ENFORCER CONFERENCE

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

((Enforcers only in this thread, please.))

[micro-icarus.livejournal.com]

"Seems to me the first thing is securing the gates, right? Then we can actually deploy without worrying about how we're gonna get back."

[uberlikehermama.livejournal.com]

Vivio nodded. "Yeah, that's definitely a good idea. But which team should we have handle it?"

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

Phoenix crosses his arms. "Well, I'm hardly a fighter; I'm mostly here to deal with the diplomatic issues." "I guess it'd be one of you two; if any of you guys have some people to spare for me while I'm working, though, I could definitely use some defenses."

He crosses his arms. "Furthermore, once we secure the gates, it's not going to be enough just to deal with the top. We'll need to infiltrate, try to find out where all this rabble rousing is coming from in the first place, as well as who's behind the assassinations. Basically, we need as full a picture as possible."

[former-endboss.livejournal.com]

"I'll second that. The general flavor of this seems to be a popular uprising for now, but that doesn't mean that's what it is, and even a popular movement will tend to have a figurehead." Jacqli closed her eyes and seemed to drift away inside her own head. "If you do find the leader, we'll probably need them to denounce the movement, or another one will simply take their place. We can't put this down with brute force."

[micro-icarus.livejournal.com]

"Of course not. But we're not gonna solve this just by talking either. As much as I wish it."

AGENT MINGLING

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

((Agents only; for those who wanna mingle a bit.))

[hot-engineer.livejournal.com]

Lucca clicks the glowing cartridge into place in her gun, causing little apertures and windows to come alive with color. She'd been fidgeting with her weapons ever since the Enforcers went in for their meeting. She seems... nervous.

[razthepsynaut.livejournal.com]

Raz jogs in place, already hot to trot. His first major situation working with 0134! Exciting, but a little scary at the same time. "Hey! What's up? You look kinda worried about something," notes Raz, looking over.

[hot-engineer.livejournal.com]

"...I dunno." She says, holstering her weapon and standing. "I just... I can't shake this feeling. Like we're zigging whhen we should be zagging, or something. Maybe it's just nerves. Yeah. Definitely just nerves. Don't worry about it."

[razthepsynaut.livejournal.com]

"I get what you're saying. But we can't get bogged down by doubting stuff or else we're gonna have a hard time doing anything!" He begins doing stretches. "We just gotta do what we gotta and figure it out from there."

[hot-engineer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. And what we gotta do is... make sure no one else gets hurt because of these attacks."

That's the only truly righteous goal she can manage to extract from this whole thing. If anything else, it seemed like they--CO--were the bad guys.

ENFORCER WRIGHT

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

As the others handled the heavy offensive, Phoenix put in a specific request: autopsy reports of the murdered officials. The defense attorney still thought like one; no doubt analyzing some of the elements of the deaths will at least lead towards some leads as to who was behind them. The issue of why they were sanctioned is still an issue, but he can't really hit any old news records until he can actually leave CO space.



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[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

The autopsy reports show generally normal, if not rather squicky deaths via a number of forms of trauma. The only real interesting thing to note is that some of the weapons were Astral Silver, and there's a small notation on soul fluctuations that are apparently caused by being killed by Astral Silver. The notation is accompanied by a certain Platinum charge in the Resurrection fees of officials who had a backup Resurrection plan available, for some reason it costs more to bring back someone who was killed with Astral Silver, although the number isn't heinously higher.

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

It at least, for Phoenix, establishes that there wasn't much in the way of professionalism for any of these deaths.

The bit about the effects of getting killed by silver is odd, though. He'd known about the effects of the stuff on people in POSSESSION of it, of course. But affecting the souls of those killed by it?

He rubs his face. Well, no obvious signs of conspiracy, though he still can't shake the feeling something's off about the whole situation.

ENFORCER ELRIC

[micro-icarus.livejournal.com]

Edward stepped through the first gate to Isthul. Around him was a building like a small train station, but with a portal instead of a train track. The windows were all smashed, the building was surrounded with a chain link fence, which was in turn surrounded by a screaming mob, armed with molotov cocktails, small arms, and blunt instruments. The few remaining agents looked up tiredly as he finished appearing on that plane.

He surveyed the situation. "You know what I think, Lucca? I think we can do better than a chain link fence around a portal platform."

[hot-engineer.livejournal.com]

Next to him, Lucca surveys the scene and gives him a small sidelong smile.

"A few metal barricades might do the job."

[micro-icarus.livejournal.com]

"First thing's first."

Edward reached down into the ground with his mind as formulae flowed through his head. Suddenly, the ground started shaking, and with a roar of cracking stone, the chainlink fence grew upwards, until it was topping a ten foot tall wall of compressed stone complete with a walkway and crenelations.

[hot-engineer.livejournal.com]

Lucca watches as the fortifications grow around them. Magic is a play of abstract forces in her world. It's still an amazing thing to her to see him conjure things seemingly from thin air, no matter how sound the formulae. When he stands, she hikes her bag up on her shoulder.

"I'll go and set up the sensor arrays. If anyone tries to rush this place, we'll know about it before THEY even do."

[micro-icarus.livejournal.com]

"Hang on I'm not quite done..."

A bit more concentration, and the wall grows spiky gargoyle looking things on top, as well as bas relief skulls over the front gate.

"Much better."

Enforcer Takamachi

[uberlikehermama.livejournal.com]

Vivio sighed as she walked though the second of Isthul's gates, looking around at what seemed to be a rather, well, busy looking place. At least, it would've been busy if it wasn't in so much shambles, with chairs thrown all over the place.

Chairs that used to be bolted down, at that.

She frowned, looking around before concentrating and starting to cast a wide area search spell to figure out where the rest of the agents and angry rebels or rioters had gone, since this area looked pretty much deserted. "I'm going to see where everyone is you guys, just wait a few seconds, okay?"

[razthepsynaut.livejournal.com]

"Roger, ma'am!" Raz salutes -- yes, salutes -- and waits on standby, poised at the ready. He's excited, in an odd sort of way, even though he knows this is a dead serious situation. But it's a situation he actually gets to HELP with, and that's an awesome thing.

[omnomnompoyo.livejournal.com]

"Be careful out there!" Kirby said, hefting his Hammer over his tiny (maybe non-existent) shoulder. "We don't know what's out there..."

There was a slight pause.

"...you think it's too late to go get a map?"

Says the creampuff who charges into danger all the time.

[uberlikehermama.livejournal.com]

Vivio couldn't help but laugh. "Don't worry. I'm not going out myself, I'm going to use a spell to handle that! And well.. it might be, but we should be okay! It's not like this place should be that confusing. It's not the compound, after all."

Vivio closed her eyes, concentrating a bit more as three small spheres of magic appeared around her before they started zooming off, away from the three of them. Hopefully, the spell would pick up something soon. As far as Vivio could tell, this place was similar to either an airport or a bus-station, just having the gate being the only thing different about it. Not that it meant that it couldn't be an airport or bus-station too... especially if visitors from other worlds were supposed to come here.

But right now she needed to keep concentrating, hopefully finding those rebels they needed to secure the gate from. Or the other CO agents that were working on that already.

[razthepsynaut.livejournal.com]

Raz is a serious hardcore soldier, man. Never ceasing in his vigil, always waiting for the next okay he's kind of bored, actually. Which is why he currently has a large ball of psychic force he's balancing on. Occasionally he bounces it higher, brushing the ceiling.

Apparently even psychic warriors need something to occupy their time. "So, uh, Kirby, right? What is it you do anyway?" he asks as he bounces.