Bank Robbing Team? by FREMDFIRMA

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Bank Robbing Team?

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Friday, April 6, 2012 1:41 PM

So, Mikey having made the suggestion, I couldn't resist the mental exercise of picking one out.
Bank Robbing team, hmmm.

Am rolling mine out off the Five-Bad-Band Trope, with a little mix-n-match on roles.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveBadBand

Mikey, DEFINATELY Mikey - he's big and scary (to strangers) and can double up as getaway driver.

Anthony, certainly - crowd control, he's so polite nobody would argue with him, practically stockholm syndrome waiting to happen.

HKCav - bagman, cause we can trust him with the money, and he's such a smooth talker I'm sure he could help us launder it quite nicely.

Niki - lookout/diversion, a little old lady with a pair of aggressively friendly huskies, couldn't ask for better!

Byte - Safecracker/electronics, maybe a bit of a stretch but I'd lay good odds there's a superpowered evil side in there just waitin to happen

and it's SCIENCE!, innit?

And having two getaway drivers opens up the Bait-n-Switch gambit while I lead the forces of law and order on a merry little chase as the ServiceAmerica or Eby Brown (depending on which is more ubiquitous to the area) Van containing the actual loot smoothly disappears into the flow of traffic, meh heh heh.

So, any other takers ?

-Frem

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Friday, April 6, 2012 1:43 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Aww, I got left out.

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Friday, April 6, 2012 1:56 PM

BYTEMITE

Man, I need to learn some crazy skills. Do I know crazy skills? I guess I'm pretty good at chemistry and physics but not so much street or explosives chemistry. I'm not great at electronics, I'd have to study up on wires, I've got some rudimentary skill at computers but I think I've only broken into one or two of those when I've been white hatting. Admin accounts are usually pretty easy, and unlike regular user accounts don't often get passwords reset or follow secrity memos. It's usually like account name: admin, password: (organization abbreviation)1, sometimes with some underscores tossed in. Or password: 123456 or qwerty or asdfgh or 000000 or if they're really uncreative "password". And that's if they even bothered to password protect the admin account, a lot of times they don't think of that.

But I'm pretty sure DT and Frem are way better than me at computer tricks. Some point I need to look into investing in some understanding of engineering. Frem's also better with animals, as well as Niki, though I've talked down guard dogs before.

Blaaaaather. Anyway.

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Sunday, April 8, 2012 6:45 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

In the AU world where this would, and could, happen: I'd take Byte and Frem. Byte because she's one of the bravest toughest people I know and Frem because he's Frem and can do just about anything. Also having Quicko there would be good, he could intimidate everyone into submission.
:)

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Monday, April 9, 2012 6:07 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

You guys have obviously never robbed anyone, or anything, before.

A bank robbery needs several different skill sets.

Plus an inside man.

Yeesh...

Besides, bank robberies are for idiots. There are a lot of softer targets that present less risk, and more opportunity.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 6:39 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

I think Niki would make an important component to this team. She can hold a free speech rally across town, causing the authoritarian government to assign their entire police force to observe them. This would utterly ruin police response times.

I think we can secure her help by promising her a percentage of the proceeds to go to people who have been illegally foreclosed upon.

--Anthony

ETS

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Monday, April 9, 2012 6:54 AM

BYTEMITE

I think it was more a general discussion thing about people's ideas for a "crew" than specifically about a bank robbery.

I agree there's better options, I'm not sure you need to tell anyone here that.

As for experience, with these jokers you never know. ;)

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Monday, April 9, 2012 7:35 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Quote:
Originally posted by WULFENSTAR:
You guys have obviously never robbed anyone, or anything, before.

I think what you meant to say was that *as far as you KNOW*, none of us have ever robbed anyone or anything.

I'm not so sure.

As for an inside man, that's yet another reason Anthony is on The Team. That, and his outside-the-box thinking (an Occupy distraction across town? Beautiful - it's effective AND sends a message. It's almost artistic in its elegance!)

Of course, the real best way to rob a bank is... to start a bank. With a gun, you can rob a bank. With a bank, you can rob the whole world.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 7:46 AM

KWICKO

So, Frem, Anthony, Byte, and Niki - although Niki might be an unwitting accomplice, in the interests of plausible deniability, since she might not willingly go along with anything untoward, but could still provide a necessary and valuable service.

There are others, of course. Geezer would definitely get an audition, because regardless of his ideologies and political beliefs, he has smarts and critical thinking skills.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 7:53 AM

BYTEMITE

Quote:
I think we can secure her help by promising her a percentage of the proceeds to go to people who have been illegally foreclosed upon.

Just like Robin Hood. More froofy umbrella drinks! Umbrella drinks for everyone!

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Monday, April 9, 2012 1:43 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I've gotta add Anthony because that is a realllllllly good idea, plus Niki to do it.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 3:08 PM

KWICKO

Quote:
Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Quote:
I think we can secure her help by promising her a percentage of the proceeds to go to people who have been illegally foreclosed upon.

Just like Robin Hood. More froofy umbrella drinks! Umbrella drinks for everyone!

I prefer to call them "boat drinks". Jimmy Buffet does, too.

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Monday, April 9, 2012 3:41 PM

BYTEMITE

Regardless, this plan needs more alcohol and tiki. After all, it's simple mind-fuzzing courtesy for would be hostages on what's bound to be a bad and kind of scary day.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:50 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Of course, the real best way to rob a bank is... to start a bank. With a gun, you can rob a bank. With a bank, you can rob the whole world.

QFMFT.

-F

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:46 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

ha ha. Yes very good. Banks being the reverse of Robin Hood.

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Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:44 PM

KWICKO

Back to the bank robbing team...

One word, and think about it:

Flashmob.

Consider the implications re: getaway. Imagine you pull off the job, you actually get outside with the loot; how do you get away clean?

Flashmob. People show up, all dressed in the same "uniforms", and they just happen to be the same exact ones your team is wearing. Except there are hundreds of them. And then they all disperse, going to the four winds. Who's real, and who's the robber? And how do you stop and search all of them?

It's a new world...

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Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:37 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

They call those flashrobs Quicko, and they are rather effective in the teen shoplifting scene, so why not for our bank robbing caper? Good thinkin.

I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.

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