Clean up Crew: Sewage spill

[Asclepius]

With the coast seemingly clear, and Skye on the roof scouting out the plant, perhaps this was time to brainstorm some ways in.

Well it is clear that going across the Gauntlet and in that way is a complete no go. I would rather Risk all the dangers of getting caught breaking and entering then being at the mercy of the Spirit court. The thought of the rats alone give him shivers, but the spirits that seem to thrive in the slop and filth? Yea no thanks. I am sure that not all are painted with the same brush but even so... If they were open to speaking, what would I be able to give them that would sate them... I don't even want to think about it. Right, no, focus. Possible ways in... Assuming the place has a fire alarm we could set it off and get people out of the area but that is a loud approach and high risk. Our safest approach is to find the power and disable it by damaging the lines so that darkness covers the place. That way the guards resort to torches and noise.

Looking up at the roof, the Arrow hopes that Skye gets some good insights into what we are walking into. This is really going to be one dangerous operation tonight.

Gear

Ski mask x1 (Worn on head)
Male Gloves (wearing on hands)
Kevlar vest thin (Worn under shirt)
Wedding ring (worn)

Ski mask x1 (Passed over to Skye)
Female Gloves (Past over to Skye)

Smartphone (in pocket)
Car keys (in pocket)
Combat knife (dedicated tool in sheath)
Flashlight (in pocket)
Pepper Spray (in pocket)

Spells

Pulse of The living World
Peer Across the Gauntlet

Stats

Health:
Mana and Willpower:
Defense: 2
Speed: 10
Initiative: 6
Armor: 1 /2 Kevlar vest thin (1 /2)
Spell tolerance: 2/2
Active spells: 2/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

[Skye]

Well that gave less spiritual insight than she had hoped, but at least she had caught some overall information. Hurrying down, not really worried to make any real mistakes, a bit of overconfident perhaps but she had not spent her entire childhood training in gymnastics with nothing to show for it.

Climb down, 2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-04-05 11:01:24	Skye rolls 7 to Climb down (str+ath-3/dif) (10 Again)	6, 8, 2, 3, 9, 6, 5	2 successes

Getting down just enough to feel safe for her drop to not give of to much noise before dropping down with a look towards her fellow arrow.

Shaking her head with a bit of annoyance to not have her hair freely flowing in doing so, a habit after any real athletical doings but oh so much more satisfying when feeling it actually move. Pulling the mask down to reveal her lips before speaking in a softened voice.
”Damn this will be a pickle, floodlights, a few blind spots but a tad to few for my liking, patrolling guards, guards at doors, a car park for personal as well as for the larger mechanical dragons of maintenance I can only assume. And lastly a guarded generator, I think our options will be to either try our luck of sneaking inside using blind spots with our full skills on display.” Meaning for them both to enhance their sneaking skills, a thought not exactly sitting well with her. ”If we knock out the power we can expect confusion, but if we try to sneak without it we can also expect a cascade of guards very quickly and considering what they are hired for as well as the fact we will need to enter where relatively stationary guards seem gathered so are our options quite limited.”

Looking around and towards him.
”You have a pen?” Softly tapping her foot trying to think back. ”Sneaking do means we likely will need to climb at some point as well.” Or well sneaking without a notice they were there would.

Gear

Hand towel (in pouch), light black gloves covering her hands and fingers, knivesx2 (+1), kevlar vest thin under shirt, LED flashlight (small), copy of city map for the area around plant (roughly 3 mile radius) folded, athletic running shoes, dark none descript clothes, wooden coin necklace (dedicated tool, around her neck under shirts). Dark leather medium pouch strapped to her leg, plastic water bottle (50cl water filled).

Spells

[3/3$] Combo Organic Resilience and pulse of the living world (armor 4, cloaked)
[8$] Body Mastery +2 (Cloaked)
[8R$] Honing the form Dex (+4, cloaked)
[3$]Invisibility to machines (cloaked)

Stats

Health: 8
Mana: 10
Defense: 2 (7 when dodging)
Speed: 14/18
Initiative: 7/11
Willpower: 2/2 (usable)
Armor: Organic resilience 4, Kevlar vest thin 1/2(bulletproof), Iron Skin 1/bashing
Spell tolerance: 5/3
Spell control: 4/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

Notes

Hair temporary colored auburn, hands/wrists/face/neck/ears covered in simple makeup to give herself a healthy Caucasian appearance.

[ReubanBrightwood]

Skye arrives back down safely to burst Aeslepius' thought bubble. She shares her insights, ideas and options based on what she knows and what she has just witnessed from her vantage point. The higher security is only to be expected after the calamity that occurred in the not so distant past. But if the yare carefully, skillful and maybe more then a little lucky silent infiltration was possible.

The knowledge of guards on the generator make planned blackout's all that much more complex, a measure likely invoked by other trying that before. And in it's own way something that would bring attention and heighten the state of alert.

Knowledge of what lies across the gauntlet entirely new and certainly worth factoring in, is it enough? does it satisfy what they came here for? Not in any definitive way unfortunately.

