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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Festy_Dog" data-source="post: 4086822" data-attributes="member: 2561">"Patience, Cole," Archer said, prevented from answering Beth first, "Preparation is everything, so give me a minute to explain my thoughts and recommendations here."The store looks closed, but if it's linked to vampires there could be a night shift to cater for nocturnal customers. Looking closed prevents people who don't know better disturbing the business of immortals. We must be wary of the staff if they are connected to Celeste."Celeste has gone into hiding and may presently feel safe. If someone feels safe their guard is lower than when they are alert and on the defensive. We can't let her be aware that she's being looked for, it could drive her further underground. The incident at her apartment may have tipped her off already but until we learn otherwise we should approach all of our investigations with utmost subtlety. I assure you, we'll be better off for it.""Well, here's my plan: You and I approach the store initially and try to pick up what we can without getting too close. Auspex -that's it isn't it?- is the key to this. Once we've found out what we can while minimizing our own exposure, then Cole and whoever feels like accompanying him, two extras at most I'd say, enter posing as potential customers if the place is actually open and the ruse seems plausible in the context of whatever the store does precisely. I won't be going in, too much risk of getting made. Pretend to browse and whatnot, and try to gather information on the number of employees present, building layout, etcetera. This should hopefully tell us whether it's worth looking into further, and if so, provide important information to make said work easier for us. Subtlety is our highest priority."This is just reconnaissance, and priority is not at this stage scouring the place for leads on Celeste, and certainly not tearing the place apart trying to kill her if she's actually there. I'm all too happy to leave the execution in LB et. al.'s capable paws. After this is done we extract, go home, get other stuff done, prepare for tomorrow night."Archer walks over to Cole and slips the holdout revolver into his colleague's hand, "Just in case things go terribly, terribly wrong.""In any case, thoughts? Or is everyone content?"[sblock=ooc]Hopefully that covers what I had in mind. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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