07-22-2023, 01:30:35 AM
Operation as conducted by Cpt. Frankenstein
- Concern and offers of drink for the Defenders go well, defending the Needle's surface portion gets boring, and when you're Protectorate Hostages, even more so. Even some Alliance guards are drawn away too, leaving the Needle loosely guarded enough that you can slip away while they're all distracted and/or drugged into ineffectiveness, and take the elevator to the lower levels.
- You disguise yourself as an Alliance Hand-Harvester, with a crop basket with your personal clothes hidden in it. You do end up having to hide them under a layer of tomatoes so as not to look suspiciously non-busy, but overall this works fine and you get to the locked door.
- Your on-the-spot thinking is... certainly something. You have neither paints nor any clear way to get them without leaving the agriculture center and going to a hardware center to pick up paint, so you end up having to make tomato paste in a blender and paint the walls with that. It's certainly striking and very Anti-Sendri, but it's going to be easy to clean up.
- Your insinuations only excite her more, the guard clearly thinks she can get something more out of you since you've implied there's an even higher-up person for her to target... she nearly draws her broadsword to start actually threatening you, but then she realizes the politically expedient thing to do is to find you next time and build trust. You escape, but it was closer than I'm sure you'd really have liked.
Operation as conducted by Cpt. Columbo
- I have no idea how you fit a billion dollars into a briefcase. A billion dollars is a lot of money, even in the highest denominations available, it weighs several tons, and is bigger than a tank. Yet somehow, you fit that all into the briefcase. Your briefcase of localized economic and physics crises is far too heavy to lift, and bulges and creaks ominously. The guards look suspiciously at the briefcase on a push cart you're slowly wheeling down the street with a forklift. It's obviously dangerous. You try to offer it as a bribe, but when one opens it to see what the bribe looks like, the high-pressure cash explodes outwards, smashing against the unyielding walls, pouring through open doors, bending metal, and killing one of the soldiers instantly. It's certainly a distraction, anyway, though not exactly what you were looking for.
- You use the chaos above to get into the farms, and give a more reasonably-sized bribe to one of the workers, a particularly disgruntled young avian, who immediately ignites the wheat field. The fire rips through the underground farms, filling the top of the building with thick smoke. You, however, are descending, so you avoid the worst of it. An excellent plan.
- Using your few hours, you attempt to provoke a riot. Against all odds, you, a mere captain with little influence and even less name recognition somehow manage to talk a few guards into halfheartedly killing a commanding officer and another guard who they don't particularly like... which they fail to cover up, three of them are killed immediately in the ensuing skirmish, and the survivor says that a captain "wearing a yellow shirt or something" was dissenting in exchange for a less bad penal colony assignment. At least they didn't get your name.
- The guard smirks, takes your bribe, checks and counts the money, and lets you go. Smug: "Nice doing business with you."