Run, run, follow me [Open Mingle]

[saveournpcs]

Date: Saturday, 4.1.2020
Characters: OPEN

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I.

It's midday when trouble seems to brew underfoot. Literally underfoot, in cases - wherever the Numbered are, they'll suddenly find dormice approaching them, running around their feet, in some cases up their legs, aiming to get their attention, and then running off - coming back again, running off once more in the same direction.

Trying to get the Numbered to FOLLOW.


II.

If Numbered decide to follow the mice, they'll be lead through the streets, fields, or whatever there is (in some cases, this might mean that the mice are trying to lead them through the military area aroudn the air base). Perhaps they'll run into other Numbered on the way - all mice seem to be leading those that they lead into the exact same direction.


III.

The direction of, it turns out, the tunnels under the cliffs. The mice will easily slip through the grates that bar the entries - the grates were made to keep humans out and let a tiny mice through easily. The Numbered, however... well, the grates were installed solid and sturdy to keep humans out. The mice will vanish in the tunnels and not come back.

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III

[runs]

"I know where to get in," a young voice announces somewhere at his elbow, and when he looks down kitty stands next to him, grinning.

Sure, she's only here under duress because she got bribed because someone told her and on top of that offered her ice cream if she helped out (which she probably would have done anyway because it sounds like fun but she's going to accept payment for her services quite happily anyway). But she's here now, anyway, and she's going to do her job of showing people inside.

"...I'm not surprised the mice don't know that this doesn't work. They're not very bright, mice ar- OUCH." And that would be a mouse having heard the insult and snuck up her leg to bite her in retaliation.

[scarsolderthanyou]

"That's what you get for insulting very intelligent mice," Sam says loftily. "All right, which way, kiddo? And make sure it's big enough for me." He might be a beanpole, but he is a tall beanpole. And also very old and liable to hurt himself contorting into small spaces.

[runs]

She glares at him. "That was totally unwarranted! I didn't try to bite anyone here!"

More seriously, though. She studies him, trying to compare some options not just to his size but also his age and how he's probably not very bendy anymore. "...Would you rather climb or rather have to stoop low?"

[scarsolderthanyou]

Since the bite of a mouse is tiny compared to anything else, Sam is not going to bother arguing. "Climb," he says easily. It's not like heights bother him. And he has more than enough strength, these days, to haul himself around, so long as he's careful about it.

He frowns at her, though, and asks, "Why not just go through the main public entrance? I'm sure between us we could get through the gate."

[runs]

"Because there's security cameras at the official entrances. And they're all grated." So on top of there being a barrier in place, they might well get watched as they break them. The cameras didn't use to be there, but with all the events of recent months and years they were installed.

[scarsolderthanyou]

"Grates aren't a problem, I can get those off." Probably. "I guess cameras probable are." Sigh. "All right, let's see your climbing route, Kitty."

[runs]

She flashes him a grin. As much as she'd love to see him tear a grate off, she's sure she'll have the chance to see him do a similar feat later.

Right now getting in unhindered will be more important.

She leads him a different route from where she led everyone else, up the Greens and then towards the seaside. "If you climb down about three metres here, you'll find a hole that's big enough to slide in there. Inside the tunnel is an adult's standing height."