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| name = The Cruciform Sword
| motto =
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| caption = Men will stand where gods falter
| leaders = Apotropaic
| base = The Aegis
| concept = The acquisition and protection on items of interest
| founded = 11/19/2009 
| website = http://tinyurl.com/3txcdso
| footnotes = Openly recruiting
|}}

==History==
the groups beginnings start at the united nations conference. the UN recognized the threat certain items pose, these items could come from a variety of background. such as technology, magic and religious items. The danger these items posed are both physical and political. the UN agreed that the best viable solution was for an independent party to take responsibility for these items. reporting to the UN but not to any singular country or power. All they needed was a man to take the responsibility.

Apotropaic at this time was a senior officer with the United Justice Coalition. He accepted the job on the conditions that he was recruited and stood responsible for all staff and dealings. Thus the cruciform sword was born

==Applying==
The cruciform sword has around 100 staff at a time. Most of this staff is maintenance and housekeeping staff. such as guards, engineers and so on. To apply for these roles the candidate must contact the TCS-careers website. All candidates are required to have a clean criminal record and guards under go several performance evaluation sessions. 

Field agents may apply directly to Apotropaic or an officer. An ideal candidate will be a expert in their chosen field. All candidates can expect a short interview before being offered a trial period where they will be further assessed.

==Items of Power==
'''lermuian power gem''' <br>
Located: Millennium city museum<br>
Class: Red<br>
Description: The gem is a green power gem, originating from Lemuria. Roughly a foot high and half a foot thick.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>

'''Black beards Booty'''<br>
Located: The Bahamas<br>
Class: Red<br>
Description: wooden treasure chest filled with gold and jewels. Anyone laying eyes upon it is overcome with greed.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>

'''All Gear'''<br>
Located: Dwarf-en mine<br>
Class: Blue<br>
Description: A perpetual motion machine. Two 2cm cubes side by side.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>

'''Rod of Asclepius'''<br>
Located: Greece<br>
Class: Blue<br>
Description: Two foot long wooden rod, entwined with a snakes. Heals all wounds.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>

'''Black Manacles'''<br>
Located: Abandoned prison, Texas<br>
Class: Red<br>
Description: Iron manacles. sentient. For each sin the user has committed a cut appears on their body.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>

'''Apple of discord'''<br>
Located: Greece<br>
Class: Black<br>
Description: Touching this apple will cause all sentients in a nearby radius to desire. Forsaking friends and personnel danger.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>
EDIT: After the events in the temple, the user is now desired rather then the object. With no known side effects. Aggression is subdued.<br>

'''Death Mask'''<br>
Located: amazon rainforest<br>
Class: Red<br>
Description:This Aztec mask allows the user to summon an army of skeleton servants.
Full report: redacted<br>

'''Cup of judas'''<br>
Located: England<br>
Class: Red<br>
Description: copper cup, warps the minds of those around it to betrayal and murder.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>

'''Anifails wand'''<br>
Located: Wales<br>
Class: Red<br>
Description: twig like wand, Turns others into a seemingly random animal when swung.<br>
Full report: redacted<br>


