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The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« on: November 19, 2017, 05:47:46 PM »
"This is a message for Juno Vert."

With those words, the recording on Juno's Scroll began. The face -- or rather, mask -- of the person speaking was immediately recognizable as belonging to a member of the White Fang, and behind him were several similarly masked individuals bearing rifles, pistols, and blades. Little could be made out of the location due to heavy black drop cloths that had been hung over the walls, obscuring any hints of where and when the video was taken. The speaker stepped slightly closer to the camera. "You might say we've taken an interest in you, especially after your rather thrilling performance at this past Vytal Festival. Shame about the semi-finals -- really, I mean it -- but you showed us just enough to get several people curious. And suffice it to say, the actions you've taken against our brethren in Vale have made you something of a... target of opportunity and interest."

"You have something special, mister Vert. Something that we want."

Grabbing the camera, the speaking White Fang member panned it to one side, bringing into frame a prisoner bound with metal cables to a steel chair. A quick zoom-in and refocus made the details of the captive perfectly clear: she was a Faunus, lean and pale-skinned with droopy canine ears. A blindfold covered her eyes and a length of duct tape could be seen over her mouth, but even with these features covered Juno would recognize Caja instantly. She was roughed up but clearly alive, made plain by her rapid breathing and continual struggling against her restraints. The camera lingered there for a minute before the speaker stepped back into the foreground. "And we have something that you want. Oh, she was a pain to catch, what with that tricky Semblance of hers... but we got her eventually. And now that we have her, you're going to do" He stepped up so his masked face occupied the whole of the video. "Exactly. What. We. Say. Understand? Otherwise we'll start mailing her back to you one small piece at a time."

Stepping back, the kidnapper pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and held it up to the camera. "These are the details of an airship that departs for Wind Path tomorrow, and you're going to be onboard. Bring your tech. Once you arrive you'll get a message on your Scroll telling you where to go. Don't try anything funny, tough guy -- no rescue attempts, no heroics. If you even breathe a word of this to the kingdoms or academies she will die, you got it?"

With that, the message ended.
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2017, 06:40:16 PM »
The message replayed in his head on repeat as the young man drove, his heart pounding in his ribcage. It couldn't be possible, Caja rarely ever left the apartment, and if the Fang wanted them, they would have struck months ago. But there she was, beaten and bound in whatever stronghold the Fang had kept her in, and an entire continent away. No... This had to be a trick. He'd get home, find Caja lounging around, and all his worries would be solved in an instant. Caja was fine, she had to be. There was no way the Fang would have tracked them down. Juno kept these thoughts in mind as he parked in the structure, tearing through the apartment complex until he had reached his and Caja's home... only to find that his front door had been kicked in and his apartment torn apart. And Caja...

Caja was gone.

Juno could do nothing but look onward in shock, the reality of Caja's capture hitting him like a truck. He wanted to cry, to scream, to throw up... and in time, he did, gracelessly falling to his knees as his emotional control shattered, tears and cries of fear, pain, and sorrow inelegantly bubbling up from within him. Phi's attempts at reassurance were of no help either, as she only reminded him of his predicament- lose his love, or lose his sister.

It took some time for Juno to find the strength to stand, doing his best to maintain his composure as he pushed the couch and overturned coffee table back into place, only to bury his face in his hands as he sat down. He needed time, a luxury he could not afford, especially with Caja's life on the line.

As Juno struggled to hold his tears back, Phi took the time to forward the video to the remaining members of VCVS, with the attached message, "Meet us at Juno's apartment, we need your help."
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2017, 07:34:55 PM »
Rory was brand new to VCVS, having barely had a chance to get to know his teammates at all since being added to the team. Even knowing so little, however, he could tell the moment he pulled up the video from Phi --and he was still trying to wrap his head around her -- that something had gone terribly, horrifically wrong. He didn't know Caja except in passing, but he understood that she'd been forcibly retired due to her injuries... to think that the White Fang would be able to take advantage of that to pull off a kidnapping from inside Vale sent a shiver of dread up his spine. What else were they capable of? That aside, he knew he had to get to Juno's as soon as possible. He couldn't imagine the state Juno must be in from all this...

