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[ScriptWolf]

Payday Origin stories

You all meet up in the dingy house you recognize as your safe house, nothing fancy mostly a run down pile of garbage. The four people you meet up with will get to know even better than your family and your forced into trusting them with your life. What ever brought you down this path there is no going back now so you might as well as make the most of it and get stinking rich

Payday a game about heists going wrong and hostages being shot.

Players:

1)

2)

3)

4)

Wait list:

Spoiler: character creation (click to show/hide)

Name:
Sex:
Codename:
Background:
Reason for going down criminal path:
Description:
Mask: ( your mask is important and does define your character somewhat and will let you be recognised and also masks can be swapped and upgraded )
Skills: ( you may choose 1 skill at rank 2 and 2 skills at rank 1 ranking on skills 1-6 with a skill ranking of 6 being elite professional top of their game. )
Starting weaponry: ( dependent on skills and also PM talk )
Starting equipment: ( dependent on skills will update )
Assets: (none yet )
Contacts: ( you may have 1 contact at a loyalty of 2/6 and a usefullness 2/6 you define how they help you )

I will be picking the Best 4 characters and then PM them for starting weapon choices and then on to the first turn !

[ScriptWolf]

Dice will be a D10 with varying difficulties on what you are trying to do

you can die if you do stupid things which then a wait list person will take your codename and replace you on the team

I the GM will play your handler and will keep in contact with you through missions offering help.

The gameplay goes through these phases

Pre heist/contract ( 1 turn ) - you may contact contacts and get wepons or info on jobs, you can spend cash on weapons, cars, safe house upgrades, weapon mods, bribes, info -- general sandboxy stuff
You get 3 actions due to only having 1 pre mission turn

heist/contract  choosing
Here you will be given a list of contracts you can take - or you can choose to heist a building of importance - What you do in the pre contract phase can effect what contracts you can take e.g. you have a very loyal contract who works for a large bank who gives you details on different banks in the area or will help you out with pass codes or other things.
you all need to agree on a contract.

pre Casing the place
Once your contract has been chosen you will get 1 turn each to perform a action concerning the place you are about to heist for instance someone who has social skills can try to bribe or intimidate one of the guards to help you or another character can recon the place building up a map ( yes i will draw the map )
you also choose your equipment in this phase you can get
1 primary weapon:
1 secondary weapon:
1 extra weapon
3 gadgets:
Armour type: ( e.g. light Kevlar, suit )

preforming the heist/contract
Casing phase
this is where you still have your masks off and are looking around trying to find the best point of entry and can use any information or advantages before you put on your masks and begin
also what Armour and weapons you are carrying can attract attention - if you walk into a bank with heavy Kevlar Armour and a m16 your going to have a bad time.
masking up
once you have your mask on you are free to complete the mission how you see fit - note you can complete a heist without alerting the police in several different ways but its just how you play it and the luck of the rolls
late heist
by this time you have gotten all the loot and either the cops have been alerted or not, Your handler will contact a driver to get you away from the place being robber
gotten away ?
Some contracts can span several "days" ( yes im stealing from payday2 ) so once you have completed one you will be thrown straight into another
once you have all gotten to the driver and gotten away from the robbery you then go back to pre heist/contract and can spend your cold earned cash
Completing contracts and other stuff can earn you contracts, underworld connections ( better contracts ) and police attention as well
extras
masking up does not take a turn but you do need to bold it to let everyone know you are going in with your mask on and weapons out.

When planning a heist you can chose to bring on a specialist, this will be one of the people from the wait list and can help you out on that contract

you can talk to NPC's without having to use up a turn so NPC's will talk back to you and then once the conversation is finished how ever it has done the next turn will start - this also counts when buying items so not to waste a turn just to try buying items and you get everything you need.

Hostages are a vital asset if you fucked up !

If you ever feel like you team is to small you can buy people from the wait list to join the game and become part of your team.

[ScriptWolf]

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[ScriptWolf]

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[Alexandria]

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Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name : Alexis
Sex : Female
Codename : Bloody Mary.
Background : Alexis grew up very close with her twin brother, they lived in a shady part of town and were frequently attacked from a very young age and so they learned how to avoid being noticed and how to talk people into doing things for them.
As they got older they developed a fascination with guns leading to Alexis joining a private security company and her brother becoming a marksman for the police force.

Alexis had a very successful career for a time quickly earning the name Bloody Mary for her habit of aiming for the throat to cause a mess. This resulted in her being discharged as mentally unstable and for enjoying her job to much and so she turned her skills to a darker use and discovered that it was far more exciting then being a soldier had been but she quickly came to the attention of the police and so her brother was placed in an impossible situation, forced to choose between his twin and his job he chose his twin and ever since then he has helped her to stay 1 step ahead of the cops.

