Rolled 5, 10, 7, 10, 9, 7, 5 = 53

>>32903907
>>Look up Fourcher's personal life. (Roll 7d10)

Rolled 4, 1, 7, 2, 9, 5, 1 = 29

>>32903907
>Look up Fourcher's personal life. (Roll 7d10)

>>32903952
That sure is a roll

Rolled 3, 9, 7, 7, 9, 10, 4 = 49

>>32903907
>>Look up Fourcher's personal life. (Roll 7d10)

>>32903907
You poke around the usual social networking sites and piece together Fourcher's personal life. Penthouse apartment, leather and mahogany furniture, home cinema, a brand new red Ferrari, expensive artwork (if it's real)... Fourcher is a man who likes his luxuries. You don't blame him - Thieves are usually in it for the money and comfort - but there's a balancing act to spending ill-gotten wealth. You spend money on clothes, cars and accessories to help your cons, but you don't brag about it. Bragging about it is what leads to people asking questions and no Thief wants that.

Fourcher has an active social life, but he doesn't keep to a regular schedule and he mostly hangs out with his friends. You don't have a deadline for this job, but it looks like becoming one of his close friends would take too long.

Aside from that, you find out Fourcher's father is fairly recently deceased. Fourcher is front and centre in all the funeral pictures, but he hasn't posted anything on his brother's Facebook page since then. Said brother has a fairly active Twitter account where he complains at length about his life. "Can't trust your own family," "useless parasite," "waste my heritage" are some of the highlights. You don't know who's in the wrong or in the right, but there's definitely some bad blood there.

>You can work with this.
>Dig into his front a little. (Roll 7d10)

Rolled 5, 5, 2, 10, 9, 6, 9 = 46

>>32904354

>Dig into his front a little.

Rolled 2, 6, 6, 9, 7, 10, 2 = 42

>>32904354
>>Dig into his front a little. (Roll 7d10)

>>32904354
You spend the rest of the evening looking into Fourcher's front company. Then you get shitfaced drunk and fall asleep while giggling madly.

Fourcher operates out of a shipping company. A shipping. Company.

On the surface, it works out fairly well; they don't keep a permanent inventory, so they can just lie about what goes through their warehouse. However, one phone call to customs is all it would take to confirm that their international shipments are fraudulous. Even at the local level, it wouldn't be too hard to investigate which companies and individuals they've done business with and dig up all the fake deals.

Your investigation is enough to give you a general idea of what Fourcher's backstory. The most likely scenario is that his father died and left him everything. Rather than keep on trucking as a normal citizen, he decided to turn to a life of crime for money or thrills or a combination of both. That would explain why he's flaunting his wealth, why he hasn't paid his hunting licenses to the criminals whose turf he's intruding upon and why his criminal enterprise seems so transparent.

You don't want to be overconfident, but you can think of a dozen hooks that would work on this guy.

>Approach him through his illegal business. It's probably the easiest way.
>Approach him through his legal business. It's more subtle.
>Go through his family. Maybe his brother could be useful.

>>32904761
>>Go through his family. Maybe his brother could be useful.
dat bro is straight up cra

>>32904761
>>Go through his family. Maybe his brother could be useful.

>>32904761
>Go through his family. Does he have any other relatives?

>>32904761
When you wake up in the morning - and finish dealing with your hangover - you decide to approach Armand Fourcher through his brother. He might have more dirt for you to exploit and it sounds like he's really pissed about what happened. He should be an easy mark.

The issue now is how to get to him, and then to his brother. You review what you know so far.

Robert Fourcher was left out of the inheritance over his brother. He doesn't like how his brother is running the company, but may or may not know about his illegal dealings. If he doesn't know, finding out would probably make him a very happy man.

You can pose as a cop or better yet, as a taxwoman. Make up a story about how you're going to seize Armand Fourcher's assets as soon as you get evidence of his wrongdoings and if Robert cooperates, he can buy back the assets for pennies on the dollar, or possibly even get them for free, depending on how things go. The downside is that faking authority can make things complicated in the long run.

