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You are used to making sacrifices, to prioritising the happiness of others before yours. Even though that is a noble attitude, there are times in life where the only healthy alternative is to embrace your own selfishness and allow yourself some enjoyment. Reserve one hour per day to do something you really like. Treat yourself! Your colour for this month is blue.
Echoes from the past ring back into London. Their intensity increases until they are deafening. What once was a faded memory of a glorious time, now becomes a shocking reality. The consequences of actions taken decades ago ripple into the present, altering the lives of everybody in the City. Unguided and blind, Kindred wander around, trying to make profit out of the reigning chaos.


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[ARCHIVED] - [Zippo Run] Act I: Scaling the walls [Team Sky]
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The first team had been inserted successfully, working their way into a position to observe the target building and start their assigned tasks. Their target building was a big ugly block of concrete. Most of the windows had been taped over with newspapers and other pieces of paper, othershad been boarded up completely. The neighboring buildings had about 60 feet distance to this oneand looked exactly the same, save for smaller details like the chain link fence with the company logo that was still in place, clinking while it moved with the occasional gust of wind, the satellte dish on the roof or th big antenna next to it.

They could see a man in dark clothes next to the main entrance. He was looking rather bored and tried to not call too much attention to his presence, but the glimming cigarette gave him away pretty easily. The facade was brick, it would be a challenge to climb, but not impossible with the correct equipment and a bit of experience. A few spots had caught Clarices attention already on the building layout, like the staircases, which had small windows that would be easy to avoid or a few morehidden corners in the angles of the buildings sides. The only obstacle was the 'guard'. And the cameras on the four corners of the buildings roof, slowly moving their focus over the perimeter.
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Squatting like always before starting her work, Clarice observed the building and its surroundings. All her equipment was resting on the ground, as it wasn't yet needed. Keeping her eyes on target area, she spoke silently to Toran and Lucy
Electric eyes on every corner, but there's that blind spot near staircase and elevator, just like I thought...

The person dressed in black caught her attention. The man was standing far enough from her climbing spot, yet it would be good to know who might it be. For a while she became motionless like a statue, staring at him without blinking. She couldn't read his aura well, yet it became clear it's just a mortal human being. She reached for her communication equipment, showing some clear signs of confusion at first. She was to quick communication training yet it wasn't really natural to her
How do-
After she figured how to use the radio, she pressed the right button and begun speaking to other groups
This is Bravo-Two-Zero. There's a mortal man by the entrance. Over

She reached for her backpack, searching for proper tools. What she thought is necessary for now. Long steel rope (along with a clasp) coiled around her chest and left shoulder, solid claw hammer placed in one of her stake slots. She already worn her rubber gloves to avoid slipping, more tools such as pruner and screwdriver were resting in her jacket's pockets. Total weight of her equipment didn't exceed 6kg, nothing that would require superhuman strenght. She turned to Toran and Lucy, it was probably the last time she could talk with them face to face. At least until they'll be done with tonight's work
Alright, I'm good to go. I'll secure the rooftop, you know, cameras and stuff... Could you mount this little camera on my right shoulder? I'm not sure if I can disarm their eyes on my own
Her jacket had a shoulder strap that would probably come helpful in this situation
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Toran pulled out a small web camera on a velcro strap and taped it into place on Clarice's shoulder. Then he hooked it to the blue-tooth ear piece though a small micro-usb cable. His deep voice was very soft as he murmured.

"Channel B on Bravo Two Zero transmitting video feed."

His deep voice is a soft black murmur as he depresses his blue-tooth and activates the camera to begin transmitting. He takes the laptop from his backpack, sets it to the signal and expands the feed. Now that he could see what Clarice saw he'd be able to guide her through disabling any security instruments she couldn't manage herself.

"Bravo Two Two ready to instruct on disabling security systems over video feed. Once you've got a clear route up for us we'll join you on the roof."

