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Finn ([personal profile] hatejakku) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-11-07 09:32 pm

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[ The feed clicks on to reveal Finn and The Doctor, probably an unlikely duo to find on the network at this hour. The former doesn’t give anyone time to speculate, though, and just jumps right into it. ]

Ma'am Mariol contacted a few of us. She said that Serthica is pumping some sort of gas into the Mouse House, something that makes people slow and tired. She's convinced it has to do with heating, but she also told us it happened before, right after the coal sickness.

After our conversation, I went down there to investigate the composition of the gas and its source. All that we know for now is that it contains many of the sedative and memory loss ingredients discovered recently by those in our group, Caitlyn and Vi.

Everyone's okay for the moment - well, I use that term loosely - but how long that lasts, we can't be sure.


[ He's also worried about his little buddy, Gavroche, who was unusually skittish and reluctant to explain why. He's put a pin in that for later. ]

Not the easiest, going back and forth there and getting through customs, but I'll plan to visit with them again in a day or two, make sure they're still well. [ Checking in over the pendants isn't satisfactory enough for him. He'd be going back and forth more frequently if he could, but he has to operate within the limitations of their present situation, which frustrates him, to say the least. ]

Some of us had spoken previously about organizing efforts to help their situation down there, but that was before we realized what they're doing to them. Everything's changed now.

[ Finn, who’s been watching and chewing on his bottom lip, jumps back in. ]

They need our help. For one, we have to find the source of this gas leak. Whether it’s intentional or not, whatever the gas is, it needs to be stopped.

Second-... Well, I’d like to get her and the kids out of there and bring them to Minaras but that’s going to take more money than the Doctor and I have. Hard to say it’s really safer up here, but I think pooling money together for this could be worth it, anyway, if for nothing else than to just improve their situation once we handle the gas.

If anyone has spare change or more ideas, we’d appreciate it.


[ ooc: Finn's red, The Doctor's blue ]
binghua: (2)

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[personal profile] binghua 2022-11-08 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
I do not have much in terms of money, but you can have all of it. Even if the gas may not turn out to harm anyone long-term, they should not be exposed to it more than necessary.
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[personal profile] downswing 2022-11-08 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps the nest of Remembrance may be made habitable.
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[personal profile] kahl_175 2022-11-08 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Where pumps for gas? Kahl know how to break.
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[personal profile] spellsandcharms 2022-11-08 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Nasty combination of herbs. Easy to get wrong.

[ As succinct and helpful as ever. ]
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[personal profile] spoilers 2022-11-08 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Depending on your sense of morals, money isn't that hard to come by, sweetie.

[ But then a pause, and while she doesn't address him specifically, the next is directed more toward her husband. ]

Are we sure this is what's best for them? Is it even what they want? You've talked to her?
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[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-11-08 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
If money is needed, I have a lot at my disposal.

[Well, his husband does but details.]
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[personal profile] saintclaire 2022-11-08 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It's kind of you to want to fund bringing people up, but how many people are we talking about? Who are you planning to buy off to bring them up here?

I've been talking to some former Mouse House residents who moved to or married into Serthica. I don't think it's something that can be pushed through on a time constraint, even with money.
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[personal profile] kahl_175 2022-11-08 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kahl is usually in favor of blowing things up, but.]

Mm. Quiet way good too. Lots of ways machines can stop work, no one realize. Make look like bad luck. Kahl done before. [That was with Blue Girl's help, but that was for a Narmer auto-factory complex. This should be easier, right?]
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[personal profile] downswing 2022-11-08 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
In wake of Wrath's contingent.

Uncertain if the territory may be cleansed.
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[personal profile] spoilers 2022-11-08 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You’re right. You’d make a terrible thief.

[ Says Miss Honesty-is-rarely-the-best-policy. ]

But if it’s what Mariol wants, I’ll be happy to help make it happen.

Your partner in bad ideas there doesn’t always ask before taking it upon himself to decide what’s best for everyone.
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[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-11-08 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Just name the price. I also happen to have infiltrated some Minaras politicians inner circles thanks to my cover. It can be tricky, but some of them could be amenable to bribes.
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[personal profile] spellsandcharms 2022-11-08 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She snorts, not even bothering to look up at the watch. ]

Do you?

[ Someone somewhere has ill intentions. ]

But if whoever’s doing the mixing isn’t careful, you might get more than tiredness and memory loss.
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[personal profile] blackscales 2022-11-08 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Good to see both of you.

I'd been working with the Doctor previously to secure funding for the Mouse House, but that was long term. If we're now evacuating quickly I suppose a steady trickle must be swapped for a quicker bulk. Are any of them sick? I do wonder, if all of them are quite free of sickness, are they in danger of catching it up in the city? Which is the lesser evil?
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[personal profile] saintclaire 2022-11-08 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's reading: this is not a guy who is going to think about realistic timelines.]

I'm a lawyer back home. If there's a way to do it legally, it's better than anyone ending up in prison or worse.

Do you have experience doing this, or is it your first time?
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-11-09 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Habitable, perhaps, yes. Though it wasn't a cheerful place last I recall. You believe it could be made safe?
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-11-09 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Name one bad idea!

[ No, don't. Please. ]

And as Finn mentioned, yes, she was agreeable. It's a dangerous situation down there. They've gone through it before but it feels like something's escalated now.
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[personal profile] thedreamer 2022-11-09 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
And you, my friend! Well, your little words on the screen, I suppose. Not you. Technically you.

They're all perfectly healthy, though Gavroche was...not himself. We get on very well but he was skittish when I went down there this time. Suppose it could be effects of the gas, though the other children were acting normally.


[ Well - normally for them. Which generally involves a consistent amount of chaos and mayhem. ]

That is the question, though, and I've worried about it myself. In the short-term I was hoping we could at least disrupt the supply of gas, but that's proven to be challenging at best.
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[personal profile] weifinder 2022-11-09 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
How is the air at the port, for the interim? Any interim.

Lan Zhan also speaks an idea worth investigating. I'm happy donating funds as I can, but creative reuse of space on top of the evacuation helps.

Though now we know we're leaving those lost souls deep in drug's bliss to their forgetful deaths even faster than they would be. What caused the shift, again? Or is it part of what allows people above to be so good at forgetting, trying to wash through the citadel again? Questions for later!

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