...okay. Sure. [ he got the point that the treasure is at the nightclub and the rest he, like, unfortunately does not really care about. if a gun is shooting something orange who cares, that is probably not lethal and he doesn't have to worry about it. he can kind of guess that the light show is perhaps security lasers, so.
he's also vaguely debating if they'll have time to beat up the leopard on the way back to their warehouse. what did they even need this map for. why did they pay for this map. they truly got ripped off.
anyway his mood is extremely bad because he's thinking about this. i'm sorry that he is also someone who has suppressed his feelings for several years and so even if there is an urge to share he is steadily ignoring it because it's a waste of time.
so he's going to try to open the trap door instead. ]
[Why is the literal assassin here the only one who's in touch with his feelings. I guess he's the only one who isn't a teenager so eh. Maybe y'all will mellow out once you get out of the edgy (varied) phase.
(He's an edgy catte but he is, in fact, a functional edgy catte of some stripe. Shockingly.)]
Meow, they're goin' to know to look for Whisper. Meowght be she could do a diversion to get us in -- that bunny's goin' to be hard to move otherwise.
[Speaking of catte, he can also in fact climb pretty much anything, including walls, ceilings, and so forth. So he's going to slither up the seats and go for whatever is up there -- if it's vents, other means of egress, any way to let them out of the theater or, I don't know, a giant chandelier to break the trap door.]
Once we can find the way outta here, we're most o' the way there. Just gotta make it before everybody else, but there's plenty traps out there for 'em.
Don't be too hard on yourself. This whole place is a joke. [ dry. ] I ran into a trap full of rubber axes earlier at the other end of the casino. If they're looking for Whisper, we could send her in as a decoy if she's up for it. Lead security elsewhere if they think she's trying to grab the treasure and we slip in while they're distracted.
[ anyway it's not that he's not in touch with his feelings. he's extremely in touch with his feelings. he just does not care to share them, so down the ladder he goes! how are we looking, understage? what secrets do you hold. ]
One o' the swimmers outside got stuck in a nasty-lookin' cage, too. Funny establishment, this one.
I'm thinkin' all you're going to need is a strategy for a quick get-away. Didn't seem like the inside was all that guarded, lucky for us.
[I am sorry to say that Hans' current feelings are still: cat eating crime-shaped canary and general considerations of mayhem and murder despite the lack of lethal elements in the heist.
He's pretty cheerful as he drops down from the ceiling to come check out the trapdoor. He'll stay up here just in case this is like, Feelings Trap 2.0 or something.]
You ask me, this casino's got a way better feelin' than the last one.
Nico and Whisper go down. There's some dim lighting down here, and also what looks like magician's tools. There's a box they'd saw in half, with the saws nowhere to be found.
The urge to talk about your feelings remains, even down here. ]
I can't say I'm that surprised. [ it's kind of mumbled because he's mostly annoyed. he makes a bit of a face about the idea of cages though because. why. strange, strange.
i'm sorry i literally do not know what to tell you about the feelings thing, he does not think it's relevant. the heist is what the focus is, so he will give a vague look around the underside of the stage. are there any handcuffs perhaps with the magician's tools they can maybe use for when they get back to the club? ]
whisper will look for any access doors. if there's any wall-like structure (idk how open it is under here) she'll run her hand along it to feel for seams for said access door(s). her feelings are pretty direct, in this instance: it is a mission they must complete, and that is what she is focusing on. ]
I can go first, draw attention of security. But I am not fast. So you two would have to enter quickly to get what we need.
[Hans will stick his head through the trap door and survey from the top. Is there anything that could help Whisper move faster. A shopping cart, a random Segway, a unicycle or something (this might be too big for her).]
Tell ya what, I can give ya each one o’ these smoke bombs an’ some money I picked up. Want a distraction in a casino? Start throwin’ money all over the floor.
You ever seen money-grubbers run into loose change? Now take that an’ add a few hundred.
[There’s a note of mischief there, because while it’s a usable strategy as demonstrated earlier — he also just thinks the chaos is funny.]
