Trout 2014/07/18(Fri)15:42 No. 584612 ID: 18da89
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Stefan has Jim lead him to the record room, pointing him at the door before splitting. A flash of a camera goes off as Stefan rounds the corner, and-- hey, it IS a little lizard thing! And it does have a blueprint!

>>584612
Is that... Safer's ex?

Call security!

Point the GUN at it and tell it to step aside, this is your dig.

Don't do anything brash yet. Close the door behind you. Smile. Ascertain that it is indeed the Blueprints to the bank. Then, shove the barrel of your gun right in between their beady little eyes. Make sure they're unarmed, confiscate any weapons. We'll make them take the rest of the pictures and take the camera for ourselves.

Wait a sec--
>>581564
>They came here not five minutes ago.
This lizard just walked in while you were ranting extrapolating to the secretary? How did we miss that? How did she miss that?

Trout 2014/08/02(Sat)14:43 No. 587648 ID: 18da89
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Stefan doesn't know about anyone's exes. He also resolves to ask Jim why he didn't see the lizard come in. He quickly draws his unloaded gun, in time for the little lizard to pull a hammer! Stefan doesn't like hammers. Hammers break bones. Gathering up his courage, Stefan very kindly asks the thing to move aside.

A moment passes.

Trout 2014/08/02(Sat)14:44 No. 587649 ID: 18da89
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The lizard moves to the right, and Stefan follows. They circle each other until Stefan is at the table and the kobold is at the door, where it tucks the hammer back into its coat and quickly absconds without a word.

If Stefan still had sweat glands, he'd be soaked right now. He's always been a lover talker, not a fighter. He's never even shot a gun before. With shaky skeleton hands, he turns and examines the blueprints on the table.

Trout 2014/08/02(Sat)14:44 No. 587650 ID: 18da89
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Bingo. Stefan has found the blueprints to the New Highlander Trust Bank. This is the key to their little heist. Now, Stefan just has to figure out a way to get these out of here without raising suspicion. He could probably just walk out of here, but this place does have cameras. They'll bust him even before the heist starts!

>>587650
Your ribcage should be ample room for some rolled-up blueprints, as long as they don't fall through your pelvis and out your pant leg or something

>>587657
"Is that a blueprint in your pantsleg, or are you just happy to see me?"


Ahem. Should work, regardless.

aggh dammit you should've been all like 'You drop the hammer before I drop the hammer' and walked him out the front door by discreetly holding the gun to his side, and then taken the camera once you leave the building.

Put the blueprints anywhere they'll fit- folded up under your shoes' insoles, your wallet, >>587657 will work if you're careful. If anyone asks you how it went, just say you're supposed to be buried in somebodies office near the door. And don't ask Jim why he didn't see the lizard enter, because I think it was mentioned.

You could yell that the kobold stole the blueprints and as people are trying to stop it walk out.

>>587649
Without a word? I'm fairly certain he just said "I'm watching you."!

Trout 2014/09/01(Mon)14:54 No. 592135 ID: 18da89
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Stefan doesn't have time to read the blueprints. He just hopes that they don't notice the blueprints are missing anyime soon as he rolls them up and puts them in his chest cavity. He figures that he looks like any other skeleton and he hasn't given out his real name, so they won't be able to track him, right?

Trout 2014/09/01(Mon)14:55 No. 592136 ID: 18da89
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It always feels weird when he puts something where organs should go. Being a skeleton is weird. Mr. Ferdinand is by his cubicle when Stefan exits and proceeds down the hall.

>"Did you find everything you needed? That other guy sure got out of here in a hurry, what was up with that?"
Stefan says that the lizard was probably just shy, and that he did find the blueprints, no problem, and even put them back in the right spot. He has to keep himself from holding his ribs.

>" Oh, cool, thanks. I'm usually the one that has to go in there and put everything back together. Like whenever some big-shot architect from New Sailor or San Redento or whatever comes through looking for something. Pssh."

Mr. Ferdinand pauses for a second.

>"So, uh... Alice filled me in about why you're here. If you don't mind me asking, uh, where are you supposed to be buried?"

