Starlance

Wizard Mafia (Harry Potter Organized Crime RP)

”Where are you going, Filhota?” The middle-aged woman with prematurely-graying hair asked, looking up from the day’s issue of New York Ghost.
”To a job interview.” Her daughter replied as an enchanted hair brush finished brushing her hair.
”What kind of job?” Maria continued, the Ghost and its daily drivel forgotten.
”Stable and paying?” Alícia replied in jest.
”Yes, but what kind?” The elder Correia pressed on.
”Don’t know, I think it said something about a pole and stilettos, I wasn’t really paying attention.” The younger one shrugged.
”Alícia!” The older woman exclaimed as if scolding her daughter for avoiding her question, not quite managing to hide the eyeroll and smile.
”It’s an entry-level job at a family venture. They mostly deal in hospitality.” The young woman lied, telling herself she wasn’t lying to her mother. Technically she wasn’t, as if that made it any better.
”Hospitality? Like a hotel?” Three things were certain in life: Death, taxes and the persistence of a bored person’s questioning.
”Not quite. I have to go, I’ll get some Pastel on the way back. Até mais!” She tried to end the conversation on a savory note before transforming into a crow and flying out of an open window.

When Alícia received the instructions about where she was supposed to meet Robert Zucco, her first thought was “Must be one hell of a silencing charm on that place if it’s next to Hell’s Kitchen.” Unfortunately, it turned out to refer to a part of New York, not the famous No-Maj - or Muggle, geographically speaking - chef’s restaurant. What a shame, go her hopes up for a good lunch. The crow circled the nearby blocks a few times before diving into an out of sight alleyway. A crow went in the top, a woman came out the side. Before long the sound of cuban heels against the floor heralded Alícia’s arrival to the speakeasy, still with a bit of time to spare by her count. Tall for her nation’s average, clad in a Slytherin green shirt and black jeans, what the No-Majs would call ‘business casual’, and carrying herself as if she naturally belonged there, and technically she did - she had been instructed to be there after all.

She grabbed the drinks menu and turned around to lean against the bar, ostensibly browsing the drinks selection while surveying the patrons. It took her about a minute to see him: Back of the room, tall and generally matching the description. She set down the menu and headed out, eyes fixed on an empty table a few rows beyond Bobby the entire time before making an abrupt stop by his booth. ”Mr. Zucco?” Alícia asked with a polite smile.

DELTΔ HYPER (An F1 Drive to Survive inspired Anti-Gravity, Slice of Life, Cyberpunkish/Solarpunkish RP)

Beatrix Ward

Name: Beatrix Viola Kendal Ward
Alias: Bea (to most people), MadBea (social media tag)
Team: Carrera Condor
Driver Number: 18
Nationality: British
Gender: Female
Age: 20
SPACER

Appearance

SPACER

Image

Beatrix stands at 162 cm (5’4”) and weighs 52 kg (119 lb) with a lean athletic build, frequently making up a few extra centimeters with short-heeled shoes and rarely seen without a smile.
She speaks a mile a minute with an animated, mellifluous voice, talks with her hands almost as much as her mouth and has accidentally hit people standing next to her when gesticulating in the past.
Par for the course, Beatrix has a neural port at the back of her head, allowing her to link directly to the racing craft’s flight computer. She also has a synthetic heart, reinforced spine and had her legs and arms amputated at the hips and shoulders, replacing them with prosthetics to further increase her G-tolerance and movement precision.
Although she doesn’t have any tattoos, she saw her prosthetics as another canvas, with both of her legs covered in artwork of vines with colorful blossoms. Serving as a sort of “wall of fame”, her arms still have a lot of empty space, the right bearing a record of her racing achievements and the left depicting her biggest crashes, DNFs and other hiccups.

Backstory:
A child of Frederick Henry Ward, an industrial mogul and owner of Pridwen Solutions, formerly of aerospace and defense fame currently dealing in agricultural machinery and civilian aerospace, and his corporate lawyer Akela Hawthorne-Ward. Beatrix has been racing since she was six, starting with sailing hydrofoils, graduating to hoverkarts at 10, various British regional Rallye Championships at 14, the European Rallye Championship at 16 and finally the Junior Formula Anti-Gravity series at 17. Despite a double win and regular top five finishes in the regionals and finishing P3 overall in the European Rallye and good results in Junior Formula Anti-Gravity, she didn’t make the cut for any of the Formula AG teams that had seats open for the 2093 season while also out of a drive in the Junior series.

