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Post by Giza Kadabra on May 16, 2016 21:28:24 GMT -7
People have an old saying: diamonds are a girl’s best friend. When Giza heard about the time when Aurora stole the jewelry store last month, he could see that the saying was very fitting for someone like her. Ever since Giza joined the Pandaemonium, he has always looks up to her with a strong admiration; he was hoping that somehow he could impress the lady, and got her to notice him. That’s the reason why when he heard about the town’s museum have a very valuable exhibit on display, he thought it would be a perfect opportunity to try it out.
The Museum of Geological Survey had gotten their hand in some of the world-renounce art and craft: from some old gold bracelet discover in the Mayan ruin to the more modern masterpiece of art. Among their prized possession is the Lady Agustus’s Stardust Collection, consist of a large diamond necklace plated in gold and silver in intricate design, a large pair of black pearl earrings crusted with crystal, and a gold scepter crusted with diamonds, rubies and sapphires with very detail design. The reason behind the name of this collection, according to the museum display, is because under a specific light condition, these treasures give of an almost hypnotic pattern like an aurora over the night sky. These three treasures can be easily classified as priceless artifacts, imagine how much money people would be willing to pay in order to get them back, especially if it mean to remain the museum’s integrity with the people who gave them permission to displace such priceless artifacts.
After some time of scouting out the area, Giza formulated a plan to rob the place during one of its monthly evening event. He suggested this idea to the other member of the Pandaemonium, hoping Aurora would notice this and perhaps join him in this scheme. With everything set, Giza sneak into the museum’s secured area in order to prepare for the heist. All he need is to cause a huge black-out to the place, ensure that the place will trigger a lock-down when the power got disable in order to trap the people inside, and hopefully blocking anyone from entering to interrupt his performance. After find both the power generator and the emergency generator for the museum, Giza placed on them two playing cards before he return back to the main hall where the treasures are displayed.
After a short amount of time, his playing cards exploded and destroy both of the generators, engulfing the whole museum in darkness. As the people around started to panic from the sudden power outage, Giza make his way to the center of the room. The stage is set, and his audience is ready for his performance; with a snap of his finger, the music started to play a blaring electronic sound, smoke begin to roll across the floor as the light on the display pointed toward him, hovering about 10 ft above the ground. He then raised both his hand into the air and unleashes a swarm of white pigeons and black bats from out of his big cape out onto the crowd, scaring the already-panic crowd into more frenzy. The pigeons and bats soon explode into small multiple plumes of smoke after they finish stirring up the crowd.
“Good evening, lady and gentlemen, children of all ages” Giza shouted to all of them, “Thank you all for witnessing our wonderful performance. I am the Great Giza Kadabra, and for my next trick I will make these priceless treasures on display disappear.”
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SCHEME: obtain and get away with the priceless artifact. Oh my sweet Aurora, I hope this would impress you enough to notice me.
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Post by Aurora Disicio on May 17, 2016 21:27:01 GMT -7
Aurora made a point of knowing what everyone was doing. Everyone wasn't that much of an exaggeration either. It didn't matter if the person was powered or unpowered, useful or useless, or even someone she particularly cared to know much about or not. The vast majority of the information she collected was more or less useless, but she still insisted on making sure she knew what was going on around her. She didn't want to be surprised, and on some level she found it interesting. Of course, there were certain people, and certain groups, that she kept even closer tabs on than usual, most notably, her own group. She was always loud in demanding people help her with whatever she wanted to do that day, so it was only fair that she return the favor sometimes. If she heard about some interesting heist or some other interesting scheme, it wasn't unusual for her to jump into the fray.
Today was one of those days. Aurora always had a preference for the absurdly gutsy heists, and it certainly took guts to try to pull of something like this. First, the target was a museum. What artifact exactly, she didn't care about, but there were certain risks when targeting a museum. The building would likely have armed guards to deal with something like this happened. Almost certainly not super powered, unless they were hiding it, but guns and other weapons could still be a threat to supers in trained hands if the supers weren't prepared for it. Second, the museum was downtown in Bulwark territory. Aurora always loved hitting Bulwark territory. Watching those heroes squirm never ceased to be amusing. Third, he was apparently intending to hit the place while it was still open. Heists in broad daylight were a Pandaemonium standard at this point, but it did add a certain amount of risk to the whole thing. Now it was time to see how he would make all this go down.
