Rocket Missions V.2

[indigo_league]

Welcome, valued Team Rocket member! Pursuing a career in the greatest organization of all time, eh? Well, you're in the right place!

This is the hub where you will find information on all team Missions. As stated in the Code of Conduct, all Rocket agents must be available to accept at least one mission at all times. They won't all be glamorous or exciting, but even mopping floors in one of the bases can lead to greater things! Team Rocket offers work in a variety of fields, with the primary openings being in four specific categories: maintenance, field work, science, and of course, the goal of most aspiring agents, leadership.

Maintenance: Brand new agents will likely be handed these jobs before anything else, as they're the easiest and least likely to result in police attention if you screw them up! They can include things like janitorial and laundry work in the bases, or serving fellow agents in the cafeteria.

Field Work: The most common missions take place in the field! Theft (whether it's as small as shoplifting some Potions or as big as participating in a full-scale heist) falls into this category, as does the simplest available mission, Pokemon acquisition. Anything you do to benefit the team outside of official Rocket premises can be considered field work!

Science: Science mission work mostly takes place out of the public eye, in official Rocket laboratories. The perfect field for more technically-minded agents, these jobs can include anything from pioneering new technology to experimentation on Pokemon themselves. Or it can be as dull as data entry. Grab a lab coat and see what you get!

Leadership: Getting sick of sharing those dorms? How does a private helicopter sound? Agents with lofty aspirations and a good work ethic may advance through the ranks and claim authority for themselves, earning swanky privileges, and more underlings to boss around than you can shake a stick at. This isn't to say that higher status doesn't come with its own responsibilities-- "Privates" and "Betas" are still expected to accomplish other missions (though usually not the maintenance ones-- that's grunt work), and even "Alphas" will usually work in the field. 'Leadership' jobs can even include tasks that just happen to require both specialized skills and a certain amount of trustworthiness to the Team. The main difference is tackling missions from an organizational, independent-thinking standpoint rather than just following orders-- YOU'RE the boss now!! Go put the fear of Arceus in some new recruits!

Rocket Missions

COLOR KEY: EASY -> REGULAR -> HARD
Notes: Missions marked FULL TIME, such as lab work, replace the Pokemon-per-week theft requirement.

HEADQUARTERS (Goldenrod and Celadon City)
M: Janitorial M: Cafeteria M: Laundry S: Data Entry [FULL TIME]	S: Tech Maintenance [FULL TIME] S: Data Collection [FULL TIME] S: Lab Animal Upkeep [FULL TIME]	L: Security [FULL TIME] L: Recruit Training [FULL TIME]

RADIO TOWERS (Goldenrod City and Lavender Town)
M: Receptionist	M: Newsroom	M: Advertising S: Sound Technician [FULL TIME] L: Radio Personality [FULL TIME]

GAME CORNERS (Goldenrod City and Celadon City)
M: Waiting Tables M: Prize Counter	M: Slot Machine Maintenance	M: Bartending L: Voltorb Flip L: Manager [FULL TIME]

STREETS AND ROUTES (anywhere)
F: Game Corner flyer distribution F: Rage Candybar sales F: Slowpoketail sales F: Pickpocketing/Shoplifting	F: Police Monitoring F: Heists/Grand Theft F: Scouting/mugging travelers	F: Directing heists F: Slowpoketail harvesting

OUTPOST
M: Escape Rope inventory M: Cleaning	F: Monitor Duty	L: Security

Rockets on Duty

NOTE: Team Rocket members who have not requested a specific mission (either listed or individual) will be considered on Pokemon-collecting duty and will not appear on this list.

CARLY NAGISA (Retired character)

STATION: Two Island

JOB: Intelligence Gathering, Base Establishment

NOTES: After successfully mapping the Whirl Islands, Team Rocket was more than happy to approve of Carly's requested reassignment to the Sevii Islands. After their first failed attempt at establishing a presence on the islands, Carly's reassignment will hopefully be laying the foundations for new Rocket base in this part of the region.

Vinegar Doppio (epitaffio)

STATION: In the field

JOB: Infiltration / information gathering.

NOTES:Though broadly speaking a group of enthusiastic nutjobs, the Legendary Seekers are still Johto and Kanto's prime hotspot for information on Legendary pokemon. Sure, 95% of it might just be blurry pictures and bull, but it is that 5% Team Rocket is after. Doppio has been assigned to infiltrate the group as a regular member and keep his ear to the ground regarding any rumours about Legendary Pokemon locations, sighting or items related to them. Of course, he will be expected to only report on actual viable leads, and not every blurry picture of someone's Ursaring walking through the forest.