'''Fragarach'''
<br>
Located:Ireland
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Class: Red
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Description: Irish broadsword, Prohibits lying while at your throat. Can cut through any shield or wall. Places the wind at the users command.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Book of thoth'''
<br>
Located: Pocket universe
<br>
Class: Black
<br>
Description: Grimoire. Contains the deadliest spells in myth. Corrupting influence on the reader
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Full report: redacted
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'''Sword and armour of yamato'''
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Located: Japan
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Class: Red
<br>
Description: The armour and sword imbues the user with perfect blade and battle skills. Relevant to edo era.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Pistols of the saint of killers'''
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Located: Texas
<br>
Class: Black
<br>
Description: Smith and Wesson revolvers. Do not need to be reloaded. never backfires or misses. Always kills intended target. 
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Full report: redacted
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'''Body swap device'''
<br>
Located: Viper base, Antarctica
<br>
Class: Red
<br>
Description: pair of linked helmets and console. With proper usage the participants can swap bodies.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Gloves of gaia'''
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Located: Nevada
<br>
Class: Black
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Description: Pair of worn leather gloves. Allow the user complete control of rock. Up to tectonic plates level.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Eye of foresight'''
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Located: Greece
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Class: Blue
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Description: Golden eyeball, when touched the user experiences a premonition of probable future events.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Brahamastra'''
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Located: Redacted
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Class: Black
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Description: ethereal force granted by the god Brahma. Deadliest weapon in mythology. Cannot be stopped countered or evaded. Materialised as mass beam of energy. Side effects may include Barren land and infertility.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Amulet of Annie Bonny'''
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Located:  Caribbean, 1800's
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Class: Blue
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Description: Brass amulet, Unparalleled control of wind.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Forget-all'''
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Located: Viper base
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Class: Red
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Description: sphere of gold, when activated the user loses all memory of the last twenty four hours
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Full report: redacted
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'''The Cruciform Sword'''
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Located: England
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Class: Blue
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Description: English broadswords, unknown date, Has the ability to banish demonic entities. Tested at demon king level. 
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Full report: redacted
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'''Lantern'''
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Located: Sewers
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Class: Red
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Description: Chinese lantern, drains power from those its light touches and passes it to the wielder. Effect is in effect while the lantern is touched.
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Full report: redacted
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'''The book and ring of king Solomon'''
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Located: Israel
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Class: Black
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Description: The book is an index of every spell ever made. The ring controls a god which in turn controls demons.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Magic Eight ball'''
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Located: Millennium city
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Class: Blue
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Description: toy magic eight ball. Has never answered a question put to it incorrectly. Cannot answer questions about future events.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Crown of lycans'''
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Located: Estate of Lionel
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Class: Blue
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Description: crown made of bones, possibly human. Symbolizes the leader ship of majority of lycan clans.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Voynich manuscript'''
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Located: Alternative reality
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Class: Blue
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Description: A book detailing heavenly and demonic plants and their uses.
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Full report: redacted
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'''The unluck ring'''
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Located: Millennium city bank
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Class: Blue
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Description: Golden ring. Brings the wielder extreme lack of luck.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Haunted wrestling mask'''
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Located: mexico
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Class: Red
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Description: The luchador mask is haunted by the spirits of his deceased owner. The user has a high chance of possessions.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Size reduction laser'''
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Located: Viper base, Kansas
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Class: Red
<br>
Description: A now shrunk to pen size laser capable of shrinking gown what ever it is aimed a to one twentieth of its size. Effect is temporary.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Helm of Hades'''
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Located: Athens
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Class: Red
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Description: This bronze helm grants its user invisibility.
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Full report: redacted
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'''The vorpal sword'''
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Located: The dreaming
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Class: Black
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Description: This blades rules are simple to explain but hard to comphrehend. The blade cannot cut what is supposed to be cut ( example: paper, wood etc) but will easily cut what should not. ( example: Air, water, sound )
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Full report: redacted
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'''Fetishes (wood, iron, rock, water, fire) '''
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Located: The devils queen, a volcano, a mine, the sea,
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Class: Blue
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Description: These carved relics were an important clue to the location of item "Atheist"
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Full report: redacted
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'''Atheist'''
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Located: REDACTED
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Class: black
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Description: A small iron dagger, imbued with the ability to permanently cut off a gods belief flow. Killing them.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Nature Hammer'''
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Located: Norway
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Class: Red
