Harbinger Pt 1: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM(dib,clara,reverb,mark)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjXFjLTagQ

<Harbinger>: It's nighttime at the Belringur Academy, when an alarm rings off on the many S-Men's signal watches. It seems Hab has requested 4 S-Men to report down to the Hangar bay for the mission

Reverb doesn't really sleep at this point, so a little beep on the watch and she's moving down to the base.
Dibbles as a nocturnal creature is at the base within a minute, as he tries not to stray far away from the school during any nighttime prowls
ClaraW was was on her way home after a rather eventful and strange day out about the town, looking like a normal teenager before the watch went off. Letting out a light sigh she rocketed up to the sky and to the base
Wrong_Way fell asleep trying to study for a french test and is woken up by his watch. He nearly falls out of his chair at the sound of it. After reassuring himself that it isn't his morning alarm, he murmers that he's /not/ at the hanger bay.

<Harbinger>: Habeus is sitting at the head of the table, stifling a yawn, as he sorts through some paper work. As he sees everyone file in, he greets them with a smile
<Harbinger>: "Hey there guys, beautiful night today, eh?"
<Reverb>: "Is there a reason we were called?"
<Harbinger>: "Yeah, yeah, just doing some chit chat. down to business then."
Dibbles rocks back and forth in his chair impatiently
ClaraW yawns, taking a seat and lying back
Wrong_Way stretches out his back, trying to keep a yawn back.

<Harbinger>: Habeus grabs some papers, and starts to pin them to a bulletin board. "So, seems we have had a bit of a robbery on our hands here, today"
<Reverb>: "Anything particular about this one?"
<Harbinger>: "Well, it seems connected to a string of robberies that seems to be sweeping the nation. Some random guy in a cloak or something seems to be easily eluding the police, and, seems to have a taste for strange items. Worse of all, he actually stole from us today!"
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh please don't let it be the S-Jet..."
<Reverb>: "Do we know what's been stolen so far? Anything that could hint to where the guy would or will target?"
<Dibbles>: "Maybe it was a wiiiizaaaaard"
<Harbinger>: "No, Mark, the S-Jet is fine. As for the items, they all seem to be quasi-mytsical baubles of some sort. He even seemed to steal a book from the Library, and, a talisman from Mr. Franks room."
<Dibbles>: "Homygaaaawd it totally /is/ a wizard"
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh, well that's not too concerning."
<ClaraW>: "Has any of the security gotten anything on him?"
<Harbinger>: That's the strange thing. The guards don't seem to remember seeing the thief, but, he was clearly seen on camera, grabbing the items in question, right in front of them
<Wrong_Way>: "Weeeird."
<Reverb>: "What's special about the book? And the talisman, has Mr. Frank given any details on that."
ClaraW mutters something exasperated about having automated security
<Dibbles>: "How are we gonna find him?"
<Dibbles>: "Especially if he's like, sorta-kinda invisible."
<Dibbles>: "Oh, wait, I know! If the security cameras see him, we'll just looks through cameras or something! Do we have camera glasses? Are those a thing?"
<ClaraW>: "If we don't that's going on my list of improvements..."
<Harbinger>: "Well, the book seems to be on occult rituals. Specifically, resurrection. As for the talisman, it seems to generate minor healing capabilities. As for where he is, currently, a silent alarm got tripped at the museum, which is housing an exhibit on Ancient Sumerian mythology. And, to see him, we have....."
<Dibbles>: "Clara, we should call get scouters like you!"

HabeusKaiju pulls up a box, and pulls out four pairs of goggles
<HabeusKaiju>: We got the latest in Thermodetecting nightvision goggles!
<Reverb>: "Is that a recent thing?"
<HabeusKaiju>: So, even if he alludes your eyes, you'll be able to find his heat signature
<Wrong_Way>: "Neat."
<Dibbles>: "I kinda wanted a scouter but this is okay."
<ClaraW>: "That... isn't new at all but alright" She realizes more and more how much technological help she needs to give
<ClaraW>: "I'll make some soon"
<Wrong_Way>: "But Dibbles, then you'd only be able to see him half the time
<HabeusKaiju>: last thing said]
Dibbles takes a pair of goggles
<Wrong_Way>: http://mibpaste.com/Ah3nR1
Wrong_Way grabs a pair of goggles from HabeusKaiju
<HabeusKaiju>: So, take a pair each, and, get on down there, ya hear?
Reverb sighs and takes a pair, asking where this museum was anyway.
