"Mhm, what Blanche said. If I were to guess where he is now, I'd imagine somewhere in Skyside or Inside. A place full of innocents where he can blend in and quietly force a small community or two to feed, shelter, and hide him from outside threats. Maybe not a church, since that's where you guys fought him already, but something like that. Again, we won't know for sure until we send out the clone, but bringing some means of harmlessly rendering a whole bunch of innocent people temporarily deaf might not be a bad idea," Magtok muses, still a little antsy about this whole Magbot revival idea he had. Godsdammit, what's the point of swearing an oath to the memory of a friend you lost if you're just going to break it as soon as it's convenient for you, and in such a cruel and callous fashion, too?Arkhosia wrote: ↑Jan 26, 2023 5:35 pm [Far Too Early]
"Might be a tough ask," Blanche points out. "I don't think we're going to be flushing Prime out so much as following the bait to his lair. And we'll want to be careful about information control - everything could fall apart if the plan leaks beyond us."
For Magtok's benefit, she adds, "I'd suggest we aim for a week or two, keep it under three if possible. We need time to prepare resources and train those taking part, but the longer we let this plan marinate, the higher the risk intel leaks and Prime or the clone get tipped off indirectly." And the higher the risk Magtok himself gets antsy and acts alone.
"Obviously you don't have to bother me with every little bit of minutiae, but I'd like to be kept in the loop regarding any big changes in tactics made before the plan is put into motion. I don't want to be the only one not wearing earplugs or casting the right deafness spell when Geneva goes into battle with an electric guitar wired to a dozen amps each tuned all the way up to eleven," the ex-villain asks. Now, I don't know if Geneva is even capable of playing a guitar, or if she'll even get involved in this fight, so it's probably not the most plausible scenario to worry about.