Friday, March 7, 2008

64. Heist (rpg adventure)-Eric









  • Barry Gray, a super-villain who works as a public defender is planning a bank heist in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida at PIC Credit Union. The players in the role-playing adventure are not privvy to this. In fact, Barry Gray has the reputation of an upstanding citizen with no criminal record. He is a nice family man. Barry has called in the group because he has heard good things about them, and wants them to investigate Tori Branch, the manager of PIC Credit Union.

    Barry Gray asks the group to investigate her under the false pretense that she is involved in a kidnapping and ransom case he has with a current client. The ransom case involves a semi-wealthy real estate owner's son, Tony Kramer. The father, Ronald kramer, is supposedely being charged with aiding the conspiracy to extort ransom money from the kidnapping of his son.

    Barry says he's representing the father (which is a lie) and that Tori Branch may hold the key to his freedom (another lie). He says, if the FBI have a good reason to investigate her they will. Barry explains that if enough evidence is found against her, that it will give him the chance to testify against her as the mastermind, reducing Ronald Kramer's sentence.

    Although some parts of the story are true and can be verified from the news, the rest about Tori is a lie. Tori Branch has absolutely nothing to do with the case. She doesn't even know who Ronald Kramer is except from the local news and neither does Barry except what he's heard from his lawyer buddies. Barry just needs a reason to convince the group to hack her computer, spy on her, search her apartment for records, etc to come up with evidence. It will never be found because it's not there. What he really wants to know is if he can trust her to help on the inside of the bank heist they are planning together where she works, at PIC Credit Union. He wants to know if she's been letting anyone else in on it secretly behind his back, or maybe she's even conspiring against him and setting him up.

    Barry gives the group three addresses in Ft. Lauderdale of where she may be. Address A, B, C. He says she has 3 homes, a condo, a town home, and a regular house, which is the only truth he has told thus far. he explains that the best time to toss her apartments/condo is while she is at work; she gets home around 5 pm after work.

    He says if they can bring back her hard drive, any paper work in her house, and spy on her (record her) that they will be well rewarded.

    Since she has three different homes, they will have to search all three, and retrieve the records (hard drives, papers, etc.)

    If the group wants to talk to her or press her for information she will arrive at her Condo, adress C, at around 5 pm.

    If they search her house, adress B, her invisible husband will be home.
    The house will be crowded with a myriad of strange paintings, black and white photos and lithograms. They will have to dig through this mess to find anything, and they won't find anything of importance. There is no computer. He is a recluse painter/poet who always stays home and always remains invisible. So unless there is a good reason the group will not even know he's there. He's armed to the teeth with firearms and grenades, and will be crazy enough to use them after he spies on them. He also has the ability to posesss people (take complete control of their body, literally leaping inside the victim). He will also use this ability.

    The apartment, adress A, is occupied by her look-a-like guard android, who is armed and will attack the group if threatened. There is also computer there. If the android is pressed with questions it will obviously not know anything about the ransom case or who Ronald Kramer is. The android also knows nothing about Barry Gray, except little clips it's heard from time to time while Tori talked with him on the phone.

    If the group confronts Tori at her Condo, address C, she will attack them. She also always remains invisble while in her house, and has the ability to turn intangible. She also has a myriad of weapons at her disposal.

    If the group digs through enough papers, and her computer, they will discover that she has also been suspicious of Barry, and has sent an espionage team to spy him out. If they are able to search the condo or her home it is also possible they will find receipts for private investigators, web sites she has about spy cams, etc. This team will also be called in if her android guard, husband, or herself are attacked.

    If the group is clever they will also discover blue prints for the Credit Union, and question why she has them, to piece together that she and barry Gray are colluding together.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not bad at all. Although the trick is secretly encourage people to go in certain directions you want the
story to go in, but always have some back up or subplot in case they go in another direction. And of course you always have to be ready to improv if they really go off on their own. You also have to think of your villains, if they have access to lots of weapons, why do they have training in them?
I.E. military characters or do they just pick up weapons from the blankmarket and use them without any W.P. skills? Always have a background it will help you not only flush out your villains but allow you to play on their behavior.