Reason for going criminal : Excitement.
Description : 5 ft 7 with a slim full figure and long crimson hair. Pale blue eyes and a delicate face.
Mask : A pale blue wolves face made of steel.
Skills.
Rank 2 : Shooting.
Rank 1 : Stealth.
Rank 1 : Charisma.
Starting weaponry :
Starting equipment :
Assets : None.
Contacts : Dirty cop, Her brother is an armed cop and helps her out in exchange for a share of the profits.

[TCM]

I'll reserve myself a spot.

Name: Christopher Andrews
Sex: Male
Codename: L.T.
Background: Grew up in the ghettos of California. He grew up in a neighborhood during the last years of the crack epidemic. With the constant violence, fear, and poverty, Chris wanted to get out of there ASAP. His choice of career was influenced by what old politicians refer to as "Those god-damned violent video games."
Reason for going down criminal path: There are three things you can be good at to get out of the ghetto; playing basketball, rapping, or being a thug. Guess which one L.T. picked.
Description: 6'3, Athletic bulky figure, black corn-rows, 21 years of age. Basically, he's looks like the type of guy you'd want to escort you through an inner-city alleyway.
Mask: A screaming face painted one-half blue and one-half red, with an army helmet.
Skills:
Rank 2: Dual-wielding/Akimbo
Rank 1: Melee/CQC
Rank 1: Agility
Starting weaponry:
Starting equipment:
Assets:
Contacts: Jay-Clock - A friend running with his own crew. He'll start some shit, like a gang fight, a few blocks away from where the Heist is take place. If he does this during the Casing period, this will distract police/security from the area away from us. If it's done during the Heist, it will temporarily stop the reinforcements, since the cops will have to go deal with his gang. 

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: Silver Shadow (click to show/hide)

Sex: Is this for keeping score, or what?
Gender: Male
Suggestion: Use "Gender," it reduces confusion.
Codename: Silver Shadow
Reason for Turning Down the Path of Crime: Fame and fortune.
Background: Kept secret, he doesn't want people knowing his civilian identity. However, it is known that he has pulled off a number of lucky crimes. However, recently he was almost caught in a nearby city, and he has hence been forced to abandon just about all he has.
Mask: A simple silver mask, with the vague shape of a face pressed into it. It has a pair of black goggles over the eyes. He also wears a black hood.
Skills: Luck 2, Stealth 1, Unarmed Combat 1
Starting Weapon:
Starting Equipment:
Assets: None
Contact: Gold Retriever, Shadow's assistant. She was hired shortly after Silver Shadow began work, and continues to work for him. Mostly, she handles minor side stuff, like errands.

[TCM]

[spoiler=Silver Shadow]
Sex: Is this for keeping score, or what?
Gender: Male
Suggestion: Use "Gender," it reduces confusion.

I prefer games like this using Sex rather than Gender in the description. It adds to the whole Crime-Squad-Fight-The-Police-Get-Money atmosphere. If you want info on someone in the form of ID or a Dossier, the term "Sex" is going to be used more than "Gender", since it is more objectively accurate in these situations.

[GreatWyrmGold]

How is it more objectively accurate than "gender"? They're extremely-synonyms!

[TCM]

How is it more objectively accurate than "gender"? They're extremely-synonyms!

Gender: Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that are given to men and women, all based on the norms of a society at a certain time.

Sex: The biological traits that define men and women.

Plus, Sex is just the more professional term.

[BFEL]

Name: Marcus Dufont
Sex: Male
Codename: Chameleon
Background: As a youth in an upper class family, Marcus was something of a compulsive liar, he would lie for any number of reasons, sometimes just for the sake of lying. He found, through time, that he was VERY good at having his lies believed. In his adulthood he has become an expert at both blending in for casing purposes and blending out of a bad situation. After his family found out, they disowned him, and cut him off from his cash. This suit him just fine however, as it allows him to create whole new identities.
Reason for going down criminal path: Why, because it is fun of course! Also because after his parents cut off his trust fund, he needs the money to keep up his lifestyle.
Description: An average sized man in his late twenties, he is clearly a product of the upper class in his demeanor, but he can of course change that to suit the scenario. He has made quite a bit of effort to be fairly "standard" in appearance, to assist his facades.
Mask: A rather plain mask, intended to be inconspicuous (seriously? we're just gonna give the cops some real easy way to identify us? ) dependent on the region of the heist (I.e. ski mask for snowy/mountain places, something similarly inconspicuous yet face covering for other areas)
Skills: Bluff/Blending in: 2
          General Charisma: 1
          Disguise: 1
Contacts: Jimmy Faraday, a fairly decent purveyor of.... "alternate identification"

[Alexandria]

(( Can I ask how bluffing and blending in are connected? ))

[GreatWyrmGold]

(( Can I ask how bluffing and blending in are connected? ))

Blending in requires bluffing.
No, I don't think it should be one skill.

[BFEL]

(( Can I ask how bluffing and blending in are connected? ))

The way I figure it, "blending in" is really just the art of seeming "normal" for a situation. It is playing a role, acting, or in its basest form, BLUFFING

[Alexandria]

(( I guess, though bluffing is generally through communication and blending is a physical act. ))