Settle The Score | The Assassination of Fenix Down (Player Plot Open-Log)

[aelwyn_aberration]

Who: Aelwyn + Anyone Who Wants To Be Involved In This Assassination
When: April
Where: Around Gloucester, Springfield, the Circus, assorted other locations.
Summary: A murder is planned, executed, and staged. The details are yet to come.
Warnings: Discussions of murder, actual murder, blackmail, espionage, gaslighting, TBA.

[Several months ago, following the Circus' initial visit, Aelwyn was given permission to take down Fenix Down and his circus. Now, after more recent revelations about their unseen enemy, the plan has become a higher priority.

The plan is as follows. To ensure that this doesn't implicate ADI, a false cult will be created for this specific purpose. They'll keep the entity behind it vague, but one must be selected to ensure anyone paying enough attention would be able to identify it. They'll create conspiracy theories, fabricate old reports from decades ago to make it seem like this group is only recently being resurrected.

And then, with that done, they'll execute the plan itself. Staging the kidnapping and murder as if it was the act of that cult, and an extensive interrogation.

OOC Post here!]

Comments

For Meredith

[failedpromise]

(It's not like Cortana has been hiding her skills. She's helping teach cybersecurity classes, and it's not like she made it hard to figure out who was behind that little hacking incident-not that she'd consider either to actually require much skill.

She hasn't really been hiding that she has experience working for the military, either, even if it doesn't come up so much.

As such, maybe she shouldn't be surprised that someone would reach out to her for help with an assassination plot-except of course, she has no idea that such a plot is underway, or why a coworker she only barely knows is seeking to meet with her on her "lunch" break.)

Hello?

[henchgal]

Hello!

[Meredith's actually giddy to have a non-Tim hackery person to lean on. Not that she doesn't love her roommate, but...but. Things are complicated in B2 right now. Anyway, Mere might not look like much. Someone's perky secretary, walking with a cane, hair pulled up in a tidy ponytail.]

I'm working on a project, and I need someone who has better 'internet backdoor creative solutions' skills than I do. It's for the media relations team--though really, it's for Aelwyn. Any chance you'd be interested?

[failedpromise]

(Internet backdoor creative solutions, huh? Cortana grins, cocking her head to the side.)

Depends? What's the project?

[henchgal]

Faking a cult, and making it seem like it's been around for a while. Backdating posts on conspiracy forums, making news articles, generally putting information out without it being clear it's all new stuff.

Honestly, I don't know how to go about that. Do you?

[failedpromise]

It'd probably be best to get someone else to write the articles, but the rest of it should be simple enough.

(500 years in the past, cybersecurity is a joke. She wouldn't even need to outwit any AI.)

Gonna tell me the goal of this little endeavor?

[henchgal]

We're providing cover for a group that's going to do a field op--Aelwyn's in charge of the boots on the ground, my job is just to get the paperwork going. But our cult is going to keep ADI's name out of the matter.

[Look, it's not that she doesn't trust Cortana, it's just not her place to tell all the details.]

[failedpromise]

(Well, clearly she won't be getting all the details. That's okay, she'll just have to find out on her own later.)

Alright. I'll help. (For now.)