As you are walking to the Rebel Pub, you notice a stray cat sitting beside a building. You go down to pet it and you find a piece of paper stuck in the collar. After fumbling with it for a minute, you finally have it opened. But everything inscribed on it seems backwards. After two minutes of trying to decode the message you look up a see a half broken mirror laying on a closed window sill. You turn the paper around facing the mirror and see the message decoded. Mirror Writing! you think. The message reads:

Meet me in the backroom of the Gentlemen's Club. I have found our next prize. I will wait three days for you.

Signed,
The Black Hand

After pondering a minute, you wonder if this message was destined for you. If Chip the almighty, made you take that route to the Rebel Pub, just so you would find the message. Without another though you enter the Gentlemen's Club, where smoke fills the air, a band is playing music and women are dancing about. You open an unmarked door and you see Ice studying a map.

Ice looks up and draws his knife. "Stay right there. Who are you?"

You reply "I foll- followed a messaged attatched to a cat."

Ice face changes and says "So you have found a message. The man I sent that to was found dead three days ago with four wounds which looked like they were from a knife." he countinues "I am 17 and a man of many trades. You may know me from the pub, but at night I organize many men to steal precious things from the Government. We never steal from a man who deserves as little as half a pence, only from the lazy and rich. Now that I have told you this, you are obliged to join and will not walk out of this room alive if you do not swear an oath of featly. As you can see right now I am planning another hiest and need many men. The jobs you will undertake will be highly lucrative and dangerous, but you will learn to love your job and the gold you yield from it. You are now a memeber of the Band of Thieves. You shall never speak our name outside this room and will always deny your membership to anyone who inquires."

Rules
Please post a character description including the following:

Name (RPG)
Age (RPG)
Requested Nickname: A code name which will be used only in this thread.
Brief bio: (can be copied directly from the character registry)

Then, please post your skils and trades as follows:
You have 15 points to distribute among these general categories:

Strength
Intelligence
Agility

You have 25 poitns to distibute among these specific categories. These categories will determine your role in the organization:

Charisma/Charm: How well you can talk your way in and out of things
Acting: How well you can play part in disguise.
Stealth: How quiet and agile you are.
Recon: How well you can take on reconassiance missions.
Assassination: How well you can kill without being seen.
Handiness: How well you can invent things, such as lock picks, jimmies, rapel ropes etc. that may help us.

It is recommended that you pick 2 or 3 of the above and add stats to them as I will be giving otu specific jobs to people.


Now I will be giving out jobs based on your skills. The current jobs I will assign are:
1 Assassin- Will assassinate head government figures.
1 Charmer- Will obtain key information and objects to get into certain places
1 Recon Man- Will obtain information on persons and buildings. Will help plot out a plan for each mission alongside the director.
1 Engineer- Will build inventions enabling us to carry out our deeds.
2 Field Guys- Will be the men in the field, obtaining our target.

Current Members and their jobs:
Ice: Assassin and Director
Dutchfire: Lead Engineer and Recon Man
Chip Chipper: Charmer

Well, I don't seem to have a choice, I'll join!

Name: Dutchfire
Age: 18
Nickname: "Kaaskop"
Brief description: The young student Dutchfire from a country far far away read in the paper that there were many vacancies in the Licentian country. He traveled there and became Minister of Science. That's everything the Licentians knew about him.

Strenght: 3
Intelligence: 9
Agility: 3

Charisma/Charm: 1
Acting: 2
Stealth: 2
Recon: 4
Assassination: 7
Handiness: 9

I will start by posting my bio:

Name: Ice2k4
Age: 17
Nickname: The Black Hand
Bio: Will come soon.

Strength: 5
Intelligence: 5
Agility: 5

Charisma/Charm: 6
Acting: 0
Stealth: 7
Recon:2
Assassination: 10
Handiness: 0

Name: Chip Chipper
Age: 25
Nickname: Sidious
Bio: Will come soon.

