[LoT] -Race to the paintings- Exodus and New age wolverine

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Spoiler

Mission Name: Mona Missing
Alignment: Villain
Type: Initiative
Rank: B
Description: The local art museum is doing a show on renaissance art, and the famous Louvre has loaned out some of its most expensive, and rare paintings. Several pieces by Leonardo Di Inchi, Baphael, Monatello, and Ficasso are on display. Their combined worth is enough to attract the attention of some of the most dangerous villains in the world. Your job is to rob them blind! Grab those paintings at any cost necessary, and sell them to the highest bidder.
Reward: 40 EXP

December 2nd. A long awaited day we're finally the bigwig event promptly named "picturesque" is scheduled to happen something Exodus has been waiting on for quietawhile. This event is scheduled to have all of the treasured and coveted pieces of art from around the world, each piece of art ranging from the tens of millions to the tens of billions, each painting is revered by many to be priceless making the showcasing of such art truly a wonder and an honor to behold but for fellow villains such as my self al it means is a fat piggy bank just waiting to be stolen, and that's exactly what I planned to do.

"Thank you gentleman"

I say in a convincing snobbis tone, the side shoes and 2 piece tuxedo only succeeding in amplifying my belongingness at such an event. Yes so as not to raise too much of an eyebrow I've strategically chose to war clothes with fitting such a prestigious event helping me reinforce the thinking that I belong in such places, unsurprisingly it worked as the guards let me inside the event withought so much as a question.

"Phase one complete"

I say as I grab the nearest drink closest to me.

@Axle

 

[Axle]

It was a cold night out in the town, and Laura was wondering the streets, still searching for answers as to where she belongs and where she came from. She also wanted to know about her powers, like where did they come from? What was there purpose? Were they meant to be used for good or evil? She pondered these questions as she walked down the sidewalk. Laura had on a black tanktop on underneath her grey hoodie which fit pretty snug on her with the word "Savage" written across the front of it. She had the hood upon her head as she walked, the jeans didn't protect her that well from the weather and her boots were hurting her feet from all this walking. But most of all, she was hungry, Laura hated the feeling of being hungry she felt tired and quite nauseous. While walking she caught the smell of several stores from all around her, she embraced the aroma. She HAD to eat, she walked past the nearby Subway. She walked in and the fresh smell of bread pleased her as she knew she was going to stuff it in her mouth in a matter of minutes.
She knew she would have to take the sub and leave as soon as the person finished making it. Luckily the store was mostly empty with a few people here and there but none in line. Laura walked up to the woman.

"E....excuse me?"

Even though Laura already had her mind made up that she would take off running as soon as she got the food, she couldn't help but feel a little guilt from just thinking about it. This guilt made it pretty hard for Laura to even talk. The slightly taller red haired woman turned around from the bread oven and looked down at Laura while smacking on her chewing gum.

"Ya, honey what can I make for you?"

This was the last time for Laura to think about the decision, this was the time to proceed or retreat. Her stomach reminded her that she had to survival she needed this. She couldn't turn back now, this world was a dirty cold world and she knew it. She disposed of her guilt and began to speak but not in her normal speech pattern. She was still nervous so she began to speak at a much faster tempo than usual. She knew the menu by heart, The Kinney's used to come here all the time when Laura used to live with them. Before that day....

"Yeah, I wanna foot long BMT with bacon please. Oh on Italian bread."

The woman immediately went to work pulling out the bread with what looked like pure muscle memory as she had one hand already in the meat section getting ready to pull out the salami and pepperoni. Laura loved meat, she was almost a pure carnivore. She spat out the rest of her order in the same fashion, each time realizing that the time was getting closer...and closer....until...

"Okay honey, that'll be $7.80, cash or car-"

Laura had already grabbed the sub, relying on nothing but instinct and the will to eat and survive to drive her to quickly turn around and make her way out of the store. The woman shouted behind her, but Laura was already in full throttle mode. She quickly analyzed the pedestrians as she exited the store without losing her speed at all. She made a sharp right turn, no policemen in sight. Laura then ducked low to blend into the crowd, the sub tucked tightly in her hoodie pocket. Her breath was warmer in the night air from the adrenaline pumping through her veins right now. Laura needed a place to go with alot of people so she could blend in and eat this sub. She saw a crowd of people being funneled into this building. She stealthily dipped in the line so well that nobody even noticed her. She was also funneled into the building with the guard at the door asking where her money is.

"Oh...it's with my grandparents their walking up now."

