Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison)
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				Title: <strong>Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Calison</strong> on <strong>28-09-2012, 23:18:28</strong>
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				The job was simple, far simpler than anything she had to do before. Avira had meant to only stop by Colis for a day or two before chartering a boat, but the port city always seemed to have a way to keep her staying for far longer than she should have. You help one noble maintain their interests in the local market and they just have to beg and tempt you every time you’re around. Money was good, she couldn’t complain. A ‘friend’ of hers, a Lady Rivon, had a number of break-ins over the last few months. Getting onto the grounds themselves was no mean feat…not to mention adapting to the changes in security measures taken each time. The gunslinger assumed it was the same person because the handiwork seemed to be fairly consistent. It also took a great deal of guts to make the first attempt, not to say more about the subsequent incidents. The job was to coordinate Rivon's security and catch the thief. Dead or Alive. <br><br>The good Lady was evasive about what exactly Avira was helping to guard, but whatever it was the thief apparently didn’t have the information needed to locate it in the sprawling estate. The treasure vault was a best kept secret, Rivon herself intentionally releasing rumors of where it was on the grounds so that it would deter would-be burglars. From the sounds of it the thief was having a bit of fun running down the list of locations, likely trying to see exactly where the guards were really most protective of. The actual vault was located in a basement level two stories below the manor and it had only one access point: a secret panel in a closet in the foyer that was just under the grand hall stairs. Avira wouldn’t have expected Rivon to put the entrance to her vault in such a relatively public place, but it was so out in the open that it wouldn’t be conceivable that she would do it. Smart. <br><br>Avira spent a few days drilling the guards, gathering them around a map of the estate she labeled herself with zone letters. Lady Rivon was owed a favor from the city’s mage guild, so Avira was able to get a fancy set of magic items for her and the guards to use. She’d be able to give orders from a remote location and the guards could give her feedback and communicate with each other better. Honestly, why didn’t they have these ‘communicators’ before? She only had a guard a piece attend to the entrances where the thief had already broken into. If the trend continued, they wouldn't try any of those. Also bragging that you found so many security holes in a noble’s manor would be hard to pass up. The rest she had combing the grounds and being on high alert. She posted four guards in the foyer. As for herself…well, a remote location where she had the layout of the manor in front of her. One way or another, she was going to catch that thief tonight. Avira was sure of that much. <br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ShadowFox89</strong> on <strong>02-10-2012, 14:03:00</strong>
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				&nbsp;Zitka was enjoying herself. During the day, she explored the city, snatching what coin she needed, and generally goofed around. At night, she would slip in to Lady Rivon's estate and poke around. Getting into the estate was rather easy, especially after she learned how to turn herself into a fox. Sure, she had to strip naked to do so, since her clothing didn't change with her, but that's what the bag of holding was for.<br><br>&nbsp;Her fur was tingling tonight though. Zitka had a feeling something was going to happen.... She shook her head free of the thoughts as she undid the straps on her leather armor. As she pulled the armor over her head, it brushed the bars that ran through each nipple, a recent addition. Zitka found that guards were less likely to take magic piercings off you than magic rings. That, and several tattoos she had around her body meant she really only needed a few bits of equipment.<br><br>&nbsp;Once fully naked, Zitka shifted into the shape of a little black fox, her tail and ears sharing the silver tips that made her fairly identifiable. She jumped through the open window of the inn, down the branch of the nearby tree, and headed towards the estate. Once there, Zitka looked about for the best way to get in. Someone had equipped the guards with better gear it seemed. Not that it would matter much, they rarely paid attention to a black fox sneakily moving through the bushes.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Calison</strong> on <strong>02-10-2012, 16:47:13</strong>
