(Mission Impawsible) Paw and Order

[Sonnie Wu]

Sonnie blinks as she is ignored in favor of Reed and his near-cuss. Boys. Shaking her head, she reached over and pulled the door to the shelter open, waving the Wizened and the kid with her free hand, indicating for them to enter.

"What? No, he was going to say, ah, fudge. Don't you like fudge? Everyone likes fudge! Come on, let's get inside before we get pelted with eggs and tomatoes and end up looking like omelettes!" Time was of the essence here. The distraction wasn't going to help if she and Reed were still dawdling around outside. The Beast couldn't quite let the boy wander off unsupervised, however. His parents would be beside themselves.

And now I want fudge. And omelettes.

Is there such a thing as fudge omelettes?

[Reed Mills]

Fudge? Nope. Not Reed. Not a fudge dude. Anyway, Junior's got a real Child of the Corn thing going. And Reed doesn't have time for it.

"You're right, kid. Fuck it."

With that, he reaches out and grabs the boy, looking to heft him and carry him inside after his parents without further discussion. Counting on Sonnie to follow.

I'm assuming the child is young enough to be scooped and carried, even against his will. If not, or if you need a roll, just let me know!

[Titania]

Honestly, what were the others thinking. Making a crowd of angry thugs even angrier, and there were kids to boot.
Circe, well, Circe wasn't the most diplomatic type around, but that Sonnie had been ok with the whole ordeal was puzzling. Welp, now they had to dance.
"Please, please", she says, putting herself between the child and the angry crowd, ready to take his hand if he's willing, and bring him inside the building. To safety hopefully.

[Circe]

"Huh, oookay."

Looks like none heard the whisper she'd added just in case. She could probably start recording on her phone right now and actually sell the photage to a local news outlet too come to think of it.

Circe looks around in feigned confusion to check on the others. At the sight of them she raises her left eyebrow and ear. They lings are loitering with one of the kids? So much for expedience. Guess she'd have to keep things going.


"Attacking a victim is a great way to sabotage a cause, especially when the victim is a kid. Though they could just be really angry and stupid, not caring about the dogs at all, just wanting to justify lashing out to sate their own wrath," she didn't hide disdain in her voice. Circe was a Summer but she wasn't a berserker. She hated that stereotype, preferring tactics over sheer brute force. She looks at the loudest members of the crowd as she asks the next questions, "Do you know why each one of you is here? For the dogs? Justice? Amusement? Or do some just want trouble?"

2 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-10-21 17:47:56		Circe rolls 6 to Manip + Persuasion + Glamour 1 (10 Again)		8, 7, 4, 3, 5, 8		2 successes

Feed that paranoia, feed it.

ooc: sorry about the double roll, I hit enter at the wrong time without having the dice pool set to the right amount.

[Saber Sloth]

The Crowd

The crowd, which vibrates with incandescent energy, rolls over, pitched to boiling, as Circe continues to work the crowd, even without the Wicked Wrath of Summer, glamour sizzling, and Wyrd bound, the Crimson Queen knows how to incite her Court's favoured Emotion.

Ragged voices pitch screaming and cracking from exertion, the food which had been lobbed towards the Humane Society building is now held in hand, untl someone within the crowd throws it towards one of their fellows. Preceding the first punch, but not a second. In that instance, the crowd explodes into violence.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-10-22 11:39:10		Protesters rolls 1 to Resiti Further Manipulation -1 (10 Again)		7		failure

Boy by the Doors.

The boy's flat expression seems to warm at Reed's cursing, freezing up when the Wizened lifts him easily into his arms.

"Put me down!" he yells, squirming. Making a tiny fist again, "Put me down!"

[Sonnie Wu]

Yeeeeaaaaaah. This seemed to be going south. Reed seemed to be winning the kid over, but then he unexpectedly stepped it up to kidnapping. Sonnie, eyes widening, decided the Garden Gnome was on his own with that, and she turned around and went inside the shelter. She left the door swinging behind her.

"Um, excuse me?" she asked of anyone in view once she got in. Anyone that looked like they worked there. "I'd like to look at dogs to adopt... and there's, like, a riot outside. Is that normal? Are we safe in here?"

[Reed Mills]

Reed comes in behind Sonnie, ignoring the kid’s protests. In a former life, he’d had kids of his own. You get used to this kind of thing.

”Yeah,” he adds after Sonnie’s announcement. “And I think someone forgot this guy outside.”He sets the kid down in front of them.

[Circe]

Well, that worked great! Circe decided to slink away from the crowd and get some distance away from the pound. If they made for it she'd have to lure them off with the Contract aimed at herself.

  slinking off

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-10-23 21:55:02		Circe rolls 8 to Dex + Stealth (10 Again, WillPower)		3, 2, 2, 7, 8, 5, 5, 8		2 successes

And it looks like the Scooby Gang has gone inside to rescue Mr Doo. So thumbs up to that. Circe put distance between herself and the crowd but didn't go inside. Instead she starts texting the others whilst watching the riot in progress.

'They gone crazy. I call u if they threat u. U call me if u need help'

Then Circe took a picture of the fighting before looking up the local news station's tip line. She might as well give them a lead on a story, add a little truth if she had to bullshit.

[Saber Sloth]

The interior of the building is exactly as one might expect from the outside. Flat, grey cement. A wide wooden desk with an old CRT monitor, siding grey with time and grime. There are splashes of the same bright primary colours scattered throughout the lobby. Forcing cheer where there is none.

The barking and baying, the howling and yowling is louder here, without seeming, need for breath.

One women behind the desk is on the phone, yelling into the receiver, from the context it seems she's demanding the police get here 'faster'. The plastic name tag pinned to her blouse says 'Karen'.

Someone else, is talking to the family. Attempting to sooth, but all three seem to grow more and more upset. Ignoring Reed, who's passenger squirms more, but doesn't scream to be let down again.

To Sonnie, a gruff looking man, forces a smile under the bush of his auburn beard. "We know, Karen's...." looking at the women who throws more curses into the phone, "Yeah. Well, today's not an adoption day, but you can still look at the dogs. Is your whole family here?" eyeing the others who've followed the monkey.

Circe

Circe slinks away, without issue. The crowd far to interested in their fellows then what's happening around them. The Crimson Queen sees more fruit lobbed, punches and kicks. Bites and whines and hair pulling.

The screaming continues, indistinct, just breath and sound and Wrath.

She does get several wonderful pictures. Snapshots of Wrath in technicolor.

[Sonnie Wu]

That was an unfortunate side effect of starting a riot: The cops and the media. Unfortunate, but not unexpected. Though they might arrive sooner than was comfortable, and then how would she get Boy out of here? She had an idea for that, but first, she had to find the hob.

Edging away from Reed and the kid he held, Sonnie gave an apologetic smile to the bearded man.

"Sorry, I know this is a bad time. I mean, obviously! Not an adoption day? Bummer... but yeah, I'd love to see what you have here. At least my trip won't be wasted, right?" Sonnie's phone buzzed with the alert for a new text message. Like a true millennial, she checked it automatically while she talked.

"Oh, this is my girlfriend texting me now," she gestured with her phone, "We just got a house with a backyard and... well, she'll be disappointed about no doggo today."

The Beast sent a return message to Circe, seemingly to inform her girlfriend of said disappointment but in truth to inform the Summer Queen of a possible change in plans.

Might leave thru thorns if I find him. If do, meet U at Mama.

Putting her phone away again, Sonnie smiled brilliantly, "Okay, so where's the puppies?"