IC: Reign of Shadows Options

[Silverspur_2020]

"I shall wait here... watch the area through my drones and look over Firmpoints meat body. And besides, if you need a get away driver I am more use here!"

[Yum Donuts]

Firmpoint stares into space a second, then announces "Ok, ready to start the vanishing" he begins by gazing calmly at the first person to be concealed. in an instant, they disappear from view.
Turning his eyes toward the second person, they too disappear, with very little effort showing on Firmpoint's face.

"Poof! That's two of you, now for the third..."

Firmpoint bites a bit on his bottom lip and seems to be exerting significant effort to, but loses his focus to distraction at the last second, and though the spell takes hold, it is easily seen through.
"Bah, I can do better than that. lets try this again..."
so once again, he begins to work the magic with his mind folding it around the target, losing concentration to the other burdens already being sustained. There is a slight change of expression, and Firmpoint's face looks less like he's struggling with a heavy load, and more like he's a marathon runner in his stride; the effort is still there, but it seems to be more practiced and controlled. Locking the 2 spells he's sustaining into pre-prepared mental loops he frees up a bit more concentration to layer the mana just right, until suddenly the third teammate disappears.
Cracking his knuckles as he speaks, and taking a quick breath, he doesn't look at all dazed by the ordeal of the castings.
"There we go. no metahuman will be able to see you now without magic or ultrasound, and only the most sophisticated of drone sensor arrays will see you. but you'll still make noise, so it's up to you to move silently." He shifts into astral perception so he can keep an eye on them, and after he finishes talking, close observers will notice that he occasionally does get distracted keeping order to the things in his head.

[Raiko]

Mirage says, "I'm impressed. If you get into any astral trouble, don't worry about dropping my invisibility, I'll be using my ruthenium and thermal masking anyway."

With that Mirage raises her coat's hood and activates it's stealth systems.

[Grey]

Todd grins as they dissapear. "Man, that is so wiz! I never get over seeing the mojo worked. Anyways, I'm gunna log back in now, then I'll open a comm call to Mirage so we can stay in contact."

Todd's eyes glaze over and his body slumps as he goes back online. A moment later Mirage get an incomming call.

[Emp]

"Unbelievable Firmpoint, that worked incredibly well." Kim changes to dual perception to watch Mirage as well as the others. "Gimme that.", she says to Jim while taking the tool from him. "Let's go Mirage." Grabbing her arm, Kim walks to the fence and starts cutting.

[grendel]

It takes less than a minute for Kim to open a hole able to pass a (meta)human in the fenceline. The area inbetween the two fences is surfaced in gravel.

[Grey]

over the line to Mirage

"Stop! Don't move to the next fence yet, give me a moemnt."

Todd quickly scans the system to see if there are any pressure plates built into the security system.

[Yum Donuts]

Suddenly appearing beside the team as a ghostly figure wearing arcane robes like a wizard from some some fantasy novel, firmpoint says

"Just a friendly reminder, I can't hear the comlinks like this, if you have information you need me to have, someone living has to say it outloud.

as for this minor setback, I have a possible solution, but I'm open to suggestions. sustaining 4 spells at once will get a bit tricky, even for me. but at least this one isn't an illusion."

ooc: btw, is there a line of sight from where these guys are now to the van? just curious.

[Grey]

over the line to Mirage

"Ok, there looks to be some sort of presure plate or something between the two fences, but I don't see anything within the security system. Either it is linked to an external system, or it is linked to a device, like explosives or something. Whatever it is, I can't turn it off, so you'll need to figure out how to get over it."

[Emp]

"It looks like there's some kind of pattern in the gravel, it might be nothing though." Kim starts pointing it out, but lowers her arm again as she considers Mirage can't see her. "What do you think?"

