assault Posted February 12, 2017 Report Share Posted February 12, 2017 Straight from the headlines. "Antiquarian books worth more than $4m have been stolen by a gang who avoided a security system by abseiling into a warehouse. The three thieves made off with more than 160 publications after raiding the storage facility in what has been labelled a Mission: Impossible-style break-in." (The original crime happened in the UK, but I cut that out to make it more generic. You can always put that back in if you want.) The police are baffled, and need superheroic help. WWYCD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted February 12, 2017 Report Share Posted February 12, 2017 Send un Conan the Librarian! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surrealone Posted February 12, 2017 Report Share Posted February 12, 2017 Sounds like someone ordered the acquisition of some books to fill some holes in his/her collection. I'll bet that is one hell of a collection, too... Surreal P.S. The person who was able to afford to pay thieves to do this (or who did it as an act of thiever him/herself), likely has piles of money ... as you don't put such books just anywhere. If they are to be placed in the midst of others worthy of their presence ... it says something about the collector. Thus, I doubt this was done to save any money. More likely it was done just because the person could... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelCold Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Lightweight will check to see what kind of books were actually stolen. Were they mystical tomes or something the culprits didn't want printed to the general public. "Holy Fred Wertham book burning, Batman!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 Sunburn: If the books were of mystical nature, he could rattle off a list of mystical supers who would be intrested. Else, see if Penny Dreadful is in jail (and in secret, cause the nature of the 'truce' between Hudson City vigilantes and the rest of the superhero world). Then, depending on the books stolen, he could name a short list of interesting patties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 So, any of these books arcane spellbooks? (that has to come up in our genre) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothere Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 This is right up Scardey Cats alley. He works in the publishing business so step one check the questionable dealers who deal in rare books. And while hes at it the questionable collectors of the type of books stolen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkonduty Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Darkstar would talk to his magical books contact and find out if any of the stolen books was a magical tome. If yes then he would have to start asking around the few magical types he knows and look for leads. He isn't a fan of black magic. If no then he'd assume some rich collector had stolen them and lose interest. Knight Rider would assume some sort of rich collector. She would start with a fine-tooth sweep for clues of the burglary site. Her power armour has super-sensors. Then she'd ask around her business and socialite contacts to get a list of potential suspects. Next she would start looking for underworld types whose MO matches that of the crime. She'd have to ask for favours from a cop or detective for this, as she doesn't have much streetwise or street level contacts. She would try to avoid doing anything illegal (like break and enters/illegal search) without good reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydaux Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Quasar - He would follow up with Primus and the local police, but street crimes really aren't his area of expertise. Shadowhunter - He would hit up all his contacts - Local beat cops, organized crime contacts, dealers in stolen items. Street crimes ARE his area of expertise. Mystica - "Book? What kind of book? Tom Sawyer book, or SPELL book? Why are you keeping spell book? Where do you get? What have you been doing with arcane spell book? Does book have names of demons? Why are you summoning demons in MY CITY?!?! You work for DEMON? Are you Morbane? ANATHEMA! Now feel the wrath of.... Wait, is Tom Sawyer book? Why you bother me over Tom Sawyer book? You lost book, but still have soul. Be happy and stop bothering Mystica." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Paradox Timely: Unless it is 50 Shades of Grey (or simular like The Story of O or Perils of Gwendolyn), or a book of "classic" sci-fi or fantasy, she would have little interest. Still, if a book being stolen can change the future... Jet Justice: What is this thing called a book? You mean there are no Liebros Screens here? Are you sure Terra was once known as Earth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom 2009 Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Paradox Timely: Unless it is 50 Shades of Grey (or simular like The Story of O or Perils of Gwendolyn), or a book of "classic" sci-fi or fantasy, she would have little interest. Still, if a book being stolen can change the future... Jet Justice: What is this thing called a book? You mean there are no Liebros Screens here? Are you sure Terra was once known as Earth? A book being stolen doesn't just have to have consequences of some sort for the future to be dangerous; the here and now could also be in danger, especially if the book in question is something like al-azif -- A.K.A the Necronomicon -- in which case it's time to call in Miskatonic U's A -Team and the appropiate units of the military. Jet Justice: surely even in the quantum reality you hail from, there must be at least some books in existence, even if they're only carefully-preserved museum exhibits or otherwise kept in climate-controlled protective storage vaults against the remote possibility of technological collapse (there are several QRs out there in the Multiverse where that's happened,one of which was due to magic reasserting itself as the dominant force in that reality; the others were due to wars or catastrophic natural disast- ers). Paradox Timely: I refer you to the episode of the mid- to late-20th Century television series Star Trek called "A Piece of the Action", in which the Enterprise encountered an alien society which had patterned itself after 1920s gangland Chicago, following a visit from an Earth vessel a century before -- during which several books on various subjects were left behind as gifts to the planet's inhabitants (NOTE: IIRC, it was mentioned that the Earth ship's visit happened before the Prime Directive was made part of Starfleet's policy regarding contact with alien cultures), one of which was a history of the gang wars and personages of the 1920s. That gift resulted in a society in which everyone walked around with a weapon, and where drive- by shootings were a daily occurrence. Major Tom 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Tuff-man would want to help but he would find out the "robbery" was an attempt at insurance fraud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyAppleseed098 Posted February 14, 2017 Report Share Posted February 14, 2017 Antonius would first try and see if the books were demonic, magic, or even mystical. Afterwards, if they were, he would track down the group on fight them by himself. If they weren't, he wouldn't give a damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 Jack Diamond starts by investigating the crime scene thoroughly. No matter how thorough and prepared the crooks are, they always leave some kind of evidence behind. Always. Then, it's just a matter of following the evidence. Thunderstrike is no detective...but he is a hacker. He starts with a list of the books that were stolen, which he then searches and cross-references online. He looks for patterns and follows up with inquiries in person as necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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