[OOC] Get Rich Quick: A 21st Century Heisting RP

[Lady Selune]

Get In The Mood!

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Welcome to Get Rich Quick, an RP where we'll play as a plucky group of bastard bank (and other areas of wealth,) robbers, in a semi-realistic, but still slightly humorous, modern heisting RP!

The Prompt

Welcome to Get Rich Quick. You, whoever you are, are someone who the system didn't give a shit about. You were busting your ass working three jobs and earning nothing, whilst your boss(es) sat on their asses and earned five times what you earned in a week in a day. Or perhaps that's not you. Maybe you're just someone who didn't want to bust their asses in the system, or you're a greedy fucker who wants more cash. Point is, the gates are open. Time to Get Rich Quick.

If the above didn't explain it, this is a heisting RP, where characters will be taking over a group of (initially,) small time crooks who clean out jewellery stores and cash exchange points, into full on bank and casino robbers. Take it stealthy, or burst in guns blazing. Only rule? Don't touch anything that doesn't sell. Who's in?

What Can We Expect?

This'll be a more realistic than silly RP, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun! We'll be taking the roles of various members of a heisting group, both as they become the terror of New York City via robberies, and as their downtime in an increasingly money-filled safehouse, chilling out, smoking cigars, and watching their exploits on the box.

Most of the action will be based around the various heists of course. The crew will start off doing simple, almost petty crime, such as looting jewellery stores and ripping off small-time gangs, but as time goes on, they'll end up being able to move around the country, go after more lucrative contracts, and hopefully hit the crown jewel of heisting: Las Vegas.

What Characters Can I Make?

Pretty much anyone! Whilst the group leader is my character, and the hacker and getaway drivers are NPCs under my control, you can play anything from a mob hitman who took an unlikey career turn, to a gang member tired of making shitty cash, to an overworked Joe who finally gave up the job that was killing him and now wants to make some real money. The gang is an equal opportunities one as well- men, women, all ethnicities are all welcome!

The Character Sheet

Name: Self explanatory.
Age: Likewise.
Appearance: Either a written descriptor or realistic picture/drawing. No anime please.
Nationality: Also pretty obvious.
Alias(es): You are crooks after all.
Heist Name: What they call you whilst you're all masked up. Should be short, sharp and snappy.
Weapons of Choice: Three. A primary, secondary, and whatever you keep for when they get too close. (Or uppity)
Distinctive Feature: What does the public know you for?
Team Responsibility: What's your role in the team?
Personality: All.
History: This.
Skills: Is obvious.
Favourite song: Optional, but nice to have.

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@GranmotherPandi@Ulstermann@Bluetommy2@Gathering gloom@Drazah@Big Dread

[Cu Chulainn]

I have two character concepts in mind: a high school valedictorian who, despite having so many scholarships, couldn't get into his dream university and decided to make the money on his own terms, or a spoiled son of a rich family, possibly a crime family, who wishes to live a thrill-seeking, hollywood life.

[Lady Selune]

I have two character concepts in mind: a high school valedictorian who, despite having so many scholarships, couldn't get into his dream university and decided to make the money on his own terms, or a spoiled son of a rich family, possibly a crime family, who wishes to live a thrill-seeking, hollywood life.

@Cu Chulainn

Either would be fine- what roles would they have in the crew?

[Cu Chulainn]

@Lady Selune

The valedictorian would most definitely serve a tactician sort of role, and will shine when any book smarts are needed. In the future, he could even serve as a tech expert after finding his real dream school, the University of Heisting, and majoring in Criminal Science.

The rich kid is more of a... loose cannon. The guy who'd go in guns blazing and doing the craziest of thinga. Not that he would be a big detriment to the team, as I plan to avoid doing things reckless enough to screw everyone over. As far as his established role comes, that is something I would have to think over on. His money could be an asset for the crew in future heists, and if we go with him being in a crime family, we could also get some jobs from them, if appropriate.

[Lady Selune]

Aight, they sound good, although do note we already have a tech guy.

[Lady Selune]

Alright! All the CS's are up! If you need help with lengths and what not, Adrian is my PC.

[Mt Paragon]

I'm here and gonna start on my CS...

[Mt Paragon]

@Lady Selune before I start... What positions are you still looking for?

[Lady Selune]

@Lady Selune before I start... What positions are you still looking for?

@Drazah

Hmm... Well, really anyone is welcome. I believe we've already got a muscle in the works, but another intimidation, a dedicated ghost/infiltrator, or someone with police connections is what shouts it for me, or someone who's not afraid to show his or her face, so that they don't raise suspicion.

Those are just the ones that jump at me.

[Mt Paragon]

@Lady Selune how about "the new promising recruit" that seems eager and pretty good at any part they need him at (save piloting or something really special)

[Lady Selune]

@Lady Selune how about "the new promising recruit" that seems eager and pretty good at any part they need him at (save piloting or something really special)

@Drazah

A dogsbody. Sounds good!

