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Oct. 25th, 2014 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_aliceThanks to the hard work of our Octoboros group, we've got a plan to weaken and potentially take down that set of wards (leaving us with additional wards to take down, naturally, but it's a start). They've been working out many possible scenarios, and I gather the best one will be to place the stolen Octoboros in a central location along two key leys, place a Fidelius around it, and use runes to link it with the rest of the network. I gather there are a few possible outcomes (including a small possibility the wards could come down altogether due to an energy surge), but regardless, our having a stone networked with the rest gives us a greater degree of control over things and would allow us to eventually dismantle the network from within. This method is the safest, both from a security risk, and from the standpoint of unanticipated side-effects due to powerful surges of magic.
Cecelia, Jeremy, Siz, Sarah, and Evelyn have done an incredible amount of work leading up to this moment, and they have depended heavily on the data collected on our many flying missions -- a hearty thanks to everyone who got on their brooms over the past year to track leys and gather readings.
We'll need some spare hands to help place the stone and stand guard while we perform the Fidelius. As many of us as can be spared can come to Moddey on the evening of the 27th for a quick mission.
Seeing as how we'll have several of us in one place, we can also take the opportunity to more widely distribute the secrets for the Argleton and Inverary farms. Kingsley, Poppy, you'll be happy to hear that Regina's finished her assessment and has given a very positive report on Argleton's crop capacity and has already started preparing them for an aggressive winter harvest, which will lessen the strain of providing supplements for Inverary. I know Inverary's stores aren't quite as robust as they will be next June, Molly, but I hope it's a start to helping your Alpaca problem. And Lee, love, I'm hoping things have been going smoothly on your end.
Cecelia, Jeremy, Siz, Sarah, and Evelyn have done an incredible amount of work leading up to this moment, and they have depended heavily on the data collected on our many flying missions -- a hearty thanks to everyone who got on their brooms over the past year to track leys and gather readings.
We'll need some spare hands to help place the stone and stand guard while we perform the Fidelius. As many of us as can be spared can come to Moddey on the evening of the 27th for a quick mission.
Seeing as how we'll have several of us in one place, we can also take the opportunity to more widely distribute the secrets for the Argleton and Inverary farms. Kingsley, Poppy, you'll be happy to hear that Regina's finished her assessment and has given a very positive report on Argleton's crop capacity and has already started preparing them for an aggressive winter harvest, which will lessen the strain of providing supplements for Inverary. I know Inverary's stores aren't quite as robust as they will be next June, Molly, but I hope it's a start to helping your Alpaca problem. And Lee, love, I'm hoping things have been going smoothly on your end.
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Date: 2014-10-26 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-10-26 01:43 pm (UTC)Bloody hell, what a tremendous leap it will be if we can knock out that ward. Well done, Octoboros team.
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Date: 2014-10-26 04:13 pm (UTC)On the other thing, we're mostly just trying to find a date now, around the last bits of harvest and things.
Um. Everyone else, we're sort of coordinating a conversation, conference, something like that, between the different places. Some people are right touchy, not that they don't have reason to be, but we're hoping if everyone actually gets to see each other and talk a bit, it'll be easier. So some of it's going to be talking about who wants to swap this thing for that thing, but some of it also about different ways of making decisions, and what that means for trading and all and how things are going.
Wayne and I've also mostly worked out a sort of round robin courier system, to help get notes from one place to another more reliably. We're currently trying it by alphabet (Aldrich to Argleton, Argleton to Bedford, like that, with Wayne and me being at opposite points in the chain) but it's an awful long way from Bedford to Inverary, so we might try a different order. (Only then it's hard to keep track of how fast something's going to get somewhere.) And it means they see both of us about once a week, and we figure that's not a bad thing, right?