Laura then pointed to a nearby elderly couple that were walking up to the door. As the guard looked at the old couple, Laura moved by him into the sea of people already in the building. She was not dressed for the occasion at all. It doesn't matter though, she would eat the sub and then just sneak out a window in the back. As she looked around, she saw weird looking paintings on the wall. Ewww....art.

 

[jagged]

Time, a key component in this mission and something I don't have a lot of. Understanding what's at stake I immediately start to mingle with people in the room, asking questions about what they know of "picturesque". 30 minutes into the event and I've collected enough information to move forward to phase 2 of the plan... Or so I would like however there's been a minor set back. I grumble angrily as I use my peripheral vision to eye the 3 cameras placed strategically around each of the paintings.

"****ing cameras"

I swear silently as the edition of the cameras make it almost impossible to get the job done alone. Instinctively I knew that to eve hope of completing this job I needed a partner and someone who's competent at what there doing, someone with real experience in dirty work and most important of all someone who could keep a secret but where am I gonna find that in a place like this?

"That money's as good as gone"

I search inside the crowd of people for anyone that even partly fills the requirements I've laid out when all of a sudden I see her. Standing a little off to the side is a girl in s grey hoodie and boots someone who is clearly standing out from the regular attire the people in this event seems to wear. I couldn't see much through the hoody but the girl looked weak and weakness is something I despised, Well beggars can't be choosers. Walking towards the girl I put on my friendliest smile and stuck my handout for a shake.

"Hey! Nice to see you, normally I'd love to keep talking but I really don't have a lot of time so I'll make this fast. Do you wanna do a job for me right now? It's only a one time thing and if we succeed we will split the money, that's all I can tell you until you agree"

I carefully looked at the girls face for a reaction while I was saying my speech, controlling the sound waves of our conversation to be muted for other people incase they might be listening in.
D rank tech: Acoustic manipulation

Spoiler

Technique Name: Acoustic manipulation
EXP: 5
Type: mutation
Rank: D
Description: Another core ability of exodus grants the user control over sound waves, at any point in time the user can manipulate a simple sound to be become aggravatingly high or to a completely muted mode. High pitched sounds have the pronounced effect of disorienting anyone who hears them granting a -5 to intelligence.

Note: Debuff lasts 1 turn.

 

[Axle]

As laura was looking for a room to quietly eat her sub, while she was observing the room. She saw a man approach her, what did he want? Did he smell the onions from the sub? If so, he probably has no idea of what she had just done. The man puts on this creepy friendly smile as he stretched his hand towards her.

"Hey! Nice to see you, normally I'd love to keep talking but I really don't have a lot of time so I'll make this fast. Do you wanna do a job for me right now? It's only a one time thing and if we succeed we will split the money, that's all I can tell you until you agree"

A job? What kind of job? Laura needed money BAD. If she had some, she wouldn't have to keep stealing like she just did. She'd probably use the money to just go back and drop it off at subway just to clear her conscience. She didn't know the man and if she could trust him. The creepy smile does make her question his intent. But she did need the money. Laura nodded still studying the man, not knowing if she could trust him yet. She began reading his slightest movements with her well-trained eyes.

 

[jagged]

Watching her nod a "yes" to me only made my smile grow wider.

"Good, the plan is to steal all the rest of the paintings and sell them on the market for a high price to do this however we need the cameras disabled, that's where you come in. Your job is to find the camera room and shut down the cameras so that I can do my own work, if everything goes well will meet at a pub on 23d street"

I then reach in my pockets, grab a piece of paper with writing on it and it to her.

"This is the directions to the pub incase you didn't know we're it is also when the cameras turn off you need to immediately run as the pictures being moved from their positions will certainly trigger some alarm but it won't matter. Just remember if we make good on this job millions of dollars could be yours now go, I'll know when the cameras turned of by watching the red light on the cameras body shuts off"

I mute out the whole conversation to other people around us and take steps back from the girl, watching her face to see what she would do.



D rank tech: Acoustic manipulation

Spoiler

Technique Name: Acoustic manipulation
EXP: 5
Type: mutation
Rank: D
Description: Another core ability of exodus grants the user control over sound waves, at any point in time the user can manipulate a simple sound to be become aggravatingly high or to a completely muted mode. High pitched sounds have the pronounced effect of disorienting anyone who hears them granting a -5 to intelligence.

Note: Debuff lasts 1 turn.

