STATE COLLEGE, March 26 -- Six men wearing Lance Deschene face masks broke into a lab maintained by the Penn State Department of Esoteric Studies, stealing several samples of the mystical metal known as orichalcum. The face masks had been taken from the storage locker of the Penn State chapter of the Lance Deschene Fan Club.
It is believed that the culprits left the Thread soon after their theft, via an expensive direct gate. Penn State officials are not sure where the men gated to.
"They had the full outfits," said Charlie Tannen, a graduate student who had been tending the lab that night. "Cowboy hats, chaps, dust. Smelled, too. Very authentic. Each had a slightly different cowboy outfit, but they all had those masks."
"The black metal that some people in the JET label as orichalcum is oddly psychoreactive," Dr. John Kellner of the Department of Esoteric Studies, the man who established the Kellner Scale used to measure magick levels in various Threads. "This is why we were studying it. We thought it might be useful in more precisely measuring thaumaturgical levels."
President Lance Deschene is a former member of the JET and the President of the newly-minted Midwestern States, formed out of the collection of Threads formally known as "the PPOC."
