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Janine Liberi     The first branch of the Alpine International Group presents itself to the world as a staunch, stern staircase of black marble leading to an archway with a pair of thick wooden doors set into the base of a mountain. This is, obviously, too grand to actually be the first real branch, but that's what the paperwork says.

    The customer service area is a relatively cozy place in stark contrast to the austere exterior. There's the waiting area with the usual box of toys (including the wire-and-bead thing that just spawns in every bank and doctor waiting room), some side rooms for meetings, and thick bulletproof glass separating the tellers from the customers, complete with fancy slots that open in close automatically in response to the teller's hands coming close to them. It all looks very secure and fancy,

    But present company are not in that lobby. Not immediately at least.

    Deep within the mountain that the bank is built into is their servers that contain details of all their transactions. Most are dedicated to their purely above-board accounts. But others that are not connected to any network are also housed. Criminal money, both white-collar and organised, are manually entered and updated into these ones by the higher-ups and their information is secured by lack of access, the bank's security, and Switzerland's strong bank secrecy policy.

    But it is not Watch-proof.

    They gather upon the mountain, which is actually a national park. "Server rooms generate heat, and a lot of it. There's only so much you can do with liquid cooling in such a big space too. So there's an air vent up here somewhere. They've probably concealed it, so we got some heat vision goggles here. Scout around, shout over the radio when you find a place warmer than everywhere else. From there, we'll break in, set off fire alarms to force an evacuation, and start copying the server files."

    It's a sensible plan, but... Janine is clad in some strange ensemble. A white leather bodysuit like what a motorcyclist would wear, covered in pouches, pockets and zippers, along with matching gloves and boots. A full-head helmet with a reflective visor. Her voice is emitted from a speaker in a harsh, distorted tone that erases all trace of her voice. Between that and the padded suit, she's completely featureless. No way of telling who it would be had she not greeted everyone with the visor up.
Damocles The Chaos Sorcerer, Damocles, has arrived to help in the daring heist.  While he has no vested interest in seeing this data obtained and released, he has a sort of...professional stake in it, and so was compelled to enlist to help. 

Still, he isn't entirely in the spirit of the heist.  For one thing, he isn't wearing a disguise.  That might be because he's a 10 foot tall superman so there are only so many times you can go wearing a bear costume before the bear costume -becomes- your normal outfit.   Also, being a giant wizard in a light cyan robe with glowing eyes doesn't really give the game away for the rest of The Watch.  Damocles has done a good bit of mercenary work, and his relationship with the Watch isn't precisely known publicly. 

Plus, if these people want to send mercs into the Warp after him, they're welcomed to try.

Looking for heat signatures isn't really his thing, though.  While his vision is enhanced, he doesn't see into the thermal or infrared bands.  He does take one of the goggles, and holds it up to his eye, the set being a little too small for his head.  That works fine for him, as he can do his searching through two spectrums:  One eye looks around for heat spikes, and the other, for magical spikes.

Never know when someone has set up spellwards. 
Big Boss Big Boss is not alone today. A young woman dressed in goggles and a jumpsuit-like uniform joins the group, red-haired and with a smirk, shotguns on her back. Dakkar. The commander himself is looking over the plan, and once Janine finishes speaking, nods.

"Thermals. We packed our own, save the extras. Will radio when we have a match."

Big Boss is in his trenchcoat, as he pops on his thermal goggles, and moves off with Dakkar. The two of them will stick together - Dakkar's role is to scout out anyone coming for Boss as Boss focuses on scouting the mountain with his goggles.

He's looking for a high place in the 'national park' area to perch. A hill looking up at much of the mountain, a large tree that can be climbed by him or Dakkar, or something. He avoids looking at the 'lobby' because that's going to generate heat either way. There needs to be a second heat space.