Bea instead spent the year racing limited schedule in the European Rallye Championship with the intent to try for Formula AG again next year while her father greased some wheels behind the scenes. Her signing now granting access to select Pridwen Solutions patented technology for the team, Carrera Condor unceremoniously threw one of their current drivers under the proverbial bus mid-season and announced Beatrix would take his seat next year, after which simulators and advertising for the new team as well as getting used to working with her future race engineer, a former Formula AG multiple race winner whose career had been cut short by an injury ensued.

Personality:
Never one for the ‘proper lady’ thing her dear father hoped for, although obliging him on important occasions to make him happy, Bea is an unfiltered adrenaline junkie, having been interested in racing things on land, sea and air since she was five. Racing isn’t just a hobby for her despite what some detractors claim, having poured her heart and soul into it since her Rallye days. Being very passionate about racing, sometimes she can get a little... overenthusiastic in the cockpit, with some choice words she's had for other drivers or the team's own vehicle over the team radio having secured places in the fans' memories and one or two even ascended to memehood. Bea also has an artistic side, doing her own helmet designs among other things.

Bea sees people who aren’t smiling as a problem that needs to be fixed immediately. An outgoing social creature, she’s made use of her personality and interests to promote civilian and agricultural products of Pridwen Solutions in the past and has been using social media for the past few months to give her audience an entertaining and informative look under the team’s hood, though carefully scrubbed of anything they want to keep under wraps. An excitable ball of inexhaustible energy, getting her to sit still for a 10 minute interview is a feat worthy of legends and no one has yet managed to get her to take one completely seriously.

Racing DNA

Overview: Beatrix likes to take risks, standing out among the competition in Junior Formula AG with deep lunges, late braking and general “full send” racing style even by anti-gravity racing standards. It has led to crashes earlier in her career, but she’s since figured out how most racers react to her suddenly appearing on the inside of a corner and how to take it into account. Coming from a rallying background, she thrives in the low and mid speed corners and is not afraid to get her elbows out and trade paint.
However, she relies heavily on her team for strategy and energy management, something she'll need to learn going forward in the big leagues.

Skills: Bea has a fairly big following for a young racer, owing it mostly to her frequent fan interactions, both in person and online, and her social media presence under the nickname “MadBea” showcasing a bit of the behind the scenes stuff of her racing life, full helmet cam onboards and technical breakdowns. She also has a side channel under the somewhat uninspired name "Bea Draws Stuff" where she showcases her art and does drawing tutorials.

Special Trait: While not an implant or augment per se, Beatrix utilizes a Pridwen Solutions patented liquid breathing and immersion suit. Originally developed for aerospace fighter pilots, Bea's lungs, body cavities and entire hardshell racing suit reminiscent of spacesuits are filled with an oxygen-rich breathing fluid before getting in the cockpit which allows her to withstand sustained G loads in the mid hundreds with little effort.

Controversy : Despite some success in the Junior Formula AG series as well as other racing ventures, many see her as a nepo baby corpo princess whose daddy bought her "a pony" in the form of a race seat and expensive augs and gear.
Some people also take issue with the fact that her family's fortune came from the defense sector, Pridwen Solutions only having pivoted to agricultural machinery and renewable energy when the defense market was about to stall.
But the number one group of people cursing Bea's name and lineage are the fans of Joaquin Ibanez, the driver she replaced at Carrera Condor for the 2094 season, essentially pissing off a sizable chunk of Argentinian racing fans simply by existing.

MISC
Theme Song
Likes: Adrenaline highs, large dogs, singing, sweets.
Dislikes: Dirty racing, two-facedness, liquid breathing.
Other Information:

• Her father is and always will be her number one fan, although her mother is not at all pleased by her choice of career or Frederick's support of such a dangerous endeavor. Bea’s older sister, Evangeline, considers her to be mind-numbingly irresponsible and utterly insane, but that doesn’t get in the way of a good sibling relationship.
• She’s fairly outspoken about her support of employee protections and anti-trust laws, though she can’t resist pointing out Pridwen Solutions workplace safety measures and employee benefits as positive examples which sometimes gets her written off as dressing up advertising for her father’s company as activism.

