Player-led plot: Sabotage the Enemy Forces

[provenforce]

WHO: Rey, Kylo Ren, Nari Dahlasanor, Yngvi, Malcolm Reed
WHAT: Sabotaging the Red Lyrium Operation
WHEN: the night before the Inquistion attacks
WHERE: Sunless Lands Red Lyrium mine
NOTES: i mean if you guys want to talk plotting or whatever, feel free to do it in the OOC post.

The team leaves the Inquisition camp just after dark. Rey leads the way, having memorized the way to the mine when she'd first been asked to head up this mission. Talking is kept to a minimum once they reach the mine and sneak down the scaffolding.

Then, the real work begins.

Comments

[tactical_alert]

Malcolm licks at his lips, considering the options. "I could light it up, but that likewise won't be terribly quiet or invisible." Setting things on more or less divine fire is neither of those things. "Easier to try and slit the throat or otherwise take off the head, though I say 'easier'..."

Easier said than done.

[inagutterson]

"Thing is that it's big. Could set up some traps in case it wakes up." It doesn't hurt to have options, and when you're used to being in a small outfit that tends to be how it goes most if the time. Rig the field to your advantage whenever you can before you go in. "That way if it's up we get it down or...we use them to stop it getting up. If we're careful."

Literally the smallest person in this group but it could work. If they're careful. Like super careful.

[letoldthingsdie]

"We'd need to find strategic points for traps then, if we go that route. On the off chance it does wake we could stop it from getting close to us. Getting close enough to slit it's throat might be too risky. Either way, it might still make a lot of noise." There were too many what ifs for him to be comfortable. He agreed that killing it quickly was their only option but the damned thing was just too large.

"Any other ideas for a quieter and faster solution?"

[provenforce]

Rey has an idea but she doesn't know if it would work, and if Kylo didn't bring it up in the first place, it probably won't.

Still, she turns to look at him, raising her eyebrows

"Would you be able to um..." she doesn't know what the term is, but she holds her hand up, mimicking a choking gesture. That's something that she knows she shouldn't be doing, but that also means it's not off-limits to him.

[letoldthingsdie]

"You want me to choke it to death. That's not very Jedi-like of you." He was being sarcastic, of course. He knew that thing had to die and he was happy to get rid of it quickly and avoid creating a scene with the Red Templars.

He raises a gloved hand, his cape drawing back over his shoulder as he does, waiting to see if anyone might object before he started drawing upon the deep well of hatred and rage he possessed, filling his thoughts with nothing else as he gestured towards the creature and cut off it's air supply. Dying in such a manner would be painful for anyone, but dying without even realizing what the cause was was surely worse. Even so, it was a quiet method they needed and one he could provide.

[nadasharillen]

This is not any kind of magic that Nari's seen before, and her eyebrows raise slowly as the creature's chest ceases to rise and fall with its sleeping breath. All the magic she knew had something--some kind of showing, but this? Her eyes flit back and forth between Kylo's outstretched hand and the giant, who becomes first restless, then agitated, then wakes; its single red eye straining, its mouth gaping in a silent roar that has no breath to sound.

No spell lasts forever, though.

"While it's silent?" Nari queries urgently, freeing her knife from its sheath and shifting to the balls of her feet.

[provenforce]

Rey doesn't dignify Kylo's quip with a response beyond her eyes flicking to him for a moment as her lips press into a thin line, before she pulls back to watch him work. The others may not be able to see what he's doing, but she can feel the Force surging around him, dark and angry. She starts to tamp down on it, walling herself off as best as she can when she realizes that what he's doing isn't enough, the creature is awake and not dying peacefully in it's sleep.

"Go. I'll help him hold it down!" She hisses at the others, drawing on the Force and stretching it out before her, pressing on the massive form of the creature like a net. She grimaces, not used to holding something so large still. "Hurry, we're not going to be able to hold it for long!"

[tactical_alert]

He sees this is magic, but a silent, quiet, physical sort of magic, invisible to the eye. And he doesn't like it. It's no time for questions, not right in this instance. Later.

Malcolm left his bow and arrows back at camp, not intend to go shooting things and saving it for the battle to come, but he certainly has a blade on him. He's no scout, but his feet move quietly even with surety, motioning for Nari and Yngvi to follow. His aim is the same as the silent mages from another land: the throat. It's not a death from afar, unfortunately, but so long as it doesn't start swinging wildly...

[nadasharillen]

At Malcolm's gesture, Nari will nod curtly and keep pace behind the Seeker half-way to their target before peeling off to the left to circle quickly around the giant's side. One blade would do well enough for its throat. She's headed for the hamstrings, just in case it's strong enough in its corrupted rage to break the hold Rey has on it.

[tactical_alert]

He can't see what, specifically, Rey and Kylo are doing, that's the problem with this magic. An advantage to them all, yes, but worrying. It doesn't seem to be able to lift itself, its arms, its legs, but he's still careful in his approach, just in case. Still, it shakes in its invisible hold, trying, trying to break free.

The other issue is avoiding touching the spots of corruption that dot its form. He's just silently thankful that he is, apparently, a bit more resistant to it than most. It's an awkward angle and a little bit of a climb to get at an angle to slit a giant's throat, and he can't say he's ever been this close to one, but with one last check to Nari's position in the dark, he plunges the dagger in, dragging along with both hands.

[inagutterson]

Generally coming from the school of 'magic is more fun if things are on fire' because then the thing is on fire and panicking because it's on fire, Yngvi's not going to complain until the giant does something weird if Rey's still in charge. She's earned enough trust from him.

He tucks himself into a neat, tidy roll to get closer as quiet as he can, the way the Carta teaches early on and doesn't look too hard at anything red when he swings with both axes for the tendons in the wrist on the way to keep it from being able to lift anything requiring both hands if it manages to get up.

[letoldthingsdie]

As this unfolds and each does their part to immobilize the monster, Kylo's hold tightens and with it his hand curls into a fist. The monster could try to move all it liked but between him, Rey, and the damage done to it's limbs, it wouldn't move. If the knife to it's throat didn't kill it, he certainly would.

Gritting his teeth, letting the darkside of the Force flow through him into this act, Kylo strains his hold on the beast until it can neither move nor breathe as the life saps from it.

[provenforce]

Were the giant able to move, it would be thrashing about wildly, throwing the small creatures stabbing it's body. With the combined force of Rey and Kylo, however, it's mouth moves silently and it can barely twitch it's fingers as it's bled and choked out.

Eventually, after what will likely seem too long for the Force users and those with weapons both but in reality is barely more than a few minutes, the creature becomes still, moreso than it was under Rey's hold.

Rey lets go with a quiet gasp, her arms falling heavy to her sides from the effort of holding the creature. She's breathing heavily, but looks to the others, lifting her right arm again to wave them off.

"It's down. We should move."