The thick shouldered man was not stealthy. He had no intention of trying to screw up the approach with his clumsy fumbling. His ass was staying put until they told him they had a solid and easy way for him to climb the wall.
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Having her own electronic eye, somehow wired to her head, she felt like cyborgs from numerous sci-fi movies. She looked curiously at Toran's laptop, seeing almost the same picture her own eyes could see. She was admiring that technology a lot, although she wouldn't say anything

One more thing that she had to take with her was a box with 20 concrete nails. They were solid and long enough to be used as foot support while climbing. While she didn't need it so much, it would help Toran in climbing. She wondered how much he might weigh, but sure it wasn't too much for these nails nor her rope

Clarice turned around, sighed and cloaked herself [Obfuscate: Unseen Presence]. With silent steps she sneaked past the entrance guard, noticing his security equipment. Now her work begun for real. Upon closer inspection, it turned out there are some weak spots that can be used for climbing. She used her hammer's claw to weaken the plaster a bit, so she could start driving the first nail, taking quick and fairly soft smashes. One of her gloves was used to coat hammer's surface, reducing the noise to almost none. It took a while to drive the nail deep enough, then a stronger, final smash ensured it's sticking there for good. Her hammer returned to its waist slot, the glove was only worn back while she was climbing next level. So far it was going well, she crouched on the window sill looking for another spot. She planned to place the nails every half meter (1,5 ft), 4 nails for every floor. The acrobatics begun, she burnt a little blood to improve her agility. Sticking to the window, she started driving subsequent nails, slowly making her way to second floor. At this point it became boring, besides difficulties on sticking to the wall, the whole work was just about rinse and repeat. Having reached 3rd floor, she felt huge relief, even that there was a camera close to her. The distance between the window and roof's edge was smaller, only 2 nails this time. She was in hurry, making slightly more noise than before. She just wanted to get it done, pulling herself up over the edge made her feel like she just climbed Mt. Everest. For a moment she just lied on her back, giggling like madman
Climbing route is ready, let me-
She had to catch her breath
Let me proceed...

Wasting no more time Clarice rolled on her belly and crawled her way to antennas. Quick test of their durability and it turned out it should be safe to hook her rope on one of antenna's mounting. She had it ready, but she didn't throw it down the wall yet, not wanting to attract attention too early. There were still cameras to disable. She approached the first one, giving fairly clear vision of wiring. Toran could see pruner's blades appearing in bottom corner of his screen
Can I just cut everything?
That seemed like the easiest solution to her, destroy it all. Out of her impatience she was very eager to ignore all procedures
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Toran and Lucy saw the guard straightening somewhat as he turned his head towards the side of the building in case they paid any attention to him and weren't busy with the camera feed. He shrugged and didn't go to check and also didn't make any attempt to report something over the walkie-talkie, but remained near the front door, smoking and monitoring the area in front of him witthe same bored look on his face.

In the meantime, Clarice had reached the roof and had checked the antennas. The roof was flat and apart from the antenna and the cameras, there was only a small entrance with a heavy steel door leading downstairs and a few small air ducts, nothing Clarice would fit though in one piece and covered with heavy lids. The antenna mounting seemed strong enough to hold the rope and so she hooked it to the mounting and proceeded to the first camera. The camera casing was not much of an obstacle and so she and Toran soon had a good view at several wires in different colours that they now had to fiddle with to disable the cameras.
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"We can't cut the cameras until the underground team is ready to go. If they notice the cameras start going down they'll send guards up to the roof to see what's going on and that'll ruin the surprise. What you can do is nudge the cameras out of position so Lucy and I can climb the building without being seen."

Toran watched over Clarice's shoulder, to speak, his voice a dark rumble inside her ear.

"Look around for antennae and broadcast equipment so we take everything down at once."

Climbing when your body weight was like a feather to you was a simple matter. Toran would wait for the guard to look away before yanking himself up the cable and onto the roof. If he had too, he'd deal with the guard that Clarice assured him was mortal, a brutal and celerity fueled punch to the throat to prevent any calling for help and leaving him to choke and down in his own blood.

Hopefully it would not be required. He'd rather just slip up to the roof and begin the process of taking over the internal security system through the nearest ethernet cable he could plug into his laptop. If they were dumb enough to have an unsecured system, which he doubted. Unfortunately he didn't have the hacking skills necessarily to penetrate a firewall and take over their systems. He'd just have to take down the devices one security measure at a time. Handling the hardware that was his specialty.