Stefan rolls his skeleton eyes and gestures to a cubicle over by the door.

>"Shiiit. Rick's gonna be pissed."

Trout 2014/09/01(Mon)14:55 No. 592137 ID: 18da89
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Stefan shrugs and then attempts to exit the building. He can feel the secretary glaring at him as he passes by the front desk.

>"Hey!"
She calls out, nearly spooking Stefan's guts out.
>"You, uh, you dropped something."

>>592137
Thank her profusely- it would be expensive to have to buy another gun!

>>592138
Maybe then you should mug her with it?

That blasted lizard must have snuck that onto you!

>>592158
Actually, no, the Lizard dropped it back in the room and you were going to return it to him. Toootally your story. But in case you can't find him, would they happen to know who he is?
I swear Trout if that winds up being Farmer, I'm going to expect to see other suggested chars. Not very highly, but expect them nonetheless

>>592137
claim it to be a pez dispenser

Trout 2014/09/04(Thu)16:59 No. 592564 ID: 18da89
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Several responses race through Stefan's mind. He briefly considers telling her it's just a dispenser for cheap chalky candy, despite it clearly being an actual gun, before tossing that idea for threatening her with it, or claiming the heavy hunk of metal that fell out of his pocket was planted on him without his knowledge. He eventually concludes that all those ideas are dumb, and turns and thanks the secretary for letting him know he dropped that!

>"Do, uh... do you have a license to carry this, or something?"
She asks, plainly nervous. She now holds the gun closer to herself, away from Stefan.

Stefan reassures her that he does have a license to carry, and that has undertaken plenty of firearms safety training, and even coaches people on it on the weekends! As an undead immortal native american chief hell-skeleton, he has to have SOME kind of hobby. He notes that modern technology is still really cool. Of course, these are all lies, but she seems to be buying it. He explains that the unsecured gun was just a lapse of judgement on his part that will not be repeated, and that it's good that she picked it up as opposed to someone else.

>"Well, okay, I guess... I mean, you're not threatening me over it or anything, so you're probably not gonna do anything BAD with it."

Stefan says of course he wouldn't, conveniently ignoring how it'll probably be used in the bank robbery he's here to plan. He approaches the desk, and she hands it back to him.

One unloaded handgun added to inventory.

>"I don't see why anyone needs to carry a gun, anyway."

Stefan says he's been staying in a not-so-kind area while he gets this whole burial ground business finished up, and even though he's a skeleton, he'd prefer to not have any broken bones.

>"Oh. I wouldn't know how that is."

Trout 2014/09/04(Thu)16:59 No. 592565 ID: 18da89
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Stefan thanks her again, holds a hand to blueprints in his ribcage, and absconds the Steele Concepts and Erection office. Later that day, the blueprints are discovered missing, and despite Stefan being captured on multiple security cameras stealing the blueprints and threatening the kobold, he wasn't able to be identified due to a lack of notable features and was long gone before anyone could ask any questions. Later analysis of the events surrounding the robbery of the New Highlander Trust Bank did reveal that there is, in fact, a native american burial ground under the Steele Concepts and Erection building, but it does not belong to any "Paco Panchito" tribe. The bodies within are planned to be exhumed in 2019.

Trout 2014/09/04(Thu)16:59 No. 592566 ID: 18da89
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Meanwhile, Safer pours over his notes on the table in the middle of the kitchen of the small apartment that was leased out to act as their base of operations in the city. He was a criminal and was used to criminal activity, sure, but he's never had to plan something like THIS before. He was the one following orders, not the one giving them.

Rubbing his face and draining a cup of coffee, he leans back in his creaky chair to think. What does one need to pull off a bank heist? Stefan is out getting the blueprints so know where they need to go, but they don't have the tools to do what they need to do. They'll probably need more guns than the cheap little potmetal thing he made Stefan take with him. Safer had lockpicks, of course, but they'll need something more for vault doors or anything heavier-duty than an average door. There also might be something he's forgetting that they might need, miscellaneous things, tools, stuff like that. He figures their benefactor gave them enough of an allowance to get what they need, within reason. Stefan is currently out doing his job, but Mr. Nesterov and that little alien thing are around to do what needs to be done, along with himself. He needs to decide who should get what.

