( closed ) scouting the wall

[winscenario]

who: Jim Kirk, Beverly Crusher, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, Chyler Silva, Hana Song, Emma Swan (+ anyone else who's still interested! feel free to PM me, no worries)
what: team mission
when: February 7th - 17th
where: along the wall of the Abandoned City
warnings: monster fighting & consequent injuries at most

With the prospect of more power in the near future, the Government of Riverview is looking for multiple teams of people to take a survey of the wall surrounding the Abandoned City and note all structural damage and areas where the integrity of the wall is compromised. The objective is to note the location and nature of any structural damage or interference with the tech components (laser emitters, etc.) that is compromising the integrity of the outer wall.

The team assembled by Jim Kirk will head out on the shuttle, making the trip at least far quicker, although long stretches of the wall are done by foot, in smaller groups or pairs. No one is advised to be out there on their own. Everyone will be given a handheld scanning device to study the wall, and a device similar to a tablet where they can store all the data, complete with detailed instructions on how to use both. The shuttle will be available to pick people up and drop them off at different points of the wall as needed, to try and make the trip as quick as possible.


[ ooc: this will work as a mingle log, so everyone is free to write up their own top levels and/or tag around as much as they like. ]

Comments

[evasives]

[he huffs a little.] That's not a third option, it's a choice two modification.

[he's still counting it for 'jyn as the distraction.' gonna be argumentative like her this time. he tilts his head to the side.] I will walk that way and draw it's stare so you can get to the wall unnoticed.

[at least he agreed with the plan.]

[realists]

[ jyn straight up rolls her eyes but the smile he gets for agreeing to her modification is bright and ruthless. jyn likes to think she would protect nature, but a man has a line and she doesn't trust it to fly away and not come back with reinforcements. ]

Alright, let's go.

[ and she will dart off to do just that, waiting for cassian to get its attention before sprinting for the wall and squeezing through the crack with only a scrape on her hip that she ignores. it's going to be harder with the two of them now separated, but. it'll be fine. ]

[evasives]

[he does Not get distracted by her smile, that would be stupid and reckless and there is a dangerous weird bird trying to kill them. besides, she immediately moves in and that leaves zero time to dwell on her face.]

[cassian moves broadly, with wide and loud steps. it's very unusual, given he's used to trying to go unnoticed, but it works. the bird peers out higher from the wall, honed in on cassian's movements. he lifts his unarmed arm to make himself bigger, but it's working, keeping the creature's attention wholly to let jyn do her thing.]

[realists]

[ jyn doesn't usually require stealth, but that doesn't mean she's inept at it. she's small and agile enough to slip through the wall and pick her way through the jagged rocks on the other side, quiet enough that cassian's overt movement keeps the enormous chicken's attention while she curves around it.

it's hard to tell when she's parallel to cassian so she's mostly just eyeballing it. when she decides that she's in the correct position she... basically whoops at top volume and makes a run for the bird, pinging some shots at the ground behind it, hoping it'll hop through the fence on instinct. ]

Incoming!

[evasives]

[jyn is someone who has taken advantage of her size, however much offense she takes when people point out said size. it works in her favor now as she disappears behind the wall, and cassian pretends it doesn't make him unhappy that he can't see her.]

[at least step one works. she startles the bird, and it squawks as it leaps out into the open. it sort of hovers in place, looking for the noise and trying to look at cassian at the same time. given he's the clearer target, the creature soars forward towards him.]

[obviously an incoming, but he doesn't have time to scoff at her warning. instead he just fires at it. one shot, again through the neck, and it's a lot easier to aim when he's not worried about hitting jyn in the process. it tumbles out of the air and hits the ground with a thud.]

[realists]

[ hefting herself up through the hole, jyn clambers back through the wall, pushing her hair back from her face as she perches in the same spot the harpy did. ]

Hate to be on the business end of that.

[ it's hard to make light of cassian's assassin abilities considering he was tasked with murdering her father at one point in time, but look at jyn trying regardless. ]

[evasives]

[he keeps his blaster trained on the corpse even as jyn climbs out of the wall, habits to make sure it's dead. he looks over at her and then looks away at the joke, poking at the bird with his toe.]

[definitely dead.]

You never will be. [he keeps it pointed downward, but shifts his gaze and cases the area around them. listening, watching.]

There could be others on the way, if the noise drew any attention.

[realists]

[ it's definitely dead so jyn doesn't feel bad crouching down next to it to pluck a few of the multicolored feathers free. hopefully it isn't carrying avian flu and she contracts it and dies because that would be such a chump way to go out. ]

Maybe they will turn around when they see their dead friends, [ she offers, tucking the feathers in her bag as she straightens up, moving back over to cassian. ]

Do you want to wait or keep going?

[evasives]

[he is completely unsurprised she steals a few feathers, and he briefly looks away to hide the fond smile that teases at his face. fortunately she gives him a reason to keep looking around and he squints into the sky.]

I don't know enough about them to tell how they react to dead friends. There is no point in playing the waiting game. You have their blood on you, if they want revenge they will find us anyway. Maybe we can have plausible deniability if we are far from the scene of the crime.

[there's probably more, regardless of whether they exist separately or connected to this trio, but it feels like a waste of time to stay put.]