Every route has its challenges, it's benefits and of course it's risks. So now they need to settle on a plan.

[Asclepius]

Finally Skye had returned from the rooftop, and she did it safely to boot as well. The Arrow gave her his full attention as she informed him of what she saw up there. He did his best to try and use what she had told him and combine it with what he had found out about across the gauntlet, and the options were not looking good. “You are telling me, we have problems on the spirit side. There is what looks like a spirit court going on and I know I am judging a book by its cover but, they do not look like pleasant spirits. Also, I have seen rats among the spirits, so there is some truth to the info we were told. On top of this, there is other slop and filthy spirits and what appears to be other spirits that gather here. Sneaking, I agree, is the best choice. I was about to suggest that we take out the lights to try and use the confusion to get in but if you think it will heighten their searches then we will have to chance it with the lights on...” Reliable patrols are better then sporadic and unexpected patrols. “I will have to enhance myself for such a task but it might be do-able. So just one last time before we go in, what is the goal of this investigation? Seek out answers to what went down?” The Arrow thought it best to check before they went in as communication was not possible when sneaking.

Patting his pockets fruitlessly as he knew he did not have one. “No sorry I did not bring on, why what's up?” Trying his best to not let his failers drag him down further in his mood and confidence. “Well, if there is more climbing hopefully it is easier then that rooftop.” After all, this was a minor hiccup and he would be better on a more climbable surface, at least that was what he was telling himself.

Gear

Ski mask x1 (Worn on head)
Male Gloves (wearing on hands)
Kevlar vest thin (Worn under shirt)
Wedding ring (worn)

Ski mask x1 (Passed over to Skye)
Female Gloves (Past over to Skye)

Smartphone (in pocket)
Car keys (in pocket)
Combat knife (dedicated tool in sheath)
Flashlight (in pocket)
Pepper Spray (in pocket)

Spells

Pulse of The living World
Peer Across the Gauntlet

Stats

Health:
Mana and Willpower:
Defense: 2
Speed: 10
Initiative: 6
Armor: 1 /2 Kevlar vest thin (1 /2)
Spell tolerance: 2/2
Active spells: 2/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

[Skye]

Well that was hardly unexpected to be honest, Guru had clearly stated his belief that the issue did tie back into a spirit, so with the given time that had elapsed and no one there to do anything about it of course things would have festered and just gotten all the worse.
”Remember the rats that welled up from inside a man I told you about? Those rat sightings of yours are to be expected.” Still wishing she had one of her own though. ”Consider it logically, you guard some place, one light goes and it might be a fluke that just needs to be sorted same with two, all of them goes and you instantly heighten the alert, it might be nothing but you cannot be sure.” Taking a moment to think it over. ”Best would probably be to plan our route, and make sure to limit to try and take out one or two, it will make them alert but not as quickly, and not as dangerously, anything beyond two and we will have darkness but damn high alert for some time. Hence why I wanted a pen to draw up the plan to give it a visual” If they could make it a 5-10 second long one sure that might work but totally taken out no that was dangerous.

Taking a moment, cocking her head hmm wait this did present a new opportunity. Repositioning herself to be closer towards him, and lowering her voice.
”Yes what went down, and what was the original cause of the events that led our compatriots here to begin with, recon, not solve in first case, easy solve and it is not a demerit but recon is our primary. But before we attempt to go in, you said that you saw a lot of resonance, slop and filthy spirits, can you see where their nexus is?” Glancing over towards the area. ”The likelihood they are the cause or related to it is seriously high, so if we can trace an origin where nothing is guarded we could potentially solve or get major insights into this without doing a deep dive.” Doubting they would have such luck, but finding the origin of that would likely mean to solve their task.

Gear

Hand towel (in pouch), light black gloves covering her hands and fingers, knivesx2 (+1), kevlar vest thin under shirt, LED flashlight (small), copy of city map for the area around plant (roughly 3 mile radius) folded, athletic running shoes, dark none descript clothes, wooden coin necklace (dedicated tool, around her neck under shirts). Dark leather medium pouch strapped to her leg, plastic water bottle (50cl water filled).

Spells

[3/3$] Combo Organic Resilience and pulse of the living world (armor 4, cloaked)
[8$] Body Mastery +2 (Cloaked)
[8R$] Honing the form Dex (+4, cloaked)
[3$]Invisibility to machines (cloaked)

Stats

Health:
Mana:
Defense: 2 (7 when dodging)
Speed: 14/18
Initiative: 7/11
Willpower:
Armor: Organic resilience 4, Kevlar vest thin 1/2(bulletproof), Iron Skin 1/bashing
Spell tolerance: 5/3
Spell control: 4/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

Notes

Hair temporary colored auburn, hands/wrists/face/neck/ears covered in simple makeup to give herself a healthy Caucasian appearance.

[ReubanBrightwood]

More information shared, more dots connected and conclusion reached. Now however the were reaching the end of what could be done sitting safely her outside.

That's 30 days one more round of posts, what's the plan for the next scene?