Well of course the Jupiterian needs to go get his explosives himself.
...How can he get some?

Mr. Nesterov should see if any of his contacts have krinkovs or shotguns for sale. If not, we'll buy locally either illegally or under an assumed identity. To break into the vault, we'll need either the right codes, a drill, thermite, or explosives- you should research the vault and weigh options. We'll also need first aid kits, some kind of armor, a specially chosen and Ivan approved getaway vehicle, a designated escape route, and at least two contingency plans. Also, it appears someone else is trying to rob the bank. We should eliminate the competition before they put their plans in action.

also, what was the novelty mask you gave Sefan?

What you need is a giant drill separated into parts for assembly. And it must be cunningly snuck in via a giant ceramic pig. You'll probably need a crane.

Trout 2014/10/14(Tue)19:55 No. 598380 ID: 18da89
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Right, the little fuzzy alien thing. He's gonna have to be the one to do the heavy lifting, if the need arises. Safer has no clue where the alien gets his explosives, but the little info packet provided by their benefactor said he's got some way to easily get a hold of large amounts of them. Coming out of the poorly-lit dining room, Safer finds him in the living room, watching cartoons on the little tv set in there. The russian is also there, thumbing through a book.

Trout 2014/10/14(Tue)19:55 No. 598381 ID: 18da89
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"Alright," Safer starts. "Stefan got the blueprints. We need supplies. Guns, explosives, maybe armor and first aid just in case things go bad. We'll also need a good vehicle to hold what we're picking up and a route to follow to get away. Hey, uh, cloud dude." He turns to talk to Cloud Yeti. "You can handle explosives, right?"

"Can I handle explosives?" The alien looks back with a toothy grin.

"Yeah."

"You bet your ass I can."

"Alright. Do you need cash or--"

"Don't worry about it."

"But."

"Don't worry about it," he repeats.


Safer opts to not worry about it and turns to Ivan. "And you, do you think you can handle weapons and vehicles? I'm aware you have connections that should be able to get you--"

"Do not worry about it." The russian's thick, growling tone cuts him off. Safer shrugs and thinks about what's left.

Trout 2014/10/14(Tue)19:55 No. 598382 ID: 18da89
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Oh.

First aid kits.

Should Safer go to Drugs R Us or Floorblues?

>>598382
Drugs R Us sounds like too much could go wrong, even when working legitimately. Go for Floorblues.

You can't trust a man unless his floor is blue. Go to Floorblues.

Drugs R Us sounds like it'll only have the cheap, low-quality stuff.
Floorblues is probably the safe bet. You like it safer, right?

Floorblues is probably more expensive, so it depends on how much you have to spend. If that 20 is all you've got, might wanna scoot over to the bargain drugs.

Trout 2014/11/13(Thu)02:02 No. 602021 ID: aca445
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Safer drops 40$ on bandages, painkillers, antiseptics, band-aids, and a candybar.

"Camping trip," He tells the incredibly uninterested minimum-wage clerk. Flawless. Perfect cover story. With hardly a grunt in reply, he rings Safer up and hustles him out of the door for the next customer.

Trout 2014/11/13(Thu)02:02 No. 602022 ID: aca445
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Outside, as Safer enjoys the crisp nutty taste of Harshe's chocolate, someone posts a poster to the telephone post next to him. He's some kid, a gnollish thing like him, and he's carrying a stack of these posters and a staplegun. Seeing that he has Safer's full attention, he speaks with the annoying yap-snarls that gnollish things speak with. "Hope to see you there, man!"

Safer thinks that gnollish voices are annoying even though he IS a gnollish thing. Can't stand them. He hates his own voice and tries to sound like some gruff movie star to compensate.

With a smile and a nod, he moves on to the next pole, and staples another, and then so forth, heading down the street. Safer mosies on over to look at what he's just been spontaneously invited to.

