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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 15:34:24 GMT -8
Eli found a parking spot nearish to the front door for the hatchback. It had clunky shifting and drove like it had been sitting in a desert for ten years. Getting out, he saw Darren getting out of the van. He looked nervous as was possible for a vampire to look. WTF, dude?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 15:49:37 GMT -8
Darren- "Tsht. Nothin'. Why? Anything wrong with you?"
He was afraid, but at least still having the sense to talk quietly & lean on vampire hearing.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 16:04:08 GMT -8
Darren- "Ready as I'll never be."
He fell in beside Eli, pulled up his hoody, and started walking toward the store. Darren- "I got the magnets in my backpack. We look for the floor safe and shadow out or whatever, right?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 16:13:25 GMT -8
Darren- "It's in my backpack too. Wanna ack like we don't know each other when we get in the door?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 16:27:31 GMT -8
Darren- "Knock yerself out."
Eli entered the Shop Mart. Expansive aisles, shiny wax floors. Giant lights on scaffolds below the distant ceiling. He clocked big-ass mirrors and security cameras all over the place. Awesome...
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 16:41:25 GMT -8
Staff looking at him. How does he play off his suspicious attire?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 16:52:38 GMT -8
This dude rolled up on him.
Employee Dude- "Can I help you find anything tonight sir?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 17:06:35 GMT -8
He seemed to buy it, at least for the moment.
Employee Dude- "Oh, yes, well. Sporting goods is a few aisles that way. Want me to show you?"
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 17:17:17 GMT -8
Sure enough, the guy was quick to wander off after getting him to the right aisle.
Now was the time to think on vampire powers. What would shadows look like on camera? Do people really pay as little attention to the supernatural as Vitus says? Would they assume it was a flaw in the video, if they saw it at all? And if he did use shadows, where would he put himself? The cameras and mirrors assumed people monkeying around in the aisles, what about going above them?
Eli looked up... Going on the ceiling, now that was an idea. After all, most people rarely looked up, not without good reason. Especially not with those fluorescent lights, that would be pretty annoying. He could use his shadow powers to conceal himself, then climb up to the ceiling, maybe even tamper with those videos. Though, would that matter anyways? At least at BADA, he knew they usually deleted the security footage after a day or so, just from helping some people with campus disputes. Maybe it'd be the same there?
Well, only one way to find out... Climbing time.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 17:31:44 GMT -8
The excessively illuminated environment disintegrated shadows as he teased them out of the cracks in the shelves. He walked along, feeling out the limited darkness hiding from the light. On a side wall, he saw a space between two sets of shelves, with a fire extinguisher and first aid kit. The shadows slipped out and folded him in, sheltering his ascent from view...
But once he was above the shelf level, the light was too bright to allow him anything to work with. He was up, crawling in plain view on a brightly lit wall. People don't look up, that's what they say. Don't look up, people.
High above was the scaffolding that supported the tubes of HVAC, electrical, and sprinkler systems above, and the giant lights below. Above those lights, the ceiling was much more comfortably dim. Skylights revealed nothing of the nighted world outside.
Eli kept crawling, getting to where he needed. While he was up there, with the superior vantage point, he looked around. What kinds of things did he find noteworthy?
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 17:43:42 GMT -8
He saw a Darren laying on top of a shelf unit.{originally} Eli - "Pssst....Darren....Come to the ceiling!" Eli spoke quietly to Darren, just a whisper. If he was a human, that would have been impossible to hear, but Eli was pretty sure that guy had picked up on even bugs crawling.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 23, 2016 17:57:32 GMT -8
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 24, 2016 18:05:15 GMT -8
Darren- "Ain't nothin' safe about this."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 24, 2016 18:22:47 GMT -8
He contemplated the scene below. Darren- "... I think maybe... just to keep it less confusing, we wait til the guy is going out and jack him there. No safes involved... See, that's the offices. Guy'll come in over there, get the money, come out that way. From up here we can see if he's got a bro keeping an eye out, and drop on both at the same time. Stand and deliver, boyos."
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Eli - "That's a good point. These are just regular office nerds, so it shouldn't be hard, right? Do you think we should knock 'em out to buy us some extra time?" Seemed to him like a chokehold might actually be kinder than holding a Glenny at gunpoint for an extended period of time.
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Apr 24, 2016 18:35:48 GMT -8
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