* Maria sneaks. Sneaksneaksneak! (Will do.) * SpiritRei floats in. ( And give me a stealth roll, Maria. ) ( Made it. ) [Ok... as you sneak along, the voices gradually become louder. There's one male voice, one female voice.] Female: "I can't believe the security system was off! It makes things so much easier." Male: "Yeah." [They sound like they're heading away.] ~Aww, man. What the heck? That makes three possible people!~ * Maria blinks. ~I'm gonna chase them. I can go at full speed without them noticing... I wanna see what they got.~ * Maria scowls beneath her mask. What's the profession coming to? * Maria nods in the direction of Rei's voice. (Ha! ^^) * SpiritRei waves, not that Maria can see her, and gives chase. ( Ok.... What's Maria doing? ) * Maria frowns and follows along, I guess. She glances around to see if anything was stolen. [Eventually, in the last room on the west (the hallway turns north), Maria sees an empty pedastal. It's in the African section.] [The voices get further away.] * Maria looks for indications of what was on the pedestal. Like, a sign. [They stole that, too.] (*laughs*) * Maria rolls her eyes and sneaks after the voices, then. Might as well just kick the crap out of them and put what they stole back. Or keep it. ( Ahem. ) [Maria catches up with them as they're climbing the rope to the skylight. Prepare for long description.] [The woman is pretty with long purple hair in two ponytails. She's wearing a tight green suit. The man is handsome. His hair's dark at the roots but dyed blond. He's wearing tan pants and a red jacket, and has two katana strapped across his back.] * SpiritRei 's voice pops into Maria's head. ~Total suck! We should stop them. We're interpol, after all!~ * Maria scowls. What kind of wannabe thief dyes his hair blonde? Bah. ( Does the rope dangle down to the floor? ) ( Yeah. Well, close enough. ) * Maria grabs the rope and gives it a good solid YANK. * SpiritRei zooms up through the skylight and tries to undo the rope at the top. [Unfortunately, the rope is pretty secure up there. But Maria does manage to catch their attention ^^] * Maria starts shaking the rope back and forth. Shake! [The man looks down and scowls. "Not so easy after all." He leaps off the rope, drawing his katanas in mid air.] [Ok, init, both of you.] * Dicesuke has joined #Kirbymuseum d6+6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for SpiritRei (d6+6) and gets 10. d6+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (d6+7) and gets 12. * Woman has joined #kirbymuseum [Man, Maria, Woman, Rei] [Man's turn] ( Darn. Means I don't get to show off with midair combat. ;_; ) * Man wastes no time in charging for Maria, slashing with a katana. ( Gimme a melee def roll ) 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6-2) and gets 7. ( *kicks Dice* ) [Maria gets a nasty gash cut across her stomach! The man spins, swinging with the other weapon. (another roll at +2)] 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Maria (2d6) and gets 11. (Oh no.) ( ... ) ( Man alive, Dice, what is it with you today? ;_; ) ( 'Least it's not a critfail. ) [Maria falls to the ground. The man swings his swords once to fling the blood off, then resheaths them.] Hmph, let's go. * SpiritRei stops trying to undo the rope and floats directly down to Maria. ~Maria, Maria! You okay? You're not okay. Damnit! I can't fucking believe this!~ * Man starts climbing again. Is Rei going to undo the rope? [Rei does not undo the rope, and they climb away.] ~It's a bad thing if I move you right now. Really bad. Just... just stay here and I'll get Peter. Really. I can't believe, this, I can't believe this! * SpiritRei zooms out to where the group was.