While he's doing that, though, Outer Heaven is being tapped for the same goal. Intel Team is to look into construction work at this mountain, as far back as they need to. What's the best place to look? They're unlikely to find exact locations, but they can make sure he's not looking at utterly the wrong part of the mountain.
Karlan Nobles      Although Pramanix has had some experience in getting around unseen, she's feeling rather enthused about her recent successes as an assistant to Janine's goals. "If there's a vent for the heat, then it should be even easier to see them if the rest of the false positives are cooled down. Even from here..."

    Pramanix slips on one of those heat vision goggles, then starts ringing her bell as she begins her incantations. ALthough she's not sure where to start, she's confident that she can tell the difference between the actual vent they're looking for and more mundane sources of heat, like backup generators and light sources.

    She doesn't rain down blizzards upon them, of course, since that'd just draw too much attention to something being off. Instead, she directs some chilly gusts around those potential false positives, trying to narrow down where their real target could be and minimizing visual garbage being fed into the group's goggles.
Xion Xion wears the most classic disguise that leaves her totally immune to all scrutiny beyond 'light shoo-ing': That of a Hoodie Punk Girl, with an indigo zippered hoodie and dark grey skirt, black leggings, and sneakers. The draws on the hoodie match the cloth, and she jams her hands into her pockets as she loiters in a quarter-slouch.

"I thought this would be really easy, actually. I'd just feel the thing, and then go in and get it. But computers don't have hearts -- at least, these ones don't. So we want to get off this cold mountain into a warm place to stop bad guys from making bad fake money instead of good fake money?"

Big Boss's presence draws an direct response from the otherwise disaffected youth. "Sorry, I don't smoke." She decides, waving off the...

... complete lack of interaction Boss directed at her. Maybe it's an expectation based thing?

Either way, she follows along with Boss once he moves out. "Why would there be a bank so far away from people? Also, are we looking for an air vent to infiltrate a secret evil base?"

"Are we *secret agents*?"
Janine Liberi     Looking through magical bands reveals nothing. Indeed, there's not a single thing radiating magic anywhere in this world. It's purely mundane, save oddities like Janine it seems.

    Boss and Dakkar find one of those wooden platforms on stilts you see in big parks like this. Ranger stations for looking out at the trees and cliffs. From here they have a pretty good look at the south side of the mountain. The Intel Team finds the security footage from the cameras of the park's parking lot on an easily-hacked server. Pouring through the logs, they do find a couple of times that Alpine International's personal repair team arrived and went up the mountain packing tools. At one point, they are accompanied by another van with the logo for a company specialising in artificial plants.

    Pramanix drives the temperature of the mountain down. It's already kinda cold, being a mountain in the Swiss alps, but the cool air from the top blowing down helps erase incidental warm spots created by the sun.

    Together with Janine who takes to the air and flies around the mountain, they all eventually find something. A certain tree about 400m above the bank floor is far warmer than all its surrounding neighbours. While the bark and the leaves would feel real to the touch, careful observation would reveal they are synthetic. Further careful examination would reveal no security at all, so Janine slices it down with Catherine's threads that wrap around nearby trees to help slowly lower the false plant to the alpine floor.

    It's hollow. Hot air spouts from the hole along with the sound of whirling fans. "Bingo," Janine says in that distorted voice. More thread spills into the hole and starts wrenching the fans from their mountings and pulling them out to clear the way. "I'll go in first and set up a net to catch you all. From this high up, falling all the way in... yeah you'll about hit terminal velocity, and the shaft looks too narrow to climb down in a reasonable time before someone notices what's up. If you've got anything to maybe distract security before we head in, now's the time."
Damocles Damocles inspects the tree a little as the new entrance is pulled open.  This place is supposed to be of the highest security, so he feel it's very unlikely that they would leave this unmonitored.  While he could help with pulling the thing open, Damocles feels like he has another, more useful skill he can contribute.

Instead, he goes looking again.  Not for heat, but for cameras.  There is certainly going to be cameras monitoring this area.  FInding them quickly will be very important.

