sao paulo ♔ see her tail lights vanish in the dark

[starprince]

Thief- The Fratellis

WHO || Poe, Natasha, Ward, Amy, Miles, Peter [closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a bizarre clue in an art theft
WHERE || Nara Roesler Gallery, Brazil
WHEN || Before the concert, time-line wise
HOW || Actionspam 

The Knights are met by the sun elf curator of the exhibit at the Gallery in Sao Paulo, a golden skinned man named Elluin, who wears an expensively tailored suit with a skinny black tie, his long white hair tied up in a man bun. Yep. He walks them to the place where the piece had been on the wall, now vacant. A balustrade blocks off the area from the public, and a small placard hangs beside the blank space.

"It is the strangest thing. The pages were actually tacked to the wall in place of the painting. There can be no doubt that they were left on purpose."

Comments

[keptbiting]

[ amy peers at ward before shrugging helplessly. she honestly doesn't know what else they're supposed to ask or look for or inquire about. the clue wasn't even a clue, wtf. she's mission leader and it's going to suck going back to the castle a failure but amy doesn't know what they're supposed to do if every avenue they go down leads to a dead end.

anyway she elbows peter because RUDE. ]

[starprince]

[ the curator notices the look on amy's face, and says:

"You can see why we had to go beyond the police. This is... not a normal case. We are all somewhat baffled."

peter rubs his arm and says: ] Hey, you've got us on the case now. We'll figure it out. [ he looks back at the others, his voice a little strained from the forced enthusiasm ] Right gang?

Let's... figure it out.

[keptbiting]

Er, right, yeah, totally.

[ amy nods too enthusiastically. ] You mind if we have the room to discuss. Amongst ourselves?

[ give me ur office. ]

[krasnayapautina]

Right. [She speaks up again with a firm nod. MMmmm dead ends, her fave (not).]

[starprince]

[ he nods and leads them to his office for some privacy. as the door clicks shut behind him, peter says: ] We're screwed, aren't we.

[newgenwraith]

Yeah, I'm totally out of my element here. I got no clue what any of this is about.

hi yall it's still tessa - i'm just too fucking lazy to sign out of this account rn sry

[vdov]

Well, that was a fan-fucking-tastic start to boost morale. [dudes pls.] So help me god I will find pom poms in here and start cheerleading if I have to.

[dat sarcasm tho.

Anyway she's going to direct her attention to Amy, because Amy's the team leader here.]

you fine <3

[starprince]

Has anyone ever... not solved one of these missions before? I mean... what's the protocol for us just walking back in like "Sorry Chief, we gave it all we had"?

[newgenwraith]

[yeah, that's a confused look]

Pom poms?

[like that's of any importance to this mission but you've gone and confused the pilot]

[vdov]

[She glances over at Poe again.] Sparkly things held in the hand and waved around cheerfully. Usually at sporting events, attractive women in tight uniforms use them, while preforming athletic feats. [Context in case Poe has ever caught a game on TV.] You can leave that last part out of any mental images of me with pop poms here. But yeah, those are what those are.

[betrayed]

[He frowns, why are they talking about Pom Poms instead of trying to figure out this whole... weird unsolvable mission.]

Does anyone know anyone in the black market for art? I mean, maybe we shouldn't be trying to solve the who stole it part and instead just try to find the painting. [If only his nefarious dealings had been closer to the art world instead of foreign and domestic intelligence.]

[keptbiting]

[ amy ignores natasha because... no. instead she focuses on ward who is still the mvp and peter because he is rolling with her lol what happens if we fail train. ]

I don't know anything about stolen art. I don't even know anything about art.

[ but while they are here and because amy is fidgety in nature, she is just gonna rifle through the curator's desk. (search 26, disable device with a hair pin if it's locked 28) look, this is her niche. ]

[newgenwraith]

Not really. I'm more of a jump into a fight and blow things up guy.

[starprince]

Oh hey, M&Ms! [ peter literally reaches over her shoulder when she opens the drawer (which is locked - momentarily, but springs open within seconds). he grabs the pack of them without hesitation. there are desk supplies in here mostly, but also a few sealed letters, mostly from other museums. ]

[keptbiting]

[ GONNA OpEN 'EM. (sleight of hand 22) amy tries to carefully open the flap with her fingernail without ripping it. ]

oh for the love of god i lost this completely and forgot about it

[cuivre]

[Miles, who is completely useless in all of this, calls to Peter-]

Oh man, can I get a few of those?

[starprince]

We gotta dispatch 'em quick before that guy comes back. [ he'll dump a bunch in miles' hand. they are gr8 at this.

meanwhile, amy gets it open without ripping, but the glue has been unstickified. a few of them are about exhibit transfers, and one of them is a letter from a curator of a museum in Spain, thanking him for sharing security details with them as they work to redesign their system. ]

[keptbiting]

[ amy pulls her phone out and quickly snaps pictures of the letters, passing her phone to grant before carefully tucking the letters back into the envelopes and returning them to the drawer as neatly as she can. ]

I am working as fast as I can.

[newgenwraith]

Can I get some of those too?

[because candy is obviously a priority, and he's also useless at the moment.]

[starprince]

I meant-- [ he starts to explain to amy, pointing a finger down at the dwindling pile in his hand which he tilts to dump a few into poe's palm ] Never mind.

[cuivre]

[He knocks back half of the m&ms in one go before he wanders over to watch what Amy's doing.]

Anything good in there?

[newgenwraith]

What are the odds that one of those letters is from the guy who stole the stuff?

[krasnayapautina]

Probably pretty damn high.

[starprince]

Maybe we can test it for prints or something?

[keptbiting]

They're about exhibit transfers, but there's one about sharing security plans with another museum.