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With disappointment Clarice has put the pruner back in her pocket. Colorful wires were really asking for some damage, but narrowing camera's field of view was enough of consolation for a while. She waited for it to turn away from path to climbing corner, then she blocked the casing with one of few remaining nails. It seemed like it could easily get broken if it stays that way for too long

First camera secured, I'm going to block the other one. Prepare to carry our equipment

She crawled all the way along the wall, reaching another corner. Same model of camera, same blocking routine. Now about 100-120 degree angle was out of Blackwood's sight. She moved back to antenna mounting, to pick up the rope and headed to rooftop's edge. She rose her head and looked out for Toran and Lucy

Both cameras are secured, I'm ready to drop the rope for you
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For now, she was quiet. More or less waiting on her signal as it were. Clarissa was the one handling the stealth part, while Lucy was along as muscles. Which was sort of funny seeing as she, compared to Toran, didn't at all look like that was the part she was meant to fill in.

So, while listening to Toran and Clarissa speaking, the blonde made sure she'd packed as much of the equipment they needed to bring in a manner that would allow her a fair bit of movement at least and waited with the larger Brujah to make the move to follow.
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The cameras offered not too much resistance to Clarice and were quickly blocked in their current position so that the way was free for the others to approach. Clarice headed to the roofs edge and looked for Toran and Lucy. They were in psition to get up onto the roof, all he needed to do was throw down the rope.

All three saw the brown van stopping near the entrance, the driver that got out, and fetched a clipboard to help her in the discussion with the guard, who reported in, waved his hands in frustration and followed up to the van to help unloading small wooden crates with asian symbols on it, piling them up near the entrance.
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Toran reached up slowly and hit the blue-tooth to connect to all teams. His voice a deep rumble over the quiet microphone.

"We've got a delivery van, Asian tags on the boxes. Not sure what's going on but they're getting a shipment of something right now."

Part of him considered taking the delivery people and the guard down fast and just going in through the delivery entrance. But that wasn't his job. He just had to wait for Clarice to drop the damn rope and as soon as she did he was going to be up it and taking down the security. He reached into his backpack and turned on the jammers. He wasn't going to take a chance and let the guards radio if one of the delivery folks spotted him. Too big a risk. So it was time to take their communication down proper and handle internal cameras and security when he got up there.
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Clarice dropped the rope slowly, preventing it from bumping on the walls. It had a clasp at the end, so they could attach their equipment. She was about to help with climbing action while some noise could be heard. A vehicle engine, she carefully looked out for the car and there it was, some van. It all looked very suspicious, before she managed to react Toran was already warning everybody. After he finished speaking, she connected to channel of her team

Okay, let Lucy go first. We'll lift our bags up here and then help you in climb Toran
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Breaking and entering, on some level she was faintly amused as she was pretty sure someone somewhere would've considered it fairly mandatory Brujah stuff to be breaking the law in one way or another. Oh well, her focus had to remain at the task at hand as opposed to the brief detour of her mind, although an amusing one.

Blue eyes turned upwards, then glanced around quickly to ensure that the coast was actually clear for her to make her move before turning back towards the goal of scaling that damn wall.
So, assuming the coast seemed clear and having turned to Toran for a go signal as well, since two pair of eyes was better than one, the athletic Swede would latch onto the rope and head, well, upwards obviously. As quietly, but still as quickly as she could manage.
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When you can throw a motorcycle side arm across a room at a person, ropes are sort of amusing. Toran didn't even wait for Lucy to finish, he just started hauling himself up hand over hand. His weight was nothing compared to what he could actually lift so he made a pretty fast trip of it. He hadn't bothered to take off his gear since he barely noticed the weight. He'd noticed Lucy was the same, just going up the rope. Helping a Brujah climb a rope was like helping a Nosferatu be sneaky. It was polite and all, but generally not worth the effort.

As for Toran once he was up he started studying what was exposed of the security system to see how he could subvert it or at least turn it off for everyone on the inside. Their signals were already being jammed so they were an attempted wi-fi or cellphone call away from someone figuring out something was going weird about the building.
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Everything looked OK for Lucy, so she grabbed the rope and climbed up. As she expected, she reached the roof without being noticed, shot at or having someone try and blow her up

Toran had a look around and decided that using one of the exposed Ethernet cables would be a nice gimmick. With the cameras blocked as they were, they were unable to see them fiddling with the wires. In any case, it didn't look as if Blackwood and his gang had spent much money on security equipment. The software was far from state-of-the-art and the hardware... he couldn't say much about the hardware from his current position, but the connection was rather slow and so was the system's reaction time. In fact, he saw that someone had started a software check-up only shortly before, but the packets hadn't been sent yet...

