2024-08-30 08:38:48Mohammad Rafiq:
Session 11 Scene 7 Draft
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Once the cake was devoured, the atmosphere shifted. Arche cleared her throat, her smile fading slightly as she glanced at her friends. “I might need your help with something later,” she began, telling them about the rally for Anderson Ortlinde for his upcoming gubernatorial re-election. She planned to use this public appearance to reconnect with her estranged father.
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Obviously, her friends agreed to help her, accompanying her to the rally, which was to be held after school. After a quick breakfast, the group headed to school, planning to meet straight afterwards at the rally.
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Obviously, her friends agreed to help her, accompanying her to the rally, which was to be held after school. After a quick breakfast, the group headed to school, planning to meet straight afterwards at the rally.
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## Arriving at the Rally
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- As the afternoon sun rises over the district of the Core, the team arrives at the Ortlinde Youth Home where Anderson Ortlinde, the governor of Ilrinia and Arche's father, is set to hold his rally for his gubernatorial re-election. The team has bought more formal clothing for themselves, to prevent them having to show up to the rally in their normal combat attire or their school attire.
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- Zel'eon is wearing a white jacket, and has installed white plating over his prosthetics, and is wearing simple black trousers with combat boots. Senzorin has picked up a proper tailored suit, with a black tie, but still keeps his cowboy hat and trench coat over it. Arche is also wearing a nice tailored suit, but wears sunglasses and a mask out of worry that her dad will recognise her. Saziver is also in a three piece navy suit, and stands anxiously waiting to go in.
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- The Ortlinde Youth Home was set up by Anderson Ortlinde a few years ago, during when Arche ran away from home. Outside are a bunch of street vendors already hawking their wares and street food due to the large turnout of Ilrinians attending the rally, showing Governor Ortlinde's popularity.
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- On the front facade of the building are two large banners saying "Vote Ortlinde!" with a large stylised depiction of Governor Ortlinde above them, showing a pale elf with black hair and vaguely Caucasian features.
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- The team heads into the rally, where they see a large multipurpose hall, already filled with throngs of people. At the far end of the hall, they see a stage set up with a speaking lectern, with the governor nowhere to be seen yet. Large glass windows are installed on each of the long walls on either side of the hall. At the front of the crowd are reporters and journalists ready to document the rally.
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- Arche starts getting nervous, telling the rest of the group, "Guys, I'm kind of getting second thoughts." The group briefly discusses with her if perhaps they could transmit a message to Governor Ortlinde to get him to meet her privately, or have Arche stay in the car, but since they don't want to disrupt the rally, they decide to just stay there and wait it out.
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- Saziver decides to try and hack into the building's security to see what he can find out. He uses his AR glasses that he has previously made as his screens, and begins typing in midair, engrossed in his own world. The rest of the group move to surround him, trying to not let anyone see the gnome furiously typing into nothing.
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- Saziver hacks into the surveillance crystals that are monitoring the hall and its backstage. As he flips through the crystal camera feeds to get to the backstage, he notices something peculiar; there is an above average number of wood elves at this rally. Normally, there would be around 1% of wood elves in any given setting, matching the population percentage of the city, but nearly 10% of the rally's attendance are wood elves. He also notices that the wood elves seem to be wearing ill-fitting suits.
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- For now, Saziver flips to the crystal camera feed of the backstage, seeing Governor Ortlinde with his wife, Aurora Ortlinde, Arche's mother. She is a sun elf woman with bright blonde hair and golden skin and golden eyes, but is sitting on a wheelchair, motionless and completely non-responsive to her husband patting her back.
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- Anderson Ortlinde, on the other hand, while nominally a sun elf, does not look like a sun elf. He has jet black hair, with pale, silvery skin, and grey eyes, wearing a bright blue three piece suit, matching the colours of the Council of Aenyrathia.
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- Saziver tries to use his psionic abilities to find out the emotional state of Aurora, but fails as she is too far away. However, through the crystal camera feed, he feels a slight connection. He attempts to reach through his device, and succeeds, casting his psionic ability through his network into Aurora's mind, and finds a deep dark mind full of pure depression; not sadness, but a complete apathy to everything and a lack of emotion, surrounding a ball of emotion deep in her mind that has been locked away.
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- The rest watch as Saziver unwittingly begins to shed a tear before he pulls away from Aurora's mind. Communicating what he found to the rest of the group, Arche confirms that his mother has been in that non-responsive state since her little brother was kidnapped a decade prior. "She completely withdrew from everything, stopping talking to me or my dad, even not eating or drinking anything for a while.". The rest try to reassure Arche, telling her her mother would be happy to see her, but Arche doubts it.
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- Saziver watches as a sun elf woman walks up to Governor Ortlinde backstage, and says something to him that Saziver can't see as her back is turned. However, the governor nods, standing up and straightening his tie before walking out from view of the crystal camera feed.
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- The group watches as Governor Ortlinde steps out onto the stage. Cameras begin flashing and reporters start standing up and asking him questions, but he silences them with a raised hand, flashing a smile and stepping up to the podium as the room falls quiet.
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- "Citizens of Ilrinia. It is a pleasure to see you once again and I welcome you to the start of this race for re-election that I am participating in once again. I am here as a proven governor for Ilrinia, and I hope you have enjoyed my first term. I have reduced homelessness, improved education, provided free lunches to every child in Ilrinia, and opened this beautiful place of family," gesturing around at the Youth Home, Governor Ortlinde begins his speech as the people in the room cheer and applaud.
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- Saziver notices, still watching the crystal camera feed, that the only people not applauding are the wood elves he noticed before in the ill-fitting suits.
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- The governor continues his speech, discussing his contributions to Ilrinian society, as Saziver notices one of the wood elves, who is standing very close to them directly in front, a lion maned wood elf, begin to reach into his pocket. The other wood elves around the hall also reach into their pockets, and all of them take out these small glass spherical globes fileld with a swirling mist.
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- Panicking, Saziver quickly tells the group something big is about to go down and to get ready, and watches as the wood elves crush their orbs in their fists, releasing a green gas that begins to slowly spread around the hall.