Recaps

Episode 1: Finding Their Feet

Race: Auckland, New Zealand
Qualified: 15th
Finished: 15th

Qualifying was about what was expected, just one place behind her teammate. Before the race, Amy Stirling approahced Bea at the grid photo with a vague offer of collaboration and offer of a ride home after the race. Her race was not stellar either, losing positions and mostly keeping her place due to large number of DNFs among the field.
Bea took Stirling up on her offer, who explained her idea of using Bea's art for a Highland nature restoration charity/publicity event. In between the races, Bea followed through on the deal with Stirling after consulting with her team’s leadership, opening the door for tech transfer between Silver Apex and Carrera Condor. Other upgrades from the team’s own workshop include a Control Moment Gyroscope, a modified Pridwen Solutions design for agricultural use, set to be deployed in Round Four in Italy. The second upgrade, a new engine has suffered setbacks due to the ship’s insufficient cooling system.

Episode 2: Hunting Apex

Race: Cape Town, South Africa
Qualified: 7th
Finished: DNF (crash)

With the ECU upgrade from the Silver Apex deal making the Carrera Condor ship one of the fastest on the grid, both drivers put in a stellar performance on Saturday, Bea actually outqualifying her teammate. She was also doing very well in the race...
...until she got punted by Jamie Hart in lap two. A hard crash led to a hospital visit - although with no injuries - a complete write-off of her ship and a potential loss of six to ten points, the silver lining being the support of her team, majority of the drivers and Ava's recovery drive to finish P8.
Between the races, Bea agreed to help a fellow rookie racer, Paul Mulder, to raise money for his mother’s charitable organization as part of his birthday gift to her.

Episode 3: The Neon Bath

Race: Tokyo, Japan
Qualified: 13th
Finished: 9th (2 points)

Despite Pretty much writing the weekend off from the beginning, Tokyo being an ELS-heavy and stability-favoring track, Bea being bad at the former and the ship being bad at the latter, she qualified just one place behind her teammate who is more skilled in ELS use. Jamie Hart’s continued poor form landing him right behind her on the grid did no favors to her peace of mind.
She went into the race with tempered expectations, not expecting to gain four places and score her first points while keeping Jamie behind her, all the while Ava fell behind to finish in P14.
After the race, team principal León Alonso set in motion an ambitious staffing project, a high risk, high reward endeavor that required a temporary halt of the expansion of the team’s Driver Augment Department with the potential to either slingshot the team lightyears ahead if done right.

Episode 4: Azzuro Alpina

Race: Italy
Qualified: 6th
Finished: 6th (8 points)

For round four, Carrera Condor finally fielded the upgraded Control Moment Gyroscope, bringing their ship up to the top five in terms of handling. Carrera Condor and bea alike had high hopes for the track, Ava dropping the ball a little by qualifying in 13th.
Race pace made up for Saturday’s performance as Ava soared to finish in P8 while Bea held onto 6th, bringing the team into joint 5th and 6th position in the constructors’ championship shared with Nordic Call, helped by Astrid’s crash.
Following the race, the team’s leadership declared a full stop to all operations for a week for personnel to recover from the non-stop work pace. It was also decided to sacrifice the next race in favor of being better prepared for the Lunar AGP.

DELTΔ HYPER (An F1 Drive to Survive inspired Anti-Gravity, Slice of Life, Cyberpunkish/Solarpunkish RP)

Beatrix Ward

Name: Beatrix Viola Kendal Ward
Alias: Bea (to most people), MadBea (social media tag)
Team: Carrera Condor
Nationality: British
Gender: Female
Age: 20
SPACER

Appearance

SPACER

Image

Beatrix stands at 162 cm (5’4”) and weighs 52 kg (119 lb) with a lean athletic build, frequently making up a few extra centimeters with short-heeled shoes and rarely seen without a smile.
She speaks a mile a minute with an animated, mellifluous voice, talks with her hands almost as much as her mouth and has accidentally hit people standing next to her when gesticulating in the past.
Par for the course, Beatrix has a neural port at the back of her head, allowing her to link directly to the racing craft’s flight computer. She also has a synthetic heart, reinforced spine and had her legs and arms amputated at the hips and shoulders, replacing them with prosthetics to further increase her G-tolerance and movement precision.
Although she doesn’t have any tattoos, she saw her prosthetics as another canvas, with both of her legs covered in artwork of vines with colorful blossoms. Serving as a sort of “wall of fame”, her arms still have a lot of empty space, the right bearing a record of her racing achievements and the left depicting her biggest crashes, DNFs and other hiccups.