[Mt Paragon]

Jack

Name: Jack Enzo Tanzini

Age: 24

Appearance:

Nationality: Italian

Alias(es): Alden Rodger Hazard, Zachery Henry Howl.

Heist Name: Hazzy

Weapons of Choice: really good with long distance shooting, so he has an FNH Ballista as a primary, secondary would be his 9mm Ruger American pistol. As for his CQB, he uses his trusty Cold steel Warcraft Tanto blade.

Distinctive Feature: He had a little heist in the west on a small town bank but nothing major, He isnt well known

Team Responsibility: Utility man - He goes where he needs to and does what he needs to, He can figure just about anything out unless its flying or techy stuff, he's a hands on guy. He may not be the best at anything but he can do just about it all.

Personality: He is energetic and excited about everything eager to do and try anything, lively, Dedicated.

History: Grew up being a little mischievous thief in Italy. Continued his hobbies when he moved. His parents both died, Mom from childbirth and Dad from drug overdose. Never had any siblings, mugged a man of his plane ticket to get to the U.S. Really vague because no one knows and he doesnt ever talk about it. People just know him for who he is now.

Skills: He is willing to try anything for a cut, the only thing he wont do is fly or do calculations.

Favorite song: Optional, but nice to have.

WIP

[Lady Selune]

@Drazah Shaping up nicely, but some pointers:
- Aliases traditionally are alternate names for ID purposes, so he'd also need a surname.
- Distinctive featuress are things that the public know him for- nobody but the other heisters are aware how much of a new hand to heisting he is.
- Whilst later on we might be able to afford snazzy gear like the Ballista, it's more likely that a kid like that would be using something like a Mauser M03
- A little description of what his role is, in the vein of Adrian's, would be nice.

Other than that, looking good!

[Bluetommy]

Donald

Donald Shankar

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Age: 34
Appearance:

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Nationality: Indo-Guyanese

Aliases: George Washington (No relation), Teddy Daivari.

Heist Name: Carbomb

Weapons of Choice: Skorpion (From his time in the cartels), FN 57, Machete (Ditto).

Distinctive Features: His machete, which he carries on his back under whatever equipment he's hauling, and his tiger mask, used to protect his identity and also a nod to his Indian heritage.

Team Responsibility: Things that go boom - Carbomb is in charge of creating, purchasing, handling, and detonating explosives should they be necessary for a heist, and if they're needed, Carbomb is also in charge of other heavy equipment.

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Personality: Donald considers himself a ladies man first and foremost, though his actual pulling talent is suspect, as he is single and unable to get himself a date for the life of him. This may be a sign of deep-seated narcissism, which also shows itself through his arrogance. This arrogance also leads to him being a hypocrite, as he hates when friends lie to him, despite lying often.

Donald is deeply in love with the idea of a Tolkienesque band of brothers, a love that developed back during his time with the cartels, but never quite fully developed until he joined the heist crew. Due to this, he's very loyal to his friends and rarely fails to follow up when he's asked to do something.

Donald is old fashioned in many of his beliefs and has quite a few prejudices. He believes in the idea of honoring one's family, inspired by his Indian heritage, and that family has shifted from his birth family to whatever group he is a member of at the moment, currently the heist crew. Donald is brutal and quick to anger when people offend him or members of his "family"

History: Born in Guyana to an Indian family, Donald was always poor as a child. He never went to school, instead becoming involved with drug trafficking and the Hispanic drug cartels. Becoming a full member of the cartels, Donald moved to Mexico to pursue better money-making opportunities. For a number of years, he served as a soldier and hitman, often involved in carbombings. Carbombs became Donald's specialty as the years went on, and he focused less and less on drug running.

Eventually his lifestyle caught up to him, and using a jury-rigged flying mule, used by the cartels to transport drugs, he fled north, avoiding the more heavily patrolled border areas and eventually landing in central Texas after a time over the Gulf of Mexico. He considers himself lucky to be alive.

There was little to do for a former cartel member in the United States that wouldn't lead to you getting caught, so using what connections he had left, he attached himself to the black market, joining a few stickup crews before meeting up with Sharp, who he propositioned, mentioning his skill at creating explosives.

Skills: Most obvious of Donald's abilities is his bomb-crafting abilities, which he is quite proud of. He's also got a talent in smuggling and avoiding attention. Due to his fluency in Guyanese Creole, he's also good at distraction, as even though Guyanese is still English, it's strange enough to be almost indecipherable, meaning that people will spend time attempting to decipher what the hell he just said instead of just ignoring him.

Favourite song: You Shook Me All Night Long - ACDC

[Mt Paragon]

@Lady Selune The couple hundred difference between the Mauser M03 and the ballista isn't significant enough for me to have the other one... It is a simple highway gas station robbery away... No difference. As for everything else, Take a look.

