[Game] Party to Treason

[Cassie]

Okay, Eridan, you sound reliable enough, more than George since you got proof, I choose you.

[Zanreo]

"Hm... yes, Eridan is seem promise choice this far... would like considering other option too though."

[Risdio51]

"Here that, Idiot George? You won't be able to do pervy things in those big bathrooms you so cravenly revere! I hope you're the master of your domain!"

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Yeah, well, I'm voting for him, you brat!!

[Zanreo]

"So if no other offering... all my vote are belong to Eridan!"

[Florien]

Alright, alright! Y'all are in metaphorical business. Now, Eridan has one vote of the five needed, bein' nominated an' all. So jus' himself an' two others need to support him, seein' as he has a patriot point. Or four people could push him in before he even notices. Ah think either way the result was basically guaranteed.

[PointMaid]

...Well, I have nothing against him. When he was just emphasizing that he's a part of the aristocracy, I wasn't so sure, but he does seem to be intelligent and sensible as well.

/vote Eridan

[Kennifer]

wwell its probably pretty obvvious but im vvotin for myself too

[Risdio51]

"Hmmm…something's telling me that should I try and make a case for myself, but Idiot George would probably starting calling the pot black as a kettle and make an argument about my immaturity…so, you have my vote, Eridan!"

/vote Eridan

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

/vote Eridan

[Florien]

Excellent! Eridan, yer the new chairperson. Ah'll get the edict options along as soon as possible, but it might be a few hours. Our uh... evaluators are... evaluatin' still. An' the dispenser is broken. Also, ya might notice Mickey hasn't shown up for a while. That's because he's a useless sack of stupidity an' for reasons Ah'll tell you some other time, he's gettin' executed soon.

(and also I don't have the deck order saved on my phone and I'll be at work for the next nine hours. Expect your edicts being sent then rather than now.)

[Kennifer]

wwell as long as i got some decent edicts to revvieww ill push somethin good through
if nothin i get is a good one i may havve to go for the lesser of the evvils but wwell see wwhat i get to revvieww

Eridan looks pretty pleased with getting to do something important, at least.

[Risdio51]

"Hmph, I'm missing the German three star gourmet meals…"

[Florien]

An edict has been enacted.

Edict 4041: The Patriotic Airwave Transmission System, (PATS) shall be deactivated due to budget constraints. Citizens are deemed loyal enough to not fall for subversive or foreign broadcasts, so there is no need for signal jammers.

This Edict supports the Rebel Cause.

Y'ALL ARE FUCKING MORONS! WHICH OF YOU TWO APPROVED THIS!?

Lanthanide screams at the top of her... well, she probably doesn't have lungs, but whatever makes the noise, she's using it. After a while of having your hearing things shredded by her utter rage, she finally calms down enough to speak coherently.

Okay. So here's what we're gonna do. Y'all are gonna stand there for a moment an' feel ashamed, CATS, Name someone who yer gonna authorize a break-in for, you'll get which side they're on soon enough. Ah'm gonna figure out how y'all can stop this "trustin' the populace to stay in our information flow rather than goin' elsewhere", an Ah'm gonna figure out what ta do with mickey, an Ah'm gonna do FUCKIN' EVERYTHING WHILE Y'ALL KEEP FUCKIN'. THINGS. UP.

[Risdio51]

"I dunno how, but...this is all Idiot George's fault! Audit him, or whatever it's called!"

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

WHAT?! My fault?! You voted for him too, you brat! Miss College Education at 13, but you sure are dumb! Audit her! She's too aggressive to be on our side!

[Kennifer]

look I just did the best wwith wwhat I wwas givven wwhich wwas a load a bullshit
lesser a twwo evils and all

[Cassie]

Bandu turns 2D again and furiously breaks phones at the table.

OH MY FUCKING GOD, MOLDY! I FUCKING HATE YOU! THIS IS NOT SURVIVE THE DISASTERS THIS IS WAY WORSE THAN THAT!

...then he looks at the aftermath and starts crying.

[PointMaid]

Brain just silently grumbles to himself, holding his head...

[Zanreo]

"Hm... So that is story of everyone going with." CATS says. "For who to investigating... think I'm go with George.

[Florien]

Okay. Alright. Ah've calmed down a bit, but that don't mean Ah'm not gonna make yer life miserable for makin' mine harder. Now, uhh... here's what y'all need to do to get around this shuttin' down of the PATS. An' Ah expect y'all ta make this work. Ah need yer schemes for this.

Item One! Ah need y'all to find a power source for the PATS. It requires a lot of power to run an array of strong signal jammers. This power source needs to run constantly, and without much maintenance.

Item Two! Y'all are gonna have to figure out a way to get up the narrow, treacherous, slick with rain mountain path that leads to the PATS array on that really tall mountain over there without getitn' severely injured, because Ah'm sure as hell not authorizin' medical treatment for any of y'all after that performance.

Item Three! Ah need y'all to climb to the top of the PATS towers, like in that video game, uhh... distance wail? Somethin' like that. Get to the top of these four two-thousand-foot-tall masts via ladder an' stair, because Ah'm not gettin' ya the elevator keys, ya don't deserve them. Ah suppose ya could figure out another way to get up if ya really wanted, but ya need to get to the top to reboot the transmitters.

Item Four! Ah need y'all to get me the blocked signal printouts from the PATS administration office in town on the way back, because that's yer job until Ah can get a higher up to authorize the restaffin' of the dedicated PATS staff. Y'all can figure out how to get into the office yerself, the door is locked.

[PointMaid]

Pinky and Brain's Plan

1. A strong power source, constant, and without much maintenance. Okay. This is up on a mountain. It's probably pretty constantly windy. So, we're going to go with installing some modern wind turbines, with some adequate battery backup just in case.