Backstory:
A child of Frederick Henry Ward, an industrial mogul and owner of Pridwen Solutions, formerly of aerospace and defense fame currently dealing in agricultural machinery and civilian aerospace, and his corporate lawyer Akela Hawthorne-Ward. Beatrix has been racing since she was six, starting with sailing hydrofoils, graduating to hoverkarts at 10, various British regional Rallye Championships at 14, the European Rallye Championship at 16 and finally the Junior Formula Anti-Gravity series at 17. Despite a double win and regular top five finishes in the regionals and finishing P3 overall in the European Rallye and good results in Junior Formula Anti-Gravity, she didn’t make the cut for any of the Formula AG teams that had seats open for the 2093 season while also out of a drive in the Junior series.

Bea instead spent the year racing limited schedule in the European Rallye Championship with the intent to try for Formula AG again next year while her father greased some wheels behind the scenes. Her signing now granting access to select Pridwen Solutions patented technology for the team, Carrera Condor unceremoniously threw one of their current drivers under the proverbial bus mid-season and announced Beatrix would take his seat next year, after which simulators and advertising for the new team as well as getting used to working with her future race engineer, a former Formula AG multiple race winner whose career had been cut short by an injury ensued.

Personality:
Never one for the ‘proper lady’ thing her dear father hoped for, although obliging him on important occasions to make him happy, Bea is an unfiltered adrenaline junkie, having been interested in racing things on land, sea and air since she was five. Racing isn’t just a hobby for her despite what some detractors claim, having poured her heart and soul into it since her Rallye days. Being very passionate about racing, sometimes she can get a little... overenthusiastic in the cockpit, with some choice words she's had for other drivers or the team's own vehicle over the team radio having secured places in the fans' memories and one or two even ascended to memehood. Bea also has an artistic side, doing her own helmet designs among other things.

Bea sees people who aren’t smiling as a problem that needs to be fixed immediately. An outgoing social creature, she’s made use of her personality and interests to promote civilian and agricultural products of Pridwen Solutions in the past and has been using social media for the past few months to give her audience an entertaining and informative look under the team’s hood, though carefully scrubbed of anything they want to keep under wraps. An excitable ball of inexhaustible energy, getting her to sit still for a 10 minute interview is a feat worthy of legends and no one has yet managed to get her to take one completely seriously.

Racing DNA

Overview: Beatrix likes to take risks, standing out among the competition in Junior Formula AG with deep lunges, late braking and general “full send” racing style even by anti-gravity racing standards. It has led to crashes earlier in her career, but she’s since figured out how most racers react to her suddenly appearing on the inside of a corner and how to take it into account. Coming from a rallying background, she thrives in the low and mid speed corners and is not afraid to get her elbows out and trade paint.
However, she relies heavily on her team for strategy and energy management, something she'll need to learn going forward in the big leagues.

Skills: Bea has a fairly big following for a young racer, owing it mostly to her frequent fan interactions, both in person and online, and her social media presence under the nickname “MadBea” showcasing a bit of the behind the scenes stuff of her racing life, full helmet cam onboards and technical breakdowns. She also has a side channel under the somewhat uninspired name "Bea Draws Stuff" where she showcases her art and does drawing tutorials.

Special Trait: While not an implant or augment per se, Beatrix utilizes a Pridwen Solutions patented liquid breathing and immersion suit. Originally developed for aerospace fighter pilots, Bea's lungs, body cavities and entire hardshell racing suit reminiscent of spacesuits are filled with an oxygen-rich breathing fluid before getting in the cockpit which allows her to withstand sustained G loads in the mid hundreds with little effort.

