The Name's Wu, Sonja Wu

[Sonnie Wu]

The California summer heat had recently relented, and it finally felt like autumn. There was a chill in the night air, a light wind knocking brown leaves and pine needles off their branches. Sonnie Wu was dressed for it, with blue jeans and a nondescript dark grey hoodie. Nothing to attract attention to herself tonight. For the Beast was on a mission.

A spy mission!

The Bond theme played in her head as she approached the street where the storage facility was located. She resisted the urge to hum it aloud.

Step one: No tracks.

Sonnie had spent some time at home that day barefoot. Most of her time at home was spent barefoot, in fact. Her simian feet felt better when free of shoes. Conveniently, that fulfilled the catch for a Contract.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-30 17:36:35	Sonnie Wu rolls 5 to Nevertread: Int 2 + Wyrd 3 (10 Again)	2, 1, 4, 4, 8	1 success

Her deal with the aspect of Smoke was called into play, and the Wyrd proceeded to wipe away all tracks, prints and other evidence of her passing she would leave behind from here on out. Not that she was concerned about leaving tracks on the sidewalk, but better safe then sorry about fingerprints. A glance down at her feet and she saw little wisps of smoke coming off of her feet, just for a second, a hallucinatory sign that the clause had been successfully invoked.

There was the storage business, and the set of stairs that lead up to the rented units. That was her target. Sonnie needed to plant this little spy camera somewhere it could observe the door clearly.

Somewhere up high. Get a good angle. And humans never look up.

There, across the street. The roof line of the opposing buildings would be good. She just had to get up there unnoticed. The Beast smiled to herself. Not hard for a Steepscrambler. She moseyed across the street and into an alleyway, out of sight of the street.

Step Two: Stealth!

Sonnie concentrated and her Contract with Smoke was called upon again. A different clause this time.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-30 17:51:30	Sonnie Wu rolls 7 to Shadowpatch: Wits 4 + Wyrd 3 (10 Again)	3, 10, 3, 1, 4, 4, 1, 2	1 success

She had also prepared for this usage of faerie magic, having spent the day at home, not only barefoot, but away from natural light. All window shades and drapes drawn. Another Catch triggered, another bit of Glamour saved. She felt the sensation of smoke envelop her. She knew it was imaginary, just another sign from the Wyrd that the Contract had worked, but it was funny nonetheless. In reality it was the shadows of the night that clung to her, the local light sources seeming to shy away, leaving her harder to see.

Step Three: Sneaky Climbing!

The Monkey Beast could climb as easily as she could breath. It was second nature to her, and she could ascended sheer walls quickly. It would be somewhat slower going, however, as she wanted to make sure no one spotted her doing it. Creepy-crawling was in order.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-30 17:59:03	Sonnie Wu rolls 11 to Climb! Str 3 + Athletics 4 + Spec 1 + Kith 3 (10 Again)	7, 9, 4, 4, 7, 6, 4, 1, 5, 3, 8	2 successes

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2023-10-30 18:04:05	Sonnie Wu rolls 10 to Sneaky! Dex 4 + Stealth 3 + Contract 3 (10 Again)	1, 5, 6, 5, 7, 1, 5, 9, 10, 10, 6, 5	3 successes

Up the shadowy simian went, and as far as she knew, she was unseen. Once upon the roof, the Claviger snuck across to the side opposing the storage place. She glanced down at the street. Heights never bother Sonnie, but it was fun to look down. From out of her hoodie pocket came the spy camera Circe had provided. Following the blue elf's instructions (except the parts in Italian she didn't understand and assumed were just random cussing), she affixed the device to the side of the building, along the roof's edge, in a spot with a solid eyeline to the entry door across the street.

Done and done. Q would be proud.

Step Four: Go Get a Milkshake as a Reward!

[Saber Sloth]

The spy camera merrily provides the Springs plus Circe (assuming Sonnie lets her Queen and the Summer who had given her the cam in the first place access) a feed to watch, and Sonnie's Contract prep went into a long way of their cam not being spied while it was doing the spying.

At first it's pretty boring, and takes a bit to get used to the video quality. No matter how good the spy cam, it's not ultra HD 4K streamed directly to your eyeballs.

Sonnie sees the Karen Soccer Mom and her child once again, and is thankful that the spy cam is video only. One could imagine the sheer volume that Karen Soccer Mom could achieve, especially with an eyerolling, snarky child in tow.

More normal unit renters, or what they'd assume are normal renters. Stopping by every so often, heading to the same unit to bring in new things to store, or retrieve whatever they'd left there before. The employees, and the single patrol person become a routine as she continue watching. Several days after the rhythms of the routine become apparent, they see the familiar forms of the a few Grey Hoods skulking about, from the look of it, they're doing their own spying and snooping about.

Then, a night like any other, where the Lost might try to watch on 2x speed, or higher, and need to pause, rewind. Because there is a shape. Human in that it is bipedal, most of the figure is covered by a dark trench coat, and even across the distance and the spy cam quality, they can see that the figures arms are far, far too long and underneath there are bulges across the shoulders, the middle of the back and presumably the stomach. The figure disappears up the stairs and into the upper storage units.

It doesn't take the figure long to reappear. Shoving the door open, and covered in something stark against the dark jacket - plaster? Drywall?

Looks like Frankie realized someone took their stuff, and is pissed.

Two things come to mind, willy Matty - if he's still alive come to harm because of this?

And, with Frankie being right here, Circe could possibly hacked the CCTVs, and other security camera and track him through the city.