WEEK 1 CYOA: Danny, Jolyne, Hung

[becomemod]

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[becomemod]

[ You wake up in a high class bar, windows letting in morning light. It seems almost empty. Whoever is supposed to be behind the bar isn’t around for the moment. Maybe you’re here too early for service, or maybe it has something to do with the leopard.

Besides you, the only person here is the leopard lounging on the bar counter. He’s wearing a jacket that could’ve only come out of the 80s. His eyes meet yours, regarding you with interest. "Hey, hey. You’re right on time." Under his paws looks like a blueprint of a building. "The blueprints of the hotel you asked for."

The current time is 10 AM, according to the bar clock. Your phones are gone, and powers are not available. You'll still have to get to the warehouse to stock up before heading to the hotel, but perhaps you want to get your bearings first? ]

[floridas]

[ well this is not where jolyne went to sleep last night and she looks. really fuckin' pissed actually as she looks around like a (haha) startled animal.

and then looks at the leopard who is like way too polite for this. ]

What the fuck is this? [ OH! SHE CAN SWEAR AGAIN!? imagine the new effect this week is still no swearing anyways, she's going to blink a little at the blueprints dumbly because what does she look like, an architect? she then just. looks between the blueprints and the leopard and the blueprints again and just...

maybe... maybe she's dreaming??? maybe she should just... accept? never. ] Hey, nice jacket big cat. Where the hell are we?

[foreverphantom]

[ When Danny wakes up, he looks around wildly. And then his first instinct is to just. leave. hit da bricks!! I'm sure you're nice Mr. Leopard but he's outta here. He gets up and walks over to the windows. How's it look out there? Where are we?

Danny tries to shove his head through the glass with intangibility, but instead just succeeds in headbutting it in spectacularly stupid fashion. He reels back, clutching his forehead. ]

Ow...okay, no powers, great. That's totally cool and normal.

[tongshi]

[ it's weirdly appropriate that the calmest one about the situation is last, actually, as things are just. like this.

hung sits and assesses, noting that, yes, this is definitely not where he went to sleep last night! jolyne is rightly swearing at the feline - because he's thinking in terran, this is clearly just an arknights furry, capital F Feline race - and danny is trying to leave. and then heh bonks himself. cool.

he looks at the leopard. then the blueprints. then the leopard, smiling in a way that's almost not a smile.

just treat it like the old days, he thinks. ]

Right. You'll have to forgive us, but we're new to the job, so we didn't get any briefing on this besides needing to pick up the blueprints. Can you give a rundown?

[becomemod]

[ the leopard watches danny run into a wall in the way that a cat watches in silent judgment. ]

What's there to run down? Get in, get the treasure before any other crews do, get out. Standard job, isn't it? If you don't get going soon, you're gonna lose out.

[ rolls a dice. if hung has pockets, he will find in them a paper with directions to a warehouse. if not, it's in his paw. ]

[floridas]

[ jolyne just watches danny run into the wall and winces a little bit like ooooooh yikes. but she'll just look at the leopard curiously, now that the initial "what the fuck" has washed down her back. ]

So we've been hired... to do a heist? Sweet—so what's this treasure you're talking about? We looking for something in particular?

And how many other crews are going after it?

[foreverphantom]

[ walks back over to the bar casually like he did not just smack straight into a window and like he still has his dignity. if no one addresses it then of course he does. ]

...and what about you? Are you looking for a cut of the treasure once we get it?

[tongshi]

[ he has So Many Pockets. he just kind of... gets up? from where he is? and reaches to take the blueprint when he hears his pocket crinkle. so he'll leave that to one of them as he pulls it out.

mappe... ]

... we have a warehouse to get to after this? [ poses as a question to jolyne and danny like ??? ]

HEIST

[becomemod]

[ the drive from the warehouse to the casino takes about 45 minutes. it is now 11:30 AM.

welcome to the wynn.

good luck finding a parking spot. or are you going to try to valet park without any cash? what's the plan now, friends? ]

[tongshi]

[ hung pokes his head between the front seats, unfolding the blueprints as he does and squints out at... everything through the dash. ]

... uh. [ fuck.

parking.

looks at blueprints. ] We could park on the golf course..?

[ help ]

[foreverphantom]

There's literally garages, dude. Parking on the golf course is like the most conspicuous thing we could do.

[floridas]

Garages cost money that we don't have.

