((Hmm, the "walking back" part wasn't terribly clearly stated. Well whatever. Doesn't matter at this point.
Edit: Oh, I see it now. I interpreted that as walking back and forth while waiting... 
))
Ulrich Leland. Location: Apartment
Let's go and obtain fast internet connection. By legal means. From another shop.
Walk between the bank and other shops. Take a casual look at the whole northern wall for cameras, motion sensors and other assorted alert systems. More casual looks at the employee door (how strong it appears) and the lock, enough to discern type of key for it (code, card, other). Same for repository door. No stopping here for staring, just a casual walk by and casual glances around.
| Name | Ulrich Leland |
| Age | 28 |
| Gender | Male |
| Appearance | Short dark brown hair. Brown eyes. Lightly tanned. 174 cm height, slender, built more for dexterity than raw strength.
Missing two front teeth.
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| Personal information | Thief. That's what he is. Driven by his desire for wealth (of others), he started his trade early as a pickpocket. Soon he moved on to easy burglaries and eventually to high value heists. His demise was to join a group of thieves, successful but short-lived.
In wake of their success the group became too proud and careless and started to make mistakes, such as failing to notice hidden security cameras. The last mistake was attempt to steal jewelry from a one of richest men in the city. Security had noticed their scouts eyeballing the mansion and prepared a trap to caught group in action.
Normally such criminal activity would be punished by 15 years of forced labor, but the victim happened to have connections with judges and law-enforcement and arranged much worse punishment for the thieves: the HMRC. |
| Reason assigned to HMRC | Multiple robberies |
| Stats | Value | Roll mods |
| Strength | 3 | |
| Dexterity | 5 | +1/3 |
| Endurance | 3 | |
| Charisma | 4 | |
| Intelligence | 0 | -1 |
| Willpower | 5 | +1/3 |
| What eyes can't see... |
| Skills |
| Speech | 0 | -1 |
| Intuition | 2 | (+1) |
| Handiwork | 0 | -2 |
| Conventional weapons | 1 | |
| Unconventional weapons | 1 | |
| Exotic weapons | 0 | -1 (+1) |
| Auxiliary systems | 1 | |
| Medical tech | 0 | -2 |
Profession: Mercenary (Exotic)
Carried (Hammerspace)
- 5 tokens
- Few connector cables
- Green shaded local clothing
| Locker |
Internet gotten.
The north wall has two cameras, one on each corner heading into the alley, but none between. They're looking out at the streets, at the entrance to the alley. You can't see any other security systems. The employee door is metal, but not not super tough looking. Probably a steel door with a hollow core. There's a black nub near the door, probably a scanner for a pass card or some sort of similar object. The repository door on the other hand is quite reenforced looking and doesn't actually have a scanner or even a handle on this side. It must need to be opened from inside.
Accompany Ulrich in his quest for an internet connection
*Indiana Jones theme plays in the background*
*Switches out modem with bag of sand*
Go to the nearby bookstore and find a thick, moderately interesting book. Buy it, then head to a quiet cafe' near the bank. Get a newspaper and a coffee there. Sit in an out of the way spot and observe the bank with my cam-eyes while reading the newspaper and book. Just don't stay too long there for it to become suspicious.
I feel like this just happened
You guys realize your apartment has a window looking out at the bank, right? That you could just watch it from there?
Anyways. It's about 1 pm now and the bank is pretty quiet. It stays that way until around 4pm when people start getting off work and the entire street, including the bank, gets busy.
Milno, Secondary Mission Control - Location: Cradle
By that I meant stuff like special hazmat suits and systems that apply the chemicals while depositting the resultant toxic goop somewhere else.
And what about chemicals that don't outright corrode, but can be used to make the thing brittle/easier to punch through?
Oh you'd need hazmat suits. Special ones. And a ventilation system. Oxygen supply, etc. Basically, any chemical solution powerful enough to melt metal and rock in a timely manner is going to be rather nasty indeed.
Weakening...depends on the substance. If it were iron bars you could get something to rapidly oxidize them, for instance.
Get out datapad, look for wireless signals reachable from the apartment. Note them down for future investigation.
Pack up a laptop, take it with me and walk to a cafe on the opposite side of the bank from the apartment. Pretend to be reading something off the datapad on the way, while noting strong signals as I pass the bank.
Buy something at the cafe and consume. If they have internet for customers, stay and lookup public information about the bank on the laptop. General stuff a new customer would want to know: reputation, services, pricing, etc. Otherwise, look for a nearby internet cafe to do the same thing. Head back to the apartment afterwards in any case.
This cafe is filled with bank robbers now.
There's no wireless signals which you can easily identify as the bank's and none that you would attribute to it, at least none with any strong evidence to it being from the bank. The strongest signal you find is from "westell5871" and is encrypted. Hm.
The bank seems pretty reputable, it's just a branch of a large corporate system, but has generally favorable reviews. There's some info on starting a new account, buying a safety deposit box, loans and the general stuff. Safety deposit boxes are rented at a monthly and yearly basis.
Record what I saw on my datapad.
Check out our apartment. What can I see through the windows? Do we have a balcony? Are we allowed on the roof? If so, go up there and check it out. What's visible from there? Is there a good spot for a high powered telescope or something of that sort?
You can see the bank and most of that section of the street.
You do, it's fairly small, but it's there.
You'd have to try the door to the roof to see. But no one said anything about it either way.
You go up and find the door unlocked.
You can see basically the entire street, the bank, the bank's roof, the street behind this building, etc. It's about 5 stories tall so it's got a good view.
Near the edge would work, though it might be a bit obvious if it wasn't pointed at the sky, and even then it might be suspicious.
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