If he manages to find them, he has a particular skill which will be very useful:  Illusions.  When he finds a camera, he will quickly look from its perspective the location the team is working from. From there, he will then conjure up an illusion, a large wall showing the location, tree and all, completely alone and undisturbed. 

From the perspective of any cameras he's hoping to fool, the wall should look precisely like the mountain they expect to see.  No Watch, tree intact. The illusion will last at least an hour or two if undisturbed, and he cautions people away from touching them. 
Karlan Nobles      "People with lots of money tend to want to hide it. Not paying taxes, laundering it, hiding it from significant others... Money can make people do incredibly convoluted things." Pramanix replies to Xion, cricking her neck once after the target is finally spotted. With Janine detailing their plan of entry, the snow leopard adjacent weighs her options on how to get around distracting security.

    "I had an idea if we needed someone going in from the front, but if we're going straight to the sneaking part... Er. That's quite the steep drop, isn't it?" Peering into the vent, she wrings her hands anxiously while looking towards the general direction of the lobby. "Y-yes. A distraction... I can help with that."

    The incantations start anew, and snow begins to fall on the lobby. It's not too long before the snow turns to hail, battering just about everything that isn't covered by something intended to be battered by hail. Cars, lights, doors, nothing is safe from Pramanix putting off having to actually jump down that shaft!

    .. Until she's the (or nearly the) last person left to actually jump down the thing. She inhales slowly to psyche herself up, then stuffs her hat into her mouth and bites down on it before diving right in.
Big Boss Boss is reminded that it's SMOKE TIME by Xion, lighting himself a cigar. "Consider this the top secret vault. Spies, yes, we are."

Boss suddenly remembers his time parachuting in the Soviet Union. He takes a breath, and then jumps down after Janine towards the net she sets up. Dakkar dives in not long after.

"That was fun." She'd say after, rubbing her head, keeping thermals on for any security inside.
Xion "But that's really really hard. Don't they already have lots of money? Society allows them to get really wealthy becuase they were lucky. Shouldn't they be more willing, not less, to pay taxes? Hiding it..."

Xion's fingers tighten into a fist tight enough to cause a soft 'clenching' sound effect. "None of that makes sense. You can excuse it with 'it's intelligent' or 'it's challenging' or them wanting more money, but this level of hoarding - a secret vault! - sounds like some sort of mythological creature, not a human person."

"Like a dragon. Well, I know what you do with dragons!"

Jumping down the pit after Janine sets up, Xion wall-slides to break her descent at steady intervals, so when she lands at the bottom she barely needs a net!

"Boss, it's an air vent, not a chimney!" She complains, waving a hand in front of her nose to dispel the deadly VENOM of SECONDHAND SMOKE.
Janine Liberi     Damocles looks for a camera, and finds one. But it's not a security camera. Or doesn't look like one at least. It's a concealed camera set up for watching wildlife. It's not connected to anything, so presumably someone comes along and takes it away to dump the footage. Either way, better safe than sorry. Hopefully no rare birds fly by while the illusion lasts. It seems that Alpine International is banking on secrecy being their shield up here. Wiring security cameras would just draw more attention to the locale.

    Though Xion insists it's not a chimney, it is still grimy as shit as she slides down. It stinks too. And it's a long fall. Janine was right, if you just jumped down, you would bounce hard against the walls before impacting the floor hard enough to potentially kill you. Thankfully, a net of golden threads is there to decelerate everyone's fall and safely deposit them on the floor of the server room.

    The place is well-lit by flourescent lightning and the floors are polished. Rows upon rows of server banks hum away, generating dry heat that permeates the air. Wires neatly intersect, all taped down and parcelled for the sanity of whatever IT engineer maintains this place. However, curiously, there are no security cameras in here. "I expect they want plausible deniability in case that server ever comes to light. No cameras in here means no way of proving who was accessing it," Janine comments.