<HabeusKaiju>: The kids can all see their red silhouettes among the blue walls of the hangar, except for HabeusKaiju, which is completely white
<ClaraW>: "I have my own methods, thanks" She put the scouter on her head
<HabeusKaiju>: It's just three blocks away, so, if Clara can fly you guys, you'll be there in no time flat
Dibbles stands next to ClaraW as he adjusts his goggles on his face
<Wrong_Way>: "Alright then. Let's get us an invisible dude."
<HabeusKaiju>: "I'll seeya guys later! I'll order some pizza when ya catch the guy!"
ClaraW rose her hands, raising the for up into the air and gave them a chance to get accustomed/grab onto her for dear life.
<Wrong_Way>: "Man this is always weird." Mark says, slowly doing a flip as he floats in mid air
HabeusKaiju heads off, and dials a phone, the usual swearing, where Hab deals with a keypad occurs
*** HabeusKaiju is now known as Theif
Dibbles holds Clara's hand as his feet slowly begin rising higher than his head
*** Theif is now known as Thief
Reverb has accustomed to the floating, staying in position while adjusting the goggles around her neck
<Thief>: Thlef
*** Thief is now known as Thlef
<Wrong_Way>: you could do all caps]
<Thlef>: there we go]
ClaraW began flying them to the museum, holing Dibbles' hand as well
<Wrong_Way>: "I didn't know we even had a museum."
<Reverb>: "We have like, three or four. Most are in a regular state of being rebuilt though."
<Wrong_Way>: "Huh. That's...interesting?"
<Thlef>: As they get to the museum, the kids seem to notice a couple of guards near the front, unconscious, with a look of terror on their faces. The doors to museum seem to be cracked open a little.
<Reverb>: "Oh, guess this is the place."
<Dibbles>: "Looks kinda... scary."
Wrong_Way waves a hand in front of one of the guards' faces.
<Thlef>: Their eyes are wide open, but, they do not respond to the wave
<Wrong_Way>: "We can wake them up after we take of business inside."
ClaraW attached her gauntlet, several small robotic eyes began to float around her to give her 360 degree vision. One floated down to the body to scan it over for any evidence
Wrong_Way puts a determined face and starts heading to the doors of the museum.
Dibbles cloaks up and follows after
Reverb instead starts scaling up a wall, aiming for one of the higher up windows.
<Thlef>: The guards are alive. They seem to have no markings of a physical attack, but, their heartbeats are rapid, even still now. the name tags read Ross Crantz, and Guile Stein.
<Wrong_Way>: ["write those names down clara, we can send some flowers to them after we arrest this criminal."]
<Thlef>: the kids begin their trip instead, greeted by tall, marble pillars, paintings, ancient artifacts, and dioramas. Reverb scales the window, A large, stain glass window, where she finds a latchkey opening at the top, which should easily open, if she wishes
<Thlef>: In the centre of the room, seems to be a map of the museum
<ClaraW>: "Obvious state of shock of some kind, either induced pain or fear if normal means, possibly any kind of illusion or psychic based if mutant"
ClaraW dials up for them to get picked up as she approaches the map, the eyes scanning everything in sight for clues
Reverb climbs up a bit higher, pulling at the latch and opening up the windows, climbing into the building.
Wrong_Way looks around the room, since it's his first time in this museum.
Dibbles scales up one of the marble pillars
<Thlef>: ClaraW seems to pick up the heat residue of a hand resting on the left side of the built in map, and, what seems to be small specks of blood on the ground, heading towards the East corridor. the room they are in is modelled around the time of the caveman. Reverb, from her high vantage point, can see the flick of a cloak, as it turns the corner into the East wing
Reverb instantly starts running down to the East Wing, using her communicator to notify to the others that she has found the thief.
Wrong_Way looks at his watch as it lights up.
<Wrong_Way>: "Clara, you figure out where the dude went?" Mark says as he reads the message on his watch.
<ClaraW>: "We are dealing with a very mobile and a very tricky target, don't get cocky" She says over, following the heat signature as she worked her scouter to attempt to take over the security system of the museum
Dibbles quickly follows after Reverb, bounding from various places on the ceiling
<ClaraW>: "It... I'm going to the west side of the museum, there's a possible heat signature on the western side of the map"
ClaraW makes her way in the opposite direction as Reverb
Wrong_Way is left by himself and wonders who he should follow.
Wrong_Way sighs and follows after the direction Dibbles and Reverb went.