 

[Axle]

As Laura agreed she noticed his smile grow even wider, a few seconds before that would have seemed impossible.

"Good, the plan is to steal all the rest of the paintings and sell them on the market for a high price to do this however we need the cameras disabled, that's where you come in. Your job is to find the camera room and shut down the cameras so that I can do my own work, if everything goes well will meet at a pub on 23d street"

Laura finally read him. This guy was a crook, he wanted to steal all of the paintings. He was going to sell them and get a lot of money...money that she needed. He was offering her a cut. She could try to stop him but then she would still be broke AND the police would just arrest her for this sub in her pocket. Her best option was to just help and get a piece of the loot. Then this would be the last crime she would do, she promised herself.

"This is the directions to the pub incase you didn't know we're it is also when the cameras turn off you need to immediately run as the pictures being moved from their positions will certainly trigger some alarm but it won't matter. Just remember if we make good on this job millions of dollars could be yours now go, I'll know when the cameras turned of by watching the red light on the cameras body shuts off"

Laura grabbed the piece of paper which led her to their meeting point. She stuck it in her left jeans pocket. She got her mission which seemed harmless. She would just turn off the camera's he'd steal the paintings and then they'd both get out quick as possible without anyone getting hurt. She turned away from the individual, but was he serious. I mean some stranger just came out of nowhere and told her to turn off the camera. What if he was some sort of undercover cop trying to set her up or if this was just a mean joke. There was not turning back. She was not going to turn down this opportunity to make some easy dough. She began merging into groups of people traveling from painting to painting trying to see her avenue of approach for this camera room. She didn't even know where it was. But she knew who would. She saw a security guard down this corridor to her right guarding a single door. Laura began walking towards the man with fake tears in her eyes as she sniffles.

"Hey, kid where are you going?"

Laura who was now within arms distance of the man looks up to him. She rubber her left eye. The corridor was poorly lit but if what the man said was right then the cameras would have red lights on them. Laura in a matter of mili-seconds quickly glanced around the room not seeing any red lights. The coast was clear, no cameras in site and the people behind her were too distracted by the vibe of the room full of paintings to pay them any attention.

"I...I just need to use the little girls room. My mommy told me to meet her there."

She could see the pity in the man's eye as she told him her sob story. The man pointed behind her with his right hand directing her to the bathroom.

"Quit crying kid. Just go back and make a-"

Laura quickly grabbed the mans arm and flipped him over her shoulder making sure to bounce the back of his head off of the hard ground. With the man knocked out, she dragged him into the same room he was guarding which WAS the camera room. Laura was getting ready to interrogate the man until she saw the back of a fat cop who sitting in front of approximately 10 monitors of the entire event. Laura snuck up behind him, he must have thought that security guard must have came back into the room since he did not move a muscle and stayed focused on the monitors. Laura applied pressure to the pressure point located in the back of his neck knocking him out. She then began fondling with the camera switches until she finally manages to turn off all the cameras. The images that were once on the monitors was quickly replaced with static. Laura had no idea how she even did it.

 

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After the chat with the girl I immediately went back to mingling knowing in the back of my head i would need some kind of alibi just incase I get caught when suddenly from the corner of my eye I saw the power lights on the cameras turn off.

"Show time"

I whisper with a barely concealed smile as I released bursts of gamma radiation into the air. As the radiation spread the room turned a light green, fits of coughing and howls of pain could be heard as the guests succumbed to radiation poisoning. I coughed and feined sickness to avoid being spotted out if the guests here were to be questioned and waited until the last guest had fallen dead to attach my clown mask.

"That was fast"

I remarked as I carefully stepped over the bodies one by one until I arrived at the paintings. Wasting no time and caring very little for delicacy I shove any paintings and art I could find into my trench coat alarms blared as I set off the defense system carelessly. Grabbing all that I could fit I rushed to the back door of the building, sprinting as fast as my legs could take me as I made a beeline for my warehouse were I could lay low and sell the paintings.

"Hope she got out"

I think as the image of the skinny girl and the promise he made with her surfaces to the front of his mind.