    The server itself is easy to find. It's the one with the least wires, and the one with the old CRT computer hooked up to it. "No wireless features at all, just in case," Janine points out. There's a sign next to it reminding whomever uses it to wipe down the keyboard with provided wipes "to prevent the spread of illness." "And to erase fingerprints," Janine adds.

    The old interface presents a minor challenge, but Janine thankfully has brought an appropriate connector to hook the thing up to an empty data storage device. Plugging it all in, it begins downloading the contents of the server and the PC both. "This is going really well," she comments, when suddenly, the door to the server room hisses open.

    "Hide," she hisses over the radio bands before getting behind a server. Three sets of footsteps approach them.
Damocles Damocles does indeed set up the illusions even for small cameras that don't seem involved.  Better safe than sorry.  Once he's done with the illusion however, he gets a better idea.  He simply takes the camera.  Could be useful later.  If nothing else, hey...free camera.

As others start jumping down the ventilation shaft, Damocles takes a look down, and opts to...not do that thing.  For one, he'd probably not fit.  For two...Yeah, no thanks.  Instead, he just watches to get an idea how deep it is, so he knows where the chamber below is. 

As the others move below, he follows along, but on the surface of the mountain above.  He doesn't feel any need to be down there inside the server room right now.  His knowledge of this world's computer system isn't going to be very helpful, and he can always relocate if needed.  For now, he'll hang out up on the mountain admiring the snowy view.

When someone calls out to hide, shuffles some snow around with his feet and makes a half-hearted attempt to duck behind it.  "Okay hidden!  Oh wait you probably mean just the people down there."
Xion Hide.
Hide?
Where would someone hide? Xion reaches out with her feelings to touch the heart of the trio that enter the room. It doesn't matter so much where she hides: it matters where those three won't look.

"If I have to hide, I'll need a good idea, and sneaking skills. Boss!"

Xion extends a hand towards the legendary soldier, soft wisps of something intangible floating out of Boss and into Xion's palm. Her fingers close around a muted flash of light. "With this, I'll hide--"

With a flash of insight, Xion looks around the Server Room, selects an able with excellent cable management, and shimmies into the recess between the servers and the wall. It'll be hot - but thanks to the power of Big Boss, it'll be great for her camo index!
Karlan Nobles      Much to Pramanix's chagrin, the fall is considerably longer than she'd like. Even knowing that Janine's threads will be there to stop anyone from becoming a pancake, it takes all of the Saint's willpower (and the hat jammed in her mouth) to keep her from making too much noise during the descent. Thankfully, the landing itself is rather smooth, although it takes her a moment just to get back on her feet.

    "... O-oh. We're here. That was... Easy. Too easy." She stares at those server banks suspiciously, wary of even going near the things while slipping that hat back onto her head. She keeps low-ish to the ground as she follows behind Janine, tightening the belt on her coat and pulling the hat down a bit more so as to reduce the risk of stray fingerprints being left behind.

     Of course, things can't go perfectly for this long, and Pramanix is already moving by the time those footsteps are heard. She opts to hide behind some of those larger banks, taking careful steps around to minimize the sound of her own footsteps as she tries keeping the sever banks between herself and the oncoming footsteps at (almost) all times.
Big Boss As Xion creates a light from Big Boss, what with the three people approaching, Big Boss squints, but then is quickly moving with Dakkar. The two take opposite sides of the room, slipping uncannily into cracks, not allowing their shadows to spread out, and holding their breath if necessary. Big Boss has more skill with all of this - but Dakkar's an Outer Heaven elite agent. She can sneak better than most soldiers for sure.
Janine Liberi     Everyone squirrels away into a hiding place. Janine hides the hard drive behind the computer before leaping up to get in between the top of a server bank and the ceiling. From there, she can see the three walk up to the old PC.

