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three souls and a whole lot more to sort out
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Sable smiles softly and strokes Violet's hair as she watches.

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Virica will hack into the bank's HR systems to intercept the target's time off request and make it seem like it went through and got approved, but actually never let it be submitted at all. With that discrepancy established, Sola will show up at the bank the day the unbooked vacation is due to start, and take the target's place, acting as insider for the remainder of the job — a role which crucially depends on the similarity between Sola's and the target’s pocket dimension Semblances, as the target uses hers regularly at work.

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Vioet coos softly and smiles. 

She likes this plot.

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The movie montages forward through training and preparation, hacking the time off system, and finishing off the makeup to make Sola look like the target, complete with duplicating her ID cards — revealing her name to be Citrine Moreaux. Sola walks into the bank on the day Citrine's vacation is due to start, and she's able to get into Citrine's office successfully. Days of quiet infiltration begin.

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Neo wiggles excitedly.

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Jade sighs and leans against Maya, her wings all tended.

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Ooh, this is starting to get interesting.

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Several days later, it's finally time for the heist. Virica and Ceramos walk into the bank, disguised as maintenance technicians with a cart of tools. They roll through a series of cubicles, occasionally bumping into desks, supplies bouncing off the cart once or twice. Eventually they reach an electronically locked safe, and Virica gets to work breaking it open. Once the safe opens, revealing crisp stacks of twenty-lien notes meant to fill ATMs, Virica and Ceramos start moving the money into a concealed section of the cart.

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Nice little sideshow, but if this was what they were after what do they need the credentials for?

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They close up the concealed money compartment and start back toward the exit, only for a security guard to get suspicious and try to detain them. A fight ensues, and someone in the room pages “Ms. Moreaux”. Sola (as Citrine) arrives to address the situation, and pulls Virica, Ceramos, and the entire cart into her pocketspace, then outputs the cash onto a table. This is treated as evidence of guilt, and Sola says she'll take the two into custody.

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They must have planned that? Right? 

Okay, where is this going?

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One of the supplies that bounced onto a desk, next to a computer, expands and turns out to be a scroll, which interfaces with the computer and starts slowly breaking into an account transfer system.

 

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Everyone grins.

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Ooh, shiny.

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Meanwhile, using the distraction of all this commotion, Meadow and Ferric walk blandly inside in the guise of bank employees. They make their way through various doors of increasing security using various ID cards prepared in advance by Virica, occasionally discarding one after use. Eventually they get past where employees normally go, to where the dangerous security measures start.

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Neo has a distinctly "Aha!" expression on her face.

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Ooh, dangerous security measures!

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Meadow shimmies through a vent, briefly using her Semblance to turn liquid to get past a grid of lasers blocking the way, and then emerges into the elevator shaft. Meadow opens the maintenance hatch in the roof of the elevator car and drops inside, then opens the elevator door and lets Ferric in. They ride the elevator up to the secure storage floor, and step out toward the safe deposit boxes.

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She really wishes she had popcorn to munch right now, this is getting good. 

Now do they get out with it all?

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Cut to Sola, who has stepped away from the earlier confrontation and returned to Citrine's office. Sola activates a security application, and it demands a key. Flashback to discussion of the key: its operation depends on the gradual decay of unstable materials, and if kept out of pocketspace will decay into uselessness in a matter of hours. The key is replaced every two weeks, and the last replacement was a week before the heist, three days after Citrine's vacation started. Sola pretended to be Citrine to receive the new key, and has kept it in her pocketspace since. Cut back to present, Sola materializes the key and uses it to unlock the security application, then deploys the correct block of deposit boxes for Meadow and Ferric.

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Ah, so that's why the impersonation was necessary.

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Cut back to Meadow and Ferric. Another trio of security guards show up, interrupting the two thieves on their way to the boxes. Meadow pulls Ferric into a side office to wait for the guards to pass, but they stay on that hall and can't be avoided.

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Oh no! How will they get out of this one?

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She strokes Violet's hair, and Neo's.

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