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

[aelwyn_aberration]

Drinking is famous for making one more considerate, it's true. But yes, I'm down.

ADI or the circus? Down was circling Calhoun like a shark, I'm sure he would have been happy for the chance to corrupt him.

[musicdied]

ADI. I'm sure Down would have been happy for the cannon fodder.

[Which, in her estimation, is exactly what someone brand new to this world would be.]

[aelwyn_aberration]

You'd think they wouldn't, right? After all, an agent of the ADI defecting to the circus should be disastrous for multiple reasons. But ADI's response to nearly everything so far is to sit on their hands and hope for the best, so somehow I doubt they'd do something about it even in that case.

I had to suggest this directly to Nia for them to even consider going after Down.

Given the amount of care and effort they've taken to protect or even oversee us I'm sure they would promptly do absolutely nothing.

[musicdied]

It's true they're more reactive than proactive.

But I can't help thinking that there are more of us who are missing than are still here. It wouldn't be hard to tuck a few bodies into that number.

[And she knows full well that some of the missing had no interest in following ADI's rules regarding use of magic.

Or maybe it's just comforting to think that there might actually be an answer to the missing, however appalling that answer might be.]

[aelwyn_aberration]

I've never discounted the idea that ADI buried all of them, frankly.

But honestly if it was all them, I can't help but think that they'd come up with a better story than "whoops we lost 'em all!!!"

But yes, among the numbers are probably a few that ADI did away with.

[musicdied]

That definitely isn't a story you come up with on purpose when there are options that don't breed half as many questions.

And anyone who would come up with that as their cover story would definitely fuck up enough to get caught at least once with that many bodies.