2014.09.03:Of Books and Burglaries pt1
| Of Books and Burglaries pt1 | |
|---|---|
| Someone got there first! | |
| IC Date | Wednesday |
| IC Time | Just After Sundown |
| Players | Silvester (Storyteller), Silvana, Sentinel, and Madeline |
| Location | Prospect |
| Prp/Tp | Of Books and Burglaries |
| Spheres | Vampire |
Log
Dear Mr. Xander,
I have a request for you. It appears that there was a specific first print, first edition of "A Tale of Two Cities" (img attached) that was recently purchased from ISP address xxx.x.xxx.xx. If you could, track down the physical address and retrieve the item. Nice and simple. Feel free to recruit who you need to. While I won't say time is of the essence, I would appreciate periodic updates if not an immediate resolution.
Sincerly,
P.
Silvana drives around the property as Sentinel flies above obfuscated.
It's not a gated community. It is a nice house though. There appears to be steel bars on the windows, a fortified doors, and cameras watching the property. The security features look recent like within the last week or two. Neighbors are close, but the neighborhood looks quiet for the most part.'
With no powers you see a roof, no chimney. It's a suburban house, much like the others but there are cameras watching the grounds around the house, and metal bars over the windows and secured doors. Voices of the castle shows one person in a basement and a slight ant problem'
The house is an upper middleclass suburban home much like the houses on either side of it. The house is at a bit of an angle allowing for more space in the driveway. The windows are barred and the doors appear to be security doors. Cameras survey the property with wires running into the house.
There are four cameras in total, one on each side of the house, two of them focused on a door (the front and the back).
Silvana steps out of her car after driving away and telling Nell to keep an eye on the place, they do have two ways radios. She starts to make little rat chirps though she must not be rather loud but apperently there was one that heard her call. She bends down and extands her hand having had some food on it, can't call a rat and not have some kind of food for it "Hello" she says rather friendly like trying to make some eye contact with the little rodent
Sentinel circles the building, keeping to the night sky. She uses her obfuscate to blend with the clouds, making sure not to be seen as she observes.
A single rat responds to the summoning. It's furtive at first but then it sees the food! It runs up and begins chittering greedily as it literally eats out of the palm of Silvana's hand.
Silvana smiles as she hopes to make eye contact so that she can get that link so that she can talk to the critter "Well hello, thank you for answering my call. I have a favor to ask you, there will be more food involved" she takes another piece of food and offers it "think you can do what I ask of you?" she does take the critter back to the car with her.
The rat seems to stand up and look into your eyes, it's pupils dialating as it nods slowly, it's will being bound to Silvana's direction.
Silvana smiles "I am going to put something on you. I want you to keep it on and then get inside a house. I will show you where it is. I want you to be as sneaky as you can and go in every room the higher the better and then come back out. Think you can do that?" she even lightly scratchs between the ears, rats like that you know
The rat blinks at you, a little confused. It nods slowly, seeming like it will give it, its best shot.
Silvana drives back to the house and puts on the little camera that she needs too, she test that it's working before she makes eye contact gain with the rat and guestures to the house "Go into that house, get inside and take a look around."
The rat dashes out with the camera, circles around the house and seeks out a vent. It takes a while for him to find it but when he's in he scampers about from room to room. It's always from the ground, but you see a house full of collectibles. In the basement there's an overweight staring at three screens in a poorly lit basement, eating junk food. No cameras inside the house.
The rat returns with the camera and looks up at Silvana expecting food. It blinks large black eyes at her, waiting for its food.
Silvana smiles and removes the camera from it's back and scratches it's head "You did reallly good.. you up for another task?" she sets food down as she promised "It's all yous. This one is really simple and i'll leave the window down so that you can come get your reward when your done" she tries to bargin with the rat. Hey they are really smart don't let the cuteness get to you
Sentinel watches Silvana with the rat. what a nice trick! Maybe one day she'll learn it.
The rat nods and dashes back towards the indicated camera, climbing up and pushing at the camera, trying to turn it away from the door. It seems to be mostly successful, moving it away from the door.
Silvana looks to Nell "When I say go we are going to jump t he fence and hopefully be able to pick the door before the camera catches us. You ready?" she does put up the hood up to somewhat hide her face.
Sentinel nods "I am ready." she says. "Would you prefer me fly you over the fence?" she asks n her odd gravelly voice.
Silvana looks at Nell "Let's go"
As you get around to the back of the house, eyes from a neighboring window do a double take, leaving Silvana with the impression that time is limited. The door is there and the camera is conveniently facing up and away from it.
Silvana tries to move quickly to unlock the door before the neighbors figure out what they saw. She tells Nell to hang back till the neibhbors go back in before she can fly inside.
Inside the home seems mostly dark, what you do see is the walls lined with collectibles, lunch boxes, toys, various things adorn the walls, The back door leads through a kitchen and dining room, there's a small den off to the side, and the hall continues to the master bedroom and the downward stairs that lead to the only occupant (other than a slight ant problem)
Silvana waits for Nell to join her inside before they quietly begin to head further into the house. Silvana is being very quiet and has her ears and eyes on alert listening carefully.
The house smells a bit stale, like it needs to be dusted more frequently, the smell of leftover fastfood might explain the ant problem, as would the crumbs that suggest vaccuuming is not a priority.
Silvana wrinkles her nose a little bit but continues on further watching and listening.
