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Light B&E in the Dark
Who: Nico di Angelo ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
demigoth, Dr. Strange rehandle, could be open if you come up with a reason to involve yourself
What: Nico has been told that there's a malevolent dimension in Dr. Strange's basement. You can't just tell someone that.
When: Today
Where: Will-o'-the-Wisp Walk, Sunset Falls.
Content Warnings: If needed
[ Nico got up early for this pre-dawn break-in. He tiptoed around, dressing in as much grey as he could find (everything but the shoes, sword, and jacket, which are black). He considered his phone - he didn't need it, but, if he left it behind and something happened, Solace would definitely make That Face, probably with his arms crossed. Gross.
The phone gets shut off, and Nico shadow-travels, oozing out from the cold shadows in Sunset Falls. The back of Will-o'the-Wisp Walk looms in the near distance. It looks... quiet. Strange will be asleep or off doing sorcerer things which are hopefully not best done at home. Nico thinks this is the best time for a break-in - nite owls are in bed, morning people are too. It's perfect.
From his place just outside the property line, he can't feel anything. There's no sense of the Underworld, no pull of the pit. That's what he's been worried about when Dr. Strange called it a "malevolent dimension."
He'll be quick. In-check-poof. He doesn't even have to leave. Just teleport back to Will's room at the Diadem. Easy.
Outside, property line.
Nico doesn't waste time outside where the neighbors might see him. He walks far enough to each side to check 270 degrees of the house. When the coast is clear, he'll start a mad scramble through the grounds for the house.
Outside, back wall of the house
When he reaches the house, Nico flattens his back against the house and waits. Listens while he holds his breath for a door or a window, for any sign of someone waking up and coming to see. After 45 seconds, he has to breathe. It's fine.
Nico crouches down and follows the foundation of the house around, looking for cellar doors or a window, something that will fit a skinny fifteen-year-old. Finding one, Nico draws his Stygian iron sword and thanks Hades that its purple glow isn't too bright. He'll cut the wood free of the hinge and prop it back in place once he's inside. Dr. Strange won't notice for weeks.
demigoth, Dr. Strange rehandle, could be open if you come up with a reason to involve yourselfWhat: Nico has been told that there's a malevolent dimension in Dr. Strange's basement. You can't just tell someone that.
When: Today
Where: Will-o'-the-Wisp Walk, Sunset Falls.
Content Warnings: If needed
[ Nico got up early for this pre-dawn break-in. He tiptoed around, dressing in as much grey as he could find (everything but the shoes, sword, and jacket, which are black). He considered his phone - he didn't need it, but, if he left it behind and something happened, Solace would definitely make That Face, probably with his arms crossed. Gross.
The phone gets shut off, and Nico shadow-travels, oozing out from the cold shadows in Sunset Falls. The back of Will-o'the-Wisp Walk looms in the near distance. It looks... quiet. Strange will be asleep or off doing sorcerer things which are hopefully not best done at home. Nico thinks this is the best time for a break-in - nite owls are in bed, morning people are too. It's perfect.
From his place just outside the property line, he can't feel anything. There's no sense of the Underworld, no pull of the pit. That's what he's been worried about when Dr. Strange called it a "malevolent dimension."
He'll be quick. In-check-poof. He doesn't even have to leave. Just teleport back to Will's room at the Diadem. Easy.
Outside, property line.
Nico doesn't waste time outside where the neighbors might see him. He walks far enough to each side to check 270 degrees of the house. When the coast is clear, he'll start a mad scramble through the grounds for the house.
Outside, back wall of the house
When he reaches the house, Nico flattens his back against the house and waits. Listens while he holds his breath for a door or a window, for any sign of someone waking up and coming to see. After 45 seconds, he has to breathe. It's fine.
Nico crouches down and follows the foundation of the house around, looking for cellar doors or a window, something that will fit a skinny fifteen-year-old. Finding one, Nico draws his Stygian iron sword and thanks Hades that its purple glow isn't too bright. He'll cut the wood free of the hinge and prop it back in place once he's inside. Dr. Strange won't notice for weeks.
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and...
and...
silence.
After a couple of seconds, Nico tentatively looks around the door. It's some sort of broom closet, with a ramshackle mess of bottles and tools. Maybe they're magical, maybe it's containers of Tidepods. It's all the same to him. ]
That was anticlimatic. I'll try another one.
[ The next door is also a closet. And the next. ]
This has to be a trick.
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[ He closes his eyes and takes a second to clear his head, then holds out his arms and extends two tendrils from each. The four tentacles snake across he floor, pooling at the threshold of the next four unchecked doors before slipping underneath so Dylan can get a look inside.
It's still... very new, trying to make sense of four visual inputs completely separate from his eyes. But his physiology is built for this, he just... needs to get used to using it.
If there's anyone on the other side of any of those doors, all they might see is a little tendril of goo slip under the door and crane upwards a few inches, turning to and fro as if looking around. ]
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Or so it appears. Actually opening that door will tell a different story, the door opening onto a grand old library, dimly lit with well-spaced lamps on a couple of side tables. Through that library, on the opposite wall to the entry door, another door stands open a crack. Light glows from within.
Going back into the hall to test any other doors will present them with yet more closets. No matter how many times Dylan spies under the closed library door, it will always show the staircase, and no matter how many times they open it, it will always be the library. ]
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[ Dylan retracts the tendrils and moves to the staircase door, pulling it open with little fanfare.
It's not a a closet! That should be a victory, but as Dylan gazes upon the library he just looks confused. Before Nico can even respond, Dylan shuts the door. He extends a tendril once more to peek under the door. ]
This was a staircase. Looking at it like this, I still see the staircase. But...
[ He retracts the tentacle and opens the door again, frowning at the sight of the library. ]
Wow, I hate this place.
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So - when the door is shut, it's a staircase. When the door is open, it's a library.
[ Nico opens the door and steps into the library carefully, half expecting the floor to drop under him. ]
What if you shut the door while I'm inside?