VLDR: Convention of the Minds - WORST ENDING

[Knockoff]

Abner hesitates.

I...don’t believe it is a plan that will succeed. I can’t die here. There are too many things I must do before that. If everyone else agrees to go for this one in a million miracle, then perhaps I...

I don’t know. I can’t see a way the plan succeeds if it simply consists of trying to rush the backrooms.

[Hawkwing425]

It seems like the group's two options are the coalition and Tom's plan.

[Cyantic]

... Yeah. I don't want to sit around and wait to die.

[PolyesterHomes]

I'd like those joining operation 'Fish and Chips in a Barrel' to DM me as confirmation of their intentions. I'd also recommend creating a plan.

[Hawkwing425]

What do the rest of you think?

[Cyantic]

Shop and Commons are viable - if you can get into Surplus, that should be viable as well. Risky, but viable. If we make it deep enough into Commons, there'll be bullet proof vests for all of us in storage. Tasers, too. Put that together, we can equip all of us fairly well.

[Hawkwing425]

What about the massive pile of gasoline canisters in Commons?

[Cyantic]

Don't set 'em off.

[leeten]

Could just move em. Blow the joint sky high.

[Cyantic]

I suppose we might be able to get the elevator shaft open if we could get that. I'm not sure how well gasoline explodes, but... if we can get the elevator shaft open, it's just a scramble to the surface. Damn elevator doesn't even have to work - just have to get the maintenance grate open. We'll have to fashion some bedsheet rope or whatever, but doable.

We just have to get to the good stuff.

[Hawkwing425]

...ugh. I don't... I don't know. This has such a high risk of death... I don't want to see any of you die. But if not everyone agrees to the coalition, at least 3 of you so far- Tom, Peter, and Joan- you're going to try to break this place wide open. And I'm going back to that train of thought I had earlier, what if they just have bombs loaded into this place? Or poison gas? Or something we can't reasonably defend against? Not to mention, how many people does Johnson have at his disposal?

I'm not saying I don't want to help you, but I am saying that it may be as effective as trying to fight your shadow. Except it has more lethal consequences.

I don't know...

[Phinerxen]

We could try and get some of the shopkeepers to join us, just depends on the right people and the right words. I dunno how well the elevator shaft would work, but with the right equipment, it shouldn't be too hard.

[Hawkwing425]

I need to think about this. I'm actually not sure.

[Cyantic]

If we don't have a better plan, this is it. I don't want to wait and let us all get picked off one by one. First it'll be me, Doc. And then maybe it'll be Peter. And so on and so forth until he finds someone as insane as he is.

We need maybe ten people to make this work - numbers are all we have at the moment. Overwhelm them, even if they can hear us. Different angles of attack, vary it up.

[Phinerxen]

I doubt he has this place decked out; if he had the resources, he'd be using them a bit more than usual. Maybe he does have some goons, though, but that's when the equipment comes in. If we're able to split up and attack different places, it shouldn't be too hard to make it a success.

[Hawkwing425]

I-I... I know, I know the clock is ticking, I just- half of us here are being so quiet about it...

[Phinerxen]

Just let them make their own choices and think it out. As long as a good majority agrees and contributes, it should be fine.

[Hawkwing425]

...That's not a lot of time to think it out.

[Phinerxen]

Maybe not! But the clock's ticking! And none of you want to die, after all.

[Knockoff]

Well. I suppose I’ll be sticking around for the next strategic decision after all. But if all goes well, I somehow doubt Johnson will be able to run it.

[Cyantic]

Well, that's not enough time with some of these people loitering about...

[Knockoff]

If all goes well, do call for help, yeah? I assume the facility won’t explode once you leave, or anything crazy like that. I don’t know if anyone will be keeping me company here and I’d rather not be the only one here for too long.

[Cyantic]

Call for help from... whom? It's kinda safe to assume they'd just purge anyone that's left. If there's anyone that's left. If we can, I'll try and round up something and come back for you, Abner.

I can't make it a promise, though. Much can happen.

[Cyantic]

Plus, also, civil war.

[Knockoff]

You don’t need to make it a promise. If it looks too dicey, just wash your hands of it.