[Asclepius]

He nodded to Skye's initial sentiments but we still had no idea if the spirits were the indeed culprit of such actions or the standard rat, unless there was an absolute need to do so, the Arrow was really trying to keep away from disrupting the court. He kept his voice low as he spoke to limit the amount someone could over hear from a distance. “Well, we can only hope that there is a kinder explanation then the spirits caused it. I am trying to reserve my apprehensions of them otherwise I will spook myself out of interacting with them.” I don't like how the pieces of this puzzle are coming together. He again listened to Skye as she continued. “Yep, understood. You did say there is a car park so there could be a distraction made there if we needed to as well. I will trust in your knowledge in going unseen, this is not something I usually do.” Which was funny because he had been doing lots of espionage missions in his eyes, it was just he went about them in many different ways. “Well as nice as it would be to plan out an entry into the plant, we can only improvise once we get inside, assuming of course there are guards inside.”

Well, that was certainly a relief to the Arrow, there was no expectation to solve anything other then what happened and why they were there in the first place. The Arrow continued to speak in a low volume. “Well, if we hit dead ends, I could always attempt to speak to some spirit to ask them if they would allow a trade of information with regards to the event. However I understand if you feel this might be too dangerous. With regards to the nexus, I could not see anything that resembled it, but I suspect that given the building is presented with a similar slop and filth construction, I would put money on it being inside of it.”

Asclepius is happy to begin making moves to enter into the plant, assuming that Skye is happy too do so as well.

Gear

Ski mask x1 (Worn on head)
Male Gloves (wearing on hands)
Kevlar vest thin (Worn under shirt)
Wedding ring (worn)

Ski mask x1 (Passed over to Skye)
Female Gloves (Past over to Skye)

Smartphone (in pocket)
Car keys (in pocket)
Combat knife (dedicated tool in sheath)
Flashlight (in pocket)
Pepper Spray (in pocket)

Spells

Pulse of The living World
Peer Across the Gauntlet

Stats

Health:
Mana and Willpower:
Defense: 2
Speed: 10
Initiative: 6
Armor: 1 /2 Kevlar vest thin (1 /2)
Spell tolerance: 2/2
Active spells: 2/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

[Skye]

Shaking her head, no such luck would likely be existing.
”Recall that a rat bursting out of a person was a catalyst in us giving attention to this to begin with.” So if he was seeing rats as well yes sounded like Guru was right in his suspicions. ”Do not overestimate me there, like you I will need to be better at it, we are not in my natural habitat here.” Give her the woods and sure things would be different but this was a guarded Sleeper area, not as easy. ”There are guards, I did spot a few that were unable to be seen from ground level vantage point. And especially ones by the generator, our biggest boon is likely that things have hopefully been calm long enough that they do not think things will happen or if they do just light trespassers.” Meaning the guards could well be underprepared, but that also meant they might be more jumpy.

Taking a moment to think over the matters before nodding with a sigh, seemed like they would indeed not be lucky enough to avoid a in deep entry. Voice still kept low as she keeps on talking.
”Save that for a plan B, but we are going in mostly blind, unsure of what we are truly looking for. As such we also do not know exactly where, with current information I believe we should treat this as a spiritual matter, or at least one correlated to it. Meaning you are better equipped than I to point out where we are going, keep your eyes open, look for where we need to go once inside but first.” Looking towards the area whilst making a mental map of the sights she had seen above for a second before pointing. ”There we would have the lowest visibility based on the lights I saw, and have the grandest chance of not being notified to quickly if we sneak in traditionally.” And hiding in a maintenance vehicle felt unlikely. ”I do also suggest you make sure cameras will not see you.” Not sure how much they utilized them but heck each protection they could get would be a boon. ”And do recall, the people will likely just be doing their job, unless we get a damn good reason keep all force none lethal.” A break in if they were discovered would get attention sure, but far less than if they made a lethal one.

Skye is, but will of course want to take the safest route with the least lights based on her scouting from above.

Gear

Hand towel (in pouch), light black gloves covering her hands and fingers, knivesx2 (+1), kevlar vest thin under shirt, LED flashlight (small), copy of city map for the area around plant (roughly 3 mile radius) folded, athletic running shoes, dark none descript clothes, wooden coin necklace (dedicated tool, around her neck under shirts). Dark leather medium pouch strapped to her leg, plastic water bottle (50cl water filled).

Spells

[3/3$] Combo Organic Resilience and pulse of the living world (armor 4, cloaked)
[8$] Body Mastery +2 (Cloaked)
[8R$] Honing the form Dex (+4, cloaked)
[3$]Invisibility to machines (cloaked)

Stats

Health:
Mana:
Defense: 2 (7 when dodging)
Speed: 14/18
Initiative: 7/11
Willpower:
Armor: Organic resilience 4, Kevlar vest thin 1/2(bulletproof), Iron Skin 1/bashing
Spell tolerance: 5/3
Spell control: 4/6
Paradox spells cast: 0

Notes

Hair temporary colored auburn, hands/wrists/face/neck/ears covered in simple makeup to give herself a healthy Caucasian appearance.