It was a lucky thing that the city had all-hours bus service for most of the districts, otherwise it might have been hours before the shield-brawler could have made it to Juno's place. He'd only been there once before but, fortunately, had the address stored in his Scroll and was able to find his way. Twenty minutes after receiving the message he finally approached the apartment and saw the state of the door, a physical reminder of the violent abduction that had taken place here. Before that moment Rory had been deeply concerned and worried... but now, as he peered into the violated apartment, a palpable dread settled onto him.

"Juno? It's Rory. I got your message." He carefully stepped inside, avoiding bits of door and broken glass as he did. He didn't know the team lead nearly as well as the moment required, but it was plain to see that the man was in anguish. He wanted to say that it would all work out, that somehow they'd find a way to get her back safe and sound... but in that moment, surrounded by the wreckage of the life Juno and Caja had built together, he couldn't quite muster the words -- at least, not the sincere belief to say them.

Instead he turned to the one thing he could promise with surety. "I'm here for you, man. We'll figure this out together, ok?"
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2017, 09:29:17 PM »
Yawning lightly, Samuel then winced as the action brought the welding tool out of place, scoring an unsteady line against the small device in front of him. Damn. He'd have to redo the casing for that component, then. Taking the tiredness as a sign, he put the welder down and then flipped up his mask, flopping down to the metal chair beneath him. He'd taken the opportunity today to get some time to himself, head down to the small armoury there and tinker around for a bit. Admittedly, it was far less high-tech than that of Beacon's own, where he usually roamed, but- well, it was a hell of a lot more quiet, for one thing. The other thing was a better excuse for not being at team meetings or the like; 'I'm busy down at work' generally worked better than 'I'm messing about with volatile equipment'. Speaking of...

Turning the spike-shaped object over, he gently moved it over to the redo-pile; or, well, more of a re-do set. The other six he'd messed about with turned out alright, he mused, as the faunus looked over at the pointed chain-links, thinking for a second before taking out a carrier case and putting them into the safety foam he used to store the more dangerous tests he used. Zipping the backpack-made-explo- he meant perfectly safe experimental carrier-bag- he took the mask off his face, briefly letting his fox ears stretch out and feel the air for a few moments before flattening them back against his hair.

Grabbing his jacket off a hook and returning the apron to it, Samuel blinked as a high-pitched ding rang for a second, before looking down at said hoodie pocket and taking out his scroll. Setting the tone of the scroll's pings to above normal human hearing hurt his ears a little, but he was trying to get used to it; could be useful in combat applications. Maybe. He wasn't just being sneaky about checking game updates in class or anything, that'd just be rude. Opening up the message, Samuel hummed lightly as it loaded, waiting for one of the usual vaguely snarky messages about him being late or something, as he lent against the wall next to the window of the little room.

There was a vaguely awkward, blank silence as the video played, putting his headphones in after the first few lines to stop it playing out loud, then the usual click as the video ended. The silence dragged on a few moments, only a slight but growing ringing noise starting to break it before a series of small cracks hit the window, the noise breaking Samuel out of his staring at the black screen of the scroll before taking a deep breath, the ringing noise stopping as he got his semblence under control.

The man typed out a simply reply of 'On my way' before pocketing the scroll. Reaching into his jacket again, he brought out some cash, putting it on the counter as he walked out. "Kid, told you you don't need to pay me for that anymore, you work f-" The storekeeper started, but the hunter-in-training just walked out, leaving the repair money and grabbing his motorcycle helmet off his parked vehicle, turning the key before starting off towards Juno's flat.
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2017, 02:42:40 AM »
Verdant was going around downtown Vale going into various clothing stores trying on different clothes. While he was in a dressing room trying on some new clothes. When he suddenly got a message from Phi. Verdant pulled out his Scroll wondering why she would message him at this time of night. He saw it was a video and turned down the volume before playing it. Verdant watched the whole video and was shaken by this, seeing a video made by extremists was horrifying, but the person they had kidnapped was his friend was much worse. He then read the what Phi had written: "Meet us at Juno's apartment, we need your help." Verdant quickly tore off the clothes he was trying on and threw on his usual clothes of a green dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up and open to show a white shirt underneath and black pants. Verdant burst out of the store with him still putting his shirt on and running down the street to Juno's place.

