14576/A Latverian Always Pays His Debts
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| A Latverian Always Pays His Debts | |
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| Date of Scene: | 21 October 2022 |
| Location: | Gotham City Warehouse |
| Synopsis: | Black Cat successfully plants a mysterious device in the hideout of Harley Quinn. |
| Cast of Characters: | Doctor Doom, Black Cat, Harley Quinn
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- Doctor Doom has posed:
Months ago, Doctor Doom swore vengeance on Harley Quinn -- over the most minor of grievances, truly, she'd had a night of raucous crime-spreeing and unintentionally offended the Latverian monarch while he was in the United States on business. It's a business Black Cat remembers well, for it was at that time she, too, first stared into the grim visage of DOOM!
Of course, Doom is a busy man. He has a schedule packed to the brim with kingly hedonism, Machiavellian scheming, eldritch sorcery and technological innovation.. not to mention the small matter of being the ultimate authority in all matters of state. What is a sorcerer-king to do, when he simply can't fit personal punishment into his days?
Delegate, of course! And so it is that Black Cat, called upon by Doom, was given a handful of handy gadgets and a job: utilize her skills to track down Harley Quinn in Gotham City, infiltrate wherever her hidey-hole is, and plant a certain device in said hidey-hole, ideally within five yards of the clown-girl herself.
It's like stealing but in reverse. Simple enough, right?
And so night falls upon Gotham City, wracked by wind and dreadful rains, with shadows long as knives hiding hearts as black as coal. Black Cat's investigation has led her to a warehouse near the docks, once belonging to a local crime family -- and probably, it still does, technically. But when's that ever stopped Gotham's gangs?
- Black Cat has posed:
Black Cat's got her mask on and costume on, distracting though it might be. She is putting her techno-claws out, and then back in, over and over again in a bored fidgeting move as she waits at the warehouse. She shakes her head and mutters to herself, adopting a tone as if talking to Doom even though he's not around at the moment. "You know Doom, for being a sorcerer-king, you sure get stolen from a lot."
She switches voices, into a gruff masculine-ish parody of Doom's voice, "Silence fool! Doom's personal security issues are not for mere mortals!" She sighs and shakes her head, before moving to leap across from her perched vantage point and catch herself on the edge of the warehouse roof, only to flip up on top, having decided to go in through a window.
- Harley Quinn has posed:
It's Harley's hidey hole, well, the current one she's in. She built a little apartment in the back! Right now, she's in a tub with her hyena. It's bath day.. so the room is very steamy and full of soapy bubbles
f She's subbing away at the laughing hyena as she watches it " Stay still, pumpkin.. mama's gotta make sure to get you good and washed.. we don't want fleas again " .
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Now, black cats dealt with all kinds of security but Harley's clearly more dangerous perhaps that's the fun.. the outside looks normal, but the closer you get to her hidey space well, the more traps you run into.. some of the traps are meant to be disarmed to trigger the trap. That's the issue with insane people .. their traps don't make sense!
- Doctor Doom has posed:
To be fair, the missing items weren't stolen *from* Doom -- they were stolen from third parties, but Doom would prefer that they not have been. This is a very important distinction, for it indicates a failure on the part of others to live up to Doom's standards, rather than a lacking on the part of Doom himself.
But fortunately for Black Cat, at the moment Doom is enjoying a luxurious bath, and so he does not chastise her through whichever one of the gadgets on her person are actively monitoring her on his behalf.
Speaking of those gadgets, oh, what fun they are. Having Doom as a patron is a bit like being in a James Bond novel, and having all the quirky gizmos British intelligence can provide.
Only with a mad science flavor!
Upon her wrist is a shackle-like bracelet that, when she pushes a button on the underside, emits a full-body camouflaging light pattern that will blend her visually into any surface she presses to.
And around her throat is a necklace of pearls -- well, not literally pearls, but she has a string of small, metallic spheres, glossy and pearl-like in luster, which when thrown can be primed to rapidly swell in mass and become crushing projectiles of boulder-like proportions.
