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[GreatWyrmGold]

Speaking of which, we need a revenue-generating plan. Ideally evil. Those two will likely not coexist well, unless maybe we start a mining or banking corporation or something. Or a group of liberals to indiscriminately attack corporations.

[Thecard]

I say we check with college friends, preferably dumb ones, to do grunt work.  Organize them to efficiently commit petty crimes for now, so that we get some revenue, and they get some practice.  We're gonna need men on the street.

[Wrex]

I say we check with college friends, preferably dumb ones, to do grunt work.  Organize them to efficiently commit petty crimes for now, so that we get some revenue, and they get some practice.  We're gonna need men on the street.

So, the LCS strategy?

[Corai]

I say we check with college friends, preferably dumb ones, to do grunt work.  Organize them to efficiently commit petty crimes for now, so that we get some revenue, and they get some practice.  We're gonna need men on the street.

So, the LCS strategy?

I still think we would rob a poor dude. But that's a good idea too.

I hope once we get going, a super "hero" forms a rival gang of "heroes" to do legal stuff to defeat us. Like the CCS to LCS.

[LordBucket]

Looks like everyone's still debating what to do, but just to clarify a few points:

What about a crossbow?  That's silent.  Well, illegal too

The only laws concerning crossbows in california govern which part of hunting season they qualify for. They are legal to purchase, own and carry, and have no waiting period.

a taser

Same rules for tasers, both contact and  stun-gun varieties. Legal to purchase, own and carry.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Neat. I suggest a taser first--harder to accidentally kill someone.

[Thecard]

Looks like everyone's still debating what to do, but just to clarify a few points:

What about a crossbow?  That's silent.  Well, illegal too

The only laws concerning crossbows in california govern which part of hunting season they qualify for. They are legal to purchase, own and carry, and have no waiting period.

Really?  I guess... really?  I have a friend who hunts with a bow, when I asked him about crossbows, he said they were illegal. Maybe Virginia is just... less tolerant of weapons than California?  I dunno, that just seems kind of weird to me.  Or maybe my friend was fucking with me.  He does that.
Anyways, it's the same in Utah, right?  Because that's what we need to worry about.

And yes, let's do this LCS style.

[Nny]

For weaponry guns and crossbows are both a good idea. Cast my vote in for the crossbow, and not a glock as was suggested, unless its to be used as a grenade.

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[LordBucket]

crossbow

taser

You borrow your mother's car again to do some shopping.

You tell the clerk that you're new to crossbows, and want to get something strong enough to take down a buffalo. He explains that it's not as simple as that, and that location of shot makes just as much of a difference, and probably more, than model of crossbow. He goes off on a tangent that you don't pay much attention to since it will be irrelevant when you're not hunting deer and bears and things. Eventually though, you settle on a very nice (you assume) crossbow (-$600) rated for 350 feet/second shots, along with eighteen 20" carbon arrow (-$150), a nice quiver for them (-$30) and a convenient shoulder-slung bag to carry it all in (-$50). Though you're surprised to discover that the quiver only holds 6 arrows at a time.



For a small fee ($-20), you spend some time being coached on how to load, shoot and care for your crossbow at a small indoor range in a backroom of the shop. After a few minutes (and several arrows) you manage to hit the target. It's not terribly complicated, but with your inexperienced hand it takes you a good 10 seconds to draw and load an arrow, and another 5 to line up the sights properly. It occurs to you that there is no wind or distractions in the indoor environment. Shooting a moving target in a hurry while full of adrenaline might be more difficult.

On your way out you notice that they also carry stunguns, so you buy one of those too. (-$80). It works in either of two modes: at up to 15 foot range it will launch a pair of tiny darts into your targets flesh to deliver 4.5 milliamps at 2 million volts. It also works like a conventional taser via direct contact. The clerk jokes with you that if your crossbow doesn't stop the buffalo you're shooting at, don't expect the taser to stop it either. You put on a fake smile and laugh along with him.

The total comes to $930, which you pay via your debit card.

Why not get evil minions? Pull the old LCS strategy, and eveyrthing should go fine.

I say we check with college friends, preferably dumb ones, to do grunt work.  Organize them to efficiently commit petty crimes for now, so that we get some revenue, and they get some practice. We're gonna need men on the street.

So, the LCS strategy?

And yes, let's do this LCS style.

Need more specifics to proceed on this. What exactly do you guys want to do?


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What do you do?

[Wrex]

"LCS Style" Is basically the manner in which eveyrone plays LCS. Your founder keeps a clean nose, and uses disposable peons for anything remotley dangerous. He is only ever involved with recruitng lieutenants personally, who are protected in inconspicious safehouses. These lieutenants, who are really just other charismatic characters, are responsible for recruiting every fall guy, foot soldier, brownie seller, or disposable personel. These grunts get captured and spill the beans, they can only implicate the lieutenenants, which are always in a location that would never trigger a police response, such as apartment safehouses in which nothing illegal ever occurs. Your founder can do what he wants because he has never done anything illegal, the lieutenants are the only ones charged, and the disposable minions the only ones punished/shot/beaten to death.


It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the basic strategy.

[LordBucket]

I understand the strategy, but walking up to people and delivering bad pickup lines is not going to make them your loyal servants.

How are you going to actually go about it?

[Wrex]

Obviously not by acting like Casanova's developmentally disadvantaged cousin.


And that's what we were deciding quite how to do.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Offer them a decent salary. With the economy these days, there's probably plenty of college graduates and such unemployed and willing to work cheap. They might not know anything more useful than art history or why they were laid off, but they'll be good for grunt work.

[Corai]

Offer them a decent salary. With the economy these days, there's probably plenty of college graduates and such unemployed and willing to work cheap. They might not know anything more useful than art history or why they were laid off, but they'll be good for grunt work.

Hire highschool dropouts first, so if the college students go "OH HELL NO, i'm going to the police" you can...

Dispose of them...

[GreatWyrmGold]

Offer them a decent salary. With the economy these days, there's probably plenty of college graduates and such unemployed and willing to work cheap. They might not know anything more useful than art history or why they were laid off, but they'll be good for grunt work.

Hire highschool dropouts first, so if the college students go "OH HELL NO, i'm going to the police" you can...

Dispose of them...

Sounds OK. Anyone who works cheap.