Sneaky Spycraft, Week 14, Period 5

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Once everyone had arrived in the Danger Shop, Aly started talking.  The lecture today was on poisons and some of their common effects.  It was one of the longer lectures, taking up not quite half of the class time.

Once she was done talking, Aly glanced at the class to make sure they were watching then hit the play button on the scenario and suddenly the hall was filled with people.  Servants walked in and out carrying dishes of delicious looking food and carafes of wine while a loud and rich-looking group of people dined at the high table, toasting each other and commenting happily on the food - and the servants - as it was paraded by.  It was, in short the same scenario as they'd used two weeks ago.

She hit the button again and everyone in the scenario disappeared except the girl on the dais.  "If you haven't figured it out already," Aly said quietly.  "We're coming at this from a different angle today.  Today your orders are to take this girl out without drawing suspicion to you or your faction.  Poison is underhanded - it's called 'the woman's weapon' in several countries because it's considered dishonourable - but it is used because it works."  Aly glanced around the room, gauging reactions.  "So today your task is to work either alone or with a partner to devise a strategy to take down the Queen on the dais.  Remember all the precautions we talked about two weeks ago?  Assume that the Queen has more than a few bodyguards watching out for her and for any attempts to hurt her and factor that into your calculations."

"Any questions?" she glanced around, answering all that came up.  "Go to then.  I'm around if you want to hash out ideas or discuss."

[OOC:  Please wait for the OCD]

Comments

Sign in

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Sneakily!

Re: Sign in

[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

Re: Sign in

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely Booth

Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

As you do.

Re: Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[intraspective]

...

...

She could do this. Ino liked this assignment. Oh yes.

Re: Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Dōjima began taking notes, trying to figure out how to achieve the mission. This was going to be interesting!

Re: Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka stared at Aly. What kind of assignment was THIS? Not very honorable, THAT was for sure.

Although what that had to do with women, he wasn't sure. Most women (in his sheltered, still somewhat chauvinistic worldview) didn't have the CAPACITY for being despicably dishonorable that the average man did.

He raised his hand. "She IS evil, right?"

Re: Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke looked really, really taken aback by this assignment.

Re: Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara took copious notes, deciding to write in Chinese for this particular lesson so she could add annotations without most people becoming suspicious.

Questions, Comments, Concerns.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Go here.

Re: Questions, Comments, Concerns.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Excuse me," Triela raised her hand, "Does she need to die at the banquet itself, or could the poison be introduced somewhere else after she leaves?"

Re: Questions, Comments, Concerns.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I'm not going to do this." Billy said matter of factly. "If that effects my grade, okay."

Devise Your Strategy

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Working either alone or pair up.

Re: Devise Your Strategy

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel looked a little uncomfortable with the whole situation but sat down to work on a plan.

Re: Devise Your Strategy

[intraspective]

Ino? Ino might've been humming a little, okay a lot, as she glanced around to see if anyone wanted to partner with her.

She pretty much knew what she wanted to do already, but it'd be more fun to collaborate. Yes.

Re: Devise Your Strategy

[sound-loyalty.livejournal.com]

Kabuto was tempted to take the easy way out. Exploding tags were incredibly useful, and he highly, highly doubted any of the supposed bodyguards could catch him...

Re: Devise Your Strategy

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sighing, Sokka got to work.

His FIRST option, of course, was to hire an assassin in some way that couldn't be traced back to him. People should be killed by cold steel.


But he began devising an elaborate strategy based on the complicated dance of dishes, a multi-part poison, and its antidote, so that one person could put a different component into each dish at just the right time and end up with everyone at the table becoming a little bit sick, but only the Queen dying.

Re: Devise Your Strategy

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve was totally in the mood for a partner, but at the moment, she was drawing up plans.

Re: Take Notes or Listen to the Lecture

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

No really, subtle wasn't his thing. Though, he supposed he could arrange for his uncle to cater to the event and then he would poison the tea. It was a plan, but not exactly one Zuko felt entirely comfortable with.

Maybe just setting the hall on fire would work.

Re: Devise Your Strategy

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara started working out a strategy, wondering if it would be more effective to lace the queen's clothes with a poison instead. After all, anyone could eat the food and tasters were common.

Yes, she would do that. A poison that soaked into the skin through fabric, hopefully over the course of repeated wearings. That way, she'd be able to be in another system by the time the queen actually died.

Talk to the TAs

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

When they ping in.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

This sounded like something that his sister would come up with, so Zuko wasn't all too sure what Aly was thinking right now.

Talk to Aly

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Who is here.

OOC

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

La and la.

If characters are uncomfortable and need to talk to Aly about the assignment, she's totally expecting that. If they want to come up with different ways that don't use poison, totally cool too.

Re: OOC

[atreideslioness]

My love for this class continues to know no bounds.