15th July,2023
Morning,
"Hello, everyone! Welcome to the preparation meeting of our 22nd Anniversary! Huge thanks to all of these talented people for being here!", Mr.Jacobs said, with an inviting smile to all of the people sitting in the office of Eclipse.
Saul Jacobs, the owner of Eclipse, sat on his chair. It was a long, oval table with chairs around it.
"Enjoy the drinks on the table and then we should proceed with our discussion, shouldn't we?", Saul expressed.
The table had artists and designers around it. Some of the notable ones being Gary Loxley, Emily Adams, Lucian Cole, Frank Austin.
After some moments of chatting, Saul said with an announcing voice, "So, now, I request all the respected people here to let their creativity shine and show us a sparkle of it!"
"I do have some plans, Lucian. But I'll let you speak first.", Gary said to Lucian.
"Ah you don't have to, just say it out.", Lucian said to Gary.
"Why not? What about the costume plan you were talking about? I really liked it!", this time Gary said it a little loudly, catching everyone's attention.
As soon as everyone heard Gary's words, the chatting stopped and the room became silent. Everyone, including Saul Jacobs looked at Lucian, expecting him to bring up his idea.
Lucian looked at everyone with a nervous smile and stood up.
"Please, Mr.Cole. Share your idea with us!", Saul insisted.
"Yes, for sure! So I was thinking we could arrange a special week for this anniversary where all our visitors will wear something..ahh..based on something related to Eclipse Museum?", Lucian said looking at everyone.
"That is a really good idea, Mr.Cole! But what could this costume be?", Saul asked.
"What about a suit inspired by a Polar Bear? Since it was the first artwork ever presented in this museum?", Frank Austin spoke up, with a smirk.
"Yeah, that would be a good idea!", Lucian added.
"Mr.Cole! You designed some suits for this, didn't you?", Gary said to Lucian while pointing at the papers he was holding.
Lucian then gave those papers to Mr.Jacobs. As Saul went through the papers his eyes sparkled. "These are some amazing designs, Mr. Cole!", Saul expressed, while showing the designs to the other people.
"Yeah, these suits are almost good. Well, I can make them better.", Frank said, looking at the designs.
"Here comes our 'best designer in the world' to save us!" - Gary whispered to himself, mocking Frank.
"Well, I have some ideas too, may I present them?", Emily said looking at Lucian.
"Yeah please do, I'm done with my idea.", Lucian said sitting down.
"We might paint the walls of the museum with colorful patterns that represent different emotions!, Karl, you have the blueprint I gave you?", Emily said.
"Yeah, here it is!", Karl said giving Saul the blueprints.
"We'll be incorporating all of these ideas into the anniversary for sure. Mr.Loxley, don't you have anything to say?", Saul turned towards Gary.
"Oh. me? No no, I'm going with Mr.Cole's plan. Is that okay?", Gary said, pointing at the suit designs.
"That's all good! So our special week will be from 18th July to 24th July, and we will be incorporating these suits into our theme and the visitors will be wearing these as a part of our celebration!", Saul announced.
"Huge thanks to all of the artists who came together to form these plans, and we are looking forward to its execution!", Saul said as everyone stood up, going outside the room.
"You didn't have to let me speak first you know, maybe Frank or some other people had their own initial ideas!", Lucian said to Gary as they were leaving the building.
"Oh come on, your plan was great. Who cares about that Frank.", Gary said.
"Yeah, our work is basically done here, they will make the suits and arrange them. By the way, are you interested in a friendly competition?", Lucian smirked.
"Oh sure, why not?", Gary smirked back.
15th July,2023
Afternoon,
"So, I'll be doing the heist on 20th July, Is that good?", Lucian informs Elias.
"Why such a specific date?", Elias asked curiously, "Does something happen that day that you can use to your advantage?", he added.
"Kind of. That day seems to be the perfect day for my plan, I have backups but that day is important.", Lucian said.
"Okay then.", Elias cuts the call.
When I was checking the yearly electric condition of this city yesterday, I found out that every year on 29th December and 20th July, the electric supply of this city goes off for 28 seconds at exactly 4:47 pm. It's most probably because of how the electricity is distributed around the country. It takes a lot of time to fix such an issue and it has been happening for almost 24 years, with no exception.
That's why I suggested a special week instead of a special day, as I extended the costume days till 24th July, which covers 20th July.
As everyone or almost everyone will be wearing the same costume, it'll be easier for me to steal the art during the blackout and go away with it by confusing the security cameras. The costumes I designed also have space inside it that can store that art. I'm just hoping that damn Frank doesn't change it's structure way too much or I'll have to use backpacks or something else.
There's also something I need to do tomorrow. I'll go there with someone, Gary maybe. But, I wonder what Aria is doing now. I thought of planning a way to contact her after this heist, but I'm kind of missing her already.
And...The painting I'll be going after is an interesting one too, A spirit possessing a demon to make it suicide. I'll try to draw it myself, haven't tested my skills in a while.
Lucian went towards his drawing table and pulled out a few pages and his drawing instruments, he then pulled out his phone and searched for the '16th piece' of Eclipse.
He started drawing a sketch of it and then relaxed on his chair a bit.
He then called Gary.
"Hey! Ready to go to Eclipse tomorrow?", Lucian asked.
"Tomorrow? Didn't you say 20th July? I think you got amnesia or something.", Gary said.
"Yeah no. I'm talking about an extra day. I just wanted to look at it before the colors, you know.", Lucian tried to explain.
"I get it. But why me? You can go with your girl, right?", Gary asked.
"I don't have one, remember?", Lucian said.
"Oh yeah how can I forget", Gary giggles. "Sure, when then?", he added.
"11 am maybe?", Lucian suggested.
"Done!", Gary said.