Aurora arrived at the scene after things had gotten started it looked like. She already had a full aurora sailing through the sky, dropping bits of wall, road, and whatever else she picked up on the way here to jump off of to help keep her airborne. The entire place was on lockdown and police cars were starting to collect outside. Either he fucked up badly, or what was going on inside was going to be real interesting. She tore a hole open in the roof with her power and landed gracefully on the second floor. There wasn't anything going down here, so she tore open another hole in the floor. It was dark, impressive considering how light it was outside still. It was amazing what making a building like this go into lockdown was like. The other super was clearly relying on this darkness however, so once she made her way through the floor she replaced the chunk she took out, leaving only slight cracks of light where the piece didn't fit back in quite perfectly, and the light from her own aurora.
It was rare for Aurora to act in darkness. Her power wasn't the least bit subtle, so trying to be stealthy was completely pointless. As long as she kept the particles of her aurora spread out enough, the light it gave off probably wouldn't be overpowering enough to interrupt the speech Giza was giving. The last thing Aurora wanted to do was interrupt and ally's speech, that would just be rude. She had to admit, that she rather liked the effect though. Her aurora was constantly shifting colors, and as long as she kept it around her it kept her lit up nicely with a nice series of shifting colors over her face. Maybe she could consider working like this more often, and possibly wearing white while doing so.
Aurora cracked her fingers while she prepared for the action. She was more than ready for another round of grabbing everything she could carry and busting some heads.
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Support: Senpai noticed you
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Post by Bloodbath on May 18, 2016 5:21:41 GMT -7
Bloodbath currently was making absolutely no attempt to be subtle, walking right through police lines with his hands plastered over his ears. Tears were already in his wrists and blood boiled around him, bullets bounced off like it was titanium.
A cautious smile wormed up his face as he lashed out at his attackers, adding to his bloodstream with their own. Finally, he arrived in front of the jewelry store as Giza was making his speech. Trying to add to the spectacle, he weaved a beast around the building.
Maybe this could be fun!
Supporting: The stage is set!
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Post by Timezone on May 18, 2016 7:04:06 GMT -7
"What are these?" "The Soul Collection." "And these?" "Those are Mayan artifacts." "Cool! And-" "Sir!" The guide cut off Timezone's newest question, sounding just a little annoyed. "I'm sorry, but I have to attend to the other guests." Timezone took a look around, when did everyone arrive? "Alright! See you!" Besides he wanted to see the rest of the museum!
His next stop was what this museum liked to call its "prized artifact, The Lady Agustus's Stardust Collection." He leaned down, pressing his forehead on the glass to get the best look, "It's pretty, but there gotta be something else cool about it..." He had to admit, museums weren't that exciting, at all, but since this was an evening event and near the Bulwark HQ no one called the police on him that often here and that was a nice change of pace! Just as he was about to call back the annoyed guide to as him about this collection all the lights flickered off. "Hey! Quit panicking!" Nope, looks like no one was listening when they were, well, freaking out, so he pushed through the pressing crowd to a wall, waiting to see if something more happened.
It did. An upbeat song begin playing and smoke begin rolling throughout the room and a man appeared floating in the air. Maybe the museum was hosting a show? He never heard of museums doing that, but if they did then this place suddenly became much more fun! The floating man raised his hands and a burst of doves and bats flew towards the crowd. "Ok... that's not fun..." He took a better look at the man and realized he knew this guy. The police car sirens outside and the man announcing his name confirmed it, he was Giza, that villain from Pandemonium! Timezone pushed past the crowd again, but this time, stood in front of the Stardust Collection, he was pretty sure there were more villains, there was a weird colored fog seeping everywhere and some screaming outside, but they all probably wanted what Giza said he was here for, the artifacts and they'll all have to go through a superhero first!
Opposing: This show gotta end!
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Post by Azoth on May 18, 2016 19:28:02 GMT -7
Azoth hadn’t come to the museum as a civilian to look at all of the pretty jewels. She’d come to ask a favor of the place’s owner, in return for some of her recent and, if the crowd come to see them tonight was anything to go by, profitable contributions to the Museum of Geological Survey. She wasn’t quite sure how the owner’d managed to get her hands on the earrings and scepter, but to say Azoth’s civilian persona had aided in acquiring the necklace now on display was an understatement. She’d basically outright bought the thing from a retiring old gentlemen. Having heard through the grapevine that the museum owner was looking for the piece, she’d bought it in the hopes of “trading” her good will of a donation for a bit of favoritism when it came to accessing the items kept in the museum for scientific purposes.