Min-Gi Park (outofsynth)

STATION: Vermilion City

JOB: Squirtle Supervisor

NOTES: There are a very small gang of Squirtles in Vermilion City that Min-Gi's trained up to recruit for Team Rocket within the city and the surrounding routes. For the moment recruitment's all they're doing, but maybe one day there will be more to this. There might also be a minor rivalry between the criminally inclined Squirtles doing it for themselves, and the ones with ties to the Rockets.

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REQUESTING A MISSION:

"Hard" missions will only be given upon demand, as they may come with specific instructions and usually require at least a "Beta" rank. On the other hand, "Regular" and "Easy" missions can be picked up anytime by any team members that meet the requirements, if there are any.

Individual, personalized missions (player-determined) can also be requested at any time, and may vary beyond just the 'official' locations above-- the listed missions are guidelines, not restrictions! Get creative-- you may find yourself rewarded handsomely!

Comment here to claim a mission by filling out the form below:

<textarea><big><img src="http://indigo-league.dreamwidth.org/file/101948.png" alt="" /> <u><b>CHARACTER NAME HERE (<user name="USERNAME">)</b></u></big> <dd><li><b>STATION:</b>Write your character's job location here. If they will be working while they are traveling, just write "In the field". <li><b>JOB:</b> List or describe your character's desired job(s). If you want them to be assigned a mission by us instead of choosing one yourself, say so here! <li><b>NOTES:</b> If there's any extra details you'd like us and/or the game at large to know about what your character is doing, include them here!</dd>


REQUESTING A REWARD:

Let no one say that working for Team Rocket is thankless-- those who prove themselves worthy may request all manner of exciting rewards!

Maybe they've been distinguishing themselves by taking charge and deserve to move upward in the ranks, or maybe they pulled off a heist so impressive that Auntie Apricorn wants to give them a rare item from the Rocket vault! The greater the achievements, the better the loot!

Team Rocket has access to many resources and can even, depending on the request, offer rewards that aren't available via other means...

Comment here to request a reward by filling out the form below:

<big><b>CHARACTER NAME HERE</b></big> <dd><li><b>CURRENT RANK:</b> List your character's current rank in Team Rocket. (All characters enter Team Rocket at the rank of "Grunt"). <li><b>REQUESTED REWARD:</b> Note the desired reward for your character's efforts (an item? a Pokemon? special privileges? a hearty clap on the back from Uncle Haban?). If the request is a change in rank, list the rank you'd like your character to upgrade to. <li><b>JUSTIFY THE REWARD:</b> Briefly describe what your character has been doing to earn the requested reward here. Ideally this should involve going above and beyond the basic grunt-work that's already expected of them. Have fun and get creative!</dd>

NOTE: The mods may deny a reward if it's unfeasible or if the character's accomplishments don't match the value of the reward (ie, spraypainting a totally sick burn on the side of the Cerulean City Police Department might get you some brownie points with the admins, but they're not gonna give you a shiny Pokemon for it.) If this happens, we will be happy to offer alternative rewards or suggestions of what it would take to earn the desired reward!

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Comments

[fingersandteeth]

FUCK YES. Steven is all about this, holy shit. Do you need me to write up the new mission assignment for the listing or do you guys?

How much is his raise?

in which accidentally a tiny heist (of information)

[braveloyalhugs]

Scorpia

CURRENT RANK: Grunt

REQUESTED REWARD: Scorpia isn't asking for a reward! In fact she's... well, she's feeling a little insecure at the moment she turns in her find and actually asks if what she did helped out the team! So she'd be thrilled even with just a "yes, well done." (and likely give the person who said that a Bewear-worthy hug. fair warning)

OOC: if it's worth any kind of reward, mods' pick! but I figure it's worth noting even if it isn't.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD:
So when Scorpia turns in her quota Pokemon this week, along with her bi-weekly report on the Jennys she turns in something a little extra. A flash drive with pictures: clear pictures of every single page of a training manual for rookie Jennys and their rookie Pokemon partners. All of the writing/type is legible! Nothing about the manual is missed, even the as-yet-blank pages meant for the rookie Jenny to take notes on in the back. Scorpia even includes a drawing (so very not to scale, at all, but otherwise accurate) and an accurate description of most of the inside of the Jennys' training center in her report.