[ drumming on the wheel briefly. ]

Also it's an easy way to track us, there might be cameras in the garage, especially in a ritzy place like a casino.

[becomemod]

[ this one's up to you guys, but the longer you take to decide, the more annoyed other drivers get. honk honk, the road rage is starting. ]

[tongshi]

[ uhhHHHHH fuck it we ball, in honor of rocket. ]

Okay, we find some place to park inconspicuous on the golf course - those things have trees for shade and all, right? We... park at the apartments, here, like we're residents or visitors, around back near the course. We find a loading dock?

[ scanning the blueprints like uhhHHhhhhh ]

Or, we say screw it and go park in one of the self-park garages and just barrel through the gate on the way out.

[foreverphantom]

I say we just barrel through the gate on the way out. They won't be able to catch us at that point anyway, and us wandering around the apartments in these outfits is gonna call attention to us.

[ he's getting a little irritated, partially because of parking talk, smh american car culture is ruining our fun heist, and partially because he can feel the other drivers starting to get annoyed around them ]

1/2

[floridas]

[ she turns around in the driver's seat to look at both of them. she is not irritated by these drivers, they're all impatient and she's done nothing wrong (jolyne.)

raising a brow... and then... ]

2/2

[floridas]

[ breaking the gate. ah. that's what she wants to hear. ]

Guess I don't really have to hold back for this job, then.

[ she's already bangin' a u-turn towards the garage. bye angry drivers! ]

If you guys aren't squeamish about property damage, then let's roll.

[ we nyoom! to the parking garage! where we will not be paying! nyehhhh! ]

PURSUIT & ESCAPE

[becomemod]

[ back toward the encore esplanade you go. security keeps increasing along the way as other guards head toward the area. it seems another team has your treasure, but you may still have a chance to snatch it and bail.

which route are you guys taking, exactly? do you have a destination in mind? ]

[tongshi]

[ ok so we're back in the encore. where is the heaviest concentration of guards in this area? are they closing the exits or blocking any off? do they see any of their guard friends from when they were contained?

because we'll be avoiding those! this was not on us! ]

[foreverphantom]

[ yeah!!! what hung said!!

Danny tries to keep it on the DL, but if they have to be seen, he tries to look like a clueless tourist. In the meantime, as they walk down the encore esplanade, he keeps an eye and an ear out for indication of where, exactly, the security breach is. ]

[floridas]

[ well jolyne's going to trash the red jacket deep in a garbage can before they leave so she's not the same color as a stop sign, sorry about ur cute jacket man that's in their trunk!

are there guards in the wynn self park garage? it looks like we can cut through there on the map. is it possible that we can maybe walk thataway without being stopped while security heads to the encore?

puts hair in ponytail also... less sussy than with hairbuns. ]

[becomemod]

[ guards are scattered all along the esplanade, but it might be hard to tell exactly where they're gathering, on account of all the smoke filtering down the hall.

jolyne ditches the jacket and doesn't even pay for it, damn.

from the east entrance of the wynn garage, she can see guards starting to come in through the north entrance. a bunny with a gun is at the center of it all, giving orders. it looks like a few patrons are here, too, heading for their cars or into the casino. ]

[tongshi]

[ peeks around (tbh over) jolyne to look in, frowning as he says to the two of them: ]

Smoke's coming out of the hallway that we went through, earlier. [ his eyes flick over onto that fucking bunny again, watching everything happening. ] Avoid the Cautus giving orders. The gun is different from the silly string one earlier with the Ursus, but I don't know if that means it has actual bullets or if it's another joke gun of some kind.

[foreverphantom]

[ nods. he doesn't know what a cautus is, but he can figure out from the rest of the context

let's go into the garage! and try to lay low and bypass that whole security mess to head towards the further entrance into the Encore. While looking like we're just going to our car like normal tourists. ]

[floridas]

[ yeah! we have context clues, also she's heard him talk about different species before so... this tracks. softly under her breath: ]

... There's another exit that should lead in the direction of the Encore, let's cut through there. It'll be a bit more of a walk, but we'll avoid the smoke that way.

[ well, we are making our way there very carefully to stick with groups of people going to the encore as mentioned above (the blue route on the map in chat). once again, she's gonna bodyguard their twinkiest casually... just in case. the fact that the gun isn't like the silly string gun is really kinda giving her a little bit of stress. just a bit. it's fine. who knows what mysteries its chamber holds......... ]