NMYF: Breathing room

**Asclepius** · Feb 26th, 2025 06:12 PM

Thinking for a moment, it was clear that Aurora was compromised and we are dealing with a dangerous guy. If the assassin decides to add another to his hit list then might as well play it difficult and use a different name. “Good point, might as well make it harder for him. Use Jack for now.”

Shutting the door a moment, with a bit of thought. “Okay well we know what we are doing if there is a sleeper presence to witness us and the assassin. But I do think we need to establish how we are going to approach silencing this guy once we do find him.” Moving a little into the apartment a little, while holding the box. “Say hypothetically that all the stars align... what's the play. I know you have mentioned turning him into something but.. what is the plan b if it doesn't go well. I can attempt to get him in self defence using my knife but we would need to worry about clean up I guess. I am just curious to hear your thoughts on the matter before we leave.” Might as well have a guide in place encase is needed. “Also to note I advise one of us to be walking in with mage eyes on. Unless you advise against it, I would have suggested you as he knows your a mage and we can surprise him with me pretending to be a sleeper.”

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**Aurora** · Mar 2nd, 2025 08:34 PM

Name was noted and would be used.

“Perhaps the best way to minimize the Sleeper presence is to go for an after-hours vet visit. Since we are going in playing dumb on what type of snake we have, without them knowing we know it’s poisonous. So it should be considered an emergency visit, and if they have a vet specializing in reptiles, going after hours would get us little to no sleepers. Just a pricey visit. So if that works, it cuts down on the risk. But if that doesn’t work, and we need a plan b? I would say I can alter my appearance, but I’m not good at hiding my spells and would have to drop all of them, and I’m not willing to drop my shield around this guy.” Not a chance in hell. “But we know as soon as he sees me, it’s game on, he wants me dead, I don’t see him playing nice and taking any shot he gets.” As to why? She still wasn’t sure. “As far as clean up? It depends on how it goes down. I have spells at my disposal that will clean pretty much any and all evidence except magical. So if he isn’t working alone, they will know we were there and got to him. Or we toss in a plan c. We get eyes on him at the vet and track him, not to his place, cause he gets home field advantage, but we know what his car looks like, we can disable it or a tire to lose air over time.” Shrugging, “Just another idea if the building is too busy and we don’t think we can get to him cleanly.”

**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 3rd, 2025 03:42 AM

an out of hours visit would require waiting for a few hours which would give time for any magical prep if you want to risk/do it.

**Asclepius** · Mar 4th, 2025 03:20 PM

He takes in Aurora's suggested options of how to go about this task. “Going after hours might net us a problem of no one being there at all, which would leave us a unsure of where he could be. I think the no sleeper presence will be a big help for us, as it would mean no crossfire. I think engaging him in the workplace may give us a little advantage because I doubt he has prep'd it for any sort of conflict. Honestly who knows with this guy, and the more time we give him, gives him more time to prepare another ambush, so maybe going as soon as might be worth the risks.” He nods to her statement in regards to dropping her protective spells. “I have no intention of suggesting it, I would not do it myself given the foe and would not ask you to do so.” As he hears Aurora's plan C be spoken he nods one again in agreement. “Yes, I like this as a backup plan, if we go and it is busy we can stake out the car and watch him try to leave. Maybe we will get lucky and he might get into a wreck on his travels, by luck or by some unseen force.” He says the final statement with a smile.

“Okay, I think to summarise and assuming we both agree. The plan looks to be as follows: given the weighing up of the pro's and cons on when to go to the vet, we should go now, the risk of letting him set up another ambush outweighs the risk of sleepers in my eyes currently. But, if we feel that there is far to many sleepers present, we could simply deviate and look for his car and await for him to get off work then tail him as a back up plan. If you feel strongly about doing it another way then I am happy to use your plan. No option sounds bad to me, I simply offer what in my head the right priority, because your life is very much important and I will do all I can to protect it, as I am sure you would expect.” He awaits Aurora's response to what he has laid out, he stands thinking trying to make sure he had not missed any details.

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**Aurora** · Mar 5th, 2025 12:45 PM

The Shaman listens, nodding, taking in his words and trying to play out different scenarios. It was difficult, there were many unknowns in this, and they had no way of knowing how this was going to play out. “You do raise some excellent points, not many would expect us to approach him at his work place, well, if this is his work place. We are just piecing together what makes the most sense right now. But this is also the same guy who thought it was a good idea to attempt to kill me in a very public park with quite a few Sleepers around. So he has to have some at least some level of crazy and unstable going on.” That should go without saying. “Oh, it should be easy to target the car if it is there to have an accident and then I’m willing to step in and finish it. I wouldn’t expect or ask you to. Unless you are wanting to bring him to question him.” She didn’t want to, but she knew there were Laws and he was an Arrow.

Deep breath, “You’re the Arrow, I trust your judgement to think this through more carefully than I am. I agree about the risk to Sleepers and backing off if the risk is too great. Sounds like we have a plan then, a good one in my opinion.” A smile, a bit forced, “And thank you for that, for wanting to protect me, not sure how to take that yet, but thank you.” She was used to doing the protecting, but it felt good. To have someone wanting to protect her and look out for her. “Should any of the other Arrows be alerted just in case? Or are we good to go?”

**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 6th, 2025 12:08 AM

With time on the scene coming to a close it looks like the plan is an out of hours trip to the veterinary hospital to see if you can take the fight to the would be assassin

**Asclepius** · Mar 6th, 2025 04:53 PM

A Smirk is given towards the end of Aurora's words. “I have no intention of bringing this guy in. He is too dangerous to take alive and thus we can do what we can to protect ourselves. Yes I am very much liking the idea of going to his suspected workplace, a sort of violation of privacy back at him.” Certainly also shows that we can be resourceful and no doubt intimidating to someone that could be acting alone. A statement Aurora spoke struck him with interest. I suppose it is to end the trouble yourself and get that closure to kill him with your own hands then another. “I will not step in your way should you want to perform the deed yourself, unless of course danger permits that we have no luxury for that.” There was little chance it would go that smoothly, but then again who knows.

“I understand, and I am doing my upmost to think with a level head for what is to come.” A smile is given to her. “Yes we indeed have a sound one for now, I have faith something good will come from it.” After all we came up with it, it has to be a good one. “Sounds like it doesn't happen much, you are welcome and think nothing of it.” A moment of thought comes as he mulls over the idea. “There is only one I would know that would reliably register any message from me, and that is Skye. I will drop her a message to let her know where we are going, so at least someone knows.” He puts the box down and begins to draft a text. Once he is done he picks up the box once more and looks ready to go.

I believe the plan is to go straight to the Vet hospital now and then decide how to proceed depending on the amount of sleepers precent at the hospital.

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**ReubanBrightwood** · Mar 7th, 2025 04:30 AM

Thats 30 days the scene at the vets is open!

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