You can also pose as a private investigator working for one of Armand's clients. Said non-existent client lost some money because of Armand's poor decision and now wants to get even with him. If Robert helps you out, you might be able to help him get a piece of the inheritance, maybe even get the company.

Your third option is to pose an old client of their deceased father. Imply that said father suggested that you go to Robert for assistance if you needed anything in the future. Question why Armand would be the one to inherit the family business, since their father obviously had more faith in Robert. Let Robert convince himself that the will is a fraud. See how things go from there. It's sure to push his buttons, but you're not sure if you can really pose as one of their father's old clients for a long time. You'll need to be careful about what you say.

>Pose as a taxwoman. (7d10)
>Pose as a private investigator. (7d10)
>Pose as an old client. (7d10)

Rolled 8, 5, 3, 8, 5, 9, 7 = 45

>>32905248
>>Pose as an old client. (7d10)

Rolled 1, 1, 5, 9, 6, 5, 10 = 37

>>32905248
2nding

>Pose as an old client. (7d10)

>>32905248
You let some more time pass to give Robert a chance to wake up. You don't want to risk pissing him off early in the morning and throwing away your whole con. Around 11AM, you pick up the phone and give Robert a call.

"Hi, Robert Fourcher?"

"... who is this?" He sounds tired and not just a little drunk. Looks like you waited both too long and not long enough to call. "... what do you want?"

"I'm an old client of your father," you say. "I was so sorry to hear he passed away. A while back, he told me to contact you if I ever needed help and I have this shipment that I need brought in from Australia-"

"Not my problem," Robert says. "It's my brother's fucking company now."

"Wait, that doesn't make sense," you say. "Your father said that I should call you directly. He was very clear that I shouldn't deal with your brother."

"Then he obviously lied to you." Robert's voice is flat, without anger. "Listen, I would help you if I could, but I can't. It doesn't matter what my father said, my brother owns the company now. He's the one you need to talk to."

>"Maybe you could introduce me to your brother? I'll make it worth your while." (Roll 6d10)
>"No, I'm sure your father was telling the truth. Do you have any records left of the company? I'd like to check them out, if you don't mind. I'll make it worth your while." (Roll 6d10)
>"It sounds like you're having a hard time with your brother and the business. Maybe we can help each other out?" (Roll 6d10)

>>32905782
>>"No, I'm sure your father was telling the truth. Do you have any records left of the company? I'd like to check them out, if you don't mind. I'll make it worth your while." (Roll 6d10)

Rolled 2, 5, 1, 10, 4, 3 = 25

>>32905782

>"Maybe you could introduce me to your brother? I'll make it worth your while." (Roll 6d10)

Rolled 2, 2, 6, 9, 1, 6 = 26

>>32905782
>"No, I'm sure your father was telling the truth. Do you have any records left of the company? I'd like to check them out, if you don't mind. I'll make it worth your while." (Roll 6d10)

Rolled 9, 7, 9, 5, 1, 1 = 32

>>32905782
>>"Maybe you could introduce me to your brother? I'll make it worth your while." (Roll 6d10)

>>32905782
"No, I'm sure your father was telling the truth. Do you have any records left of the company? I'd like to check them out, if you don't mind. I'll make it worth your while."

"Yeah... yeah, I have some papers that he gave me personally. Originals. Told me to keep them safe."

"That might be useful," you say. "Can we meet somewhere?"

"There's a coffee shop near my place," he says. "We can meet there."

He gives you a time and place and you hang up the phone. You've got your hook in and you're about the reel in the first part of the score. You just hope it's something useful.

You drive to the suburbs and meet Robert and the coffee place. His shirt has a few coffee stains on it, he hasn't shaven in some time and his eyes are bloodshot. He looks like absolute shit. You greet him with your most sincere fake smile.

"Hi, Robert," you say. "Thanks for meeting me."

"It's my pleasure." He puts the documents on the table. "Those are the documents my father gave me. It's just old transaction sheets, nothing important."

You take a quick look through the spreadsheets. They're perfectly boring and normal, aside from one thing. A lot of the entries look greatly overpriced from what you know. Looks like Armand inherited the dirty family business from his father. Too bad he didn't acquire the necessary skillset.