Clarice kept her eyes on the van, carefully, of course. She watched the delivery continue as the pile of boxes grew. It was astonishing how many of those boxes fit into the back of the van !
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Toran ran the program on his computer which MIGHT take over the cameras and put them on a loop if they could handle the slow speed and older software. He quickly set up the jammers on the building's antennae to jam everything and then he touched his broadcast on a general push.

"Ready to drop the security when you're good to go."

With his security programs running he went to examine the roof and check to see if there was a security system on the door he might need to work with. He knew Lucy wouldn't have a problem opening something that was purely physical in security, but if there was a palm scanner or security card he'd need to use one of his tools to open it up. Best to check before things got triggered on accident.
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And right he was, if a door needed breaching then surely she could do that, but the security stuff was better handled by him and she knew that. As such, as before, she would wait patiently and follow their lead, ready to play road block or battering ram should it be needed, though until then, she would serve as an extra set of eyes and ears.
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Setting up his system he hijack as much of the security program as he could he sought to take the camera system offline through the ethernet cable he found. If he could he'd set the cameras to display a loop, so they'd stop recording and just show empty spaces. If he couldn't, well, he'd just break them. It wasn't like they were planning on going tor the entirely invisible approach, after all, one team had a jack hammer.

Either way he felt like they had to pick up the pace if they were going to get down there and actually start HELPING.
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Toran couldn't find any modern security on the door, it was just a simple, but heavy looking steel door between them and the way downstairs. Toran's programs choked a bit and had a few issues connecting with the older drivers. This meant Tora had to work some magic and would have to go through several attempts to loop the video-feed. If he didn't decide that taking them down altogether as preferrable after some time.

The others on the roof didn't notice much out of the ordinary, but they were able to notice how team street took control of the guard and started to lead him off. Although... If they thought about it, Clarice and Lucy were idle enough to notice the feeling that something was about to happen. Did they feel watched even ? Or was that just them being nervous ?
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"Fuck it."

The big man crashed the system. The older models could be harder to work with unless you knew you were dealing with them so you could use older equipment. Otherwise the interfaces just don't play nice. So he sent a virus he had stored on his computer into their system to bring everything down fast and sudden.

"No need for secrecy, they know we're here. Kick in the door and let's get moving."

It would have been better to infiltrate through stealth yeah, but without the preparation time there's only so much you can do. Sometimes a smash and grab was the answer. He looked at Lucy and gave her a nod to take down the door.

It was time to show these guys why you don't fuck with a motivated organization like the Camarilla.
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All Toran's work seemed like taken out of alien fantasy world. No matter how long she'd stare, she wouldn't learn anything from it. Instead she kept watching events down at the entrance, only glancing at Toran and Lucy from time to time. Sawyer's team working smoothly, it was somewhat a good sign. She wondered how the Brujah team is doing, she hasn't heard of them in a while, it was making her somewhat insecure. It was time to start watching over team more carefullly. As usual, she relied on her hearing [Auspex: Heightened Senses]

She started catching full dialogues flying in the air below them, though they weren't much of a clue for her. So far nothing alarming. Besides, her co-workers would rather handle any disturbance, without gunshots, as Clarice would do. She moved to the door, presumably leading to staircase. While Toran was busy with computers stuff, she picked up her bag and started examining the door, to check wheter any of her tools might be needed to open it. Classic locks, bolts and such could be easily dealt with. She just crouched by the door, playing with remaining steel rope, twining it around her palms and wrists. Her ears were strained for any noise coming from inside the building. Eyes were dully staring into oblivion, though any alert would put them back to work

"Fuck it."
That was the signal, she looked at Toran, seeing him getting up and heading toward the door. She stood close, ready to sneak in and spread violence. Stretching the rope between her hands, she spoke quietly:
Let me scout the place...
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