Controversy : Despite some success in the Junior Formula AG series as well as other racing ventures, many see her as a nepo baby corpo princess whose daddy bought her "a pony" in the form of a race seat and expensive augs and gear.
Some people also take issue with the fact that her family's fortune came from the defense sector, Pridwen Solutions only having pivoted to agricultural machinery and renewable energy when the defense market was about to stall.
But the number one group of people cursing Bea's name and lineage are the fans of Joaquin Ibanez, the driver she replaced at Carrera Condor for the 2094 season, essentially pissing off a sizable chunk of Argentinian racing fans simply by existing.

MISC
Theme Song
Likes: Adrenaline highs, large dogs, singing, sweets.
Dislikes: Dirty racing, two-facedness, liquid breathing.
Other Information:

• Her father is and always will be her number one fan, although her mother is not at all pleased by her choice of career or Frederick's support of such a dangerous endeavor. Bea’s older sister, Evangeline, considers her to be mind-numbingly irresponsible and utterly insane, but that doesn’t get in the way of a good sibling relationship.
• She’s fairly outspoken about her support of employee protections and anti-trust laws, though she can’t resist pointing out Pridwen Solutions workplace safety measures and employee benefits as positive examples which sometimes gets her written off as dressing up advertising for her father’s company as activism.

Wizard Mafia (Harry Potter Organized Crime RP)

Alícia Correia

Alícia Correia

Picture

Age: 24
Birthday: 12th February
Height: 178 cm (5'10")
Body Type: Athletic
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Raven
Pronouns: She/Her
Orientation: Heterosexual

Voice

Lillie Flynn (Sirris of the Sunless Realms, Dark Souls III)

Magical Specialties

• Transfiguration (Transformation, Human Transformation and Conjuration)
• Animagus form (Carrion Crow)
• Charms (regular and dark)

Biography

Born in 2001 in Manaus to Sérgio and Maria Correia, a Full-blooded potions master and a Muggle-born Witch, and leading an uneventful life for the first few years until 2003, when both of her parents went to a fancy, moonlit dinner at a restaurant out in the rainforest, a decision that would shape Alícia’s life forever as Sérgio and Maria were mauled by a werewolf. Sérgio succumbed to his injuries, but managed to save Maria’s life with Dittany and silver before doing so. She kept her lycanthropy a closely-guarded secret, but she and her daughter fell on hard times.

The day Alícia’s magic manifested at seven was a massive relief, as living at the school would lessen the financial strain and she was sent to Castelobruxo at 11. Unlike the Castelobruxo stereotype, Alícia never cared much for herbology, her interest in plants ending at their Scoville rating and THC content. She instead displayed a natural knack for Transfiguration, also showing interest in Charms due to their usefulness. Her transfiguration talent has endeared her to her Transfiguration professor, an elderly Wizard named Rúben Sauza, whose help and patience allowed her to learn the process of becoming an animagus by year three and complete the ritual in secret the year after during the summer break, considering her animal form - a Carrion Crow - an absolute win.

For her sixth year, Alícia’s grades qualified her for an exchange program to one of Europe’s magical schools, spending that year at the Durmstrang Institute where she got her first proper introduction to the Dark Arts. Unfortunately, it was during her time at Durmstrang that her mother’s lycanthropy was discovered, costing her her job and bringing the Correias’ finances from “shaky” to “crashing down”.

Alícia was thrown a lifeline by Mateo Pareja, a talented herbologist from Colombia with a shady reputation one year her junior. Turned out the reputation was well deserved, as Mateo was selling drugs made of magical plants to Muggles and suggested she start using Transfiguration to get muggles things that are otherwise hard to get for them and helped her get going along that path. That helped some, and with her Transfiguration talent at least they weren’t going hungry, but acquiring Wolfsbane for her mother remained a serious problem. But fortune may have turned toward her at least a little in 2023, when the New York partners of the Cartel mateo had joined needed someone with her experience. Her Transfiguration talents and status as Animagus must have made an impression, as the temporary job turned into a permanent offer. Alícia moved to New York full time with her mother, now working as an associate of the Serpeverde Crime Family hoping to carve out a piece of the pie for herself and her mother.

DELTΔ HYPER (An F1 Drive to Survive inspired Anti-Gravity, Slice of Life, Cyberpunkish/Solarpunkish RP)

Checking in, char in the works.

