Fox Echo: An RP of Espionage and High Thievery[OOC]

[AmongHeroes]

Fox Echo IC

To: Undisclosed

From: Director Central Intelligence

Date: 14 January 2023

Priority: Alpha

Clearance: Top Secret-Presidential

Subject: Fox Echo Op Status

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As of date listed above, status of Operational Team: Fox Echo is scheduled as ACTIVE.

All objectives pursuant to activation are GO.

Full Denial/Disavow contingency is in effect.



The year is 2023, and though the United States still holds the mantle of the world’s one true super power, its grip is waning. Through covert action China has crippled the American economy; stealing vast amounts of intellectual property, in turn selling critical national security assets to enemy states and rogue entities.

Searching for a means to slow the bleeding, the CIA and NSA, in conjunction with the State Department, envision a clandestine “coup de main” against China and her allies. At the heart of this daring plan is a team composed solely of civilian specialists, recruited for their prowess in a range of surreptitious skill sets. Known as Fox Echo, this team operates outside of the traditional government channels in order to carry out the most daring and dangerous heist in the history of mankind…

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Mechanics
 To start off with, this is a heist RP. The plot will focus on the gathering of intelligence, the planning, and the execution of Fox Echo’s brazen theft of billions of dollars in Chinese assets. As such, the problems and conflicts that will move the storyline forward will be based around this premise.

 The characters in this RP will be apart of a team, so thusly this is not a sandbox RP, and the posts must deal with advancing towards the team’s goal of completing that objective. This is not to say that character enrichment and side-story cannot be written into the plot, it simply means that the characters main focus must be the team’s task.

 One of the elements for adding twists into the plot will be through the use of the “Handler” character. Most of the time this character will be played by me, and he will present the team with various problems or assistance as the RP progresses. However, if a player has an idea for a unique turn of events that player can PM this idea, and if I approve it that player can present this element into the storyline by posting as the Handler.

 This is an advanced RP, so please plan on posting quality material. I don’t have any kind of length requirement, but I feel it would be a rare occasion that you couldn’t get at least three paragraphs worth of writing into your posts.

 As far as commitment, if you know you will be unable to post consistently, please do not apply for a character. It’s just not fair to other players who put in their time regularly and expect the same in return. That being said I plan on putting a lot of effort into this RP so please help me make this a great one!

Rules
 No godmodding.

 Be courteous at all times to your fellow players in the OOC.

 If you plan on being gone for an extended period of time please let me know via the OOC or a PM.

 If you have any questions, ask them.

 If you accept these rules and requirements put “red fox” at the end of your CS.

Characters
 Though I don’t have a specific minimum number in mind, I want this to be a small cast RP. No more than eight characters, including my own.

 When making a character please note that they were recruited to be in the most elite group of thieves the US government could create. As such make your character unique and exemplary in a skill set that is applicable to this RP. Super soldiers and retired Special Forces commandos will not be needed.

 As far as the roles for the characters I don’t have a specific job list. However it would be beneficial to have characters take on specialized jobs for the team, i.e. computer specialist/hacker, tradecraft specialist etc. If you have an idea for a specialty, please feel free to include it in your CS and we can see if it fits.

CS
 Name
 Age
 Gender
 Appearance (either picture or written description, no anime please)
 Occupation/Specialty
 Background (basically in this section tell why your character would be chosen to be a member of Fox Echo)
 Strengths
 Weaknesses

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Confirmed Members of Fox Echo
(Listed in Posting Order)

Dirk Callum:Fox Echo handler-NPC

Elias Waters: Heist planning specialist and team leader-AmongHeroes

Sparrow: Professional thief-InkedWolf

Harvey Pep: Demolitions and explosives expert-Skull

Carina Yang: Professional driving and vehicle specialist-NikoSmith

Lucas Preacher:Master con-artist, linguist, and actor-icmasticc DEAD

Zheng Jian: Financial, security, and forgery expert-5Solas

Marcellin Meyet: Professional saboteur and infiltration specialist-solaruin

Kasper Heckler:Connected arms dealer and procurement professional-orangebox DEAD

[Watchman]

CS

 Name: Keller

 Age: Unknown. Estimated upper-20s, lower-30s

 Gender: Male

 Appearance: Tall, pale, thin, scars on his arms and face. dark eyes, dark hair, and dark clothing, usually dressing in jeans, long-sleeve t-shirt, trench coat, and fedora.

 Occupation/Specialty: Hacking and Electronics

 Background: Keller worked for a long time as a technical support agent for the government, and one day helped correct many major security issues. This gained some attention, and he was invited to further demonstrate his abilities. The government wanted to hire him for Fox Echo, and he agreed, asking for one thing in return, that being full forgiveness for his past crimes.