    Xion reaches out from her expert hiding place courtesy of the Boss' expert sneaking skills. She can't really see them here, but she can feel them. One has a heart like grease. Slippery, kinda scummy and nasty. They're the one leading the way. The second has a heart like ice. But that really good ice, the stuff made from pure water that's crystal clear, frostless, and cold-but-not-too-cold. The third has a heart like a CRT screen. It's fuzzy, and feels sort of... artificial? But absolutely real. Grease and Ice are wholly fixated on the computer and what lies within. But CRT...

    "Your ventilation shaft is exposed," they note with a monotonous feminine voice. "Hmm?" Grease responds, looking over. "Ah. There may be an issue that hasn't crossed my desk yet. Don't worry, the technicians know not to come in when I'm here, and not to ask questions." "Very well. Now, if you don't mind..." Ice says, trying to hurry things along.

    The tap-tap-tap of Grease accessing the old PC echoes around the server room. Grease and Ice seem content, but CRT begins to wander among the shelves. Xion can tell that while Grease and Ice are normal, CRT is not. Their capacity to perceive the world is greater to some degree.

    As they go, everyone catches a glimpse of them at some point or another. A girl with short blonde hair clad in a blue dress and a wide hat. It was pretty sunny before Pramanix hit the front doors with a snowstorm, so that ensemble makes sense. They look around, seemingly starting to home in on those who are less sneaky than others. Something needs to be done about her, and quick.
Karlan Nobles      With the trio revealing themselves, Pramanix tenses up when CRT mentions the ventilation shafts. Has the group already been caught? Thankfully, Grease seems to unwittingly give them a bit more time to sort out what to do, but their good fortune doesn't last forever as CRT begins to move.

    That just means things have to advance a bit faster and with more coordination. Once Janine's puts out a plan, Pramanix is on the move once more! Circling around the server bank one more time, she spots the red-haired person and plants both hands on the floor. She waits until Janine moves or signals her to start, then leaps forward aiming to land behind the redhead!

    Pramanix hasn't actually had much experience in hand-to-hand combat, but she's confident in being able to take advantage of the first strike advantage. Instead of just clumsily bashing at Red's head, her arms go dart forward to try catching Red around the mouth and neck around redhead's head from behind. If she can get a good enough hold, she falls backwards with Red, trying to force them lower to the ground into prime head-stomping range! With any luck, Pramanix's movement might even distract CRT enough for Dakkar and anyone else to take advantage as well.
Big Boss As they hide, a blonde young woman comes forth, searching out the others. A hunter of some sort, despite her appearance, Big Boss surmises. Otherwise, she'd not be looking for them. Immediately noticing the vent sheft as well...a bodyguard, perhaps. But that's all speculation.

It's time for action. Too narrow for guns or CQC. They need something that won't draw attention or retaliation.

Dakkar takes her middle and index finger of each hand, taps it to her temple, and glances in the blonde's direction. Suddenly, a burst of psychic energy floods into the girl's body, moving to lock down her nerves and make it impossible to move or screan. Or at least, very very difficult.

Dakkar telepathically signals the group. <"Be quick. It won't last forever.">
Xion An artificial heart... No. It can't be.

Then, what's an artificial heart that's real? Is it someone whose existance is behind a screen? Someone whose existance is in front of a screen?

Janine calls for help, and Xion nods affirmatively to the voice in her ear. If 'everyone else' is handling the blond woman -- then Xion will be an 'everyone else'!

Sliding out from behind the server racks, Xion is aware of her camo index tanking thanks to the power of Big Boss, but uses the moments while it drops to summon length of steel pipe and...

Well, bean blonde CRT-heart girl in the dome. Nonlethally.

With a steel pipe. Xion has never played the game Clue, or else she'd probably not do this!
Damocles When it comes to helping out, Damocles has basically two options:  He can teleport down into the vault and start tearing this up with chaos magic, or he can help by 'not helping.'  Given that they want this kept quiet, teleporting down and ripping things apart with fire and lightning probably is going to do more harm than good.