<Thlef>: Reverb, Wrong_Way and Dibbles follow after the figure, as the hallways shift from the time of cavemen, to that of medieval times. Suits of armor, both of men, and horses, line the halls, as well as tapestries describing ancient mythological beast. ClaraW connects to the cameras, seeing the figure hopping down the halls, and, clawing his way up a pillar.-
<Thlef>: She enters an area, decked out to resemble an ancient Egyptian tomb. Sarcophagi, Obelisk, and, real life mummies are shown around the area.
<Dibbles>: "EXCUSE ME SIR OR M'AM, BUT IF YOU'RE A WIZARD YOU DON'T NEED TO HIDE OR ANYTHING, SINCE I'M ALSO A WIZARD"
<Dibbles>: "WE COULD LIKE, BE WIZARD BUDDIES."
<Wrong_Way>: "Dibbles, they're more of a thief than a wizard."
<Dibbles>: "Well I mean there's all sorts of wizards."
ClaraW tapped her scouter to contact them. "There's a figure around the pillars of your room"
<Reverb>: "Alright, stay focused."
<Thlef>: The thief looks back, hanging from the pillar, and pulls a gun from his cloak, aims it at the kids, as it emit a high pitch sound at them, causing what seems to be bouts of vertigo
Reverb uses her headphones to cancel out the noise, throwing shards of crystal at the figure.
Dibbles digs his hands into the ceiling, hanging limply
<Thlef>: the thief tucks away the gun, and does a flip up to the top, running off, and coughing. Even with her headphones, the vertigo still seems to set in. Nearby, ClaraW hears a rustling from one of the sarchophaguses
<Wrong_Way>: "GAH."
Wrong_Way stumbles around a bit before tripping and laying on the floor
<Reverb>: "Shit. Donnie, help up Mark, I'll keep up the chase."
<Thlef>: After a couple of seconds the vertigo seems to subside, their senses back to normal
ClaraW turned the eyes to the source of the rustling, scanning and going out to investigate before her
Wrong_Way shakes his head after that and gets back up
<Wrong_Way>: "D-don't worry Frankie, I think i-it's gone now."
<Thlef>: The sarcophagus shakes
<Reverb>: [oop brb]
<Thlef>: a little, before stopping dead in it's tracks
<Wrong_Way>: [kk]
<Thlef>: I'll continue ClaraW's part for now then]
<ClaraW>: [oh, thought you had something else to say with it]
<Thlef>: no, sorry, thats about it]
ClaraW approaches the sarcophagus, looking intently at it
<Thlef>: As she approaches, it opens up quickly, as a blur flies past her head, and shoves her into the sarcophagus, slamming it shut. In the distance, she can hear what seems like the small laughter of a child
<ClaraH>: [back]
<Thlef>: As she approaches, it opens up quickly, as a blur flies past her head, and shoves her into the sarcophagus, slamming it shut. In the distance, she can hear what seems like the small laughter of a child
ClaraH lets out a small eep, but quickly flicks her wrist to blast herself out of the trap
<Thlef>: As she blast the door off the casket, she sees a tiny black blur whiz around the corner of the hall
<ClaraH>: The eyes jet around, recording everything and trying to slow it down to get a clearer picture of the blur. In the meantime she gives chase around the hall
<Reverb>: [back]
<Thlef>: The recordings seem to capture a small figure, which seems to have no heat signature on it. As she rears around the hall, it seems to have just disappeared, into what is now the Ancient Sumerian exhibit.
Reverb has no clue which way the figure went while the vertigo subsided. She sighs, cursing loudly and trying to get an idea.
<Reverb>: Before she does that though, she makes a pair of crystalline rods in her hands, tossing them to Donnie and Mark. "I might not be able to undo the vertigo completely, but these rods should cancel out most of the sound waves and reduce its effects. Keep 'em in case we split up."
<Thlef>: Reverb, Dibbles and Wrong_Way hear the patter of footsteps, as the man leaps across to the ledge on the other side, and books it down the hall, towards where ClaraH is
<ClaraH>: "Gozer better not be here..." She started to take a look around, going through the exhibit
Reverb breaks into a run, the nighttime greatly boosting her speed as she chases after the man once more.
Wrong_Way catches the rod and follows after.
