So, Faction Takedowns, Let's Talk About Em!

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Hello, fritterlings. Here is the latest word on the faction takedowns.

On IG September 4th (technically now IRL, but we're going to backdate it a bit because inciting events are still happening and backdating is how we do, here), three things are going to happen.

Thing the first: Andrew, James & Co. are going to badger the Rift into letting them go home.
Thing the second: the Rift is going to throw an epic tantrum in response because hdu.
Thing the third: said tantrum will allow interested and motivated parties to go ahead and fork up ROMAC's ship, ultimately resulting in the faction's fall. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS that joke goes out to Lu I'm here all week tip your waitress.

Sometime in the next week(ish), two open posts will go up. One will be for general Rift shenanigans (this can take whatever form players choose; pretty much anything goes), and one will be for forking up ROMAC. Players are free to throw their characters into whichever scenario they feel like getting involved in. It'll be a hot mess.

Several days after the dust settles in the Citigroup tower (aka a couple weeks down the line in real time), it'll be the Rebels' turn for some ruction. Daine is largely going to be leading the charge on this one, but again, all will be welcome to get involved to whatever degree they so choose (though it's going to be presumed that anyone living in the base will be relocated, because the base is not gonna be livable by the time Daine's done with it). An open post will go up, much like with the Rift shenanigans/ROMAC takedown business.

The goal is to say that by IG September 10th/11th, everything will have calmed down and anyone rendered homeless by the ruction will have been resettled elsewhere. For the sake of convenience, the buildings that currently serve as the Rebel and ROMAC apartments will continue to function as rifty housing. They'll just lose their faction-specific affiliations.

Questions? Concerns? Comments? I am hopped up on DayQuil and ready to field them ineptly.

~ Carrie

(P.S. Email notifs are ON for the comment section, so if I see any pun runs then SO HELP ME.)

Comments

[lottawork]

Daine can totally hang out with Rush as he recuperates and tries really hard to not be begrudgingly grateful for her consistently pulling his ass out of the fire

[wildmage_daine]

OH NOES.

Half the time, she won't even visit him properly. She'll just show up on his windowsill and peck to be let in, then mosey around his apartment in wolf shape and like, nose open the fridge and look really unimpressed by what she finds inside.

[lottawork]

she'll be unimpressed because there probably isn't anything in there. I'm pretty sure he lives off like fucking protein mix or something

he will gripe and groan and act like it's a terrible inconvenience but will secretly be puzzling over how one goes about thanking someone for doing something he specifically asked not to do but is secretly kind of thankful for anyway

[powerdealer]

Was Daine going to be involved in breaking Tim out?

If not, Seth is going to basically break EVERYONE out, so yeah, he'll cover that if no one else does.

[wildmage_daine]

Rush she is getting you a not-a-service-dog ASAP.

If he meets Dana, he can SAY IT WITH FLOWERS.

[wildmage_daine]

Yeah, Daine's gonna be in on that. She and Seth can TEAM UP.

[powerdealer]

We could always TELL Peter that Lucy's with Romac somehow. Idk how much I'm up for actually threading with her, but yanno. Several people are aware of it. Seth knows.

[lottawork]

he need a dog so bad it's going to actually destroy me

one day this asshole will learn how to emotions properly. one day.

[powerdealer]

THEY CAN AND SHOULD.

I'm sort of still going on the assumption that Daine will call in Seth and be like "hey so we're storming the rebel base" and Seth will be like "sign me up", and they can work from there to figure out what to do? Obviously his priorities will be a) power-snatching and b) prisoner-freeing.

[postictal]

yeah Jay is gonna pass the word to Daine because Jay will be a self-blaming worried little deer child who needs to DO SOMETHING so I think he's going to Daine for help. She and Seth could probably join forces in that case

as long as he don't want Tim's powers or nothin

...I'm not even sure if it really counts as power

[wildmage_daine]

Yeah, I figure once Jay gets in touch with Daine, she'll call in Seth because she found out about him being caged up there somehow. So she'll be like 'what can you tell me about the layout, also you're cordially invited to wreck shit with me.'

[wildmage_daine]

Daine can teach him how to animal emotions. Just blink slowly to denote affection.