2. Getting up the treacherous, narrow, slick path. Pinky and I are going to ride a mountain goat. Saddle up, Pinky!

3. ...Getting to the top of the towers. Ah, yes. Stairs and ladders are made for human sized creatures. I'm going to use a grappling gun, you know, the kind Batman uses, to shoot a line to the top of the tower and haul us up. Quick as a jiffy.

4. And, getting into the locked office to get the printouts. Easy enough. I suspect there is enough of a gap under the door to squeeze through. If there isn't… there's always C4. Blow the door down.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

1. Power source, huh? Why not use the power plant around here? Surely they have one and it is so advanced, they might need people just to keep tabs on things, but that's all. And also have a back-up generator too. Gotta keep that in mind if the main source fails. Need something to fall back on.

2. I'm just gonna take the off-road truck to get up there. A heavy-duty one which can handle the treacherous path. With a lotta horsepower in the engine! Horsepower, baby! And make sure the tires are well-treaded too. Gotta be powerful rubber. The most powerful rubber there is. Rubber that can handle the strain of the long, hard road!

3. CLIMB? No, I'm not gonna climb the mountain! Are you crazy?! Last time I did so, I thought I was gonna die. I remember when I went with Kramer and Tony. And Kramer forgot to set the harness and Tony fell when I was tryin' to get him a sandwich. And then he didn't wanna see me no more... Tony was the coolest guy around and he told me to step off... Anyway, I'm just gonna take a helicopter up there and fly up to the top of the mountain. Easy as that, no way I'm climbing another mountain!

4. Well, what I'll do is just keep on banging the door down, trying hard as I can until it eventually breaks. And if someone accuses me of tryin' to break in without permission, I'll just tell them I'm one of Sendri's personal inspectors and how I'm testing out everything here. The security of the building and ranking it poorly because I broke the door easily. And now I'll tell them all that Sendri may not be happy with this and they'll all have them executed if you don't get this fixed right now. They agree and while they're all distracted, I'll sneak out with the printouts and make my way back via the helicopter.

[Florien]

Pinky and the Brain (mostly the Brain) have a plan. It plays out as follows.

Wind Turbines are installed, and backup batteries. Nothing immediately explodes or goes wrong, so clearly that portion was a good plan. Aside from the issue of having to cart the huge wind farm parts up the mountain to install them, which ends up meaning the whole system is chewing through backup batteries while the windfarm is slowly brought online. Ultimately, double the estimated backup batteries are used before the wind farms are providing enough power to keep the PATS running. Getting a goat to go up to check on everything was a really clever idea. Using a goat, getting to the top is easy, if a little bumpy. No injuries result. The grappling gun idea is where things come apart a bit. The towers are thousands of feet tall, and the grappling gun only goes out about a few hundred feet. It also damages a transmitter pack near the top of the third tower by accident when the hook snags and disconnects some wires. At least the sparks won't start a fire, because of how wet it is. Soaking wet, the duo go to the office to get the printouts, and manage to sneak under the door. No need for explosives, apparently. Though getting the printouts out is somewhat tedious, considering the fragility of the paper used for the printouts, and how much care needs to be used to get it under the draft excluder without tearing it.

George has his plan. That one plays out this way.

He decides that hooking up the system to the general power grid is a good idea. A row of power poles, all the way up the steep mountain side, are installed, the wires stretching high into the air. The backup generator works fine. Everything's working, though those power lines might be a little dangerous. An off-road truck is taken up the hillside. It manages to do fine, until it fails to make a sharp turn and hits a rock. It still functions, but he has a whiplash injury now. Then, George decides to take a helicopter to the tops of the towers and... the power lines he installed come back to cause problems. The helicopter slices right through them, tangles the rotor, and crashes into the second tower. Luckily, the tower stands, and George survives almost uninjured, but he has to climb up the rest of the stairs and ladders manually for the remaining towers. Pain and miserable, soaking wet clothes ensue. George finally arrives to pick up the printouts, and begins attacking the door. That, at least, works fine. The printouts aren't kept particularly secure, and no one really questions him, and soon, the door is open, the wall is splintered, and George is soaking wet, miserable, and in possession of the printouts. He has to walk to deliver them though, because the helicopter is currently stuck in the lattice of tower two.

[Kennifer]

wwell for a powwer source somethin efficient and reliable thats not goin to make a lot a pollution wwould probably be ideal
is the sun here really strong durin the day like the one on alternia because if it is ill set up a bunch a lightwweight solar panels connected to somethin thatll store the powwer for night
hook the wwhole bit up to a generator til i can get the fuckin solar panels up there and installed then swwitch it ovver savvin the generator as backup if wwevve got a lot a clouds and shitty wweather

and wwell ivve nevver been much of a mountain climber wwhere i livve on alternia theres no need for me to be cause its mostly midbloods that livve in that kind a terrain but maybe wwith the right harnesses and picks and safety equipment and shit i can get up there wwithout breakin anythin hell ill use my scarf as a climbin rope if i havve to but i hope i dont cause its stylish as shit

wwell great more climbin shit i wwish i had those stupid lookin rocket shoes vvris found that one time but there back in one a her big loot hoards so im just goin to use the ladders and keep the safety equipment just in case I slip or somethin

and then ill just try to pick the lock on the door to get in and get those printouts and if that doesnt wwork ill just shoot the fuckin lock off and get in that wway
ill keep the printouts safe and dry in my sylladex or somethin if i can
barring that ill tuck them in my clothes behind my cape that ought to keep them dry til i get them back
might get a bit wwrinkled if i got to do it that wway but they should still be readable