Ash Replevin
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| Part of La Famille Du Peintre | |||||||||
 Lucian Freud, Woman with Eyes Closed (2002) | |||||||||
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ShadowHaven The Green-Eyed Witch | The Von Blainsteed Household | ||||||||
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Knack Gremlin Oberon Fidem Docteur Vega | Ludwig Von Blainsteed and Guests | ||||||||
Summary
A goofy little art heist!
Background
In 2012, a number of paintings were stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. The paintings were part of the collection of a deceased Dutch Investor named Willem Cordia. They are as follows:
Meyer de Haan ‘Self-portrait’ 1890
Gauguin ‘Girl in Front of Open Window’ 1888
Monet ‘Waterloo Bridge, London’ ‘Charing Cross Bridge, London’ 1901
Matisse ‘Reading Girl in White and Yellow’ 1919
Picasso ‘Harlequin Head’ 1971
Lucian Freud ‘Woman with Eyes Closed’ 2002
Supposedly, they were burned or otherwise destroyed but this year, these works allegedly resurfaced in the hands of a private collector, one Ludvig Von Blainsteed, a wealthy venture capitalist with a notable number of shares in Wuxing. Especially notable for a foreigner. He plans to unveil the works as part of a small, christening party for his new mansion in Snohomish.
The Meet
The team was gathered by their various fixers to a restaurant in Tacoma called, 'The Water-Lily'. A run down old place, barely held aloft through a series of criminal dealings (uncovered by Vega and Oberon's searches). They found the place empty but arrayed deliberately in the illusion of busyness, silverware scattered, chairs pushed out. The one occupied was populated by Vega (she entered through a back entrance and an alluring green-eyed person. Oberon was able to piece their 'mundane but dual-natured' mask and detect her weird elvar nonsense.
Once the gang was gathered, they were informed as to their target. The J wanted two things, the first was to uncover where Ludvig Von Blainsteed had got the paintings from. The second was to return one of the paintings to them, so she could determine its validity. They were also given background information of the Von Blainsteed mansion in Snohomish.
The team negotiated for 20,000 nuyen with 6k up front, as well as a drip feed of karma from the green-eyed witch themself. With everything in order, the team departed for Fidem's ('cramped') apartment to probably do some legwork.