- Black Cat has posed:
Felicia works her way slowly over the roof in a crawl, keeping an eye out as she goes. Then she gets to the window she'd been eyeballing as a possible entry. Carefully she looks it over, examining the outer edges, the glass panes. Testingly, she lightly taps one of her claws against the glass cautiously. And then? She folds over going through her utility belt. No street-level operative is gonna go without a handy dandy utility belt. Where would you keep your chapstick if nothing else? She slowly touches her claw to the pearls, then the bracelet, but for now decides to stick with the tried and true, pulling out a lockpicking tool and starting to work the lock over - HOPEFULLY to soon slip through the window and flip down into the rafters.
- Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley Classic trick number one.. The glass in your windows changes em nothing like that hard to break but special glass that's known for breaking into large easy to cut you chunks!
Classic Trick number 2 Car battery hooked up to your Window locks does wonder to anybody trying to come in that way.. Especially when you are used to dealing with pain-in-the-ass birds!
Step 3 is also provides distracting some sting on the windows that looks like a trip wire that's easy to remove!
Then again maybe seeing harley covered in soap bubbles running out of the bathroom to grab a huge bone with some meat chunks on it " hold on babby I know i know mommys got num nums " she runs back inside!
- Doctor Doom has posed:
Elsewhere, in the warehouse, a handful of goons are watching pirated movies. Someone managed to connect their laptop to a wireless television, and they're marathoning horror movies -- right at this moment, the screen is filled with the dreadful image of Jason Voorhees, stalking up behind a young, blonde camp counselor getting frisky with her boyfriend in the shower. How scandalous!
So far, Cat's avoided goons, and focused on booby-traps... but there's always the risk that they might draw in some baddies! She'll have to be sneaky.
- Black Cat has posed:
This is a little trickier than she's used to. "Who puts traps on traps on traps. I mean, the installation costs alone. Skilled labor in the city is out of control, cost-wise." While she gripes about Gotham's economics, she slowly gets through the booby traps one at a time, only managing to get into the warehouse in time to see Harley's soap-covered booby traps wandering around out of the bathroom and then running back inside. Glancing over at the goons she mutters to herself, "I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but thanks for the help Doctor." She flips on the camoflauge field, activating the bracelet and then slowly lowering herself to the ground behind the goons couch, so she can tip-toe towards the bathroom Harley's in.
- Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley Quinn It's a bit wild. One hyena is chewing bone and a half, trying to get out of the tub.. the other one is trying to get out of the tub.. soap bubbles are going everywhere Harley is trying to keep them in the tub " no I'm not done.. Hey, this is to stop FLEAS, damnit no get off mama" She calls out " Stop running away! to the other, " She shouts.. thankfully the hyenas distract her from noticing that a lot of soapy bubbles are floating in the air since they sprayed all over the black cat!
- Doctor Doom has posed:
The group of rough-and-tumble men are piled onto a ratty old sofa in what, once upon a time, was clearly some sort of break room or manager's office for the warehouse, before it'd been renovated into a clown hideout. They know better than to try getting fresh with Harley Quinn or her pets, so none of them want to come within a mile of that bathroom; it's a coin flip if she'd flirt with them, feed them to the beasts, or what.
Fortunate, then, that this leaves a clear path for Black Cat to sneak through, especially once her body shimmers and fades from sight, seeming to melt into her darkened surroundings. Of course, then there are the bubbles to deal with...
- Black Cat has posed:
It's okay, Harley looks... pre-occupied. And Black Cat wrinkles her nose at the musk of the hyenas. No wonder they needed a bath. Luckily she's not here to steal anything, and so instead she sort of hugs the wall until she can find a cabinet, gently opening it and planting Doom's device near Harley Quinn. She thinks to herself 'I don't know what this is gonna do to you Harley, but knowing Doom it's something crazy.' And then she's trying to slip back out, fidgeting with one of the beads of her pearl necklace as she moves.