The physical manual in question? Returned, and the Jennys don't suspect a thing, as far as Scorpia knows.


The funny thing is (and Scorpia would have to be pushed pretty hard to admit it) is that this little bit of espionage was entirely accidental on Scorpia's part. Getting the Jennys to let her into the not-as-private parts of the training center wasn't, but Scorpia really only wanted to see where they learned how to be Jennys and meet the cute Pokemon they worked with! Remembering the brief glimpses and/or forays into more private spots was half her sheer honest innocent joy of being with the Jennys to get them to overlook it in their own excitement, and her decades of Horde experience. Picking up the manual was because she was excitedly sharing recipes from her pack and put a pile of her papers down for a moment, and then grabbed the manual by mistake when she picked them up again.

The photos were taken with her 'gear in a bathroom in the training center after she realized she'd grabbed it, with the excuse "that time of the month" for needing to go, taking a little time in there, and for having a reason to rediscover the manual in with her own papers in her pack. She apologized profusely, was honestly glad it didn't leave the building because she didn't want to get her friends in trouble with their superiors!, and didn't relax until she'd gotten back to base, transferred the photos, and deleted them as thoroughly as she knows how from her 'gear.

She honestly isn't sure she likes herself for turning all of this in to the Admins, and so she's seeking reassurance that at least they appreciate her (accidental) effort.

[indigo_league]

I'll do it!

Numbers are hard, but let's say that on average, he'll make as much with this job as he did working at the network full time before. He'll be partially paid on article (base wage + additional bonus for each article) so he'll have his quiet calm periods and his more high-earning busy periods (say, when Team Rocket is planning something and they need press reports to lure people there, or as part of the cover-up after the crime has happened).

[fingersandteeth]

Excellent. I love it. He's going to be so pleased with his new job as resident spin doctor.

[indigo_league]

The Admins don't say whether or not this will be useful to them, although they do seem VERY interested in her "infiltration" tactics, and they do keep all of those photos she submits (before deleting them from her device....?)

They barely have to confer amongst themselves before they reveal to her that the new year brings with it some new practises for the labyrinthine bureaucracy of crime, and amongst those changes is a Grunt/Private of the Month programme, featuring a wall with photographs of each month's Grunt or Private of the Month, as well as a prize: a coffee mug filled with candy! The mug reads: "You ROCK-et!"

Scorpia will not be given a chance to decide whether or not she's ready to have her photo taken, but look: that first wall photo goes to Scopria, and so does the mug of candy. Don't forget to brush your teeth, and don't eat candy after bed time!

[braveloyalhugs]

The photo they get is probably not dissimilar from the icon. Adorably confused and opening her mouth to ask what they're going on about! After that she'll blush and thank them for the mug! The candy then gets shared with whichever (un)lucky Rockets she happens to run into on the way back from giving her report. Sharing is caring and they're all great friends! ...right?

(And probably forever lament that she didn't have enough forewarning to smile for the picture!)

Scorpia's Valentine's heist

[braveloyalhugs]

CHARACTER NAME HERE Scorpia, Steve Palchuk, Doppio

CURRENT RANK: Scorpia is a Grunt, the other two are Privates

REQUESTED REWARD: Scorpia wants the admins to tell her she's valuable to the team is hoping for something to help her and her Pokemon become better for the Team! A cash bonus is fine if the admins can't think of something Pokemon related. (could be a useful held item, evolution item, or useful TM that she doesn't have to purchase herself or if the admins are especially pleased, something rare or a Pokemon from far away.) She'll also make a definite mention of Steven D. and the fact that he loaned a Pokemon to the cause and has been super encouraging and just so great as a Mentor!

Steve just took part to spend time with and help out his crush best friend! Scorpia will gush to the Admins about how helpful and nice and cool he is so he should get a really good reward.

Doppio wants a useful item or a nice new Pokemon.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Scorpia is on fire to help with Bewear and Stufful conservation efforts! She's found an organization that helps find new trainers or return to the wild Bewears and also keeps wild Bewears and Stufful safe in their natural environment! And so she's running a fund drive for charity!

Why not help out Rocket too while she's at it? Scorpia's idea is simple: do her charity drive, and then pickpocket any jerk who doesn't want to help the Bewears. Especially if they're rude, or look really rich!

