If God Was In Hell We Would All Be Dead [OPEN | MINGLE]

[inconsequence]

Who: Who wants to kill some slavers? You do! Of course you do!
When: May 15th and onwards
Where: Slave trade outpost in the Runoff
What: The slavers that targeted the crew of the Moira in July are overdue for some justice. Chara breaks some regulations to make that happen. THIS IS A MINGLE LOG; anyone and everyone who wants to get in on this and kill some slavers is absolutely free to do so! Chara is relying on there being some chaos for this to work.
Warnings: PROBABLE DEATH. Probable references to slavery, trauma, and also death. Chara.


The Ingress opens to a spilling wash of gray and white, a monochrome cast of shadows and hard angles. The Runoff, it seems, is not a place of many colors; every inch of it is drab and washed out, cold and impersonal as the people who would employ such a place for their own twisted ends. A swirled nebula of stars glimmers overhead. It is night.

Knives are useful tools, but their reach is limited. A quiet transmission to the network, a select few messages delivered to a select few individuals, the hissing strike of a match igniting on the edge of a box. The place is angular and looks to be comprised of some sort of galactic equivalent of asphalt, likely inflammable. Still, it is entirely too dark. Too gray. Too poorly maintained. Tents and shabby establishments line the streets, places where, evidently, personal agency may be bought and sold on a whim.

It does not take long to find a structure of cloth and wood, and the whole of it soon emanates the rank, coppery tang of some interdimensional brand of gasoline.

Knives are useful tools. But they did not come with knives.

Or rather, they did not come only with knives.

One of the stalls is alight in a matter of moments. Red and gold tongues of flame gobbling the establishment whole, filling the place with both the color and light that it so lacked. Knobs of wood harvested from the wreckage form handy torches to set anything else aflame, to thoroughly raze the entire area to the ground, every stall and ship and vendor that supported and enabled the inflorescence of slave trafficking and slave keeping. Armed guards begin to converge on the disturbance at once. But small as said disturbance is, there is no guarantee that it will not come to grow.

That is, of course, where you come in.

One child alone cannot possibly take the entire place down, and flame can only take things so far. It is hardly enough when their aim is one of total destruction, however unrealistic an expectation that might be. They'll need help. Lots of it.

So won't you join the dance?

Comments

[otiosity]

Thirsty?

Oh no. I'm fine. Thanks for asking.

[FRONTING SO HARD YOU DONT EVEN KNOW SHE COULD FRONT YOU THAT HARD.]

[lavelly]

[Uhhhhh-huh. He trails his fingers down the edge of his staff like he's bored.]

One might think you were personally invested.

[If they didn't know better.]

[otiosity]

I was there.

Which is more than can be said of... [She makes a show of looking around at all the people.] Pretty much everyone else.

I wonder what their excuse is.

[lavelly]

[Lavellan shrugs carelessly, still acting like he's inspecting his staff.]

I couldn't say. For my part, I figure, if I couldn't do anything about the slavers that liked to go after my clan, and others...

Well, maybe I can do something about these. [He finally looks her in the eye.] You're not opposed, are you?

[otiosity]

Be my guest, by all means.

[She gestures to the outside like it's some kind of grand ball room to go inspect. But when he catches her eyes they seem unusually cold and harsh. The deep blue becomes unsettling instead of enchanting.]

Just don't get caught. And aim for the ships.