Lily vs Vegas

[wooliefrand]

Who: Lily
When: ????
Where/What: WHO WANTS TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP

[AT SOME POINT, LILY'S PROBABLY GATHERING AT THE FOUNTAIN.

SURELY THEY AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE THEY SHOULDN'T BE.

ping me when yall have completed prep and are ready to go!!1]

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[endsjustified]

[passing out sunflowers to the other Lilies and explaining, mostly for the demigods’ benefit]

Everyone take some of these. We’re going to try for stealth, so don’t activate them, but there’s very little better than pure sunlight for what’s in the mist. If it’s someone made of shadows with a mask it won’t be as effective, though, so just use it to blind them and then try to break the mask.

[and also little techno gadgets for people to carry in a pocket or something]

And one each of these. Aides wants to further test electronic communications through the mist, though these will just ping to a beacon in Peony’s barn, we can’t actually use them to call the pasture. We’ll be dropping a booster for Peony’s satellite while we’re in the city, too.

Watch yourselves. If it looks like we’re about to get thrust into the mist, grab onto me. We truly cannot navigate in there without a Weed, so we need to be especially vigilant.

[audacity]

[ accepting the gadget, which goes into his pocket, and sunflower, turning it over in his hands ]

How do you activate a flower?

[endsjustified]

Twist the stem like so—

[the one he’s holding activates, beaming a bar of solid sunlight into the ground]

—and again to deactivate it.

[audacity]

[ sun...flower....what else did he expect ]

Any idea how long one lasts?

[endsjustified]

About a day if you don’t turn it off, but they recharge if replanted in full sun. We trade out the ones around the mist greenhouse regularly for this reason.

[audacity]

...That's better than I would've expected.

[ actual useful tools, as much reminder as anything that this isn't home or gifts from the gods ]

What about the mask dudes? What does breaking the mask do?

[endsjustified]

Their souls are trapped in and protected by the masks, so it’s the best way to put them on the defensive or make them lose their intelligence.

They do turn into feral shadow beasts when the mask is broken, but they’re a lot easier to kill that way.

[audacity]

Best thing I've heard all day.

[ "this is a stealth mission" okay but listen, ]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Inspecting one of the little techno pinging gadgets ]

So even if the satellite booster thing works, these still won't communicate back to the pasture?

[endsjustified]

They’re supposed to communicate back to the pasture, but it’s just a signal, so we’ll be bringing them back. Aides just wants to see if he can even make technological communication possible in the mist at all or if it will be blocked at a certain distance.

The satellite booster is separate, and as far as I could understand it is just meant to make anything from the city itself more…audible? to the satellite if it successfully launches.

[spinebuddyandme]

So it's just for testing; got it. It'll be pretty cool if the satellite and booster work out the way he's hoping. It'd be nice to have a heads up if the Wolves are actually doing anything out there.

[endsjustified]

Mm. Any leg up we can get from this would be good, really. I didn’t try to overplan for this one, since we don’t have anything to go off of other than what we managed to glimpse on the first trip, and we don’t have the safety net of a friendly Weed.

Other than wanting to start from the park Bluebell described, we’ll be winging it.

[spinebuddyandme]

That makes sense. Even Scarab wasn't paying attention to, like, anything but the building we were going for the last time we were there. The place could be filled with nightmare factories for all we know.

Do you know what you want us to do if we do find something suspicious?

[endsjustified]

We should be sticking all together, but honestly just…no one charge in on their own. We’ll take it on if it seems doable, but considering our state right now I don’t want to overly rile up things there if we don’t have to.

[spinebuddyandme]

[ nods ]

I don't think anyone'll mind a cautious approach. I'd like it if we could just get some information to take back to the pasture without being noticed.

[mykidisthebest]

[collects his techno gadget and sticks it in his pocket]

Should we bring some rope just in case we need to stay connected? It's crude, but it'll do in a pinch.

[endsjustified]

We can, but save it for now. We’re going to have a terrible time if we stay roped together the entire trip.

[mykidisthebest]

We managed it when we rescued you from our Lady. Blossom had us all connected with a child leash. But I agree that it's easier without.

[it's not a very long rope, but he does grab one that's thin enough to wrap up and tie into a belt loop for easy access]

[endsjustified]

[nods approval]

Get everyone to hold on if it looks like we need to run into the mist.

[mykidisthebest]

Got it. We're collectively stealthy enough that I'm hoping it won't come to that. I think we've got everything else we could reasonably need.

[endsjustified]

Mm, and a rough sketch of a plan. It will have to do.

[mykidisthebest]

It feels like more than we usually have, so I'd count us prepared enough.

[audacity]

[ off to the side, imagining blossom leading all of lily on a child leash somewhere,,,,, ]

[mykidisthebest]

[catches that look of him Pondering it and creates a little illusion to show him what it looked like. it was very silly.]

[audacity]

[ help

doesn't entirely feel like he should smile given the apparent circumstances of that happening, but also. it does look very silly. ]

Yeah, maybe we can try to avoid that.