[powerdealer]

Seth's not going to grab powers from prisoners, he's going to go specifically after people he knows are shitty people/in charge of Rebel stuff, cause revenge and also just generally ridding the city of these threats. And I'm pretty sure he would just pass the fuck out if he tried to get more than like a dozen powers in a day, so he's going to have to prioritise anyway.

[powerdealer]

HE'LL DRAW YOU A MAP. Seth will definitely have some basic knowledge of the layout - like I figure he's been sort of tempted to do this for a long time, just go in and grab some powers, and he'd look into information he could get his hands on, but not actually have the motivation to do something about it until now.

[etherthief]

Iman will be helping to instigate the ROMAC takedown - probably what'll happen is once she and others get wind that there is some kind of Rift fuckery going down, the idea to go in and finish the mess she and Daine started will come to a few people and she'll probably send out some texts. I don't have any really specific plans for her other than that - probably she'll stick with Rush, and there are a few other possibilities that have been discussed. I'm pretty much down for whatever.

Johnny will likely not be involved except for general worrying about Gabe. He miiiight try to do something stupid, but that'll only be if I and others feel like we have time to mess around with that.

Aziraphale will be there to help get people out and keep them safe, and possibly mess some things up himself, what a rebel, but I don't know that I'll be threading anything extensive with him. Basically he can just be available if people need him.

Bee is gonna lie lowww. She'll want to know her friends are safe but that's about it.

Will Jay even know anything is happening??? DOES HE EVER??? Jay is useless, he will not help you, he'll get forcibly involved later when Tim gets captured by the Rebels, so in the meantime we can just assume he's asleep or staring numbly at public access television.

[postictal]

So just your basic "sympathy for ur situation" helpfulness, which is nice

yeah seth u don't want this power. if it even is that. do not touch.

[bibliophale]

rashad gon' be like

[stronglikebear]

Yuri says stahp it, Daine.

Yuri may say so by putting himself in front of Daine when she storms the base if he has the opportunity. We should do something about that.

[powerdealer]

Lucy might just get sent back home during the Rift shitfit? Or to some entirely different time/place, who knows, she's going to be living out her days somewhere anyway, she's not gonna die. But she is gonna disappear with no telling where she's gone.

Topher ...might.. get killed somehow, in the ROMAC takedown? There was some mention of this happening in front of Gabriel, but I don't really have specifics. If anyone has ideas, bring them to me? But I'm also not gonna shuffle him off in a footnote, I care about him too much for that and plus it would just be such a massive downgrade from his canon.

Tara is staying far away from this business. She will however notice the Rift shitfit. (She's also presumably gonna take over Daniel's apartment once he dies.) She's not gonna get involved in the actual takedowns, but if anyone needs their wounds tended to or something, she's available?

Seth is gonna be way too busy being just fucking devastated over Daniel's death to get involved in the ROMAC take-down, but once the time comes for the Rebel one, he will be nice and bitter and reckless and all up for that shit.

Daine's gonna contact him for help/information, and then he'll come along for the fun. His focus is gonna be going after some higher-ups before they run off, then help release the prisoners. Probably including ones that should really be locked up.

WHICH SPEAKING OF THAT

Lots of people/creatures who really should've been locked up will be freed in this. The ones from ROMAC will probably be snatched up by the Rebels, but once they go down too there's not really anywhere to keep them. We can probably assume a bunch of random rifties with powers are gonna step up and deal with dangerous shit, so we don't have to worry about it all too much.

But basically there's a lot of potential for random rifties to have encounters with bad shit, if anyone wants that to happen.

[lottawork]

...like so?

[fucking_ebay]

Mmmm true. And he should probably find out what happens to her, if it's possible for him to know.

[wildmage_daine]

Like so.

[lottawork]

Rush will be all about sowing the seeds of discontent with fucking ROMAC over so if he were to encounter Topher he could definitely tilt him along that path of "bro you should totally start tearing down this place that screwed us both over" if you think that you would be sufficient getting him to the ROMAC takedown

[powerdealer]

What about worrying about Seth, because lemme tell ya he really needs it. XD But I suppose that's what he'll be doing up TO the takedowns. Awkward grief counselling and all that. (And I suppose worrying about Gabe will be plenty distraction to not be around to stop Seth from doing something super stupid.)

[wildmage_daine]

She is just gonna be like STEP ASIDE YURI.