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Jerome glanced back at the women as she looked at him, nodding to her and then to the dude who lent Jerome the glasses in greeting, before taking Tambrey's lead and going up to get a ticket for the museum.

He stared up at the building as they got closer, looking over every ledge and ridge of its architecture.
Man he had the hugest urge to see if he could climb this thing, bet he could.
Sadly this was no time to see if he could pull of parkour on his building, as he followed his small group inside and the women asked what they should see first,

"Hmm" Jerome hummed lightly glancing around. "D'nno, whatever ya want." he added a slight shrug.

Xander gave Tambrey and Jerome a smile, though it looked a bit on the amused side. "Well we could take a look at the map and go in a circle so we don't go directly to the project." He worded it so that it sounded like he was curious about the rest of the museum before what ever it was they were doing a project on in case some one was listening. "What kind of area are you most interested in 'Brey? We can each choose a place to go, after we look at the map of course." He then moved over a few steps to grab a copy of said ma before opening it to show the other two.

While the group started wandering the museum, assuming false identities, familiarizing themselves with the building, sizing up guards and gathering maps, Lore meandered into the central room. The ceiling was domed and made of glass, letting in streaks of sunlight. Rare exhibits lay scattered about, tucked safely behind varying levels of security. In the center of the room was the pedestal supporting the Sky Plate. Caught in the sunlight, the blue artifact shimmered subtly, reflecting faint flecks of light from some paper-thin inlay of mica or crystal. Lore tilted his head, yellow eyes passing over the exhibit. No bullet proof glass. No cage. He was sure some manner of security was in place, but the fact the thing was so out in the open would simplify their job a lot.

An hour or so later, once the Rockets had adequate time to get comfortable with their surroundings, Lore started wandering the halls, casually gathering them up with the whispered instruction, "We'll need to find a place to hide until nightfall. Some sort of maintenance or storage space."

Tambrey wanted to go -everywhere-, she had no idea where she wanted to go -first- though. Of course, she made sure to remind herself that the whole 'looking around the museum' stuff was just a ruse until the actual goal.
When they'd actually get to take something!
Well, that was interesting; she confirmed to herself that she was actually excited at the fact they were here to steal something. Perhaps it wasn't too surprising- the things museums had were... well, interesting enough to want.

Well, if Jerome didn't mind, and Xander wanted to do that...
"I think that's a good idea- if we walk down that way," She pointed randomly to avoid choosing a -first- place to go "then we can come back around eventually!" She -really- wanted to see everything.


When they were gathered with the whispered instruction, she was likely slightly disappointed not to have more time, but her mind was also racing with, curiously, happy thoughts of taking the Sky Plate.
It was even a pity they weren't going to take more stuff...
Oh, right, hiding places. She should pay proper attention...

Alba happened to look up in time to see Shawn hurrying towards him, Asch behind him. He bit back another smirk. Hadn't Asch been wearing a higher ranked uniform than Alba's earlier? This was almost too good to pass up. In a deliberate, almost bored sounding tone, "Professor" Alba continued skimming the leaflets and drawled, "Slow down, gentlemen. The exhibits aren't going anywhere in a hurry." Or at least not as far as the general public was concerned.

He feigned friendly curiosity when Lore slipped by with their orders. "Ah, I see. Thank you, sir, we'll be sure to check it out," he said casually, glancing once at the papers in his hands as if confirming something that was said. His attention was redirected to his "students" after Lore was gone. "Anything in particular either of you are interested in first? Don't forget, you have 6 pages of writing depending on this." He adjusted his glasses again. No wonder his college professors were so evil. This was actually kind of fun!

Xander had to admit that the 'sight seeing' in the museum wasn't that bad. He even took notes of interesting things. But when Lore said to find a place to hide he wasn't too disappointed, not like Tambrey. He gave Jerome a nod for the idea, it was just as good as any he supposed. "Sounds good." He gestured for Tambrey to follow Jerome first and he took up the rear, pretending to take more notes just in case.

Empty exhibit. Storage rooms. Electrical rooms. Toilets.
The first two sounded interesting depending what they contained, but she was already pretty sure they wouldn't choose to hide anywhere where interesting things were actually kept... No, of course it would be some broom closet or janitorial area. The toilets were somewhere Tambrey didn't want hide out, but she had a reasonable objection for them for Shawn.
"Um. Good plan for a shop, I think. 'S a museum though, so it's a really public, vulnerable tourist-y place." She kept her voice quiet, but tried to make sure the rest of the team were listening, at least. "So, the bathrooms are probably subjected to 'push-door' checks and, y' know, making sure no cubicles are locked before closing..." The others sounded mostly better.
She wasn't sure, much as she wanted to, about hiding in a back storage area as Jerome suggested.
"I like that idea; the storage area, but depending on what's back there, it could be vary on how secure it is..." As a route to the electrical room, though, it actually sounded a good idea. Risky, sure, but lower risk than a lot of other options she could think of.
She nodded and happily followed along behind Jerome, sticking closer to him and Xander in an attempt to preserve the grouping ruse they'd all been using, just in case.

After slipping past the sign and down the rickety staircase, Tambrey found herself just a little disappointed again as the area they were looking for came into view so soon. Oh, yes, she understood it was a good thing, the quicker they could hide, but on some not-so-buried level, she'd wanted to at least pass through an area stacked with boxes of old artifacts or drawers of fossils.
She gave uninterested glances at the noisy machines and then watched Lore choosing the group's hiding place.
Well, this was going to be cosy...
It wouldn't do to complain though, so she gave a frown and a nod, then followed on in, making her way toward the back and then sitting on the floor, her back pressed to one of the walls of the cupboard.
Out all the discomfort about it, and the awkwardness of being all cramped up in a closet with a bunch of guys, the one gripe she vocalized was; "It's a shame 's too dark to read."

"Naw" Jerome replied to Shawn, then gesture up toward the displays and ceiling structure, the supports many of the displays were hanging from.

After some time, leading around toward the back arias of the museum, where the general public was not permitted to go. Aria of construction for new exhibits being set up, and the arias used for storage with lots of high shelves of equipment and tools for the displays.
Further down the back halls and in the lower arias, the group found themselves in what Jerome figured were the inner workings of the museum.

It was here that the Executive found a tool closet.
As other started to pile in, Jerome remained where he stood, letting out a heavy breath through his nose, rubbing a hand over the shaved side of his head and wearing a doubtful look on his face.
"Not exactly." Jerome answered Shawn, But it was close enough.
For as long as they were going to need to be in there, Jerome was unsettled just thinking about it.
"yo guys, Nothin' against any a' ya, but m'ganna go find something to climb up on to hide."
Something he was much more familiar with, then hiding in some shed.

With that, Jerome took a step back away from the tool shed as the others started to squeeze themselves in, Glancing around instead, he made his way over to the water pump.
Using ridges on its surface he climbed his way up easily, getting himself high enough so that he could make his way over to hoist himself over a thick beam that probably carried water.
It wasn't too long before Jerome carried himself up and over out of sight in the tangle of machines.

Bro' however, wasn't completely content to stick with Jerome the entire time it seemed, because not to long after Jerome left, then a half glowing figure with his arms crossed, and a large gleaming smile on his face was floating face down at the ceiling of the tool shed, looking down at the scrunched gathering of people below.
"Gar gar."