That’s what she’d come to speak with the owner about. She’d been so close to getting her chance, too - she’d at last spotted the owner and had been waited patiently for her to wrap up her current conversation when all of the lights went out. Panic spread through the crowd; there hadn’t been anything like this planned, and certainly nothing involving a lock down. When the music began and the spotlight lit up, Azoth had a pretty good idea as to what was happening, and it was her luck, good or bad, to have been caught up in it.
Azoth weaved her way back through the crowd towards the bathroom. Her tiny stature and the spectacle behind her made it fairly easy to do so with discretion. No one else was in the restroom, and no one would be able to see what was happening inside; as soon as she entered, the security cameras vanished. She picked a stall.
It was a shame to lose such a nice dress. She’d come in one of her nicer ones, a blue gown with a long skirt layered with embroidery, but she couldn’t leave behind any evidence. From her small purse she pulled her goggles, and then everything else she had on her was replaced with the apparel attributed to “Azoth”. Slipping back out into the main room of the museum, she switched her goggles to night-vision mode and began to scan the crowd. Besides the Giza-whatever guy up on stage, she caught sight of Timezone. She wouldn’t be surprised if more supers were on their way, if not already already here. And, if she knew villains, they were after the jewel’s she’d spend no small amount of time and money acquiring.
Azoth kept towards the back and waited for the show to begin.
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OPPOSING: Wha- Hey, that's mine!
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Post by Arcanum on May 18, 2016 21:02:37 GMT -7
For once she decided to come to the museum on her day off. No weird occult business, no school work to take care of, just a relaxing day of looking at shiny things. By now she's lived here too long and had been (almost) everywhere else, so the museum was at least somewhat interesting.
Then the lights went out, which didn't raise any suspicion until the smoke started pouring into the room. That wasn't not part of a normal security system. While the villain gave his little speech she backed off into a corner. Since no one could currently see her, Arcanum wasted no time and melted to the floor. The building might locked down, bat she could slip past the police without much of a struggle.
Not that she planned on running away in the first place. No, the punk just ruined a perfectly normal day with his flashy nonsense. This wasn't a movie--there's no reason to announce what you're tying to do before it happened. He needed to learn how the real world operated. Being this obvious never worked to your advantage.
Arcanum reformed into her more human appearance, although this time she was a little taller than normal. Like, a good foot and a half taller than that magician kid. She lowered the sound of her voice in an effort to sound more intimidating before uttering a single word. "No."
Pandaemonium would not suceed today. Not if she had her way.
- - - - - OPPOSING: I just wanted to see the pretty jewelry, man.
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Post by PANOPTICON Ver. 3.023 on May 18, 2016 21:19:23 GMT -7
PANOPTICON Ver. 3.023 online Running aberrant conflict search heuristic. Scanning satellite imagery... clear. Scanning public security footage... anomaly detected. Beginning detailed analysis. Power outage detected in proximity to multiple aberrants in Emerald City, sector AM-39. Abrupt structural failure of generators falls within established aberrant attack vectors. Cataloging contents of sector... Detected: 98,353 unpowered humans. Detected: Six standard aberrants. See case files 1-0109, 1-5295, 1-5606, 1-5652, 1-5977, 1-6001. Conflict probability within following 60 seconds: 99.98% Beginning combat data collection... (The scheme is filled! Anyone who wanted to get in but couldn't should feel free to start a second scheme. Click here to send in your actions!)
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Post by Giza Kadabra on May 19, 2016 19:58:09 GMT -7
With the crowd is now in a state of panicking, some of the museum security guards began to rush out from the door and pointed their small guns at Giza.
“Freeze! Stay where you are or we will use lethal force!” the head guarded shouted to him.
“Oh no,” Giza replied to them in a mocking fashion, “I don’t know what to do. It’s my first day on the job, I’m worry.” He chuckled before snapped his finger and caused all their weapon to shoot out a plume of confetti and a prop-flag with the word “Bang” written on them.
“Please, everyone, no pushing; I have all the autographs to give to you all so don’t rush.” Giza laughed. Seriously, did they think he spent his time scouting out the place without neutralizing their arsenals? How silly of them to think so; these idiotic guards aren’t the one he concern about.