[Lady Selune]

@Bluetommy2

I'm not seeing anything wrong with him, so that's a thumbs up from me.

@Drazah Can we get a bit more writing? Then he's good.

[Lady Selune]

Totally how I imagine Donald's mask:

[Bluetommy]

@Lady Selune Eyy

[Techne]

Don't know if you guys are still accepting, but if you are I would love to join!

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CS

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_{N A T I O N A L I T Y}

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German

_{A L I A S E S}

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Rebecca Rommel, Germaine de Staël, Jane Snyder

_{H E I S T N A M E}

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Fox

_{W E A P O N O F C H O I C E}

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A Pair of AMT Longslides, and a KM2000 for when things get more personal.
_{Generally though if Gwen is actually partaking in the violence things have gone to shit}

_{D I S T I N C T I V E F E A T U R E S}

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A woman bathed exclusively in blacks and greys that always wears runners with pink shoelaces. She wears no mask unlike her cohorts.

_{T E A M R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y}

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The Infiltrator: A quick-witted charmer and a woman of many disguises, accents, and the the like. Gwen is usually put on reconnaissance gathering intelligence about the mark and smooth-talking her way inside so she can act as the 'inside man'. A job goes quicker when the doors are already open yes?

_{P E R S O N A L I T Y}

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All smiles and charm you'll want to tell Gwen she forget your watch after she just took your wallet. Spirits are high when she is around and not just because she's the first to buy a round of drinks. She is always on in that regard, always presenting, always keeping up the cool face, and it gets difficult to tell where Gwen stops and the Fox begins. Though it is safe to say that she is a very prideful creature who thinks very highly of herself. Also if you would like your sensitive bits intact it would be wise not to mention her family.

When the real Gwen manages to slip through in the rare moments that she feels comfortable you get to see that she's more of a less heightened version of the Fox she presents. She's still pretty full of herself, smart with a real thing for numbers and playing nice isn't that hard to do when your already a fairly amicable person yourself. She's flighty and will probably leave you to die but at least she will feel bad about it. Yet you also see the bundle of insecurities and fears that lay beneath. She's scared of messing up, she's scared of slipping, she's scared that her father is right and that she is nothing more than a waste of space, and maybe most childishly she's scared that people won't like the 'real' her. Yet when push comes to shove she knows how to move.

_{H I S T O R Y}

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To understand Gwen you need to understand the Fuchs family. It all started with her grandfather, a smart lad who made his fortune selling Nazi artifacts that he helped loot and steal in the first place back to their rightful owners at twice the price after the War. The Fuchs money with their new wealth would slowly yet surely make a name for themselves as business mongrels whose shadier dealings were often ignored on account of the large amounts of money they invested in the rebuilding efforts of West Germany.

Gwen's father Henrik was a legitimate businessman, legitimate in the sense that he had enough money that he was basically untouchable, who dealt in proper business transactions. Gwen was the second of three children born into a loveless marriage and at the age of ten was swiftly sent away to Saint Ascelina School for Girls in Saarland away from her family home in Berlin. Saint Ascelina School was a primer boarding school known for producing some of the best and brightest and Gwen hated all eight years of it.

Though it would be here that Gwen would begin to partake in her family's pastime, making a tidy little profit smuggling in and selling banned substances anything fro cigarettes, to alcohol, to boys. She would somehow make it through her time at Saint Acelina without getting expelled and partly through her grades but mostly her father's money she would be admitted into Heidelberg University. She would drop out a term later partly to spite her father, and partly because it just 'wasn't her thing'.

Refusing to go back to her Father that had treated her like she hadn't even existed, she took to harnessing her skills at Saint Acelina for much bigger scores. It was perfect in a way, you never suspected that the polite young woman you were talking to was waiting around in the park to talk to a contact about selling a crate of military grade explosives.

Eventually things started catching back up to her and she fled across the Atlantic looking for safe harbor and new work. Here the name Fuchs meant little and she could start anew, and do it better than her father ever had. And well you know the rest.

_{S K I L L S}

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Gwen's a people person through and through. She knows how far a quick tongue and a smile at the right time can get you and well lying is pretty much second-nature at this point. She's also knows how to be pretty inconspicuous when it comes down to it, how to get lost in a crowd, and not draw attention to herself a fairly useful skill when she's infiltrating. These skills of subterfuge are matched with a highly extensive makeup kit and wigs to disguise pretty much anyone into anyone else at least for a couple of moments. She's pretty shit with a gun though and would much rather prefer getting up close and personal.

_{F A V O R I T E S O N G}

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Move.

[Lady Selune]

@Techne So, we have a Control Freak, a Demolitionist, a Ghost, and I've had a Muscle PM'd to me, so...

We have the full team! I'm halfway through writing the first post, so let's get rocking and rolling!