She's done some non-heist-related fundraising already (so npcs may have heard of her efforts), but Valentine's Day is a day about sharing the love, right? Well, Bewears deserve so much love! So on Valentine's Eve and Day, she sets up in public places where people are likely to visit (making a stop near the department store, the park, and a square/promenade facing some of the swanky romantic restaurants in the evening) puts on the best Bewear costumes with Steve and advertises 'Hugs for Bewears!' while offering free hugs to bring attention to the Bewears' plight. There are donation containers painted pink, several actual Bewears wandering around with signs advertising the event/charity (with special appearance by the newest Champion Steve!), and Scorpia and Steve ready to give hugs (and the occasional signature in Steve's case) to anybody who wants them!

In addition, Scorpia will sing! (And she's actually really good at it if not very subtle about making up lyrics on the fly.) Mostly it will be covers of popular pokeworld songs, but she has come up with one all by herself all about how awesome and loving and great at hugs Bewears are! She will sing directly to anybody who looks like they aren't going to donate, and her shiny Stufful Funshine is more than willing to turn those big, sad eyes on people at Scorpia's side. Please help the Bewears, won't you?

And if someone doesn't donate...

Doppio will be mingling in the crowd playing innocent bystander, and picking the pockets and bags of those jerks, while making sure the proceeds are kept hidden to get to Rocket later. His accomplices are several Pokemon who have useful skills and/or training in picking pockets (including: Scorpia's Mimikyu and Zorua, Steven D's Shuppet, Doppio's Morpeko, and Steve P's Grimmsnarl and Haunter) who will sneak him their ill-gotten gains for him to discreetly hide (hands are useful) until it's safe to get them to Rocket headquarters. Mostly the pickpockets are focusing on snatching money and credit cards while people are distracted by the performance group but they'll also grab things like TMs, evolution stones or other valuable Pokemon-related items.

All of the pickpocket squad are trying to be as sneaky as possible, but in case somebody attracts suspicion or gets caught, they're to make a visible and fast exit in the opposite direction of the distraction/hug squad.

And then at the end of the heist, everyone will reconvene at base, tally up the loot and turn it over to the admins. Scorpia will give 20% of the actual donations to Rocket at the end of the two days (and honestly probably take the amount out of her personal funds instead so that all the money they actually raised goes to the Bewears but shhh) in addition to the stolen loot, just in case everybody was so moved that they donated.

We didn't see this, oh god we're so sorry we didn't see this!

[indigo_league]

Now THIS is the kind of heist and conjob action the Admins are looking for.

They don't care about her extremely(?) legit(??) cause, but they do care about the goods, and also the money, and also the fact that she didn't blow anything up or come back with anything super weird or ask for anything really expensive in return for her work.

Scorpia will receive praise for these things... and also a shiny KOMALA, level 4. It's just been impossible for them to sell, even shiny.... because it drools in its sleep... and it's always asleep. The drool is really... stringy, too, like dog spittle but worse. They won't tell her that, though. Not directly. Instead, Uncle Haban points out that its log(?) is the same colour as her Bewears! Awwww.

Steve Palchuck will receive an East Sea Gastrodon (that's the pink one with cow horns), level 30.

Doppio will receive two Mimic TMs.

[breakyourlife]

Steve Palchuk, Steven Durante, Scorpia, Peaches (plus Thace???)

CURRENT RANK: Steve P is a Private. Steven D is a Beta. Scorpia is a Grunt. Peaches is Dirk's Smeargle. Thace isn't even a Rocket. He's just here.

REQUESTED REWARD: Steve (or more accurately me) would like to have a shiny Eevee. If not then hit him with a HA patch or something. Steven D would like a HA Eevee. Scorpia would like a shiny or HA Eevee. Peaches' reward is in the form of much spoiling by the heist gang.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD:

Steve is not unaware of his reputation among the Rockets as all brawn and no brains. He's not a fan, and especially now he's proven his worth as a CHAMPION trainer he wants Team Rocket to know he's more than just loudmouth muscle.

Before going off to Victory Road he became aware of an Eevee breeder based in Goldenrod known for producing fierce battlers. They're also known to do very well in the contest circuits! Given their obvious strength and multiple evolution branches Steve figures the Rocket bosses might find these pretty handy.

So! Now he's back he's recruited Tio Steven to help him create a character to stake out this breeder's security situation. Here's the thing. Steve P is a terrible liar, but a surprisingly good actor. In another life he'd have been a theater kid. Improv is inevitable in this plan, but with a good backstory and some make up/costuming help from his uncle he's probably actually fairly believable as a shy, 20-something Eevee enthusiast.

