Sorry, Your Earl Is In Another Basement

[misterblackbird]

Hello everyone!

Caru here--yes, Cain-mun--and, as you may know, Cain is, at present, kidnapped (I ♥ commas). That's the point of this post: Cain has been kidnapped by Mr. Gabriel Corpseblight (lovely fellow, really) and there are now a lot of people sort of tangentially involved besides Cain and Gabe (HWK, Rosella, the City Police, Riff, Cain's

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[dude_imbatman]

As you mentioned, the police are looking for Cain. I would like for Dean to be in on the rescue/finding thing whatever if it's not too much of a thing. If it is, no worries, he'll just settle for looking without having found him.

[misterblackbird]

It shouldn't be too much of a thing--I knew the City Police were on the case (thanks, He-Who-Kills ;~; you're the best), so it only makes sense to have Dean involved in this to end.

I'm not 100% sure what Rosella- and Riff-mun's plans are re: logs or posts (I think they're planning something of a log at least for Rosella and Riff encountering each other). But I think it should be immensely do-able for Dean to join in on the actual rescue event.

Did I really typo Dean's name as "Dead"??? GJ ME.

[dude_imbatman]

Sounds great. I'll look out for it and see what I can do

LMAO well he does spend a lot of his time in canon dead so....it works?

[misterblackbird]

All right, fantastic. There's some other details getting hammered out further down in this post, so you might want to poke in there too.

[he_who_kills]

HWK is staying put at the Opera House to guard it and in case Cain gets home.

[misterblackbird]

Bless you, HWK ;~;

[primrosella]

Okay, so here's a twist (that is also hopefully not a wrench in anyone's plans), re: what goes down in the actual rescue:

If Cain is being kept in a basement that smells like a graveyard, I think that could probably easily fit the bill of "a dank, dark place"--which means one trick Rosella would almost certainly think to pull is using her sleep powder to cast "Causing a Deep Sleep". It would involve a little acorn dust getting chucked around and everyone except her (including Cain--sorry, little stormcloud!) dropping into a deep sleep that would last...probably about an hourish? Granted, I don't know how that might affect Gabe and whatever flavor of undead he might be, but Rosella would assume it's a surefire way of knocking out any potential villains who might be lingering around, so I feel like she'd try it as a precaution.

Of course, the problem there would be keeping any other rescuers (Riff, Dean, etc?) from getting caught up in it, and if it proves more trouble than it's worth, I can always scrap the idea entirely. But it's a

[misterblackbird]

Just a sleepy little stormcloud~

[forourqueen]

That graveyard thing is ttly his fault. Not even old spice covers up zombie odor.

Gabe doesn't need to sleep and I don't think his animated state would be too sensitive to any sleeping spells or powders (in game, Forsaken has a skill called 'Will of the Forsaken' which negates all stun and sleep effects) BUT this is another world and he might end up groggy from it. Either way, he'll slip into invisibility and just... look. Because he's a creepy bastard.

[primrosella]

So as far as Gabe's involvement in the general rescue scenario is concerned, you're mostly aiming for a very low profile with no immediate repercussions? I know you mentioned that he's going to watch who comes and potentially enact payback later, but I'm curious what, if any, damage you're willing to let him suffer in exchange, since that'll have an effect on how the structure of the rescue actually plays out.

[forourqueen]

If anyone wants to plot further with Gabriel coming for payback, I'm up for it!

Other than that, things are as Cain-mun says. He's got some sneaky traps around that do not affect him since he cannot feel pain, such as sharp door handles that would cut into palms and razors hidden in floor cracks to slice open shoes or bare feet.

Just enough to make possible home invaders curse and whine so that he can hear them and GTFO.

Yes, this dick won't even fight. He'll just turn invisible.