Downtime #3

[crowmod]

downtime, sept oct 14-28

around the office

The morning after the mission, the mood is high in the office. Friday has brought pumpkin-jelly-filled doughnuts in for breakfast, and even Arden can be caught enjoying one in a private moment. With the thief apprehended, it's easy to feel like the taskforce's hard work is almost done... but any good auror knows to never get complacent.

There's lots to be done between debriefs, interrogations, and investigations, and anyone caught idle or goofing off in the next few days catches an earful from one Oddtree or another. The home stretch is no time to slack off, and neither is Halloween.

the interrogation

The bee animagus thief, whose legal name is Hiro Hunter, has been captured and is appropriately contained in an interrogation room at the Crowbar office (for now). The department has forty-eight hours before they're obligated to hand the thief over to the local authorities, and Eleanor takes this opportunity for interrogation seriously. Five Volunteers have opportunities to interrogate the thief themselves, and may ask one question apiece to be answered (mostly) truthfully.

Eleanor personally interrogates the thief for approximately twelve hours, but isn't forthcoming with the rest of the department about what additional information she may have learned.

the egg

This egg is apparently identical to the one stolen from the National Archive. Its previous owner came by it legitimately in 1998, but decided to offload it after he heard that its twin had been stolen. The Archive has no record of duplicates of the egg, and although Miranda Rutherford vouches that it is not the stolen artifact, the Archive would still like it surrendered to them to examine themselves.

The department has one week before they have to capitulate with the Archive's request, a necessary move to maintain a diplomatic relationship. Before that time, X Quintana is leading a team of Five Volunteers to examine the egg. They may each perform one action on it.

allhalloween

The Department's next mission (on October 29) will be providing extra security for Las Vegas's yearly Allhalloween festival, a week of spooky revelry that takes over the Wizard Strip every October. They'll be working this detail as a personal favor from Eleanor to the mayor of wizarding Vegas, Ramses Bohn, and she asks everyone to take it as seriously as any other mission. To prepare for the festival, Everett takes a cautious approach and puts together a team of volunteers to handle security measures, while Arden hopes to glean some information from Vegas's drunken elite and puts together a team to handle covert measures.

investigation teams

• Eleanor's Team
• Vigilance Pryor
• Amadeus McCracken
• Llewyn Llewellyn
• [Volunteer]
• [Volunteer]

• X's Team
• Verity Fortuin
• Ichabod Godfrey
• Vanya Mordaunt
• Sage Wisecarver
• Camilla Harkaway

• Everett's Team
• Wiley Hellberg
• Francis Darling
• Teagan Oddtree
• Kit Mulholland
• Rory Howlan
• Astrid Weird
• Camilla Harkaway
• Keeley Little

• Arden's Team
• Remora Statler
• Sidney Rucker
• Paloma Oakley
• Byron Thorne
• Indigo Blue
• Sloan Silversmith
• Wendelin Sparks

locations!

⬦ DEBRIEFING: Everyone recap what you learned during the mission and collaborate on what you're up to next.

⬦ INTERROGATION: Volunteers on Eleanor's team can ask questions of the thief here.

⬦ THE EGG: Volunteers on X's team can examine and experiment on the egg here.

⬦ AROUND THE OFFICE: For misc. scenes.

⬦ OOC - VOLUNTEER SLOTS: Eleanor and X's teams are limited to five characters each, Everett and Arden's are open to all (and will have special opportunities later in the downtime contingent on what the first two teams discover!).

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

INTERROGATION

[llewellyngood]

Llewyn hasn't interrogated anyone since his Archangel days; it's been a deliberate choice, as that... isn't exactly in his wheelhouse, presently. Or his list of desires, ever.

Did he stay up all night giving pep talks to a squonkling? Yes. Did he play "Blackbird" on his guitar twelve times because it seemed to soothe said squonkling? Of course. And did he, bleary-eyed, then arrive to work and sign up for the wrong task? Sure did.

How are you feeling today?
Has the weather been treating you well?
Are you from Las Vegas?
What's it like being a bee?
Do you have an escape plan for if you're eaten by a skunk?
Have you learned the bee dances?
What's your favourite flower?

"How many eggs have you been tasked with stealing?"

Re: INTERROGATION

[crowmurder]

"Three," Hiro sighs, their feet kicked up onto the metal table in front of them like they're a punk kid who has detention and not a criminal who has been apprehended by aurors. "And before you ask, no, I have no idea where the third one is."