[ i guess he will take the trick handcuffs. and there's nothing else. so he will climb the ladder. ]
Do we have any idea what the treasure is by now? Is it really worth it? [ he is now considering his life choices in this matter. anyway that is a plan. they could do that. chaos could be a thing if they ever get out of the room. ]
It's worth a try if we need the distraction to draw security away. Crowd control, right? Whisper's small enough she can avoid the scuffle and we can move faster with the path cleared. Kind of feels like a decent strategy to me.
[Hans hops down for a moment to filch the wand. Now he has two sticks to twirl, once they all get back up there, which he promptly starts doing on the stage like they're actually a magic troupe. Why not, they still gotta make more headway on ways out of here, might as well warm up in the meantime.
He will also distribute some smoke pellets and money.]
Fer me it's good enough to see some o' those faces when they realize they been had! It's all ameowt the chase, not the prize.
[It's debatable how real the prize or where they are or what they're doing or who they're dealing with even all are, but he can roll with this being a dream, too.]
I dunno what a wispon is, but ya could always try hitchin' a ride on somebody passing in a pinch, too. Just careful ya don't grab a rival!
...I'm not sure what a wispon is either, but you're right. Security's not at all like the badniks. We've all done this before, haven't we? [ glad for hans' sticks. he will also take the smoke pellets and money for their distraction. nico's just going back to the door and frowning at it, trying to see if he can pry it open somehow. maybe looking for a loose hinge he can wiggle open with his dagger. ]
We came this far and we're already here. [ he seems to be convincing himself to tamper his annoyance with this trap and remind himself of their main objective. he does smirk a little at what hans says though. ] And beating people to the prize is always fun. We just have to figure out how to open the door. The lack of exits is really starting to make me mad though. None of this was on the map, otherwise we could've picked a better meeting place.
It is not important, right now. [ what a wispon is or isn't, she means. ]
...I do not care about beating others, it is more about completing the mission. As long as we remained focused, we can figure it out. I am used to being patient.
[ all you can do sometimes is wait it out-- but, really, her feelings are pretty subdued all things considered. (solid snake voice) that is what is means to be a soldier ]
Nyahihi, can't say this's ever been a real professional interest o' mine, but it's one way to see the sights an' move some money.
Speakin' of which, I'm thinking we gotta check on that leopard later. Better have been paid peanuts fer a peanut ameownt of information!
[Hans whaps the wand against his palm, as though to demonstrate what may be in store for their leopard informant -- he's not one to lose his temper easily, but he also is quite fond of putting the fear of god and felines into people (or, again, just seeing their faces and messing with them), so godspeed, leopard.
If they ever get out of here or get back to that one bar, that is.
He makes a weird thoughtful noise somewhere between hum and cat trill, rolling the wand back across his knuckles as he contemplates the door.]
... Judgin' by the weird feelin' of this place since we got in, I'm thinking there's something meowgical to it. Can't say I'm fond of this style, but usual trick is ya gotta do somethin' for the seal to lift if the lock ain't doing its job.
With the rolls, Nico is too focused on the door and doesn't notice them. But Hans can see somefamiliarfaces, being escorted by a polar bear and a blue haired man. Whisper may be able to see one of them, with how tall he is. ]
Mya-meow, might be it was just waitin' for the solution to be spoken!
[Hans might have said more, but he's busy putting away the filched wand and then he spots those familiar faces and straightens right up -- if he'd had ears they would have been standing up straight. He's going to try and get a sense of where these fine folk are being escorted to, and whether there's more security detail around them than the polar bear and blue-haired man...
AKA, are they making our job easier or no? Other than that, he judges it to be a distraction to mention them now, and slouches back down once he's sort of got an idea where they might check later if they feel so inclined.
Nodding at Whisper:]
We're headin' Esplanade-ways, so ya got your work cut out for ya.
[She can probably head the opposite way and they can lie in wait somewhere nearby and see how things go.]
[ There's a decent sized amount of security around the other three people, but it's clearly not all the security in the building. They're going away from the XS club, and what seems to be across from the theater this group was in.
