3890/Trap for a toyman

Trap for a toyman
Date of Scene:	22 October 2020
Location:	Penthouse - Kord Co
Synopsis:	=A trap for the Toyman is set... with Toys.
Cast of Characters:	Ted Kord, Helena Bertinelli, Marly Kohler

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Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord brings another cardboard box out of storage and into the penthouse to keep the other three company. He opens it and digs in it annoyedly.

"It as to be on one of these boxes. I know I saved the damned things. Helena? Where'd you go? You'd think I'd get a little help, nice guy that I am. Mutter mumble grumble gripe." He continues to dig in the box and looks up as the visitor chime dings. "Hey can you get... oh the hell with it." He signals open access to the visitor."

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli is dressed casually and carries the other box in after Ted, relucantly helped him carry something from storage, "Will you stop frickin whining?" she tells him pointedly and drops the box. "I'm not a damn moving company," she says, "Oh now you got a guest huh?" she comments and walks over to the elevator to meet this mysterious guest Ted has let up.

Marly Kohler has posed:
It's not unheard of for Marly to have an appointment that's outside of her shop, but she can definitely say it's been a minute since she's had one.

Not that it stops her from accepting said appointment, but when she comes to address at hand? Marly can't help but squint at her scribbled down address and the actual building, then back at her hastily taken down address. "I guess I'm here? Wait until I tell Kari and Andy about this."

Thankfullllly, before she can stick out like more of a sore thumb than she already is she's buzzed inside. Perhaps she should have dressed up? Jeans, boots and a heavy sweater seem a little underdressed now in her mind. "Oh well." Mutters the woman to herself as she steps into the elevator and as it rises upward she can't help but fidget with her messenger bag, which holds the various tools of her trade. It's only as the elevator dings and the doors slide open that she puts on a super-polite expression and smile. Helena is the first one she says and Marly says, "Hello! I'm Marly Kohler from Kohler Antiquities."

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord hollers after her, "Yeah if it's Dr. Doom try not to scare him too bad. Dropping my good stuff... " He looks at the box Helena dropped and plunges into it. "Ah... dirty magazines, I think I hit pay dirt... back when men were men and the women were women and had staples in their belly buttons. Aha! Here is it! Bwahaha. My master work." He gazes into the box again. Holy crap, my old lab notebooks!" He beetles further into the box.

Beetle Beetle awaaaaay.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli narrows her eyes at Marly and isn't so polite, "Doctor Doom my ass," she mutters quietly, "What the hell do you want...?" she wonders and then thumbs to the interior of the penthouse, "Oh wait, you're here for a delivery? Oh I know, a consultation with Professor Ted?" she asks.

"That must be it---Professor!" she lets out, "Your student is here!" she adds as she eyeballs the bag of tools Marly carries with her.

Marly Kohler has posed:
The mention of Doctor Doom causes Marly's eyebrows to raise high upward, but thankfully (in her mind) she keeps any questions she may have quiet.

Instead she keeps that polite smile fixed upon her face even as Helena asks what she wants here. Marly opens her mouth to answer that rather pointed question but quickly snaps it shut as Helena continues to speak.

Marly's mother didn't raise her to be rude.

"Yes, I'm -" Totally here for a consultation, but that sentence trails off as Helena shouts back to the Professor. It's only as the other woman identifies Marly as a student that the young woman starts to speak again, "Wait no -", but really, should she finish that sentence? In her estimation, no. As such, Marly just closes her mouth and waits patiently, perhaps white-knuckling the strap of her messenger bag a little too tightly.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord is roused from his rumination by the nattering. "Oh, no one should have to deal with you before taking the basic course. Watch out. Stop being rude to my guests... of which you are one. Hello Marley, I'm Ted Kord, thank you for coming. I'm transferring the fee to you right now. Please excuse my associate. She's suffering from snakebite. The snake didn't make it." He grins.

Leading the two women into the sort of box fort he'd created, he reaches into the latest box and...

What the hell is that would be a valid question. He removes a collection of several animatronic horses, no unicorns, that have been joined into a Unicentipede. For all it reeks of wrongness the thing is fairly well made, by a talented young hacker perhaps. Ted pulls out carefully bagged parts that seem to go with the Unicentipede, mostly heads and hindquarters.

"I need you to separate and restore these six toys from the My Precious Unicorn line. I didn't actually damage anything but the outer shells and, I'm an engineer, not an artist."

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli puts a hand on her hip and seems fairly annoyed by Ted's charming answer, glowering with a twisted smirk as he glides over to her and leads them away from the elevator, giving him the stink eye and the squinty-annoyed stare on the way.

"What the hell is that?" she asks, right on cue. She sighs.

Helena walks cautiously to the boxes and motions to Marly, "Looks like he made me carry his My Little Pony collection all the way up here--" she explains with a frown. She leans over the box of broken horses and pokes one of them with her purple fingernail, "Though I don't think it's worth anything in this condition. Hmm."