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				Avira had told the guards to report anything and everything they saw. She was a seasoned adventurer and had seen many things--some things she'd rather forget--so there was little that could surprised her after five years of globetrotting. Avira had seen the strange and the fantastic both in full spectacle and disguised as the innocuous. A hired gun she was, a detective she was not. She hadn't the time before tonight to go around shaking up the local taverns in the seedy parts of town, so anything that could have pointed an arrow at this thief would have help. She'd have to settle for what her plan currently was. <br><br>She sat in her remote location, sipping at a cup of a strange drink that was gaining popularity with the nobility. It was expensive after all. Avira drank the hot, bitter, black liquid and stared at the map in front of her. She listened quietly to steady stream of reports the guards sent in. Nothing so far. Just like the other nights. A break-in would be realized long after the culprit was gone. The guards, while not quite the grade of hired help Avira was, were no slouches. They were the best money could buy and if Lady Rivon wanted to privatize security she'd be in a good business. So what sort of thief could slip by them? They weren't slipping by this time. The communicators weren't the only things she had requested of the mage guild. She flipped a flat, round token into the air. They were planted everywhere, stuck to the walls and entryways. Avira had thought of a more creative use for the spell <em>Alarm</em>. <br><br>Zitka would find a number of places she could have entered. One such place was an window that had been cracked open on the first floor. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ShadowFox89</strong> on <strong>05-10-2012, 12:41:13</strong>
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				&nbsp;The kitsune didn't think too much of it. So what if the rich women had left a window open? The guards weren't exactly the best, one of them probably did it. She leaped up onto the window and snuck inside. This time, tonight, she would for sure find that stash of treasure. Tied around her back was a brown sack, a bag of holding, that currently held her clothing and gear. But there was enough room in there that Zitka could hold a king's ransom in fortunes.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Calison</strong> on <strong>05-10-2012, 16:40:48</strong>
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				As Zitka leaped down from the windowsill an alarm began to ring inside a guard's head. Each sensor had been placed down a different guard that was stationed nearby; Avira had rather not all the alarm trip inside of her own head in the event of a chase--that would have been a headache to be sure. The guard excitedly said, "Zone C! Zone C!" Avira could imagine all of the guards taking a few steps away from their positions to go converge on the area. <br><br>"Hold position," Avira said firmly.<br><br>"What? We know where they are, what are we waiting for?" <br><br>"Let me take of this. From the last several times, even if you are Rivon's finest, you're out of your depth." Avira spoke calmly and evenly. She reached for her pepperbox pistol and popped open the chamber and loaded six alchemical shells into it, one at a time. "All units close your perimeter tighter around the manor. Prepare to block the way they came. Guards in foyer. Leave your position, spread out to the other zones." <br><br>"You're practically giving them an open invitation!" <br><br>"That's the plan. You're my backup." Avira snapped the loading chamber of her pepperbox closed and position herself on one side of the vault doors. Her remote location was inside the treasure vault itself. One way or another the thief was getting caught. She guaranteed it. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>ShadowFox89</strong> on <strong>10-10-2012, 09:49:21</strong>
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				&nbsp;Zitka wandered for a bit through the halls. This was easy. Maybe a bit too easy. But the best way to get rid of a trap was to spring it, so she continued her wandering. In the last few weeks, she had been in almost every room, poking her nose behind every painting she could reach and peering being every bookshelf. Still, nothing.<br><br>&nbsp;The kitsune continued her wandering until she came to the foyer. Who the hell would hide the entrance to the vault in the foyer? Suddenly, Zitka stopped. She sat down and sniffed the air. Something was... odd. But she could exactly place it.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Blades and Gunsmoke (ShadowFox89 and Calison) </strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Calison</strong> on <strong>10-10-2012, 17:36:00</strong>
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				Rivon's security staff was becoming as rapacious as a pack of wolves being held back from their prey with each alarm tripped. Avira had to reign in their bloodlust with firm orders to leave the thief be. "They're in the fucking foyer now," one guard yelled over the communicators. Avira moved the guards that had been in the foyer to the adjacent hallways and rooms. By the time the culprit had entered the foyer the room was surrounded via the surrounding rooms with guards. Time for the penultimate phase. <br><br>"Guards in Zone A, leave your post and go to Zone C," Avira said, asking the two guards she posted in the foyer closet to emerge from their hiding spot and give away their position. <br><br>"Shouldn't we capture the thief?!" <br><br>"No," Avira said firmly. "We need to get her down here. Less margin for error. There's only one way in or out. We trap her here. Now leave Zone A." The guards did emerged from the closet, taking extra care to close it behind them and hesitantly leave it behind as they ran off. "Yeah, yeah, we're coming!" One of they said into their communicator--words fed to him by Avira.&nbsp; 
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