After about 15 minutes of running on that cool night in Vale. Verdant turned the corner to see Juno and Caja's apartment thanks to his semblance he could see some of the windows have been broken. He ran up the stairs to the door of Juno's apartment to find the door had been broken open with glass and other broken things along the ground. Verdant saw the others of team VCVS there as well.
"Sorry, I took me so long I was across town," Verdant said while panting for breath.
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2017, 04:07:55 PM »
Juno's face bore little in terms of expression when he looked up to Rory, moving aside a bit to allow the boy a seat on his couch. He needed time, time to process this, time to figure out what to do... There was no way in hell he was surrendering Phi, but he couldn't throw Caja's life away either. Juno's eyes eventually shifted from the broken coffee table and scattered trinkets and decorations, settling on the locked, black case standing in the corner, relatively untouched, save for obvious attempts at busting the thing open. Inside were the remains of the ANUBIS suit, kept more fore sentimental value than anything else. The armor was damaged beyond repair, and at this point, was nigh useless. Granted... The Fang didn't know how Juno's tech worked.

Eyes flicking to Verdant as the young bowman made his appearance, Juno's brow furrowed in concentration as he focused on the case. It was a long shot, but they didn't know how strong the forces in whatever hold they had Caja locked up in were. The best plan they had was to get her back without starting a fight, while giving the Fang exactly what they wanted in the ANUBIS hard layer. They'd have a target painted on their backs for a while, but what else was new? All they needed to do after was secure a safe space to keep Caja.

"We'll get them back for this." he muttered to everyone present, while at the same time to no one in particular, thinking back to the images of a panicked and beaten Caja. "For now, all we can really do is give in to their demands. Follow along until we find something to exploit."

The young man got up as he finished speaking, motioning for the two of them to follow him as he strode toward the case, careful to avoid the scattered remnants of his and Caja's possessions. "I told you guys about the mission that caused Caja's injuries, right?"
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2017, 06:06:39 PM »
"You've mentioned it, yeah." Rory fell into step behind the team lead as recollection ran through his mind. It had been a protect & secure mission gone badly south -- defend a White Fang deserter until the proper arrangements could be made, but not only had the defector been killed but Caja ended up in a nearly lethal blade duel. That wasn't the only thing on Rory's mind, however. "Juno, they didn't say it explicitly in the message, but... won't the White Fang try to kill you once they have what they want? I understand that picking a fight with them on their own territory isn't a smart move, but I can't imagine why they'd let you walk away from this -- or honor their side of the deal. They're not exactly upstanding people; they've got no reason to keep their word."

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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2017, 04:48:56 PM »
Samuel's bike came to a halt outside of Juno's flat, a familiar dull glow coming from the ever-covered eye as he glanced around the destruction, taking it in slowly. Turning the bike's engine off, he strapped the two blades of Prismatic Performance to his sides, the backpack and an oddly sticking out box-shaped object on his back as he shifted off the seat and just stood there for a second, taking it in. The chains normally wrapped around his wrists were trailing behind him instead, slowly swaying from side to side almost unconsciously as he slowly took a step, paused again, then made his way up to the already open front door.

Pushing it wide again to let himself in, he didn't walk any further into the room, leaning against the door frame with his free shoulder. "Sorry I'm late. Had to pick up some stuff." He stated simply, his tone of voice somewhat hard to read but his expression neutral as he looked around the inside of the tattered room. "So when are we going?" It didn't even seem to have occurred to him to wait about at all, or what they were going to do, considering he was dressed in his combat uniform and his weapon was with him, along with whatever else was on his back.
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2017, 08:57:24 PM »
Verdant turned to see Samual walk into the apartment and ask when they would set off to resue Caja. Verdant tried to calm down Samual "Of course, we will rescue Caja but we need to smart in how we do it." Verdant paused to take a breath and contemplate what next to say."We shouldn't act rashly and get Caja into more trouble." Verdant said delicately to everyone else in the room he then turned and looked directly at Juno expecting his response.
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2017, 06:15:01 PM »
"Don't you think I haven't thought about that!?" Juno snapped, turning back to Rory as he did so. "If we start a fight, Caja will die! We don't know the location, we don't have any setup, and we don't have any support from the academies." he stated, his rage slowly fading into frustration and desperation as he turned back to the black case, trying to think of any options he had overlooked. The suit was busted, but he had only been on one assignment since then. The odds of him being sighted using hardlight without the suit were slim, but still enough of a risk. If he tried to pull one over on the Fang, the could execute her on the spot... But it was the only real idea he had.

