<> * Vera shoves her hands in her trenchcoat pockets. "Cool. So hopefully, everything will go smoothly." * Ian nods. "If not, we're more or less prepared." Never goes that way, you know. * Vera shrugs. "It did with the last one. On our side, anyway." Maybe. It was clumsy, though. For us, that is. It worked. Good enough. * Ian nods. * Vera leans back. "By the way, Leo, can you change your skin to any color?" Most any color. Haven't tried magenta yet. I'm afraid it would stick that way. * Vera snickers. "That'd be a sight." Well, you can guess why I wanted you along, then. * Vera rocks back and forth on her heels. "Damn, he lives too high up." (Ian looks up at the elevator cable. "It's like a shiny gleaming wire of hope.") * Leopoldo chuckles. "That's what Laura said too. You want me to try and blend in or something?" <> Because I can change color, but I can't simulate a background or something. Too complex. * Ian steps out of the elevator. "Hmm..." * Vera exits the elevator. "Mmm... Well, it might help if it comes to that. Maybe you can change your skin to off-white and blend with the walls." I can certainly try, but... As you've probably witnessed, it's unpredictable in tense situations. * Vera shrugs. "So are people." * Vera glances at Ian. "Better knock first." * Ian steps forward, and knocks on the door. "Shubby's Pizza!" * Vera gets to the side of the door so as to not be seen, and motions for Leo to do the same. * Leopoldo does the same. <> * Vera waits a few minutes, then unlocks the door. <> * Vera opens it. "Hope Fitz has that security system down." (I still want to know how you think he can do that from _outside_ the apartment.) <> <> (DunnoIkea. @_@) * Vera heads in and glances around, one hand on her hip. "Alright, what are we looking for?" I thought YOU knew that. How would I know? * Vera takes a look around. "Maybe it'll be obvious." Something with the same patterns as the others, I'm assuming. * Leopoldo shrugs and glances around. ( It's a "Mr. Yuck" sticker! ) * Ian looks around, and points at the other doors. "In there?" * Vera heads to one. "Sounds like a plan." She opens it. * Ian opens the other door and looks inside. <> * Leopoldo just looks around. * Vera looks into the room. "Nope." She checks the next one. <> <> * Ian carefully checks the cupboards. <> * Vera shakes her head. "Nope." She checks the next one! <> Damn. Not obvious. * Ian heads across to the other room, and looks inside the wardrobe. * Vera pouts at Ian. "I was gonna do that." * Ian smiles. "Sorry. Check under the bed?" <> <

> * Ian blinks. "We've got something here. A keypad." Find anything interesting? * Vera comes over and looks. "Huh. Didn't see that coming." Either of you know how to crack it? * Ian looks at it. Numbers? Letters? Fish? <> No idea whatsoever. Should we get Roy up here? * Leopoldo walks over. "Um, not exactly. They don't give that with a basic education, you know." Call him. See if he can do it over the phone. Okay. * Ian picks up his pad and rings Roy. (... you and I need to talk about what's possible with current technology. o_o) ( I meant tell us how to do it >.< ) (Well, it is 2089 and everything is connected in some way to technology.) (No matter where you go?) ( Doh! The food has a computer chip in it and it's not 2.1k compatable! ) "Roy, we found a numeric keypad here. Can you tell us how to crack it, or come up?" "Great! Door's open. I take it everything's okay out there?" * Vera rubs her forehead. "Ready for almost everything, except this." Blocked by a bunch of numbers. It's kinda sad. Well... I could always try and break it open. "Okay." Only if we have to "70th floor, the elevator opens right onto it." <> * Leopoldo looks around uncomfortably. The tips of his scales change a dark hue of purple. Okay, he'll be up in a minute. Good. This is beginning to take too long. * Ian nods. As long as we don't get police or anything in here, there's always the pizza. Yeah. I'm counting on that. Rather not end this in a firefight. * Ian winces. If you can't tell already, I'm a bit nervous up here... Why couldn't you have taken Demetreia? She can't change her skin color. Besides, I'm not confident that she'd try to hide if she heard the guy coming. You make a valid point. <> <> * Ian buzzes Roy in. <> Hey, Roy. It's over here. * Vera nods. "What he said." * Fitzroy walks over. <> <> Alright.. let's see. * Fitzroy reaches over to the datapad but doesn't touch it. You guys know what this pad is for? I'm assuming access to the artifact. Probably. Can't find it anywhere else. He means he has no clue. * Fitzroy 's chains on his wrist, the ones he's always wearing, begin to melt. * Fitzroy : They reach out, and goo themselves into the datapad. * Leopoldo blinks. "Oookay." (or, the one wrist's chain does..) Woah. Freaky. Handy-dandy.. these things. * Fitzroy smiles. * Ian raises an eyebrow. "...damn." * Leopoldo 's scales steadily and slowly grow to that dark-purple color. 2d6-2 (er) Um, guys? Maybe we should hurry up? Yeah. Don't want you turning into some kind of ugly purple dinosaur. (Don't bother, this isn't going to end tonight anyways.) (Fitzroy shouts to the heavens "Two D six minus two!" and pauses.. nothing happens.) This is an impressive lock.. * Leopoldo blinks and looks at his hand, which only quickens the process. Howso? <> ... * Vera watches it go down. "I feel bad for the people in the flat below this one." <> Right. In we go! * Ian hops in, with pizza. * Vera gets in * Fitzroy gets in before it sinks. * Leopoldo gets in. <> Yow! Lots of flats below that one, it would seem. I'm riding a wardrobe all the way to hell! (70 of them. Ź_o) Does this have to go so faaast?! This lock has a lot of systems attached to it, Ian. That doesn't sound good... ( It's got Windows AND Linux. No wonder it's so weird. ) More than just a safe would have.. Considering it's a elevator, we could be walking into something nasty here. Who's up for backing up now? <> * Ian sighs. "Ugh. Que sera, sera. At least we're prepa -" .... Crap Meep! * Vera looks for cover? * Ian looks for the "Up" button. >_! <> * Leopoldo changes a bright red color almost instantly as he basically looks into the headlights of an oncomming train.