It didn’t take long for a member of the Bulwark to show up; honestly he expected them to appear sooner, since it’s their territory and all. He was slightly disappointed that it was just a brat, Timezone, but when two of the Keepers appear among the crowd, Giza smiled. And when he noticed a familiar aurora, he’s over the moon with joy. It seems that some of his teammate had decided to join in on the fun, and this heist is going to be a blast. When Timezone moved toward the case containing the artifacts that they’re after, Giza grinned under his mask:
“How adorable,” he said to him as he slowly walked as if the air below him is solid, “We have ourselves a volunteer, lady and gents. What’s your name, boy? Let me guess, T-Tinyzoo, wait no, Timezone, right? Give him a hand, everyone.”
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Post by Timezone on May 20, 2016 8:38:04 GMT -7
Timezone gave a mock bow, he was still gonna look cool even as he saved the Stardust Collection! "Thank you, thank you, the hero of the show has arrived!" He went along with the show theme Giza seemed to have, besides the longer they talked, the longer he could think of what he was actually gonna do. Attack Giza? Go check out the fog? Fight what the police were fighting? He didn't know it's not like he planned to be a superhero today!
"I suppose that'll make you the villain!" He continued the theme, though the monster outside the windows was really freaking him out. Alright, the case was sorta unbreakable, at least by him, a frantic punch only hurt his hand, so he couldn't take it with him. The fog that made it towards him, was making him cough so that was one reason to want to make it go away. Giza was right in front of him, and a villain so that was one reason so wanna fight him. And outside sounded like the police was real freaked out by whoever was making that monster outside. "So let this show commence!" Was he using that word right? Pay attention to the battlefield! He shook that thought out of his head, why not "commence" doing something? He's the only superhero here, might as well do something super!
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Post by Aurora Disicio on May 20, 2016 16:19:53 GMT -7
Aurora surveyed the area now that it was time for everything to start. The guards were dealt with, the civilians were at least out of the way, and there were a whole bunch of displays ripe for the taking. What was distinctly lacking, was the presence of any heroes. Sure, there was one Bulwark member, but he was the kind of idiot hero that made all the other idiot heroes she normally dealt with look smart. She hadn't met him in person yet, and just based on how painful his banter was to listen to alone, she wished she was able to keep it that way. Oh well, the occasional slaughter could be fun too. Just as she was about to move, she noticed some movement out of the corner of her eye. Ah, there was the real opposition. Aurora wasn't surprised that there was something shady going down in a museum, and really it just made her want to bust up the place even more. While messing with the Bulwark was always fun, being able to interfere with the Keepers, the group full of pretentious liars that considers what they ate for breakfast a secret with guarding, was just as good.
Normally this would be the part where she'd say something witty, but that last exchange just left a bad taste in her mouth. Thus, Aurora wasted no time in grabbing every artifact she could see, turning them into rainbow particles. Hell, she even grabbed things like the floor, display cases and anything else just because it was there. Her aurora grew, brightening up the room further, granted it was still pretty dark, and causing the polished floor to shine all the colors of her aurora. As coincidence would have it, she was on the opposite side of the room from the jewelry Giza was after in the first place, so it would be safe from her collection for now. It was only a matter of time before she got over there though.
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Post by Bloodbath on May 20, 2016 18:33:32 GMT -7
Bloodbath let a smile grace his face as he saw two allies, they could win, they would do this! He let out a shockingly loud cackling as he spotted enemies, "Watch out boy, pesky Keepers, I might just kill you like civilians!" He gathered the bloodstream close before exploding it outward, snatching various artifacts and sometimes even people!
He clutched the close, biting his lips to keep the flow going. "Watch out, you people are going to get hurt~" He sang out triumphantly.
He was the broken one here, but never had it felt so good!
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Post by Azoth on May 20, 2016 19:25:28 GMT -7
Azoth’s first impression was to drop the roof or the floor or turn back on the lights, but to ruin a display such as this… she simply could bring herself to do it. Wrecking the show might result in a win, but that was the coward’s and a cynic’s way out of this fight. They’d have to beat Giza Kadabra and the other two pandemoniums in showmanship as well as firepower if they were truly to win.
Thankfully, though Giza had backup, including Bloodbath from earlier and the slightly intimidating Aurora Disicio, she wasn’t fighting alone either. Obviously Timezone was here (he was a little hard to miss), but her fellow keeper Arcanum was also present. She already knew Timezone fit great in the spotlight, and Arcanum seemed the type who could skillfully play both lead or supporting role. The stage was filled fine with the two of them.