Strength: 4
Intelligence: 5
Agility: 6

Charisma/Charm:10
Acting: 10
Stealth:5
Recon:
Assassination:
Handiness:

"It is good to see many a members will join. Dutch I want you to be our lead engineer and our recond man. You will work along side me to plan out our missions. Chip, I would like you to be our Charmer. You will get us what we need to get in to certain places." says Ice, as he goes back to plotting out a map.

"Two jobs, that's ok with me." says Kaaskop aka Dutchfire

ok could you sum up real quick what this is?

"Well until someone fills the recon position, it's yours for now."

It's a sort of adventure, and I don't know exactly what it will be like, but I think most things are still open, so if you join you can decide with us.

Well BCLG, it's a highly lucrative and secretive (if it's even a word) organization that steals precious artifacts and objects and assinates political figures from time to time. RIght now we are just a bunch of theives, but if we get enough people we may develop a mafioso type organization. There will be many operations we will run and are out to get gold.

id like to join but couldnt give much commitment until after exam season, so ill pass for awhile :)

Well you could always join now and I'd put you on reserve.

Looks like there won't be anyone in the field actually doing something ;)

Well once we devise our first plan, looks like me and swiss will work in the field.

Ok, I have found the mark for our first job.

Our target is a Mongolian Golden Cat.

From my informant I have heard it is pure gold with jewels embedded in the head. Currently it is in the former Governor of Karakorum. He is headed to Boaring Wallow today to recive amnesty from the president. I am not sure when he will arrive. I am told however he is arriving with his family. He is a pure-bred Mongolian, but speaks our tongue well. He is now a huge political figure. He goes by the name of Wang Lung.

Now the first step of this operation is proper intel and recon. Right now that's your job, Dutch. I plan to steal this from where he decides to rest in the nights. All options for this job are open. We could steal it while it isn't being guarded (although I'm sure they will have 24 hour eyes on it), we could assassinate him and take out his guards or we could kidnap whomever he brings with him and demand ransom. The only requirement for this job is that we do not reveal who we are.

Now Dutch, I wan't to know everything about this slob. I want to know who his family is, who he sleeps with, where he stays, how he takes his cofee in the morning, so on and so forth. This target is priceless and would make us very rich men.

"Yes sir! I'm on the lookout and will give you the information as soon as possible."

I went looking for information about sir Wang Lung and it appears that Wang Lung isn't his official name. His real name is ..drumroll please.. Genghis, Khan of Mongolia. Somehow he has managed to escape all Licentian soldiers but he was arrested by our police in Karakorum. They saw his wealth, his enormous house, his jewels and his fine clothes, they didn't see the Cat. They concluded he was a former Mongolian official and arrested him. He lied and said he was the governor of the capital. He asked for amnesty and is heading to our president now.

When I watched him, I saw that he was going to the Gentlemen's club very often, a bit to often. So I followed him in and watched him. He talked to a small man with a black mask and a cape in a backroom and he came back very happy. I went into the room after he left and I've interrogated the small man. He didn't want to speak in the beginning, but that changed after I used one of my inventions on him for a few seconds. He begged me to stop and told me about the Khan, he was plotting the assasination of our President, but he was waiting for the chaos during the elections to calm down. His plan was to take control of the Licentian Empire after the assasination. He would do this by collecting our presidents blood and spilling it over the Golden Cat. The Cat would then magically give him the power of our empire. The small man also said that he didn't believe this was possible, but as the Khan was paying him a lot, he was helping him making assasination plans. He told me even more interesting too. The Golden Cat is hidden in a heavily protected library in Karakorum where we won't have a chance of stealing it. But it will be brought to Boaring Wallow by a former Mongolian Soldier. He didn't know how the soldier would bring the cat, but he did know that the rendez-vous was at a pub called the Rebel Pub. He wanted to tell me something else, but unfortunately he died (I guess my invention is a bit overdone). That's everything I could get until now.

Good work. Now do you recommend we assassinate Khan first or we try to steal the cat en-route?

I say we create a diversion at the rendevous, and kill the Khan WHILE stealing the cat....

And you believe we can do this without anyone noticing, taking out all hostiles, and getting away?