In the den, Silvana discovers a box from Ebay. It arrived two weeks ago. The packing slip indicates that the box held "A Tale of Two Cities" first edition. The price paid was $14,000.00. The box is currently empty and none of the books on the book shelf seem to match the book.
Silvana looks slowly around there must be something she is missing.
Looking under one of the windows in the den, you find a few tiny pieces of broken glass. The window though is clean and clear, there is even a slight smell of new paint. There appears to be a shelf of knicknacks that looks empty as well.
You find cupboards full of STUFF, so much stuff! But no secret compartment, and the more you search the harder it is to make sure all the collectibles end up back in the same position they were in.
Silvana sees in her minds eye the glass shattering from outside, there were no bars then and a masked figure jumps in, frantically searching, he sees the box with the book inside and the packing list, $14,000!!! and then grabbing the book he sees gold knickknacks on the shelf and sweeps them into a small bag, then there's the sound of a man yelling, "Is somebody there?" and the person who smashed the window is jumping out again.. The voice comes back, "Is somebody there?" this time from the here and now, but it's distant from the basement still.
Silvana takes a rather deep breath and opens her eyes as looks at the box then at the shelf one of those has to have a better impression to get a name to get something other than a masked figure, wait what kind of mask?
"Is somebody there?" is heard again from the basement, then the slow creak of a large body slowly working his way up the steps can be heard.
The heavy man makes his way up and peers about the area, "I've called the cops..." he says, though his eyes don't find anyone or anything out of place. He moves towards the back door, checking it and finding it unlocked. His eyes go wide and he huffs as he runs back towards his bedroom on the other side of the house.
Again Silvana is the kid sweeping his hand to gather the gold trinkets before panicking at the sound of a voice and jumping back out the window. Then you see a brief image of the man far more familiar with the shelf, the overweight man smiling as he sets the trinkets there. As you return, you hear him gasping in his bedroom, "911? Someone.. has.. broken into.. my house again... Please sent help..."
Silvana quietly makes her way out the door with Nell making sure no fingertrail or anything is left behind. Oh he does carefully bagg those pices of glass into a bag and takes them away maybe someone else will have better luck than she did. She then steps out and Nell flies off i'm sure and she keeps obs so the neighbors don't see her and away they go
Silvana is the night, she and Nell escape safely and easily and the owner spends the rest of the night trying to explain that 'no he did not accidentally leave the door unlockd. Rat feces covers the back of the camera, but the rat is nowhere to be seen.
Silvana is a bit frustrated things have not gone her way for a few days and it's starting to ware a bit on her. She closes her eyes taking deep breaths after driving away and making a call to her friend "Hey, I heard about the robbery at " gives the address "Can we talk?" she does look to see if the rat ate all the food before waiting to hear if she has a meeting or not.
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Silvana comes pretty late looking for Madeline at either home or where ever she is told that she would be, either the case Sil is looking for her must be important as she never does that "Sorry to disturb you Ma'am, but a book the prince is looking for has been taken from the last known location. I got some brief information but I was hoping that perhaps you might be able to find out more than I was able too" she has in her hand a small bag with some piece of glass that she offers over to Madeline.
Madelines curiosity is clear as indeed, Silvana has never sought her out. She nods and invites the girl in then reaches for the bag. "Please do be comfortable, do you wish me to know more of the situation or perhaps keep any impressions untainted?"
Silvana takes a breath "I've touched it already, I am hoping t hat you can find out more of the person who took the item. I know it's someone in a sky mask, that saw the price of the book and took it along with some golden knick knacks."
Madeline tips her head curiously "A sky mask?" she asks then nods "May I ask where this location was?"
Silvana says, "It was the person who had obtain the book some one named (gives the name cuz you know she'd know that). He is a rather big man need to really lose some weight and likes to collect things"
Madeline nods "and where was the location it was taken from?"
Silvana raises a brow "Some house in the subburb why?"
Madeline nods and opens the bag with a smile, "just trying to start putting things together" She draws herself a bit then touches the glass to try and read it
Madeline sees first Silvana creeping silently through the house, picking up the broken piece of glass then looking frozen as a heavy man calls out if anyone is in his house. He walks passed then runs back huffing. Then, further back in her minds eye, she sees the glass shattering from outside, there were no bars then and a ski-masked figure jumps in, frantically searching, he sees the box with the book inside and the packing list, $14,000!!! and then grabbing the book he sees gold knickknacks on the shelf and sweeps them into a small bag, then there's the sound of a man yelling, "Is somebody there?" and the person who smashed the window is jumping out again.. The voice comes back, "Is somebody there?" this time from the here and now, but it's distant from the basement still.
Madeline considers what she's seen and nods, putting the glass back in the bag "No information on the man in a ski mask other than his greed. How did he know to hit that house I wonder. What do you know fo the person who owns the home"
Silvana nods her head slowly "He is a collector. I haven't looked further than that.. Thank you Ma'am"
Madeline smiles and hands the bag back "Not at all, I would like to help futher if I might, the thief may have left evidence on the window frame"
Silvana shakes her head "I'm afraid that he didn't. I looked very carefully and they replaced the window and painted"
Madeline frowns a little "thats a shame" she admits "Is there aught I might do to aid you further Silvana?"
Silvana looks down at her phone as it rings "I need to take this. Thank you again Ma'am if there is anything I will definately be in contact with you."
