The Paris Opera House [Original]

"...You're right." Magiana sighed. "The living are more frightening than the dead at any rate."

"So how will we go in? Do we just pretend to be casuals?"
 
"I recomend buying some Opera tickets." Jacen said as people started to notice the undead and freak out while he moved to a sewer entrance and dropped down.
 
"Opera tickets?" Aquario sighed. "Well, where do we get those? This sounds more like a field trip than a rescue mission... Very well then. Come, Magiana, let's find those tickets and see if we can gather some information inside."

Aquario turned on his heel and promptly left, looking for some sort of ticket booth.
 
"Keeping a hostage at a place for performances..." Magiana began, before noticing how quickly Aquario started to move. "W-wait up!" After catching up to his pace, she continued her train of thought. "Do you think they might be using the hostage as part of their 'act'? Or maybe they're hiding her in one of those dressing rooms they have backstage?"
 
The guards standing at the entrance of the opera house glanced at Aquario and Magiana but paid them no heed. Tonight's performance was of "The Endless Joy." Inside the entrance was a ticket booth.

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A few Meeting mercs shot up the undead. "Where are they coming from?"

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Jacen placed a seal on a door inside the catacombs, before taking cover as it was blown away and opening a pathway into the back stages of the Opera House.
 
Aquario walked up to the booth and held up two fingers.

"Two tickets please. Adult and child." He said with a hint of boredom. He then looked at Magiana and whispered harshly to her. "That does sound plausible.. That might be a smart way of hiding the hostage in plain sight. The problem is, which one of the actors is the hostage?"
 
Magiana looked at the counter of the ticket booth absently for a moment before whispering back.

"If it's a tragedy opera, it could be the damsel in distress that dies in the end."
 
The booth operator slipped them the tickets.

"Enjoy tonight's anti-depression charity event." He said. A few Meeting guards went out of the Pairs Opera House, accompanied by a leader looking fellow, while others retreated further inwards.
 
"Thank you sir." Aquario brushed along but took Magiana's advice. He nodded to himself and thought about picking some seats that were not too close to the front but close enough for them to launch an attack if they need to. He moved by the people and sat down, leaving a seat open for the young girl.

"You seem to have quite some knowledge on such things." He chuckled. "I'm more of a book worm so I Cannot say I know much about these kinda of situations."
 
"W-well, back home, my family liked going to these kinds of things. Cept for my sister. Sometimes it'd bore her to sleep." Magiana whispered as she took her seat. She messed with her hair sheepishly. "But I like watching musicals. It seems fun, but I have pretty bad stage fright. I figured it would get better when I do more missions."

The sound of the theme was off-putting to her. She had a feeling that the hostage might end up the centerpiece for the anti-depression symbol though she wasn't sure how it would proceed.
 
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