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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1280903" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 017“The Trophy Room”The night has a life of its own.  Megamania has always considered the night his natural element.  His training in stealth and retrieval of information seemed to always center on the night.    For this mission, he wore his helmet.  It contained his night vision (Darkvision Goggles) lens and openly carried his energy gun in one hand and his charged baton in the other.  He carefully led the team through the quiet streets using the route prescribed by the Black Widow.It now neared midnight and she and the Resistance would soon begin their own attack.  They had planned an attack on the food storage area already.  Everyone was in place even before the Strikeforce had contacted her.  Fate as she called it.  The will of the Goddess of realities commented Jean.  He merely shrugged at the convenience of it.It was not easy sneaking in.  Vander flatly refused taking his armor off.  Christina had pulled a piece of paper from her bag she held flat under her armor.  Curious how the paper wasn’t flattened itself.  Anyway- she read the strange language and it seemed she and Vander were nearly as quiet as he was.  Now that was impressive.  The Captain was quiet but looked naked without his shield.  Out of habit he kept holding his left arm up as if holding it before him.  Megamania located the secret door.  It took a few moments to open it.  The technology involved was more than he was used to.  It had a heat sensitive cover to the lock.  Jean helped me with that.  Next was a pressure plate, which Vander helped with.  Something he called float.  In my mind I heard twinkling charms.  It was strange.  Then the lock itself.  He picked it slowly and with great care.  Once opening it, he found another lock.  Once inside we found ourselves in a service tunnel.  Counting three rights then four lefts they climbed a ladder onto a new level.  The fifth door on the right was our target.  This lock stumped Megamania.  His lock picks didn’t work.  Strangely enough, it seemed to require electronic components as much as the moving of tumblers.  Jean put the deep freeze on it and Vander grabbed it and shattered it.  The boy is strong.The lights were already on within the large room.  The site before them shocked their senses.  There were colorful and dramatic looking helmets hanging from the wall.  Many were greatly damaged.  Barrels that contained mechanical parts.  Some parts had a humanoid appearance.  Posters and pictures of events none understood or cared to.  Strangely enough, a metallic skeleton with daggers at the arms stood in one corner.  Knightly armor lay in broken pieces here and there.  Weapons broken and bent lay on display.  But no head bands.“Do any of you see the Headband?” asks Megamania.“There is no guarantee that it is even here.” Adds Jean.“Jean- did you study any detection spells of magic?” asks Christina.“No.  Yourself?”“No…I wish I had now.”Megamania begins to shift through the riveted remains of gray armor wrapped in a thick green cape.  He finds this all wrong.  There is no such thing as magic.  It exists only in fairy tales and role playing games.  Well…maybe than woman in New Orleans had caste a spell on him that one night….    He smiles under his facemask at the memory of it.Vander is drawn to the weapons.  He finds a blade blade unlike any he has ever seen before.  It is a long sword and empowered somehow.  Then he sees the Maul.  A heavy hammer with a two feet handle.  It looks solid and well made.  Though he doesn’t trust magic, he somehow knows this is magical and of the good kind.  Snak would have liked it no doubt as a dwarf likes such things.   “Find anything you like?” snarls out a heavy voice.A large hulking figure stands over Vander.  “That belonged to a Norseman.  It didn’t do him any good and I know it won’t you.”“oh sh**” is all Megamania can whisper.  The Maestro is here.</blockquote>

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