“One small bank job and a side of fries„

It was their money laundering that drew Spook in, but these days the feature of Baltigo's Ninth Districts Spook enjoyed most was their bank; where all the magic happened. "Bonsoir, ladies and gentleman." He said and leapt onto a table. This daydream ended every time with the security guard shooting him. After having tried countless simulations inside his mind, Spook had to figure out a strategy to avoid getting stopped by a security guard. The banks lobby was pretty small; a gun going off in there would mean that everyone starts to panic - a free for all sounded like a grim idea. So he had to devise a plan to incapacitate the security guard before all the violence was going to happen. From his two stakeouts outside of the bank he could tell that the security guard was mostly in the lobby, no way to flank him while remaining inconspicuous. Spook had to act as a person banking money in order to sideline him.

There was need for more intel, he realized that and made a plan. To Spook, this bank job was like a project - a classic school project. A great investment into this bank job is required. This plan, if it had failed, Spook will become bankrupt. Instead of nights where he ate kobe steaks with ample pina colada he'd ultimately have to switch to noodles with noodle-water. Needless to say, due to his affection of money he made it his job to think about this bank job day-and-night. The hardest part was collecting beli from one bank and going to the Ninth Districts bank to pretend to want to launder it. Bastards took twenty-percent. But it was real interesting to see where they put the beli. Due to Spooks natural elbow grease, a children's performance of an interested potential mob launderer was performed in order to gain these insights.

reference: https://strawhats.rpg-board.net/t2741-small-bank-job-v
wc: 325
spirit +2

After gaining the insights, Spook set forth and left the bank pretty quickly. This plan was in need of a few trustable henchmen. Sadly - nobody on this island except for his own crew was familiar other than a few connections underground. It was time to contact those connections and see if they could round up a crew. They gave him a nice list of codenames and abilities, and of course - how big a cut they ask. This was going to be difficult, since Spook will end up with the lowest cut. It wasn't like he had a big name in the underworld for being trustable, these people charged a lot because they worked with risky clients.

Luckily one of the hired henchmen knew a place where they could get the tools to open the safe, another investment. Sadly this voyage has officially escalated to a money breaking operation for Spook. Go hard or go home, is what the young people today said. Since everything had been gathered, Spook explained the plan to the mercenaries;

- enter the bank from its front entrance,
- disarm the guard,
- control the crowd,
- attach the safe driller and keep a cool operation,
- tie down crowd while driller opens the safe,

And the most important fact, don't kill anyone. No deaths were allowed. Spook didn't do this for the fame, an ignorable bank job will help keep him out of the spotlights. The cash was planned to be split as soon as they leave the bank, and then split up and lay down until the heat died down. Before they went into the bank, they had to go get some overalls and maskers. Luckily Baltigo wasn't a modern place - receipts and camera's aren't really a thing in the underworld market. That's where they got their stuff in order to not get caught after the fact.

wc: 308