Wizard Mafia (Harry Potter Organized Crime RP)

Alícia Correia

Alícia Correia

Picture

Age: 24
Birthday: 12th February
Height: 178 cm (5'10")
Body Type: Athletic
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Raven
Pronouns: She/Her
Orientation: Heterosexual

Voice

Lillie Flynn (Sirris of the Sunless Realms, Dark Souls III)

Magical Specialties

• Transfiguration (Transformation, Human Transformation and Conjuration)
• Animagus form (Carrion Crow)
• Charms (regular and dark)

Biography

Born in 2001 in Manaus to Sérgio and Maria Correia, a Full-blooded potions master and a Muggle-born Witch, and leading an uneventful life for the first few years until 2003, when both of her parents went to a fancy, moonlit dinner at a restaurant out in the rainforest, a decision that would shape Alícia’s life forever as Sérgio and Maria were mauled by a werewolf. Sérgio succumbed to his injuries, but managed to save Maria’s life with Dittany and silver before doing so. She kept her lycanthropy a closely-guarded secret, but she and her daughter fell on hard times.

The day Alícia’s magic manifested at seven was a massive relief, as living at the school would lessen the financial strain and she was sent to Castelobruxo at 11. Unlike the Castelobruxo stereotype, Alícia never cared much for herbology, her interest in plants ending at their Scoville rating and THC content. She instead displayed a natural knack for Transfiguration, also showing interest in Charms due to their usefulness. Her transfiguration talent has endeared her to her Transfiguration professor, an elderly Wizard named Rúben Sauza, whose help and patience allowed her to learn the process of becoming an animagus by year three and complete the ritual in secret the year after during the summer break, considering her animal form - a Carrion Crow - an absolute win.

For her sixth year, Alícia’s grades qualified her for an exchange program to one of Europe’s magical schools, spending that year at the Durmstrang Institute where she got her first proper introduction to the Dark Arts. Unfortunately, it was during her time at Durmstrang that her mother’s lycanthropy was discovered, costing her her job and bringing the Correias’ finances from “shaky” to “crashing down”.

Alícia was thrown a lifeline by Mateo Pareja, a talented herbologist from Colombia with a shady reputation one year her junior. Turned out the reputation was well deserved, as Mateo was selling drugs made of magical plants to Muggles and suggested she start using Transfiguration to get muggles things that are otherwise hard to get for them and helped her get going along that path. That helped some, and with her Transfiguration talent at least they weren’t going hungry, but acquiring Wolfsbane for her mother remained a serious problem. But fortune may have turned toward her at least a little in 2023, when the New York partners of the Cartel mateo had joined needed someone with her experience. Her Transfiguration talents and status as Animagus must have made an impression, as the temporary job turned into a permanent offer. Alícia moved to New York full time with her mother, now working as an associate of the Serpeverde Crime Family hoping to carve out a piece of the pie for herself and her mother.

Edited to fit the mold.

Raven Squad: Second Storm (Military/Spy-Fi RP)

Outflaw
Fireteam Viking
Solveig Theta Mine, Tasiusaq, southern Greenland
0600 Local Time

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She managed to keep her composure initially, but boarding the hovercraft was the straw that broke the hacker’s back. Her breathing grew rapid and strained. Her stomach was desperately crying to get rid of the army eggs and bacon she ate last, but her brain overrode it as her throat didn’t have the bandwidth for that and the amount of air she needed just to stay conscious. The suggestion - Or was it an order? She couldn’t tell. - barely registered before her brain threw it in the bin. ”I can’t. Someone else take it.” She whispered barely loud enough to be heard over the engine’s roar.

She instead reached for the magic laptop. She thought she’d call it ‘Rosetta Stone’ because it allowed her to talk to pretty much any device in range. Connecting it to the hovercraft’s transmitter, which in turn connected to the datalink between the fighters, helicopters and even the supporting ships they launched from, giving her a big brother-esque view of the battlefield. Just like the high rise raid, except with better information. Oh, and the world at stake. Enri took a few seconds to get situated on the map while also taking quick mental notes on how the ships’ and fighters’ systems worked. Because one never knows when that might be useful in the future.

