murder game #6

[shinsengumi]

Five teams: only two will survive. Destroy the other team's * Flag * while protecting your own to survive.

✣ ELEMENTAL ✣
Drael .s
Fenton
Griffith .s
Hassan .s
Helene
Kristopher
Leonel .s
Odette .s
Reece
Vox
* Yvain *

❖ OTHER 1 ❖
Aeva
Alexiel
Ellias
* Indra *
Jasper
Joss
Luce
Rehn
Shryke
Tristram
Vaughn
Wolf

✶ OTHER 2 ✶
Aubrey
Fila
Gil
Laurence
Mori
Malis
Nessa
* Oberin *
Rhad
Shai
Shanar
Yasu

♡ MENTAL ♡
Cyrel
Hollingworth
Lisette
* Olivia *
Astor
Tir
Qalam-Qir
Roswell
Siegfried
Sohma
Thane
Tsing
Uilliam
Visvaldis
Xian
Zach

⌇ PHYSICAL ⌇
Ashleigh
Brigitte
Cabel
D'Ivann
Kevlahn
Kieran
Kin
Koh
Kol
Larsen
Laurel
* Solus *
Talbot

Comments

[daughterofsand]

[Shai goes to the nearest window and tries to get a read on their situation. There are some tall buildings, but not anything tall enough to help her get a real sense of the lay of the land. Oh well...]

Anyone got any bright ideas about this?

[phasedoor]

Well, I think firstly we should find a way to keep him—[He indicates Oberin, who is studying his own knuckles.]—safe. Does anyone have any ideas?

[fideles]

[Somewhere along the line he's gotten himself a reputation for being an Ideas Guy, but this isn't exactly the kind of situation where you can come up with a plan on the spot. Laurence is muttering to himself without really realising it, looking around the environment and over the group surrounding him as he does.]

I mean, it's not like Cap'n Vis ever prepared us for this...

[But they might not have much time to waste. Laurence raises his eyebrows at their designated Flag—of course—but starts talking.]

We want... we want to keep the Flag some place with a choke point. One entrance and exit. If we can force other teams to come forward one at a time, or all lined up? We can keep him safe.

[Shrug.] But that depends on if we can find a place like that. And whether or not other teams are gonna risk coming looking. I know I wouldn't.

[royaux]

[More than anything, he wants to tell them that he can defend himself. Focus on finding a means to escape—focus on something that won't end with heaps of bodies lain at his feet again. There is no one here he counts dear; that means all his closest advisers will be elsewhere.

Oberin sighs.]

I agree with Laurence. We may be able to bait them into the trap if someone is able to act as decoy. I would volunteer to double-bluff, but that would put all of us at risk.

[heldentenor]

No. [Mori walks forward slowly, and speaks with glinting authority. She doesn't want to hear arguments about this, least of all from Rhadimenthys—who she points at sharply.] You, Flag, will stay hidden, and so will they. I will act as the decoy.

[Because she can. Because she's fast, and can fight herself out of any corner. Because she can't ever be cornered, and she shows them, turning around and walking to the nearest wall and passing straight through.

She will be the decoy, because she will keep Rhad safe. Mori passes back through the wall, demonstration made, and dips her head.]

Stay safe, and I will lead our enemies to the trap. I won't be caught. I won't be killed.

[She doesn't look at Rhad. She doesn't want to see what they think.]