1980/Titans: The Case Of The Perambulating Purloiner

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Titans: The Case Of The Perambulating Purloiner
Date of Scene: 14 August 2017
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: The Titans learn that someone has been sneaking into the Titans' towers and rifled through Raven's personal effects. This is not good.
Cast of Characters: Wonder Girl




Wonder Girl has posed:
Sounds like a typical night! Cassie had evidently not made it out to any plant-slaying. Maybe she had an exam or something. That always stresses her, when she knows there's something on but there's something else in her life she can't just easily bail on. And probably sometimes she does bail, and then... more trouble! So today she was good, but it also means she missed out on the fun, missed out on fighting beside her friends.

So she's just a little sulky, as she hangs around back at the tower, having flown over as soon as said tests were done with. Indeed, finding no one around when she got there probably made it worse, and so she's sort of sprawled out in the living area, dressed down to a tank top and some shorts, just in real hang out, eat junk food and be a pissy teenager mode. Plus side? Negative emotions are often sated with food, so there's *already* pizza when Vorpal arrives, a few boxes sprawled over the table she's seated near, some open with half eaten pies, some closed, and some soda and other junk food about. Yep, totally just a 'don't give a crap!' evening, as she pokes around on television and attempts to get fat. Demigoddess metabolism to the rescue?

When the cat comes in, she looks up. "Oh hey. Heard I missed, like, everything. There's food, though." A vague nod toward it.

Wonder Girl has posed:
"Huh? I dunno, wasn't me," Cassie calls back, tilting her head backwards against the back of the couch just far enough that she can almost sorta upside-down look back at Raven. Though with that wash of negativity from the empath, combined with her prior pissy pitty party, she does add a slightly snappish, "Why'd I wanna go in there anyway? Its creepy." Or she assumes. She probably has no clue what's in Raven's room, but her general impression makes her assume its probably weird... stuff! Yep. Weird stuff.

Oh, see, and there's the actual culprit. "Just giant veggies? Man, I'd be happy for anything. I hate sitting around feeling useless or finding out I was wasn't there when there was something important going on. What if someone got hurt, y'know? It'd be my fault." She grumbles, kind of pushing herself a little more upright, folding her legs on the couch and reaching for another slice. That she definitely doesn't need! Also notably: there is no mustard pizza.

"You did it now, furball," she then kinda vaguely taunts Vorpal, hearing his admission. "Gotta work on that. Like, what if you pop in on one of us changing or something? Or, I dunno, something delicate and blow up the tower."

Wonder Girl has posed:
"Yep, sure, got it. Weird and creepy. Don't worry." Eyeroll. "Your clothes aren't exactly my style anyway." Though Cassie-style is pretty unstylish, to be fair, with mostly t-shirts and jeans over anything more fashionable! Still, the leftover resonance from earlier hasn't done her bad mood any favors and she continues to vaguely snark from the couch, at least until Vorpal starts hoodoo-ing at her.

Which doesn't improve things! "I can make myself invisible, thank you very much, or damn well close enough." Not actually, but in the move so fast she may as well be sense, ala their sometimes Super-mates and so on. "You'd definitely never see me coming when I knocked you silly. Can I have my arm back?" Although even asking, she reaches to pick a pepperoni off her slice, just for the curiousity of letting it dangle around in the air, before she tosses it down the hatch.

Finally, though, the girl breathes out a huff of breath, almost as if trying to physically expel her crappy mood. Because it is rare for her and she's probably at least a little conscious of all the snarkiness, once it lands. "Anyway, yeah, sure. Just practice that, k? Tea sounds nice, thanks."

And now that they have established it wasn't either of them, she does kind of wonder, "We really should figure out who it was. 'Cause, like, if it wasn't one of us just being a creeper, then it was someone *else* being a creeper, and that's waaaaaaay worse. Like sound the alarms bad-times worse."

Wonder Girl has posed:
"Well, we should really talk to Kori about it," Cassie now suggests, the edge out of her tone and some concern creeping back in, particularly as Raven's concerns go from, well, the simple blustering displeasure she first walked in with toward something that hints at more human emotion. Particularly the normal 'girls don't like you reading their diaries that they totally don't have in the first place' type emotion! She can, maybe, sympathize! "And see if there's any security system info or what."

She leans forward off the couch to pour some tea and seems to ponder the implications and further questions as she settles back with it to sip. "I was only in my room to change, when I got back to the tower just a little while ago. I didn't, uh, see any signs of anyone messing around but I didn't look too close either, just tossed something on. But I don't leave a lot of valuable stuff laying around either. My lasso, armbands, those I always have with me in ase I end up needing them. Some of the armor and weapons I don't, but they're just well-made, not magic."

Wonder Girl has posed:
With the brief storm of bad emotions passed, Cassie swings fully back to her normal supportive self, which now means probably far more interest and care than Raven would ever want is now coming her way! "We understand Rach, privacy is really important. I'd hate to think anyone was snooping around my stuff, even if there's nothing really important to mess with. It's just creepy. I'd be totally wigged out about it too." She doesn't QUITE fly over and hug her, but... her tone of voice nearly threatens it!

"Don't worry about the pizza, leftovers keep. Can always warm up some later if you get the munchies." This is one of the many properties that makes it the true food of the Gods! Or at least, of this particular demigoddess. "Whatever happened, we'll get to the bottom of it. But yeah, if there's any really dangerous magic or that kind of thing, that we should worry about... well, you don't even need to tell us all the details. But some idea of what we're looking at if a baddie really did get a peek." Obviously, no further reference to her more 'private' documents.

Wonder Girl has posed:
So basically there's two real threads of reaction that come from Cassie: care for Raven, and being pissed off. "Whatever was in there..." she starts to say to the other young woman, "... well, don't worry. We'll get to the bottom of this, and make sure nothing ends up where it shouldn't, whether that's dark lore or anything else." Very pointedly, she places whatever of those private thoughts and ... sketches on a like tier of importance. And then she stands up.

As she pointed out when Damian arrived, Cassie's talents are on the far end of the spectrum from detectiving, so it seems to suit her well that Vorpal takes the initiative on going and... reviewing security footage or whatever. Definitely not her bag. Putting whoever did it *in* a bag and banging them against the wall a few times? THAT would be her bag. And that sort of resolute displeasure radiates off her as she rises, squaring her shoulders. It has all the feel of a metaphorical knuckle-cracking.

Whether Vorpal's levity 'lands' in the situation? It's hard to say. She doesn't laugh or smile, but any annoyance is clearly directed outward. "I'll talk to Kori if you don't bump into her. Let me know right away if you spot anything, so we can jump right on that." And woe be it to anyone he DOES find!