After a few deep breaths, Juno seemed to calm down, opening the case before returning to the couch. "I'm sorry, it's just... It's a lot to deal with." he stated, pressing his fingers to his temple as he sat down.

"Anyway, the mission that retired Caja also destroyed the exterior armor of the ANUBIS suit. I haven't taken many missions in the field since then, so it's unlikely they know that the hardlight works independently of the suit. I don't want to risk a fight, but if it comes to that, we'll need to focus on keeping them away from Caja at all costs. Make me the biggest target."
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« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2017, 10:34:25 AM »
Juno's response was harsh, but admittedly he was right. The WF had a gun to Caja's head and any rescue attempt would be flying dark, without support, at great risk. "You don't have to apologize. This is a nightmare scenario... but we'll figure it out. We have to try. I barely know Caja, but the way you've talked about her I doubt she'd want us to let you both end up in front of a White Fang firing squad."

If the Fang didn't know that Juno's armor was broken, that was something they might be able to work with. Rory stood and thought on Juno's words for a moment, realizing that there might be something they could work with in that. Somehow, he guessed Juno was thinking along similar lines. It was one hell of a bluff, but it might get them one step closer to freeing Caja or at least learning where she was being held.

"... As long as we don't know where Caja is, we're at a severe disadvantage. Changing that needs to be our top priority. I have an idea that might help, but I need to do some research to know whether it will work." He put a hand reassuringly on Juno's shoulder. "However you decide to handle this, I'm with you Juno. We all are."
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« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2017, 06:30:56 AM »
Samuel lent against the wall near the front door, just listening to the others for a while, then starting to try to blank them out as he put two fingers to circle on his forehead while shutting his eyes, mumbling quietly. With a couple of the comments back and forth, he seems to get more agitated, before just dumping his bags to the floor.

"Why the hell are we just... talking about things we could be doing and not describing what those entail, or, you know, doing them?"He questioned, a slight snarl reaching his tone at the end of the sentence as he strided over to the nearby pin-up board before wiping a chain harshly across it, knocking off all the current things on it in a clutter of pins and torn paper. Grabbing a pen and some of the now-ruined notices, he started talking while writing down.

"Look, first thing's first; there's an obvious bloody way to find out where Caja is; it's likely the exact same place they plan to take Juno. They're not going to just take the suit and go 'oh this seems fine', they'll take him along until they can confirm something." He stated sarcastically, before shaking his head and continuing. "Therefore, the most obvious way is by getting Juno on there. Of course, that plan by itself is shit." Samuel was almost starting to talk to himself at this point, scrabbling some particularly bad drawings onto a canvas of post-it notes and torn paper. "Getting us all along in the shittiest way is also simple; it's not exactly the hardest thing in the world to disguise yourself as a White Fang grunt, especially if you just take their scrolls or whatever they're using and find out what they were up to anyways. And Rory could be Juno's plus one to make sure he doesn't get stabbed. Well, that's the reasoning that you could use to bargain for it, though knowing your actions you'll end up getting stabbed somewhere before this is all over anyways."

Despite having referred to the entirety of the rest of his team, he continued to just talk to himself, blanking out the room as he changed to mumbling under his breath, drawing out what amounted to stick figure warfare. Or, well, MSPaint subterfuge in this case. "And that's just the stupid way of handling it, like there's just so many damn things to be doing to make a far better one- why the hell are we just waiting for a White Fang stripper to pop out the metaphorical birthday cake and reveal their plans?" He stated, taking a break from his writing to look around at the rest of them, breathing heavily from the constant talking. He didn't seem done with the whole plans thing if half the board still uncovered was anything to note for, however.
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Re: The Things We Do For Love [VCVS]
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2017, 09:42:45 PM »
Verdant waited for Juno for to his exposition dump so he could comment. "When we go with you to help rescue Caja, the White Fang will assume that we are with you and will be following you all the way to meeting location. So we will need to disguise ourselves."
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« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2017, 03:34:11 PM »
"Disguise yourselves as what? The Fang?" Juno asked, turning to face Verdant. "Only one of us is a faunus, and said faunus sticks out like a sore thumb who constantly demands attention." he finished, pausing for a moment as an idea came to mind. At the very least, it would let him take a second individual on the airship with him, and the remaining two could take another flight. They didn't have intel, but they did have the element of surprise and a competent team. It was worth a shot, at the very least.