So, Damocles remains as reinforcements when needed, staying on top of the mountain for the moment. 

Since his magic isn't needed down in the mines yet, he plays lookout from his high vantage point.  His Astares eyes are quite keen, and from his high vantage point, if something does happen, he'll hopefully have a good view of it coming.
Janine Liberi     Everything happens at once.

    Pramanix launches herself at the redhead and drags her to the floor. Janine follows up by launching herself down from her hiding place and burying her boot into the woman's stomach. "What is this?!" Grease demands, only to get a punch in the nose from Janine.

    Meanwhile, Dakkar locks up the blonde with psychic power. "What?" she asks, looking down at herself. That's... not normal. She doesn't seem to have a nervous system at all. And then Xion pounces on her with a metal pipe that meets her head with a resounding CLANG.

    Wait. Clang?

    The blonde turns and sees her assailant. "Locking on," she says coldly, before reaching out and trying to grab Xion by the shoulders so she may drive her knee up into her gut.

    Meanwhile, the redhead thrashes on the ground, driving her elbow into Pramanix's side, while reaching into her coat with the other. "Cut it out," Janine says coldly as she stands over the two, but the woman persists, and pulls out a gun. "GUN!" Janine shouts.

    As the woman presses it against her temple and pulls the trigger.

    With a flurry of blue shards and the sound of breaking glass, she intones, "ARTEMISIA!" A figure arises from her form, a woman in a blue dress with gold trim and wearing a red bird mask. The woman opens her mouth, onto to receive a blow to the face form Janine via the woman's own briefcase. She grabs the hard drive from behind the computer and shouts, "RUN!"
Big Boss Dakkar's victorious grin quickly turns to panic as she can't shut down the blonde's nerves, and as Xion simply gets a clang. She radios, "THAT'S A GODDAMN ROBOT! SHIT!"

Dakkar shouts to Xion to move, before grabbing her shotgun and preparing to book it. She can't fire without hurting her ally. Big Boss, meanwhile, removes his iDroid from his pocket and runs out as well. After a second of fumbling, he turns on the video camera, and moves to sweep it toward the blonde CRT and the redheaded Ice woman, grabbing facial footage to be used for later briefing.

Grease is so completely disregarded that Big Boss doesn't even think about him.

Instead, the two push to escape out the front door once Damocles has an opening. If there's armed security, Dakkar grabs her sawn-off shotgun, whips it around agilely, and moves to just blast them backwards. This got /way/ more complicated than expected.

If there's a helicopter for the group to take already arranged, great. Otherwise, Pequod is called in to just speedily fly by and pick up as many as she can.
Karlan Nobles      "Stay down. We'd prefer not to hurt anyone unnec-" Pramanix's long-winded demand is cut short by an elbow to the side, grunting painfully and losing her grip on the redhead. She rolls over a few times to get back onto her feet and away from the woman, preparing to launch herself forward again when that gun is brought out. She's not /fast/ fast, but she's confident in her speed that she can get in before that gun is brought up against herself or her companions.

    What she's just not expecting is for the woman to bring it up to her own head. "What...? Wait, don't-!" And then another woman explodes into existence, the entire... All of it just confusing Pramanix utterly. She settles for just following Janine's call to retreat, breaking into a run for the door while drawing out her bell.

     "It's a bit cramped in here, but... Watch your step!" As she runs, she keeps ringing the bell rhythmically despite the hurried pace of the retreat, and snow starts to blast down the corridor behind herself and the rest of the escaping crew. Pramanix doesn't know what the trio is capable of, so she's only aiming to slow them down without committing to a drawn out battle. The priority is escaping intact with the data, after all!
Damocles Damocles says, "Ooo, through the front?  This should be fun.  I think I'll go full Chaos.  I haven't tried full Chaos in a while."  Damocles looks around a little, cracks his neck, and gives his Force Staff a quick look over.  Once he's satisfied, he nods, and then bumps the ground with the bottom of his staff.  With a slight tap, a quick flash of violet fire engulfs him, and he's gone.