Trout 2014/11/13(Thu)02:02 No. 602023 ID: aca445
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Oh. Oh shit, that's the same day as the robbery! But he's not sure how much it'll affect the bank heist. He can't be too careful, though, for something this big, EVERYTHING has to be taken into account. It could result in more people at the bank, less people, more police, less police, who knows! This poster doesn't have anything more than a date and what it is (and vaguely racist chariactures of gnolls), so [b]Safer is going to have to find more details about this. But how?[b] The kid probably doesn't know squat. Maybe he can find some way to get in touch with the organizers.

>>602023
You know what this smells like?
An opportunity!
They will be useful for a distraction, at least. I second the opinion that you should ask the kid of who organized this event, and get in touch with them.
Totally not suggesting inciting a Gnoll riot on the street during the heist, figurative or not, no siree bob.

You should query The Internets. But you miiight ask the boy, too, since he's right there. Might be an undesirable link back to you, though.

>>602023
Avoid the boy, it can get linked back to you. Internet at a cafe.
But for the love of god get a new shirt. Or buy a fedora and join a ska band. I'm sure you know the right decision to make.

>>602050
He's got an undershirt on under that open shirt, man.

Anyways, if you can get somebody else into an outfit that looks just like that, well, Gnolls at the Gnollish Pride Parade look stereotypically the same. You can totally claim it was you as an alibi if anybody suspects you afterwards.

>>602052
The overshirt is the problem man.
Hawaiian print. Motherfucking hawaiian print. Who does he think he is? Bruce Campbell?

Trout 2015/01/06(Tue)18:27 No. 618594 ID: aca445
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Secondary research into the robbers in the months after the heist has revealed that "Safer" has worn his shirt in every instance in which he has been photographed or spotted. Eyewitnesses always noted the hawaiian print. The assumption can be made that if the shirt is not there as a misleading tactic for identification in that he can swiftly just become another face in the crowd if it is removed, then it has immense personal significance to the gnoll.

Safer just thinks it makes him look good.

Trout 2015/01/06(Tue)18:28 No. 618595 ID: aca445
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Safer takes a hike down to the nearest internet cafe. Of course the Queen City has these, even in the year of our lord two-thousand and fourteen, Safer thinks to himself as he pulls a chair to an empty computer.

A cursory Google search quickly brings him to the organization's website, presented with all the web design that gnolls can muster. Apparently this whole event was Kickstarted and successfully funded and according to the newspage, all the needed permits have been obtained and it's already in the very last stage of perparation. It's practically all but guaranteed to happen. Aaaand...

Trout 2015/01/06(Tue)18:28 No. 618596 ID: aca445
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Yeah, that route brings it right in front of the New Highlander Trust Bank. A blessing and a curse! There's going to be a lot more witnesses. Too many variables to take care of. Buuut, it's a good distraction and there's a crowd full of people who look like him to slip away into. Sucks to be the other guys, though.

The organizers have an address set up, too. Seems to be some kind of small office in a seedy part of town. The kind of place that makes your hair stand on end. Safer'll have to decide if he wants to pay a visit there or not.

That's just what a quick look-over of the website reveals, anyway. Safer can look for something specific or go do something else.

>>618596
I say plan to head out the back and take that side-road away. The crowd is too risky.

Your name is Safer, not Hacker. You're probably not gonna get much off the site, but do look for a name or two to bring up, then go check out these guys. It'd be good to know what kinda people they are, to better plan around them.

>>618594
Prepare a much better decoy shirt. One that makes you look not like a dork.

>>618596
Try to look up events. Plan around whatever the loudest thing is gonna be and try to time it for when it passes by.

>>620031
May I suggest a reversible shirt just for this occasion? They'd expect a Gnoll with a Hawaiian shirt, they won't look for a Gnoll with Balinese shirt. Or Tahitian shirt. Or Hong Kong Tiger Print shirt.

>Prepare a much better decoy shirt. One that makes you look not like a dork.
Yes, get a shirt that has floral AND vine print!