Chapter Four: I Make A Game Plan.

[olympicswimmer]

[ Today, the doors to the high school gym are closed, with a sloppily written Secret basketball strategy meeting note taped to them. Inside, there are no drones, just school-aged kids. ]

Okay, today I want to figure out some basic stuff. First, what have people tried to get out of here? Second, what's the most dangerous stuff that happens here?

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Comments

[perfektsymmetry]

Personally, I'm not sure what plans people have had to get out, since they never seem to get far, I'm afraid. As for dangerous... Westport was pretty bad, a-as well as the Soviet town...

[olympicswimmer]

What sort of dangerous? Brainwashing dangerous or Godzilla dangerous?

[perfektsymmetry]

The latter, I'm afraid. There was a-a lot of death, people getting severely injured... when did you arrive here? Where you here when the man from the Soviet town was on the loose in Mayfield...?

[olympicswimmer]

That's a good thing. Monsters are easier to take down than magic.

[pants_yourmove]

"Um, I only know about a vampire. Who said he would get me if I told people about him so please don't all go looking for him or at least don't say it was me..

Otherwise I don't know anything dangerous. Also, you can't leave on foot, at least not by the streets."

[olympicswimmer]

Vampires. Great.

I guess I should have asked about the most dangerous things.

[pants_yourmove]

"Oh. I don't know. They warned me about The Police, The Mayor, The Postman and the Post office. Oh yeah and the Milkman.

Also a family called the Smiths."

[olympicswimmer]

What do they do?

[the_wee_big_hag]

[Totally dropped by to see what that rather strange sign was about.]

Well city Hall's been invaded a few times. Or attempted to be invaded.

And for most dangerous. Well aside from killing. They turned everyone against each other for a while framing murders on "monsters" that had taken some of our places. And of course what I heard from Westport is also quite bad.

[olympicswimmer]

Who did the invading?

[the_wee_big_hag]

Someone named Sideswipe did it more recently. I'm not sure of the other times. Apparently he had some sort of giant....machine? I'm not really sure. You'd have to ask him.

[olympicswimmer]

Sounds like a plan. Is he in school?

[bogusmagicker]

[Oh hey.
Remember that girl who failed spectacularly when she tried to help you out of the pond?
You probably don't want to invite her, but she's here anyway. In the corner. Silent. And staring.]

[olympicswimmer]

You gonna add anything?

[bogusmagicker]

. . . What would you desire to be added?

[olympicswimmer]

Whatever you know about this place that could help us get out.

[truebravery]

[Neville's always wanted to try muggle sports. He sucks at magical ones after all. But finding out that this is a resistance meeting is awesome. He's been running his own for the last half year at his own school :D

He'll be listening VERY INTENTLY to what everyone has to share.]

I'm guessing just walking out of here isn't possible?

[olympicswimmer]

You walk east long enough, eventually you show up on the western side of town.