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Description: The shaft of the hammer is twisted oak, the head is a watermelon sized amethyst. when the hammer strikes the ground the foliage in front of the swing enters a state of extreme growth. An oak tree can be matured from seed to tree in seconds. 
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Full report: redacted
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'''Deus ex machinima'''
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Located: Literary concept dimension
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Class: Black
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Description: This item has the appearance of a small white egg. It is believed that this egg can the capability to solve all "problems". 
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Full report: redacted
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'''Lens of truth'''
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Located:Mexico 
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Class:Red
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Description: This lens said to be crafted from the eyes of Quetzalcoatl shows the user absolute truth. This effect is rather nauseating as the human mind is not prepared for absolute truth.  
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Full report: redacted
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'''The veil of undeath'''
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Located: England
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Class: Black
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Description: This veil has the ability to control spirits en mass.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Haunted Nazi gold'''
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Located: Arctic
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Class:Red
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Description: these twelve bars of gold are haunted by the Nazi soldiers who lost theirs lives trying to steal them. Anyone approaching the gold comes under attack from ghostly bullets. It has the outer shell of a cassette player.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Weather machine'''
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Located:New York
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Class: Black
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Description: This device has the ability to cause radical shifts in weather phenomenon. Resulting in snow, heat waves and so on.
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Full report: redacted
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'''Storm butterfly'''
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Located: The farm
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Class: Red
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Description: This swallowtail butterfly can cause massive drafts of wind with a flap of its wings. See butterfly effect.
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Full report: redacted
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'''mask of many faces'''
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Located: Petén-Veracruz moist forests
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Class: Blue
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Description: This mask allows the user the ability to assume a new identity while temporarily losing the use of their own. The effects distance is unknown. Anyone in proximity to the user cannot remember the users real identity.
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Full report: redacted
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==Base security==
The swords base, codename: Aegis. Is as close to impenetrable as possible. 
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'''Level one'''
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If someone was to make it onto the moon surface. They would have to pass through a Dense large minefield. The mines themselves are concussive and spread a restricting quick hardening gel. This gel is designed to bend and never brake. Lets say you try to fly over the mines. I hope your prepared to dodge laser fire, Oh and you better be damn fast cause lasers do move at the speed of light you know. Okay, so you've cleared the field and are at the base itself. You could try and force your way in through the questionite alloy doors, each one a foot thick. How about the windows? well if the shutters are open the glass itself is actually a specially treated clear resin. Try and break that with a hammer or fist and it'll throw the force right back at you. Any attacks on the bases exterior harder then a thrown baseball trips a base wide alarm but you can teleport in right? Well no actually the base operates magic and tech scramblers. Two of each. So how about the inbuilt teleport system? The teleport system is hard coded only to accept requests from sword communication gems. These gems are made by Apotropaic himself. They are literally bound to their owner. Tampering with them causes them to self destruct. But you might be able to convince a sword member to teleport you up as a guest. No defence against human stupidity right? Well half true. A Guest can gain access to the swords lobby this way with no alerts tripped but this causes the base to go into a silent alert.
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'''Level two'''
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The bases lobby seems quite undefended to the casual observer. No seen cameras or surveillance. No automated defenses or turrets. The casual observer can be quite easily baffled. The cameras are disguised via hologram and obscuration. There is now where in the lobby where theirs a blind spot. The floor panels can quickly rise up to become turrets. Each turret firing electric or magic bolts (various sources of magic) Designed to incapacitate. The computer in the lobby has no access to inside files or systems. Quite simply its the only place in the sword with an outside connection. The armory at the back of the lobby holds basic supplies. if you came this far without them you really don't need them. In a key coded security locker is the ring of unluck. You'd think if you could grab this and scarper you'd be home free right? Nope, the ring is a dummy the magic on it is a tracing spell. The real ring is safely tucked away in the vault. In the event of an emergency the bases outside artificial environment filed can be shut off, the doors opened and everything in the lobby sent into space. Apo has done this once and still misses his favorite chair. On this level are the bases living quarters, Gym, showers, and cafeteria.
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'''Level Three'''
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Approaching the doors to level three, Now sub Terra. Their is a sign reading thus "You have proven your skill to reach this far, Turn around and prove your intelligence". Below this is a list of the names of thieves who have died past this point. All world class, Most were super powered. The door is opened via keypad. The code changes daily. If the wrong code is inputted. The area infront of the key pad is doused with fire, Till not even ash remains. Tampering with the pad is also ill advised. As this will also trigger the fire.Lets assume you get past this point, Walking into the hallways and not speaking the pass phrase out loud and the hallways goes full on death mode. Long range, rapid fire turrets emerge at the bottom firing Hell-Spite Bullets (44.caliber, explosive tipped, silver and cold iron lining, Blessed). If the skillful thief can dodge bullets, Then they will surely run afoul of the laser wall. Not a grid or a single laser.But a patch free wall of high powered laser. The way back looks pretty tempting at this point. If you get passed this. And another door with the same set up. But different code and phrase. Your now in sight of the "Blue" vault.
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'''Blue vault'''
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The blue vault is protected by a Voice print, Finger print and key code combination lock. If anything registers as an error the items inside the vault will be obliterated by explosives. The area is heavily watched and guarded. considering this is the most lightly guarded area. A theft isn't going to happen anytime soon. 
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'''Authors note'''
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The swords base is intentionally OP. The items stored within was intended for single use event fodder.  -CaptainPartyHard
(WIP)

==Rules of conduct==
==Comments==
==Keepsakes==
-The base cat is called snow, and is a pure white playfull kitten who wears a green bow tie
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-Over the base's main monitor is a bent, semi-melted plaque reading "For services benefiting the american association of museums"
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- a burnt, bent toy figure

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