With some of these documents, you can blackmail Armand into coughing up some cash. You have your next hook. You just need to decide if you should ditch Robert now or later.

>"Do you mind if I take some of these documents? Some of my company's transactions are listed there, but they don't seem quite right. I'd like to confirm the numbers with my own records."
>"These numbers don't seem right. Some of these shipments were definitely overcharged. We should talk to your brother about this."

>>32906251
>>"Do you mind if I take some of these documents? Some of my company's transactions are listed there, but they don't seem quite right. I'd like to confirm the numbers with my own records."

>>32906251
>>"Do you mind if I take some of these documents? Some of my company's transactions are listed there, but they don't seem quite right. I'd like to confirm the numbers with my own records."

>>32906251
>>"Do you mind if I take some of these documents? Some of my company's transactions are listed there, but they don't seem quite right. I'd like to confirm the numbers with my own records."

>>32906251
"Do you mind if I take some of these documents? Some of my company's transactions are listed there, but they don't seem quite right. I'd like to confirm the numbers with my own records."

"Sure, sure," Robert says. "It's not like they're doing me any good. And if you do find anything, please let me know. If my brother did anything wrong... it's just not right, him getting the family business. My father and I worked there every single day, but Armand? He never put in a single minute of work."

"Of course, I understand completely," you say. "I'll let you know if anything happens."

You pay for the coffee and walk away with a pile of incriminating documents. It's time to move to the next phase of your improvisation.

You can just blackmail him. It won't put him in a good mood and people usually don't like to spend money, but it'll get the job over with faster.

Your second option is the soft sell. You can offer to sell the documents back to him, maybe take a loan while you're at it. You'll never pay him back, but what's he going to do with your fake name and address?

Your third option is to just sell the documents to someone else and get this over with immediately. Unfortunately, the only person you know who would give you money for these documents is the Fixer and there's no way he'll pay top dollar for it.

Or you can double-dip. The Fixer doesn't need the originals, just a copy. You'll get paid twice and getting the photocopies done will give you more time to decide how to deal with Fourcher.

>Blackmail Fourcher to demand money out of him. You'd like to get this over with quickly.
>Offer to sell the documents back to Fourcher. He'll be more open to negotiations if he thinks you're doing him a favour.
>Sell the documents to the Fixer. You should get enough money for a day's work.
>Make photocopies for now. You'll decide what to do with Fourcher afterwards.

>>32906789
>>Make photocopies for now. You'll decide what to do with Fourcher afterwards.

>>32906789
>>Make photocopies for now. You'll decide what to do with Fourcher afterwards.

>>32906789
Kidnappings are complicated. When you have a supply of one and a demand of maximum two, you don't have a lot of options. Blackmail, fortunately, is much more flexible. So long as you can convince the mark that you're giving have the only copy of whatever incriminating evidence they're after, you can make as many copies as you like and sell them for whatever you like. The implied social contract between Thief and Fixer still applies, but beyond that, your supply is potentially unlimited and finding demand is fairly easy.

So you drop by the copy shop and make yourself another set of incriminating evidence for the Fixer. Fourcher doesn't have the backing to retaliate, so it's the best way to maximize your profit.

The Fixer will know, of course, and he'll probably use that as an excuse to pay you less out of some twisted miser logic, but you'll deal with that later. Right now, you need to decide how you're going to deal with Fourcher.

>Blackmail. Just get this over with. (Roll 6d10)
>Sell him the documents. Being nice pays off. (Roll 6d10)

Rolled 8, 2, 5, 10, 5, 1 = 31

>>32907330
>Blackmail. Just get this over with. (Roll 6d10)

Rolled 6, 4, 10, 10, 10, 6 = 46

>>32907330

Rolled 30, 22, 7 = 59

>>32907330
>>Sell him the documents. Being nice pays off. (Roll 6d10)

>>32907330
>>32907488
Keeping my roll for >Sell him the documents. Being nice pays off. (Roll 6d10)

>>32907528

Welp, can't argue with that roll.

