Sending out an SOS

[redjacketthief]

Who: Farmland Defenders and YOU.
What: Tourists are causing problems.
When: August 29, Morning.
Where: The Farm.
Summary: The farm has been raided by the Kin'corians--Aid is needed STAT.
Rating: KC for those troublesome Kin'corians!


[Intentional Audio Message:]

Attention Luceti.

Assistance is needed immediately at the farms to the northwest of the village. We have hostiles and--

[The oddly cool, clipped tone that the message was given suddenly breaks off into a heated bark.] Putain de merde!

[There's a rustle of pages and the sound of bodies colliding, followed more swearing in French.

The feed cuts out.

Hurry, Luceti.]

Comments

[neversurrender]

[Some of the crowd seems to be calming down, but not nearly enough to make things more relaxed. Steve is starting to think nothing they say will make a difference at this point. He turns to Mercury and speaks low.]

I don't think this is going to work.

[geniustheveil]

[She's quick to see it, too. What should she do? Most ways she has of protecting this place might not work with her powers in disarray - using her ice to pause the people without hurting them, or forming a barrier with the other senshi if they were here.

Unfortunately, as she becomes agitated, her feet rise gently off the ground. It's only been a few days since she returned from the Malnosso, and she's still not fully used to what they've done.

If she's lucky, it might at least create a distraction- could she lead these people somewhere else, if they thought they were chasing her?]

[neversurrender]

[Steve watches as she rises further off the ground. He doesn't know anything about her powers, so he assumes this is normal for her.]

Do you have any ideas?

[geniustheveil]

[She keeps her voice low. At this point, it seems the best option - unless he has other ideas.]

We split up and lead them away from here. Somewhere they can't do any harm.

[neversurrender]

[He considers her plan for a long moment and then nods. It sounds like the best shot they have.]

Lead them towards the village. There's more people there keeping everyone safe. We'll have more back-up there.

[geniustheveil]

[At first, she worries that's also bringing hostile people to a place they can do even more damage - to stores, even houses. Raiding. But then she realizes Steve is right: there'll be more people to help, there, and the resources will have a better chance of being divided fairly, proving their good intent. She nods.]

I'm going, then!

[She hurries closer to the people, making her way carefully towards the village even as she seems to give up ground.]

[neversurrender]

[He adjusts his shield onto his forearm, making sure it won't slip off if he has to make a run for it. Although he has no doubt he could probably out-run a majority of these people.

He gives Mercury a nod.] Gook luck. And be careful!

[And then he's taking off in another direction, luring the other half of the crowd away from the farm.]

[geniustheveil]

[A few of the crowd - more than a few, she notes a bit nervously - grumble that they won't let her run away. They start to close in.

Good. She won't make it easy. She, too, is fast, more than she's ever been strong, and her mobility isn't much impaired by the power dampening.]