The Robbery [Open]

[Martyr]

RUBY THURSDAY (Thursday Rubinstein)

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Ruby Thursday was not some common criminal. Yes, she had a number of schemes running to skim the credit cards of a couple dozen marks, but the difference wwas that she was doing it to fund scientific advancement, not to fund a descent into an alcohol-induced stupor. Given that she was a gynoid, she didn't really process it anyway.

Science at its best was without limit and without boundaries. If Ruby Thursday was stuck in the mindset of sedentary science, she would have never had removed her own fleshy, sweaty, lumpy, heterogenous head with a plastic-like, pristine, round, featureless, beautiful head!

Which brought the topic of so-called magic to the forefront. Magic was and purview of those without a sufficient knowledge of science. As the ancients mistook a being like Thor for an actual god, some mistook a fraud like Doctor Strange for an actual sorcerer and not a practitioner of some advanced science even he cannot comprehend.

This made superstitions about powerful magical devices all the more contemptable. Dire warnings of dreadful doom may dissuade the simple-minded but she was not so easily cowed. A dark power would allegedly corrupt the user of the object awkwardly translated into English as "the Orb of Absolute Union". It was meant to bind a kingdom to the will and much more importantly the form of its bearer.

What exactly kingdom meant was open to interpretation. Was it the actual polity, the entire United States, the State of New York? Was it a geographic burst that could take on the whole of New England or just a large part of the Bronx? No matter what was true, it would benefit Ruby Thursday greatly. She would have a head start on on her end goal: giving everyone on Earth heads just like hers. 

Like many artifacts of ancient power the horrified those without vision, this was hiding in plain sight. Make no mistake, the villainess was robbing the bank on 23rd street properly. She would take cash. She would take gold. She would liquidate electronic coffers. But, she was also taking the corporate art display at the center of the bank, the big silver orb. After all, anyone looking at it would think it a mere eccentricity. 

For this caper, Ruby Thursday bought expendable goons. Heroes cared a lot of about other peoples' already insured money. She hadn't really bothered with giving her thugs a theme beyond color. They were expendable after all. Color also meant that she didn't have to learn their names.


 Blue, wait here like a good getaway driver. We won't be long.  

She spoke without a mouth.

Ruby Thursday entered in a vintage 70s dress covered in pale blue pastel paisley patterns. Her true head was visible. Yellow, Green, Orange, Violet accompanied her into the bank armed and ready for war.

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