[Yum Donuts]

"Sigh. my work is never done. let me get my meat, and I'll take care of this."
Returning to his body, he instructs one watcher to stay right at the spot where they've cut the hole in the fence, so he can use it for placement.
Melding back with his body, which he left seatbelted one of the seats of the van, he looks out whatever window gives him line of sight to the watcher spirit (in astral perception).
as he's casting (for no apparent reason): "hocus pocus, put this in my showcase"
and just like that, a faint blue sheet of force appears a few inches over the ground. taking some kleenex out of his jacket pocket, he discretely dabs at the drop of blood that trickles out of his nose from the strain, but the bleeding stops just as fast as it started. He has one of his watchers manifest physically and orders it to stay put.
"I'm leaving this guy with you. if you need me, send him after me. (to the watcher) You. obey him."
and he leaves his body, floating over to the group again,
"There you go, problem solved. however, all I can do is be a lookout from this point on, once you get out of sight of the van, I can't cast spells for you anymore."
figuring he has about half an hour until his slightly dazed state goes away, he'll be happy for any time he can get, but now that the hole in the fence has been cut, they need to get in and get out fast.

[Emp]

Kim watches the force field forming and wonders if it will hold. She walks over it to the other side, trying not to step on where she thinks something could be buried. "Is it safe to start cutting this fence too?"

[Grey]

over the line to Mirage

"Get your asses over that bridge or whatever the hell it is quickly. I'm spoofing the cameras, but if anyone looks out a window it'll be standing out like a beacon. Once you are over, tell the mojo-man to drop it."

[Silverspur_2020]

Having sent the Condor up... Ghost watches what he can through the cameras, keeping an eye on whats happening in and around the compond so he can warn everybody of any impending danger, he sits still in the seat of his car and stays ready for anything untoward.

[Raiko]

Mirage replaces the double-X rounds in her Manhunter with a clip of capsule rounds, and loads a clip of concussion mini-grenades into her little grenade launcher. She slips the MGL-6 back into it's holster and keeps hold of her pistol.

Mirage moves to the first fence with Kim, and covers her while she cuts through the fence.

After pausing while Firmpoint creates his magical bridge, Mirage dashes across, and crouches at the second fence, covering again while Kim cuts a hole.

[Emp]

Kim cuts through the second fence and walks to the closest personnel entrance. "Let's hope Todd can open this one."

[Grey]

Todd checks the camera's to the area they are about to enter, making sure its safe, then flips the switch on the door, the LED light on the lock going green.

[grendel]

The open door leads to a short, tiled hallway that ends in a T intersection ten meters down. Doors on either side of the hallway are marked with color-coded plastic signs: on the left is the women's locker room, on the right, the men's. The second door on the right appears to be a cleaning closet. The hall is well lit by overhead flourescent lights.

[Grey]

Todd checks the map of the facility and gives Mirage directions on which way to go.

[Emp]

Kim tries to fit the high heels in the pockets of her coat after stepping inside and changing her shoes for Todd's socks.

[Raiko]

Mirage takes the lead through the building, cautiously following Todd's directions. Her enhanced senses produce an energy map, superimposed over her orientation system's display, suggesting the most likely locations of the building's other occupants.

[grendel]

According to Todd's map, you have to proceed down the hall and turn right at the junction. Then, turn left after four more meters. The storage room is fifteen meters down, past a pair of clean rooms on the right and a lab space on the left.

Mirage, you hear only the omnipresent hum of the environmental controls although it does sound like someone is listening to the trid down the hallway to the left.

[Yum Donuts]

Just to backspace a bit, after the last person stepped off the bridge, and headed towards the compound, I undid my barrier spell. Now we just wait. I'm still watching the place in astral perception, and listening to the radio for any sign of trouble.

[Emp]

Before Mirage can open the door her arm is pulled back by kim. "Men's locker room." Kim whispers in her ear. "Let me check before we catch someone with his pants down..." Kim steps in front of Mirage and puts her arms around her neck "... or was that your intention?"

Kim leaves her body in the hands of Mirage and quickly scans the surrounding rooms.

[grendel]

There is no one in the rooms in your immediate vicinity.