Linking with one of the Lightning IIs equipped with an EW pod - an attachment in the centermount granting the already formidable plane limited offensive EW capability, nicknamed ‘Growler Can’ by pilots and ground crews alike and going for 750 000 USD on the black market - she promptly ignored the fact the pilot was likely swearing up a storm that someone was touching his plane and sunk into the stream of radio communications it was detecting. Sending a request through the datalink to leave several marked AA emplacements alone for a few minutes and setting three separate AIs loose on it, within 30 seconds Enri had the communication protocols figured out and asked the pilot to heat up the jammers.

Within ten seconds, six autonomous AA guns had a small heart attack from the sheer amount of gibberish they began receiving, assumed something had gone wrong with their control center and automatically reset. Because ‘Turn it off and back on again’ worked, even for cutting-edge military gear. And it would’ve worked this time too, had Enri not been ready to send false data with the fighter’s EW pod electronically masquerading as the guns’ control center. As soon as they rebooted, they loaded the altered targeting parameters and all six guns turned around and opened up on any and all units tagged with an Artemis IFF. The men in the control truck likely would’ve easily fixed that issue had they not been one of the first things shredded to ribbons by one of the rogue guns

”Won’t last forever, but the South side has a hole in the defenses.” She noted to Javier, ”Giving it five minutes before they figure out how to shut them down and switch to manual. I’ll see if I can do something sneaky to their comms without physical access.” And with that she zoned out again as she and and her three noncorporeal helpers set their sights on figuring out a way to listen in on Artemis comms. Maybe sneak in some conflicting orders if they could get away with it, depending on where lady luck would be standing.

Boraro
Fireteam Poseidon
10 Nautical Miles west of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
0700 Local Time

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He was still reading the SDV manual when Vincent called out to him. ”I prefer Europe over Africa. Must be the running water and indoor flushing toilets.” He grinned back at the madman at the stick, poking a bit of fun yet at the same time being completely serious. He understood patriotism, but Africa has been nothing but trouble for his family and could therefore go fuck itself and the horse, donkey or whatever other animal it rode in on as far as he was concerned. Just not in this way.

Whoever does this for a hobby must be fucking mad. That was the thought on Ebrima’s mind as he plunged into the water, cold and dark in the early morning hours. He tried to turn face down and spread his arms and legs as if skydiving to slow his descent, but the personal flotation device stubbornly insisted on keeping him in the upright position, making him sink like a brick. Whoever thought to put handholds on the outside of the SDV was a fucking legend. ”I think the cooler’s leaking, boss, there’s water everywhere.” Ebrima replied to Adam’s ‘VolksWagen Polo’ comment as he worked his way into the driver’s… captain’s seat? Pilot’s seat? What the fuck was he even?

At least being underwater meant the waves weren’t an issue. Two dozen meters below sea level, the water was calm, though the headlights were more wishful thinking than an actual asset. The SDV lurched back and forward for a few seconds - almost like an actual car if someone had trouble launching and kept stalling it - while Ebrima figured out the controls, the submersible struggling with the depth changes a little. ”Someone packed too much luggage. Alright, I think I’ve got it. Everyone holding on?” He waited for everyone to sound off before easing the throttle forward, making an abrupt stop after a minute to figure out the braking distance. Not impressive. Awful, actually, like stepping on a baking sheet. Unaware of the platform’s defenses and sensors, he left the sonar off and drove- sailed- piloted, whatever, by the lights and inertial navigation system.

Pretty much just the INS until one of the platform’s legs appeared out of the inky blackness in the floodlights’ cone some 20 meters ahead. ”We’re coming up on the platform, North-East leg I think.” He said as he stopped the SDV after around fifteen minutes of monotony, the stationary submersible sinking a few meters until it reached equilibrium. ”Dismount here?”

Wizard Mafia (Harry Potter Organized Crime RP)

A: "Man, I'm so excited to see the best safe cracker on the East Coast at work."
B: "Right? I can't wait to see what advanced charms he's going to use."
C: "Bombarda Maxima!"
A: "..."
B: "..."
C: "What? Safe's cracked, isn't it?"

Wizard Mafia (Harry Potter Organized Crime RP)

I was gonna go with a crow if that works.

Wizard Mafia (Harry Potter Organized Crime RP)

I like the idea of starting small and growing.

As for character, I'm toying with the idea of an illegal Animagus just getting into crime to support their family.