Azoth backed away further from the pushing and panicking crowd (some of whom were trying to open the locked down doors, and others were yelling angrily at the failed security guards as if they didn’t already have enough on their hands), towards another row of grand jewels. The loss of too many of them (and the various bits of infrastructure that was not at all cheap to replace) would cost the museum she still wanted to take advantage of greatly. Azoth took a deep breath and quieted her mind. Gems and jewelry from the cases around her began to vanish, and below each case formed a small and significantly less sparkly cube of steel. Azoth’s brow was furrowed with concentration as she logged each piece she took. She’d have to remember them all later, or this effort was for moot.
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Post by Arcanum on May 20, 2016 20:07:58 GMT -7
This brat. Watching an inefficient criminal ploy around with the guards shouldn't bother her as much as it did. There are much better ways to pull off a heist. Fortunately, she didn't need to actually offer advice and only needed to beat him up. Of course Pandemonium world be full of idiots. This wasn't a new revelation or anything.
It looked like this time Arcanum was working with Time Kid again. . . and was that Azoth? Well, at least one of them should be useful. The part where she kept ended up with a bunch of children was starting to get annoying as well. Was she oldest one here again? Whatever happened to all the real supers?
Ah, there's no point in complaining. Arcanum didn't even want to talk to these people. Right now, it'd be more intimidating if she didn't say anything. Apparently she needed to be the mature one around here. They just needed to leave so she could enjoy the rest of her day off.
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Post by PANOPTICON Ver. 3.023 on May 20, 2016 20:26:22 GMT -7
PANOPTICON Ver 3.023 analyzing combat data... --- Interference (Obfuscation) by Giza Kadabra against Azoth results in SUCCESS, +5% combat advantage Accumulation (Summoning) by Arcanum against Interference (Obfuscation) results in SUCCESS, +10% combat advantage Accumulation (Information) by Azoth against Maneuver (Alteration) results in FAILURE due to suppression by the Interference (Obfuscation) Giza Kadabra used Accumulation (Summoning) by Bloodbath against Maneuver (Field) results in SUCCESS, +10% combat advantage Maneuver (Alteration) by Aurora Disicio against Timezone results in SUCCESS, +25% combat advantage Aggression (Subdual) by Timezone against Bloodbath results in SUCCESS, +30% combat advantage --- Current conditions: Arcanum Azoth and Timezone have immunity to Interference (Obfuscation) granted by the Accumulation (Summoning) Arcanum used Aurora Disicio Bloodbath and Giza Kadabra have immunity to Maneuver (Field) granted by the Accumulation (Summoning) Bloodbath used Combat advantage: Arcanum Azoth and Timezone have 40% Aurora Disicio Bloodbath and Giza Kadabra have 40% Current openings: None. (Click here to submit your next round's actions!)
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Post by Aurora Disicio on May 22, 2016 8:04:24 GMT -7
"Watch it Bloodbath! Those people aren't the ones you're fighting, they're not even attacking you. Focus!"
This was the downside with working with mentally unstable people. Not only were they completely unpredictable, but they tended to be easily distracted in her experience. That was certainly the case with Bloodbath at the very least. Fortunately, he could normally be intimidated into doing something useful with enough yelling, and kept happy with the occasional kind word or pat on the head. In the end, it was the only reason she could stand working with someone like that.
Aurora didn't let herself be distracted by her teammate too long though. Especially when a bit of slime was flying towards her. She ducked and it splattered on the floor behind her, though it didn't look like she even needed to duck. It was hard to tell with all the butterflies filling the room. It was even harder to see through than her own aurora tended to be when it wasn't condensed. When that slime grew into back into that Keeper, Aurora thought she was seeing things for a moment. A quick glance to the other side of the room showed that the super was still there as well. So that was her power? It was always difficult to get information on Keepers due to the nature of the order, so seeing them in action was always a treat. It was a shame that the other didn't seem to be doing much at all.
She smirked, continuing down the room, grabbing anything small enough she could fully absorb, along with the occasional display case or bit of floor. The particles went through the butterflies and past her face to join the rest of the cloud to harass Timezone some more. It made the butterflies glow much like her face did, putting on an interesting light show for the audience. She was sure they'd enjoy it if they weren't so terrified.
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