He reappears near the front.

Unlike before, he looms tall, stretches out to his full height.  His body flickers with blue and violet energy, little arcs of power dancing off his armor as he stands tall, his eyes burning a bright, sinister blue.

"REJOICE, COWARD!" He screams, his voice shrill and loud like an emergency siren that carries for miles.

"REJOICE, FOR YOUR PITIFUL, MEANINGLESS LIVES SHALL BE GIVEN A GREATER PURPOSE!  YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BE SACRIFICE TO THE GREAT GODS OF CHAOS!  YOUR SOULS WILL BE THE FIRST OF MILLIONS TO BE CONSUMED BY THE DAEMONS I SHALL BRING TO YOUR WORLD!  DESTINY COMES FOR YOU!"

Damocles raises his staff high in the air, and from the eye bursts forth arcs of violet lightning.  They aren't aimed at any of the people, but instead arch out overhead, seeking out power notes like lights and speakers, striking and causing them to explode into showers of sparks.  The lightning also strikes nearby walls, blasting them out with loud explosions of dust and smoke. 

All in all, it's a grand show designed to create as mass a panic as he can in the front entrance, without actually hurting anyone directly, and get every eye turned on him.
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Xion Clang!
Wait... Clang?

Xion holds up her pipe, which has a head-shaped dent in it, before her hand spasms from the transferred vibrational shock. So stunned, she's vulnerable for the followup - a pile bunker of a knee right to her gut, sending her up a few inches in the air off her feet before she slumps over onto a knee.

She has enough lucidity to duck around Dakkar's lines of fire, scrabbling across the ground before turning to get one last look at the woman with the CRT-screen heart.

A robot... with a Heart.

Clutching her stomach, Xion breathes something quietly, before an upwelling of darkness swallows her and she disappears.
Janine Liberi     As they make their escape, the two pursue. Pramanix fills the hall with a blizzard to try and hold them back. This seems to have some success with the robot, but the woman with the Persona just strides right through and even returns fire with shards of ice that her Persona conjures.

    Damocles makes a hell of an entrance. The snowstorm that Pramanix had conjured earlier had frosted the front doors shut and left the stairs choked in snow, but his arcing lightning defrosts things enough that people can flee in panic. The tellers stay behind their bulletproof desks, crouching underneath them as the party comes bursting through. The electrical display shorts out the cameras as well as the automatic door to the staff area, causing it to open automatically as a fail-safe, giving them a clear exit.

    The two are hot on their heels, but once they're in a public area, the woman dismisses her Persona. The robot raises her gloved hands, but the redhead places a hand on her arm and shakes her head, letting everyone make their getaway. The police are called naturally, but the pre-arranged Watch helicopter is waiting in the national park for them to make good their escape.

    "That did not go as planned," Janine grouses once they're up and away and her helmet is off. "I was gonna do a reveal of the Dove here, but getting out safely took priority. Good work everyone, we got the data. Time to put boots to people's necks. And I think we'll start with that woman. Once we figure out who she is, of course."
Karlan Nobles      Pramanix actually looks back when she feels some ice striking her from behind, looking terrified for a few moments. "Did I make a...?!"

    There were no mistakes in her incantation. She just wasn't expecting the woman to launch ice right back at her. It's probably the most relieving instance of getting cut she's ever had, but she'll have to think over what happened another time.

    Even when she's on the helicopter with everyone else, though, Pramanix still looks anxious. "But what if...? Ah. R-right. We'll find another opportunity. This can just be one more piece of the... Hmm. The buildup to the big reveal. The reveal of the culprit behind these high profile heists /and/ the reveal of..."

    There's a longer silence there. "... The red-haired woman and her suicide spirit?" She doesn't sound quite so confident there.