 Strengths: Is an excellent hacker, knows martial arts, and is a fair shot with a gun

 Weaknesses: Keller isn't in the best of shape. He gets winded easily. He is also deathly afraid of heights.

[AmongHeroes]

Name: Elias Waters

Age: 34

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Occupation/Specialty: Professional Thief/Heist Planner

Background: Throughout his time as a professional thief, Elias Waters gained notoriety for stealing some of the most “unstealable” valuables of the modern era. From lifting a 1938 Phantom Corsair from an eccentric billionaire’s private island, to pilfering thirty grams of Tritium, valued at close to one million dollars, Waters has seemingly stolen it all. Known for his outside of the box planning style and tenacious drive, Waters was Fox Echo’s first choice for a team leader capable, and daring enough, to carry out its mission.

Strengths: Waters is a gifted leader and heist planner, and his greatest strength flows from this characteristic. He is also extremely skilled at technical climbing, lock-picking, and precision driving. He is also fluent in both French and Spanish.

Weaknesses: Despite his prowess as a thief, Waters lacks skill with computer systems, and should be a last resort for tasks that are technologically dependent.

Red Fox

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Name: Dirk Callum

Age: Unknown

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Occupation/Speciality: Fox Echo Handler

Background: Outside of those individuals with high level security clearances, little is known about Dirk Callum. However, it is known to the members of Fox Echo that he has been a part of CIA field operations since before the First Gulf War.

Strengths: Unknown

Weaknesses: Unknown

Red Fox

[InkedWolf]

 Name
Sparrow (Alias, real name unknown)

 Age
27
 Gender
Female
 Appearance (either picture or written description, no anime please)
Thin woman, cropped black hair, athletic build, little need for make-up or girly items unless trying to disguise herself.

 Occupation/Specialty
Retrieval exper....recovery special....THIEF!

 Background (basically in this section tell why your character would be chosen to be a member of Fox Echo)

Sparrow is as can be bluntly put it, a thief. If it's not nailed down or on fire, she may or probably has probably stolen it. She started her life of crime at a young age, eventually landing her in a series of foster homes she didn't really belong in. At 17 she met Maxwell, at his time an ailing art thief. He saw her as an apprentice, she was quick, skittish, and unfortunately ten pounds of crazy in a five pound bag.

However, she was something he could work with. Eventually Sparrow became a well known thief, she pilfered objects around the world. Usually specializing in art, or jewels, things men with big wallets would appreciate. Sparrow unfortunately had a habit of burning through her many alias's due to a lack of social mannerisms, or the job where she was working with a crew sometimes landed her in hot water.

Eventually this resulted in her being caught up by Fox Echo due to a few well placed stories about a large diamond and offered a new gig, work for them. An opportunity to steal new things, and get paid, she was in before they could explain the terms of her contract.

 Strengths

Athletic, little to no fear of heights, security, able to scale just about any building, pick locks (non electronic), pick pockets, limited hand to hand capabilities, usually gone before she was noticed so little need for fighting. Skilled in Italian, Russian and czech.

 Weaknesses

Reckless, difficulties in a team situation, growing up in her situation has made her distrustful of most people, believes in one thing and one thing only. Money.

Red Fox

[AmongHeroes]

@Watchman
@InkedWolf

Please reread the rules...you both missed something in your character sheets.

[InkedWolf]

I can't believe I missed that last line, my apologies, was there anything else I had wrong?

[AmongHeroes]

^No worries, and as far as I can see there's nothing else wrong.

[AmongHeroes]

Bump

[Skull]

Name: Harvey Pep

Age: 40

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Occupation/Specialty: Explosives Expert

Background: Harvey Pep began as a demolitions consultant for a major construction company in America, occasionally finding work in the film industry as an explosives and pyrotechnic engineer. Most of the movies he crewed in were low-budget productions that had straight-to-DVD releases, though Megalodon VII: Lone Shark, did get a world premiere, albeit on a cable network channel. As of right now, it will be Harvey's twelfth year as a civilian IED expert for the US Army. For a non-military person, his practical, but unconventional expertise in handling deadly ordinances was scouted by Fox Echo with great interest. Harvey accepted their invitation into the team, provided they fulfill two requests: 1. Clean up his credit 2. Never get called in for jury duty.

Strengths: Harvey's careful attention to detail is uncanny, followed by his calculative insight and patience. He is eerily calm under the most extreme situations, which makes him a great facilitator - especially in a team environment. Fairly athletic (he ran a triathlon once, but that was ten years ago.) Fairly multilingual with Spanish being his strongest, followed by decent German, but terrible - almost borderline insulting - Cantonese and Mandarin.

Weaknesses: Sub-par marksmanship and below average combat skills.

RED FOX

[AmongHeroes]

Love it Skull. Make sure you read the rules though buddy

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