brazil ♔ even just a sound and all your cards are down

[luthir]

WHO || Belle, Luthir, Koraith, Violet, Robin, Reynard [closed]
WHAT || Settling into the mission HQ
WHERE || The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil
WHEN || April 5th (superbackdating go)
HOW || Actionspam

The Knight's plane touches down outside of the forest perimeter, as there's no accessible clearing anywhere close enough to the site that's not choked with machinery responsible for... making more clearings. And landing on top of them all might be dramatic, but perhaps not the subtle touch this mission calls for.

They disembark and head out through the rainforest in a little buggy, until they can't drive much further without being entirely conspicuous, so they pull it over and get out, about a ten minute walk from the site.

Koraith turns to them, his massive form annoyed by fronds brushing against his head, which he's forced to repeatedly brush back.

"Well! I suppose this is as good a place as any to suggest splitting up. In some ways, our problem is three-fold: we must stop the machines as soon as possible, contact the dryads to make certain they know help has arrived and don't escalate things prematurely, and, of course, speak to the foreman."

Comments

[smugfox]

[He actually manages to roll a 14, but, well, he can't even drive a car, much less operate heavy machinery. He's fairly confident in his ability to wreck stuff even without knowing how precisely it works.

So he takes what knowledge he can gain and returns to Robin, shifting back once he's by the man's side.]

This would really be easiest if we waited until they stopped for the day. Is that an option?

[faeconman]

[ Robin nods a little in agreement. ]

It's an option until we get caught. We should find somewhere to wait it out that is still close enough to keep some sort of track of what they're doing.

[smugfox]

[Reynard turns around to look back over his shoulder.]

How much closer do you reckon you could venture without getting caught? I'm not sure what talents you're hiding, but I'm afraid I've shown you just about all of my cards by now.

[faeconman]

My skills lie more in... shall we call it conversational camouflage.

[ Nevertheless he starts moving towards the machines. ]

But the only way of finding out how close I can go is to try it. If we get caught, we'll just have to think fast and talk faster.

[smugfox]

Oh, so we do have something in common. Does make me wonder why we both ended up with the task involving the least talking.

[He walks next to Robin and shrugs, paying attention to their surroundings but also noting how his shoulder brushed Robin's.]

I have a feeling we can both think and talk more than fast enough, so I won't worry.

[faeconman]

[ Robin noticed too, which is why he's taking care to make sure it doesn't happen again. ]

Perhaps they saw hidden depths in us that we are as of yet unaware of ourselves. [ Said with dry humor. ]

And I did suggest this course of action so it does sort of make sense to give me the task.

[smugfox]

Sure, but based on that logic I should be tasked with taking your shirt off.

[He makes sure his voice sounds light enough. Just a joke, he can get a hint after all and this isn't really the time to push boundaries.]

[faeconman]

[ That actually gets a quiet chuckle, because hey, it's a fair point. ]

If you think it'll sway the people cutting down the trees, sure.

[smugfox]

I don't know them well enough to say for sure, alas. Though I guarantee that it'd at least stop them for a moment. Maybe two. I don't know, I'd need to gather more intelligence before making such an estimation.