Dibbles 's otter catches the rod as the two bound across the museum
<Thlef>: The exhibit houses many ancient artifacts, the largest seems to be a 20 foot tall statue. Made of Solid granite, and adorned with the bones of many, it depicts a horrifying looking man, with hair that seem to look similar to vines. In it's eyes, rest two blood red rubies, and, in it's hands, rest two bowls. At it's base, sits a descriptive little plaque.-
<Thlef>: the other three make haste after the Thlef, Reverb pulls ahead, due to her unnatural speed. Seeing this, the Thlef jumps, and, swings around the pillar, spinning back into to kick Reverb in the chest
ClaraH approached slowly, looking over the plaque
Reverb dodges and grabs the man's leg, tossing him further down the hall. She'll have a greater chance of nabbing him if Clara's assisting.
<Thlef>: It reads "He lies the statue of bɛnɪˌfæktə, the ancient Sumerian god of power, war, blood. Many sacrifices were performed on it, as the blood would be shed up top, and leak through a hole in the statues head, leading out of the mouth, and, into the two bowls" As she continues reading, she hears glass shattering, as a figure lies in a figure case, coughing
Dibbles tinkers with his goggles, wishing he had a cool scouter and team of robot eyeball minions
Wrong_Way shouts down to Reverb "DO YOU NEED ANYTHING, FRANKIE?"
<Thlef>: The man, seems to have broken legs, as they bend at an unnatural angle. His heat signature seems to be pulsing red
Reverb shouts back, "NO, I'M OKAY FOR- ACTUALLY COULD YOU LIKE COME HERE WITH A WEAPON OR SOMETHING AND HELP?"
ClaraH turns to look at the source of the coughing, mostly staying silent as the eyes continued to scan for evidence
<Wrong_Way>: "UH OKAY."
<Wrong_Way>: "Uh, uh, I don't have an spear!"
<Thlef>: before the scanner can properly calibrate, a large thudding sound fills the room, as well of the creaking of stone. reverb and Dibbles begin to see as the large statue seems to come to life, and glares at ClaraH, tossing a bowl towards her
Dibbles launches a projectile that intercepts the bowl before it hits Clara, doing a small jump and fistpump at his impeccable accuracy
Wrong_Way waits for a spear to appear and runs down to help with Reverb
<Reverb>: "It always has to be alive, doesn't it?" she asks with a sigh, readying a crystal sword in hand.
<Thlef>: The bowl clatters across the room, as the statue now sets it sight on Dibbles, beginning a run towards him
Dibbles launches another shadowy orb at the statue's face, before diving between it's legs
Wrong_Way reaches to where Reverb is fighting, catching his breath
ClaraH jumped out, floating in the air as the eyes orbited around her. To keep the statue from focusing on Dibbles too much they fire off small concussive blasts into its body
<Thlef>: The statue punches downwards, narrowly missing Dibbles. It seems to not being affected much by ClaraH's blast
Dibbles jumps into the air with a shadowy poof of smoke boosting him, his otter throwing the crystal rod and Dibbles catching it in midair, doing some flourishing spins for effect before flipping forwards and smashing it down onto the statue's head
Reverb slowly starts scaling the walls of the room, using her blade as support.
<Thlef>: It staggers a bit, trying to right itself up, sending a kick towards Wrong_Way, before getting hit in the head, and shudders, quickly cracking apart into rubble on the ground
Wrong_Way tries to block himself from the kick with the spear he has.
Dibbles descends back onto the ground with some more unnecessary acrobatic feats and sticks the landing, doing a small majorette twirl of his staff before finishing with a small bow and then giggling. his otter even creates a small poof behind him for extra flavor
<Thlef>: The cloaked figure still lies ther, not moving, and, his heat signature quite cold
<Dibbles>: "Frankie! Clara! Mark! Did you see that? Did I look cool?"
ClaraH gives a thumbs up to Dibbles
<Wrong_Way>: "Oh jeez."
<Reverb>: "Good job kid."
Wrong_Way carefully heads toward the theif laying on the ground
Dibbles looks around, unsure of what to do next
<Thlef>: His chest seem to have stopped moving, as his lies there, inside of the glasscase
ClaraH goes in to inspect further, trying to open up the case
<Thlef>: Inside the cloak is.... a mannequin!
<Thlef>: A mannequin stripped of its armor, as it has been tossed to the side in the fight. Even stranger, the statue seems to have reset back into place, except for two key things. The rubies have been swiped from its eyes, and, the words Praise Be, have been scratched onto the plaque description
<Thlef>: A breeze comes in from the room, as it seems a window was opened. The thief has escaped into the night, leaving behind only a shred of fabric, caught on the latchkey