It's hard to say if they've made security any tighter than it already is. ]
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The door doesn't seem like there's a mechanism keeping it locked, when Hans checks on it.
Nico may go to the stage, it looks like there is a trap door. How are you getting up to the ceiling from here?
Whisper doesn't see an air vent that she can reach. ]
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...okay. Sure. [ he got the point that the treasure is at the nightclub and the rest he, like, unfortunately does not really care about. if a gun is shooting something orange who cares, that is probably not lethal and he doesn't have to worry about it. he can kind of guess that the light show is perhaps security lasers, so.
he's also vaguely debating if they'll have time to beat up the leopard on the way back to their warehouse. what did they even need this map for. why did they pay for this map. they truly got ripped off.
anyway his mood is extremely bad because he's thinking about this. i'm sorry that he is also someone who has suppressed his feelings for several years and so even if there is an urge to share he is steadily ignoring it because it's a waste of time.
so he's going to try to open the trap door instead. ]
How bad is security by the club now then?
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since the air ducts are going to be a no- go, she trots back down to the stage area. ]
...Security is tight.
I made a mistake, when I shouldn't have. It is frustrating.
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(He's an edgy catte but he is, in fact, a functional edgy catte of some stripe. Shockingly.)]
Meow, they're goin' to know to look for Whisper. Meowght be she could do a diversion to get us in -- that bunny's goin' to be hard to move otherwise.
[Speaking of catte, he can also in fact climb pretty much anything, including walls, ceilings, and so forth. So he's going to slither up the seats and go for whatever is up there -- if it's vents, other means of egress, any way to let them out of the theater or, I don't know, a giant chandelier to break the trap door.]
Once we can find the way outta here, we're most o' the way there. Just gotta make it before everybody else, but there's plenty traps out there for 'em.
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The trap door opens easily enough. It looks like it's used as a way to get people up on stage, but there does seem to be a ladder that goes down.
Going up, there are ceiling vents, but they're too small for an adult human to go through. ]
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[ anyway it's not that he's not in touch with his feelings. he's extremely in touch with his feelings. he just does not care to share them, so down the ladder he goes! how are we looking, understage? what secrets do you hold. ]
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Decoy is fine, as long as you don't get hurt.
[ crawling into the stage hole. she is................ working up to this feeling thing. ]
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I'm thinkin' all you're going to need is a strategy for a quick get-away. Didn't seem like the inside was all that guarded, lucky for us.
[I am sorry to say that Hans' current feelings are still: cat eating crime-shaped canary and general considerations of mayhem and murder despite the lack of lethal elements in the heist.
He's pretty cheerful as he drops down from the ceiling to come check out the trapdoor. He'll stay up here just in case this is like, Feelings Trap 2.0 or something.]
You ask me, this casino's got a way better feelin' than the last one.
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Nico and Whisper go down. There's some dim lighting down here, and also what looks like magician's tools. There's a box they'd saw in half, with the saws nowhere to be found.
The urge to talk about your feelings remains, even down here. ]
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i'm sorry i literally do not know what to tell you about the feelings thing, he does not think it's relevant. the heist is what the focus is, so he will give a vague look around the underside of the stage. are there any handcuffs perhaps with the magician's tools they can maybe use for when they get back to the club? ]
Any suggestions for a getaway strategy then?
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Run.
[ ob... viously?
whisper will look for any access doors. if there's any wall-like structure (idk how open it is under here) she'll run her hand along it to feel for seams for said access door(s). her feelings are pretty direct, in this instance: it is a mission they must complete, and that is what she is focusing on. ]
I can go first, draw attention of security. But I am not fast. So you two would have to enter quickly to get what we need.
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[Hans will stick his head through the trap door and survey from the top. Is there anything that could help Whisper move faster. A shopping cart, a random Segway, a unicycle or something (this might be too big for her).]
Tell ya what, I can give ya each one o’ these smoke bombs an’ some money I picked up. Want a distraction in a casino? Start throwin’ money all over the floor.