Since returning to Goldenrod he's spent time getting to know the breeder under the guise of being added to a waitlist for one of their eggs. Scorpia (technically disguised though with her usual persona) will also be coming along. Between the pair of them this poor breeder's going to be fielding a lot of questions. Some of them are relevant and helpful information for their heist (parent pairings, move pools, etc...). Some of them just these two being dummies. They'll have tiny ear pieces so Steven D can guide them if they need a nudge to keep the conversation going in the right direction, but Scorpia in particular enjoys rambling on about the pros and cuteness of each one. On the plus side it's the kind of enthusiasm that can't be faked, so at least her interest is plenty believable. She's going to be talked into inquiring about specific Eevees to allow some of them to be brought out so they can get to know her (and more usefully, Steve) before the heist itself. Thace will occasionally be tagging along, disguised as Steve P's dad. He knows a lot about Eevees, owning a fair few himself, and will be useful for keeping the conversation topics more on track.

Dirk has also lent Steve his Smeargle, Peaches. He'll be bringing her along in his arms for at least a few of these visits, disguised as a shiny Eevee named Spin Ball Donut Queen. Less front and center will be Steven's Klefki, sneaking in with them to attempt to steal keys unseen while the breeder's distracted by Steve and Co. If Klefki is caught, hopefully some scolding and returning the key will allay any suspicions. That is normal Klefki behavior, after all.

Through these visits he learns that they're planning to go to a big breeder expo in Celadon. On the weekend they depart, that's when Steve strikes, along with Steven D (who let's face it, is the real brains behind this operation). In the day there are staff employed to care for any of the Pokémon or eggs left behind, but at night there are just a few older Eeveelutions left behind to babysit the younger Eevees that have either not been homed yet or are being kept by the breeder.

The whole point of this is to try and get in and out as quickly and quietly as possible. Assuming Steven D's Klefki was successful in its key theft, then getting into the building shouldn't be too much trouble since they'll be coming along. If they didn't manage to get hold of the keys (or if the disappearing key triggers a changing of locks), then I guess they're attempting to break in without making too much noise. The breeder doesn't have the most high tech security system in the world, but since they do still have one Steven D's Rotom is here to help take care of that.

Not knowing who's being left behind Steve P is still bringing along Pokémon that have attacks that deal with most of Eevees possible evolutions. Donphan for Jolteon/Flareon/Sylveon. Galvantula for Vaporeon/Leafeon. Grimmsnarl for Umbreon/Espeon/Glaceon. Although they weren't brought along for battle purposes, Klefki should still be handy for helping take out any Glaceon/Sylveon, and Rotom for Vaporeon/Espeon. Steven has also brought along his Bewear to help with Umbreon or stronger Eevees. To help keep things as stealthy as possible anyone who isn't needed to battle will be kept inside their balls, only coming out if they have other things to help out with in the heist.

With the help of Galvantula's webbing and Thunder Wave hopefully the younger Eevees won't be too much trouble to subdue and capture once any battling is over and done with. The eggs, of course, can't fight back so just need packing up safely. Any evolved Pokémon as well as obviously long term residents will be left behind. Theoretically they could be useful to Team Rocket, but having got to know the breeder and how much they care about their Pokémon Steve feels kind of guilty about this one.

Since Rocket HQ is right there in the very same city it isn't far to go to turn in their haul. Still. Steve will keep his Arcanine in his back pocket so he and Steven can easily teleport back once the job is done.

Should they wind up needing an alibi for the night of the crime for any reason, Thace is willing to provide one. But, uh… given this is meant to be more subtle hopefully that won't be required.

[indigo_league]

The Admins LOVE this. Like, capital-L Love it. However, they're also extremely profit-motivated....

Out of the eggs' contents, the Admins give them a choice: two of the eggs contained non-shiny Eevee with regular Abilities and one (1) egg move each. One of the eggs contained a shiny Eevee with no egg moves and a regular Ability.

They're keeping the rest, of course, but Steven, Scorpia, and Steve can divide these Eevee up amongst themselves... or opt out of an Eevee at all and take a cash reward instead.

As an afterthought, they do also want to know why Dirk's Pokemon keep participating in heists in Dirk's absence. What's up with that.

[fingersandteeth]

We talked about it in Rocket chat and Steve P is taking the shiny, with Steven D and Scorpia taking the egg move Eevees.

