UN: ??? - Video - Forward dated to Nov 15 for plot reasons

[funnylittleclown]

[ The Doctor twirled the funny looking little pendant over in his hand. He had used it before to speak to others but this was the first occasion he had decided to make a posting of his own. Given what he had learned though it felt nessacary. ]

Impressive place... the Palace of the Doxe. I do like the floors but I don't think I should like to work here if I were very much younger than I am. I've noticed they have this peculiar hiring habit. Everyone in Bonaccorso’s employ, well... nearly everyone, is quite young. You've noticed that? Perhaps you have also noticed the vacant look in their eyes?

[ And what could cause that! He seemed to know though hesitate to say over an unknown communications device. ]

Little wonder they can't seem to get any of their work done.

Which brings me around to an interesting problem you see... I need something shifted. It's a fairly large item and you are all such innovative people I'm sure you might have discovered the means to slip things in and out of the Palace without disturbing anyone? I shouldn't like to bother the staff or the nobles with this, not with so much else going on. I might also need a safe place to store the item, just for a little while, until we can get it to where it belongs.

[ Was that vague enough to confuse any unfriendlies but open enough to hint that he had met a 15 year old boy who needed smuggling out of the Palace? No?  ]

I think I will take a tour of the gardens later today if anyone would like to meet in person.



[ OOC NOTES - This post in made in response to the November Plot Roles

I am ICly looking for some help to smuggle a young boy out of Bonaccorso’s employ for the November plot. If interested just reply and have your character offer help. Otherwise the Doctor can tell your characters what he will learn from poking around amounst Bonaccorso’s servants on the 15th.
If you want to plot something OOCly PM this account or hit my plurk - coco_rose

And forgive the vagueness but I couldn't find anything that said how secure or not the communications were and since they are spy gaming things it seemed better to talk in person. If you want more directness just put Gardens in the reply header. ]

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[binghua]

Drugged?

[That's a little much for the staff, isn't it? Shouldn't those workers be there by choice, either to support themselves or their families, or because they like the work? Ah, but even just thinking those thoughts makes Xingchen reconsider. Sometimes people don't have much of a choice, not when it comes to survival. And if they're all young, as the doctor says, then that definitely looks suspicious, unless Bonaccorso just...has an eccentric taste for staff aesthetics. Xingchen can't rule it out, even if it does sound absurd.

But drugs. He still has no proof of anything, but he thinks about this. Why would the staff be drugged?]

I do not wish to make false accusations. We do not have enough information. Yet, I cannot help but fear they are being drugged so as to hide something. If the workers are under such an influence, then surely they are less likely to speak. Perhaps they cannot speak. The ages, though. I cannot make sense of that.

[funnylittleclown]

I agree but it is suspicious.

[ And they were thinking along the same lines. There was no reason to drug staff to make it easier to serve an important person, that was clearly a lie, so what was the real reason... to keep them quiet? Compliant? Addicted to the drug? It sounded sinister. ]

Bonaccorso has been ill lately, hasn't he? Perhaps that has something to do with it. Have you heard of anything else unusual that has happened around him?

[binghua]

I haven't. I have no reason to be in that area, though I doubt I would be welcome even if I did.

[Xingchen hasn't...exactly endeared himself to Macaluso or Vannozza during his stay, and he can't imagine he'd have much better luck with Bonaccorso.]

I was approached by a maid asking for help to transfer from working in Bonaccorso's wing, however. She didn't have time to explain why, but it's obviously bad enough if people want to get out.

[funnylittleclown]

It seems like everyone is wanting to get out of there! If you've the chance later on maybe you could ask her why she wanted to leave.