You ever seen money-grubbers run into loose change? Now take that an’ add a few hundred.
[There’s a note of mischief there, because while it’s a usable strategy as demonstrated earlier — he also just thinks the chaos is funny.]
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The urge grows.
No access door down here. ]
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Do we have any idea what the treasure is by now? Is it really worth it? [ he is now considering his life choices in this matter. anyway that is a plan. they could do that. chaos could be a thing if they ever get out of the room. ]
It's worth a try if we need the distraction to draw security away. Crowd control, right? Whisper's small enough she can avoid the scuffle and we can move faster with the path cleared. Kind of feels like a decent strategy to me.
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Others want to get it. It is a lot of fuss for it to be nothing.
[ finish the mission. finish the mission. finish the mission. ]
...These security guards do not pose a threat like the badniks. So I can do it. Just wish I had my wispon.
[ climbing up after nico nico ]
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[Hans hops down for a moment to filch the wand. Now he has two sticks to twirl, once they all get back up there, which he promptly starts doing on the stage like they're actually a magic troupe. Why not, they still gotta make more headway on ways out of here, might as well warm up in the meantime.
He will also distribute some smoke pellets and money.]
Fer me it's good enough to see some o' those faces when they realize they been had! It's all ameowt the chase, not the prize.
[It's debatable how real the prize or where they are or what they're doing or who they're dealing with even all are, but he can roll with this being a dream, too.]
I dunno what a wispon is, but ya could always try hitchin' a ride on somebody passing in a pinch, too. Just careful ya don't grab a rival!
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The time is currently 12:20 PM. ]
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We came this far and we're already here. [ he seems to be convincing himself to tamper his annoyance with this trap and remind himself of their main objective. he does smirk a little at what hans says though. ] And beating people to the prize is always fun. We just have to figure out how to open the door. The lack of exits is really starting to make me mad though. None of this was on the map, otherwise we could've picked a better meeting place.
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...I do not care about beating others, it is more about completing the mission. As long as we remained focused, we can figure it out. I am used to being patient.
[ all you can do sometimes is wait it out-- but, really, her feelings are pretty subdued all things considered. (solid snake voice) that is what is means to be a soldier ]
Try to remain calm.
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Speakin' of which, I'm thinking we gotta check on that leopard later. Better have been paid peanuts fer a peanut ameownt of information!
[Hans whaps the wand against his palm, as though to demonstrate what may be in store for their leopard informant -- he's not one to lose his temper easily, but he also is quite fond of putting the fear of god and felines into people (or, again, just seeing their faces and messing with them), so godspeed, leopard.
If they ever get out of here or get back to that one bar, that is.
He makes a weird thoughtful noise somewhere between hum and cat trill, rolling the wand back across his knuckles as he contemplates the door.]
... Judgin' by the weird feelin' of this place since we got in, I'm thinking there's something meowgical to it. Can't say I'm fond of this style, but usual trick is ya gotta do somethin' for the seal to lift if the lock ain't doing its job.
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With the rolls, Nico is too focused on the door and doesn't notice them. But Hans can see some familiar faces, being escorted by a polar bear and a blue haired man. Whisper may be able to see one of them, with how tall he is. ]
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Or the whole thing was on a timer. Let's get going.
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...I should not be seen with you two. I can go an opposite way.
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[Hans might have said more, but he's busy putting away the filched wand and then he spots those familiar faces and straightens right up -- if he'd had ears they would have been standing up straight. He's going to try and get a sense of where these fine folk are being escorted to, and whether there's more security detail around them than the polar bear and blue-haired man...
AKA, are they making our job easier or no? Other than that, he judges it to be a distraction to mention them now, and slouches back down once he's sort of got an idea where they might check later if they feel so inclined.
Nodding at Whisper:]
We're headin' Esplanade-ways, so ya got your work cut out for ya.
[She can probably head the opposite way and they can lie in wait somewhere nearby and see how things go.]
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It's hard to say if they've made security any tighter than it already is. ]
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