" She's probably wondering if I'll actual got through with what I said, don't worry girl I always make good on my promises"

move used
B rank: Expulsion

Spoiler

Technique Name: Expulsion
EXP: 20
Type: Mutation
Rank: B
Description: The core ability of exodus is to produce and control gamma and acoustic radiation, with this in mind Exodus initiates the technique by constantly expelling large amounts of gamma radiation up to mid range. Gamma radiation has the distinct trait of breaking down and destroying the Dna of living beings, traits of what will now be referred to as "gamma radiation poisoning" is the occurrence of sever nausea and hemorrhagic symptoms,any living being touched by the gamma radiation receives damage according to 1/2 of his Energy Status, in relation to the target's Durability attribute and -5 to intelligence every 2 turns. Gamma radiation can be identified by its green gaseous color and unlike other radiations it has the distinct ability to harbor in clothes and items it so happens to touch, items that have been contaminated with gamma radiation now inflict the above effects if touched by living flesh, this does not prove true for led however as gamma radiation cannot contaminate it.

Note: upon activation the technique remains passive until the user is in someway incapacitated. Though it also means he is unable to perform other Radiation related techniques.
Note: Led items can not be contaminated by the radiation

 

[Axle]

After Laura deactivated the system, she knew it'd be a matter of time before her actions were noticed. She looked above her noticing an air vent. She quickly jumped up knocking out the crate and began crawling memorizing the construction of the building she knew that if she went right and kept straight it'd take her to the wall of the building which she did. At the end of the vent, she knocked out another air crate which led her down another hallway. As she jumped down she heard the alarm sound. It had started, she found the nearest window and opened it, somehow she was 2 stories high. She could see the people under her on the streets below look around in confusion as the alarm rang all through downtown. She looked at the building across from her, it was quite a leap. She backed up a couple of feet to get a head start, then ran as fast as she could. She leaped from the building, She then extended her claws and punched the building across from her latching onto the wall. She made her to the fire escape on that building and stopped. She got a whiff of the scent from the man who was now her accomplice. She climbed up the building all the way unto the roof and began leaping from building to building she pulled out the paper the man gave her and began analyzing the paper to the direction in which she traveled to calculate where 23rd street was. She eventually found the building and sat atop a roof of the building across the street from the pub. She wanted to be careful. She kept track of his scent to determine his location, she wasn't going down until she felt the scene was safe.

 

[jagged]

I made it to my safe house in a matter of minutes and immediately phoned the customer to tell him I've got his prize. For the most part everything went smoothly, luckily the buyer didn't live far away so it only took a couple of minutes for him to come and pickup the package with pay of course. With the deal finished I counted the money and divided it by half the amount, putting half of the pay into a black suitcase I walked out the safe house into the direction of the pub. Walking towards the pub in a nonchalant manner I spotted the girl into place of the building,

"I've come as agreed, the pay totalled 14 million leaving 7 million for you and 7 million for me all of your half is in this black suit case."

I say these words in a low hushed tone, manipulating the sound waves of my voice to appear at a normal tone towards the girl while everyone else heard nothing. I talked as I walked towards a tree, never making eye contact with the girl, and layed the suit case on the tree.

"My cards in there for you to get ahold of me if you need another job, I'll keep in touch"

Saying these words only the girl could hear I walk away from the suit case and tree not even turning my back once to see what happens.





move used

D rank tech: Acoustic manipulation

Spoiler

Technique Name: Acoustic manipulation
EXP: 5
Type: mutation
Rank: D
Description: Another core ability of exodus grants the user control over sound waves, at any point in time the user can manipulate a simple sound to be become aggravatingly high or to a completely muted mode. High pitched sounds have the pronounced effect of disorienting anyone who hears them granting a -5 to intelligence.

Note: Debuff lasts 1 turn.

 

[Axle]

Laura somehow heard the man while everyone else didn't looked phased at all by what he just said. Which meant that only she had heard it. Was it telepathy? No. He definitely moved his lips back at the art exhibit while he was talking which meant that it wasn't telepathy. He could manipulate sound in a way that only the people he wants can hear him. She had deduced his powers, but that couldn't have been just it. He had to have had a second power to get all of the paintings without a scratch. Laura crawled down the fire escape of the building and walked towards the tree in which he dropped the suitcase. Laura walked off with, not wanting to open it just in case it was a trap and it was going to explode. She didn't want anyone else getting caught in the explosion. Laura went a couple of blocks until she arrived at the docks. She opened the briefcase and saw cash right there. She didn't have to commit a crime again, she could do what she wanted. She also saw a card with the guys number on it, she put it in her pocket, she felt like she might need it again. Laura then made her way to subway to drop off the money for the sub she had stolen.

 

[Vex]

-Mission Successful and EXP awarded-

Nice RP guys! However, I've never been a fan of quoting someone's dialogue in your post to respond to it. Maybe putting it in quotation marks next time?