If the diversion is freat enough yes. Thi is a bar right. And what happens in bars....

Bar Fights.....

We send in me, I pick a fight with the Cat man, during the hell that breaks loose, Kaakskop pilfers the kitty, and The Black Hand kills the Khan. Then, we flee the scene, but set up a patsy first by stabbing the cat man with the Khans Sword... The authorities will never know its us.


Sidious has spoken

Well then. Sounds like a plan. I can arrange to have the Gentlemen's Club closed the night he comes in so there are no witness'. I'll be bartending. Kaakskop, you'll be sitting two chairs down from the Cat Man. Then, Sidious (sitting next to the Cat Man) will spill a drink on the Cat Man generating a fight, that's when Kaakskop will grab the kitty.

Once we have the cat man out of our way and unconcious. I will thrust a bar knife in him, and we will throw the bloody idiot in the closet. We will wait for the Khan. When he comes we, we will be on our original positions as if he were the Cat Man. Sidious, buy him a few drinks, and we will tell him a man came by looking for him and will be back in a few minutes. Once he's drunk I will draw his own sword from him and stab him. You two will flee. I will drag the Cat Man out of the closet and throw him next to the dead Khan.

I will then run and contact the vigilantes, telling them there was a bar fight and two men are dead.

Everyone agreed with the plan.

OOC: I will be administering this thread. Right after we agree on the plan, I will draw up stats for both the catman and the Khan. Your stats and lucky (random number generator) will determine if you sucessfully complete your task at hand.

Sounds OK.
(btw it's kaaskop)

Ice walked into the Gentlemen's Club only moments after Kaaskop and Sidious had arrived.

"I believe were all ready for our first job. Chip be with you." Ice said as het got behind the bar, and started to dry wet glasses.

After a few minutes of waiting, a strange man came in. The group new he was the "Cat Man." He looked nothing like a Licentian and spoke in broken tongue. After ordering a beer, and watching Sidious nervously tapping on the counter, Sidous made his move. He spilt his next beer on the "Cat Man." After a few moments of swearing, the two got up from there barstools.

OOC: Swiss, you can post how the fight goes down, but leave the ending to me, so I can calculate if your objective was complete or not with your skills. (Ie. don't end it with you knock him out, or he knocks you out, leave some flexibility.)

The Strange Mongolian looked up at Sidious, "Wadd wis Thut Far?"(OOC: I made up the Mongolain Accent, I don' know what it sounds like).

Sidious looked at the Mongolian with a rage so fake it seemed real. "Hey, buddy You spilt my beer, gimme 5 gold" The Mongolian spat, yes SPAT at Sidious and remarked "Welz I is ain't givin yoz no 5 gold, yoz owez me tin for my pantz". Sidious threw the first punch there and the Mongolian staggered back and tripped over a chair. That had been easier than Sidious had thought. He didn't expect what was coming next. The Cat Man swept his leg and knocked over Sidious, who fell with a sickening crunch. He then rolled on to his shoulders and flipped up. Sidious scrambled backwards and then pulled himself up, narrowly dodgeing an incoming beer mug. The Cat Man was throwing everything. Sidious had to think fast. And so he did.

He ran to his right, grabbed a chair and hurled it at the Cat Man. He ducked, but this gave Sidious the oppurtunity he need. He slide on the floor, tripped the Mongolian, got up and pinned him under a stool. He was dazed but not knocked out.....

OOC: Results

Your Strength skill is 4. Giving you a 40% chance of winning a fight.

To win a fight, you must generate a number from 1-40.

Using the RNG, you produced a 36.

You win!

Swiss then pulled back his fist, ready to throw the final punch. The Cat Man swore something in a daze, and Sidious delivered the final blow. Ice then quickly jumped over the counter with his trusty bar knife, and stabbed the man in the heart as Kaaskop grabbed the Cat.

Sidious and Kaaskop, then cleaned up the little blood on the floor, and returned to their original positions. Now, they were waiting for the target, The Khan.

One down, one to go!

OOC: Anyone want to continue on the story?

We still have to kill the Khan!