Marly Kohler has posed:
Suffering from a snakebite and the snake didn't win? That earns a look between the two as Marly considers whether to respond to that; the answer is still no. Nope, no, no thank you.

Instead, Marly frowns slightly at the mention of transfering the fee over and while other business types might say nothing to it, the good-natured Marly says, "But I haven't even seen the restoration?"

Though that's taken care of quickly enough as Marly follows after Ted and Helena. The amount of boxes are given a curious look from the woman, but mostly she stays on task and returns her attention to the job at hand. Or in this particular case the modified toys, "May I?", asks the woman as she motions to pick one up, "And when do you need this restoration completed by?"

Helena's remark about what it's worth brings a flash of a grin from Marly, "Perhaps not now, but hopefully we can fix that."

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord frowns and says, "I'll be honest /My Precious Unicorn/ was created by Winslow Schott, who subsequently went off his rocking horse and became the Toyman. I want these restored to bait him so, I would like you to postpone all other work till this project is done. The man needs help but he's dangerous. I'll pay any reasonable price for what I know is an unreasonable demand. I'll authorize you to have exclusive use of one of our top line 3d printers and try to keep /her/ from bugging you."

Ted gives the woman a look. "What, I was fourteen, fat, and friendless. I started hacking toys. Made one therapist seek early retirement. What?"

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli straightens up and motions Marly in her place to seek out the hidden mysteries of the boxes once she hears the comment about fixing. As if suddenly alarmed, she shoots a pointed look at Ted for what the hell he's saying about the Evil Toyman's horses, "Bait him? Why would you want to bait him? Do I need to get a doctor?" she wonders.

Crossing her arms, she just shakes her head. She carefully watches what Marly is doing there with the boxes, "Not bugging," she explains blandly.

Marly Kohler has posed:
Idly Marly picks up one of the bags of parts, the heads and hindquarters. She carefully turns the bag over to get a good look at the condition of parts. Thankfully, they look pretty good!

She only stops her visual inspection of the toys when Ted speaks again. In fact, she totally follows everything he was saying up until he gets to the part about Toyman, the Toyman being crazy and setting a trap. That sort of brings a wide-eyed look from Marly. A kind of a 'say what?!' sort of look to her features.

Again she looks between Ted and Helena for a moment. A really long silent moment as she furiously considers what to say and really what to think.

When she finds her voice, she says, "It shouldn't take me long to fix them.", thanks to The Maker, "And I shouldn't need any 3D printers either. Once I've reassembled them like new I can deliver them back to you."

Oh, she should probably ask even more questions, but Marly is perhaps a little super-hero-shell-shocked-here.

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord rubs the back of his head and looks a little embarrassed. "I should have mentioned I was, and am, the Blue Beetle. I have a public ID. I just haven't been very active till recently. If you don't want to et involved I understand completely. I don't anticipate any danger. These toys, well, only I knew about them. He can't possibly know of them. I would like you to install some trackers in them, preferably several per toy. People tend to stop after they find one tracker. One in the head, one in the butt."

He turns to Helena and says, "What do you mean doctor? I'm fine. You go see a doctor. When did you do your nails? They're very pretty. Maybe make one blue... for contrast." He hands Marley a bag of impossibly tiny black gadgets.

Helena Bertinelli has posed:
Helena Bertinelli is quiet as Ted obviously puts her off but she just frowns through the whole thing, clearly uneasy with this plan to install trackers in the Evil Toyman's toys and bait him. Whatever happens next, it's much worse in Helena's mind.

"I think using these toys against Schlott or something is really dangerous. Is that really what you're doing? Maybe we should think about this some more," she suggests, maybe changing the plan to involve a crossbow and a boot to the damn face. Now that's a plan. She glances at this quiet Marly, frowning again, wondering why she's not speaking up about this. "No comments...?" she asks her.

Marly Kohler has posed:
Marly is totally processing this all and a part of her brain gibbers to herself that she really can't wait to tell Kari and Andy about this. Surely, this will top Kari's Bigfoot story.

Surely.

However, Ted's saying of one in the hand one in the butt prompts another raised eyebrow response from her, but for the moment she doesn't remark upon it. Instead she automatically accepts the bag of small trackers and looks at them.

It's only as Helena speaks up that Marly's attention snaps back to the two. Does she have any comments? Marly thinks for a moment, "I suppose it'd be foolish of me to say maybe we hsould get the police should be involved?"

Ted Kord has posed:
Ted Kord looks at Marley and seems to have trouble processing. "Marly, the police are already working on this and very busy otherwise wit the many ordinary crooks. I think I'll do what I can to help them with this nutcase. I mean they just don't have the training to fight a robot cowboy with a flamethrower or talking gorillas. I'm just a concerned citizen who flies a bug shaped aircraft. Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on you. This is completely safe."

Somehow Ted completely ignores the feelings of doom pervading these words and he sage nods.