>>32907528
Got it.

>>32907330
You decide to just sell him the documents. The negotiations will take longer, but you'll be more likely to squeeze cash out of him. You pick up your phone and give him a call.

"Armand Fourcher speaking," he says. "How may I help you?"

"Mister Fourcher? I'm interested in doing business with you," you say. "I need some cash quick and I was told you could help me. I have some collateral that you would most definitely be interested in."

"And what might that be?"

"I talked to your brother," you say. "He had some documents from your father's days running the business. There are some... problems with the way the numbers are balanced. I'm sure if you looked at the sheets, you could sort them out."

"I'm sure I could," he says. "How much of a loan are you looking for?"

"Sixty thousand," you say. "Repayment and interest won't be a problem. I have a steady cash flow, but I need to top-up one of my upcoming transactions."

"That's quite reasonable," he says. "Please meet me at my office and we'll go over the details."

You hang up the phone and drive down to Fourcher's shipping company. He welcomes you with a warm smile and a mildly-harassing hug.

"Welcome to my office," he says. "Please, this way."

He leads you to one of his backrooms and points to his safe. You put the documents on the table and he reads through them to confirm their authenticity.

"Thank you for bringing these to my attention," he says. "I don't like having loose ends."

If he didn't like having loose ends, he would have taken care of this earlier. But that's not your problem.

"I know exactly what you mean," you say. "I assume you have the paperwork for the loan?"

"Right this way."

>(cont.)

>>32907868
You fill out the paperwork with false information. In exchange you get sixty thousand dollars cash. It's not as big as your last job, but at least you didn't have to have sex with anyone.

"A pleasure doing business with you," Armand says. "Please keep a copy of the agreement and come back here by the indicated dates. Even if you decide to pay more than the indicated some, I'm afraid it won't lower the total interest."

"I assure you, that won't be a problem."

You calmly walk out of the office and get back to your apartment. The Fixer is going to want 20% of the score, plus another 20% of what's left to launder the money. Still, you have the incriminating evidence. You might be able to use that to settle your debt.

>Ask the Fixer if he can lower his cut in exchange for the documents. (Roll 5d10)
>Stay professional and sell the documents normally. (Roll 5d10)

Rolled 8, 8, 2, 5, 1 = 24

>>32907894
>>Stay professional and sell the documents normally. (Roll 5d10)

Rolled 9, 5, 1, 7, 1 = 23

>>32907894
>>Stay professional and sell the documents normally. (Roll 5d10)

Rolled 8, 1, 9, 1, 7 = 26

>>32907894
>>Ask the Fixer if he can lower his cut in exchange for the documents. (Roll 5d10)

>>32907894
You decide the best approach is to keep things professional. You've only got one Fixer and he was very clear that his terms were non-negotiable when you signed up with him: 20% of the money, no matter what.

You call him up to share the good news about your payday.

"Fixer speaking." The phone didn't even have time to finish ringing once. "What's the problem."

"This time, I have the solution," you say. "Sixty thousand from a loan I'm never going to repay and some nice blackmail material. We'll settle your cut of the fake loan the usual way, but I want to sell you the blackmail material. How much?"

"Ten thousand," he says. "Minus my cut."

"Bullshit," you say. "He's moving money for a lot of people and he's operating without a license. We both know you're going to blackmail all the clients and then sell a copy of the list to everyone who wants to muscle in on Fourcher's territory. I want twenty thousand, or a cut out of your sales."

"Twenty thousand is acceptable." He doesn't hesitate. "Minus my cut. I'll make the arrangements."

That's 64 thousand total, minus the money you'll have to fork over to get the whole thing cleaned. Still, that adds up to more money than most people make in a year and you don't need to pay taxes on it. It's a good deal.

Now you can take a few days off while the money is being processed before you move on to the next job.

>>32908438
And that's it for today. Things got busier than I expected, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to run next week. If I do run, I'll make an announcement on Twitter.

In either case, that's it for today. 'Night, folks.

Rolled 1, 5, 9, 5, 1 = 21

>>32908459

Thanks for running!