"Are any of you fluent in Mistrali?"
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« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2018, 12:37:10 PM »
Mistrali? Rory was fairly surprised by the question and, admittedly, he wasn't quite sure where Juno was going with it. "Fluent? Not precisely. I know some, and I'm sure I can download some decent translation software, but why..." It took a moment to click, but he began to understand what Juno's angle was. "A translator. I see. Could work..." He turned to the other members of the team. "If I'm with Juno, I can stream from my goggles directly to your Scrolls -- coordinate our movements, maybe find a way to turn the tables. The 'plus one' idea might just be viable, even useful."

"Disguises could work, maybe, but you'd have to be careful. The Fang will probably be expecting something to go wrong, after all, and like Juno said you are rather... distinctive, Samuel." He still didn't quite know what to think about Samuel's rant, but the guy did have some points. Still, infiltrating an on-alert White Fang group would be tricky... and if one thing went wrong, it could cost Caja her life.

They couldn't plan for everything -- educated guesswork and improvisation would be called for here. Still, they didn't have much choice...







It had been a scramble to make the needed arrangements. Coming up with an excuse why the entire team wouldn't be in for classes without arousing the suspicions of Beacon's teachers had been a particular challenge; Rory wasn't really pleased with lying to their instructors & mentors, but these were exceptional circumstances. By comparison, arranging airship tickets for Samuel and Verdant on the sly had been surprisingly easy... almost too easy, in retrospect. It was impossible to say for sure how far the White Fang's reach went, but having one private airship pilot under their thumb certainly didn't seem beyond the pale. The flight itself had been quiet with relatively few passengers -- if they were paying close attention, the members of VCVS noticed more than one individual who seemed to be keeping an eye on Juno during the flight, though they never did more than that.

Finally, VCVS landed in Wind Path.


S C E N E ~ M U S I C
Xian
by Antti Martikainen


Wind Path was exactly what one would expect of a sprawling Mistrali city: eastern stylized buildings with rooftop gardens and hanging lanterns gave way to towering residential blocks that filled out the skyline, wiry cherry blossom trees interspersed the walkways and paths, merchants hawked their goods from booths and carts... and, whispering just below it all, was the wind whistling through the namesake canyon dividing the east and west sides of the city. Under better circumstances, being in such a bustling center of art and culture would've been exciting. The airship landing pad let passengers off near the city center on the eastern side of the divide -- VCVS would quickly find themselves on the edge of a large, open-air market a stone's throw from the canyon's twin bridges.

This, then, would be where the Fang would next contact Juno, Rory surmised. He stuck close to Juno without being too obvious about it, streaming the feed from his goggles to Sam and Verd's Scrolls. It was a safe bet that the Fang knew Juno had arrived and were watching... what happened now that he was here, of course, remained to be seen.



(OOC: A map of Wind Path for you all.)
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STUDENTS

Beacon Student: Rory Vogel, "The Scarlet Shield" ~ 1st Year, Team VCVS

Shade Student: Sean Acacia, "Grenadier" ~ 1st Year



OTHERS

Beacon Teacher / Experimental Botanist: Dr. Budonoki Sophos, Medical & Wilderness Specialist

Baker / Retired Huntsman: Alec Chadwick, owner of 'Fabled Goods' bakery

Pirate / Freelancer: Captain Cordell of the Red Corsair ~ Available For Hire!

Mercenary / Infiltrator: Micah Sere AKA "Prowler" ~ Danger, Avoid If Possible

Mercenary / Infiltrator: Maria Sanguine AKA "Bloody Mary" ~ Underworld operative, "The Lady of a Thousand Faces"