Slaps this down really late, but listen...shhh....

[amaure]

Emet-Selch (primarily), Lanque Bombyx, Dirk Strider, Steven Durante, Scorpia, Carly Nagisa, Doppio, Risotto, and Hermes

CURRENT RANK: Emet and Doppio are privates, Dirk, Carly and Steven are Beta, Scorpia, Risotto, and Hermes are grunts.

REQUESTED REWARD: Emet would be interested in hidden ability candies, a shiny, or possibly a reusable thunder TM. Everyone else didn't put in for specifics for rewards, so whatever might be suitable for their contribution (money, pokemon, etc).

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: For several months now Emet has had Hythlodaeus breed him Yamask that he would then train and turn into Team Rocket in preparation of the Yamasquerade, though that was only the start. Presenting his idea to the admins, he offered them a solution to the Aurora Champions being present at Prom: make the champions fight each other. From there, he would weasel (sneasel?) his way into Riegfried and Soy's good graces, securing his involvement with Prom that they were gracious enough to host. After a lot of work and concentrated effort, he was able to make ~magic masks~ via psychic Pokémon energy imbued into them. This would disallow anyone to remove the masks, recognize other people, and likewise they could not be recognized themselves.

His involvement with the planning of prom then allowed Team Rocket an in; grunts and other native members could pose as caterers and event staff so they could take advantage of the distraction the Yamasquerade would prove to be. Though not all guests went to the event, a fair many did, and when the signal was given, they were stuck dealing with those of whom were possessed by the trained Yamask, while otherwise locked within the dance room. With the absolute chaos unleashed, Team Rocket was then able to steal a great many valuables from the mansion of poor Riegfried and Soy, and some few Pokémon as well.

Being one willfully possessed by a Yamask to keep up appearances, Emet did battle the heroes of the event, keeping them suitably busy, as did the others who were of a similar predicament. This would afford Team Rocket the cover necessary to deliver valuables to the clandestine drop locations to be smuggled back to headquarters. In an effort to make this as authentic as possible, Emet allowed his own Pokémon to be stolen from him after the showdown (with the intention they would be returned to him.)

As for the other Rockets, while they did not play as big of a part in this heist, they did have a hand in helping the event.

Carly for instance played the part of The Drunk Girl at the party, and purposefully got in the way of the trainers who were trying to combat any Rockets or the Yamask'd—doing everything possible to be a distraction and inconvenience to any heroing that was to be done.

Lanque had left the ballroom early, and stole Claudia's unsold Pokémon eggs she left in her room, while likewise grabbing as many valuables as he could...of reasonable size. Honestly, he mainly went for items that were either jewelry or anything that looked to be made of silver/gold that could be resold or melted down.

Dirk stole a good few of Riegfried and Soy's Prized Vivillions and any decorative "trash" they had around.

Steven sent two of his Pokémon to steal enough valuables to fill a large bag, while he pretended to be on the good guys side battling the possessed, but before that he had pocketed a handful of smaller valuables to likewise turn in.

Scorpia aimed to steal Pokémon related things (stones, TMs, etc) and turned in a Scatterbug egg (which was given to her but shh), and otherwise attempted to be an obstacle for anyone going after the Rockets who were looting.

Risotto stole tacky looking items, which may vary in value, but they're rich people so anything they have is pretty tacky and likely costly. So, sorry if Team Rocket didn't want some atrocious looking lamp, or some other hideous trinket, it apparently called to Risotto.

Doppio likewise took as many valuables as he could grab, but also attempted to steal some rare Pokémon from either native guests or R&S's mansion itself.

Lastly, Hermes stole anything that looked expensive and he could pocket, even some things he couldn't. Ever tenacious, he took some expensive pieces of furniture that weren't too horrible to remove from the premises. Hopefully that gauche foot stool is exactly what one of the admins wanted?

In the end, Team Rocket made off with a sizable chunk of valuables, hideously expensive...rich people junk, and Pokémon!

[indigo_league]

Emet receives exactly what he asked for: a reusable Thunder TM and a Hidden Ability Candy! He also receives a shiny..... PROMOTION. That's right, Emet-Selch is officially a Rocket Beta!

Everyone else receives a cash bonus proportionate to their haul, which is basically pennies compared to all the money the admins raked in from their loot, but that's how a hierarchy works.

Dirk and Emet-Selch, however, are also handed a bunch of recruitment materials to try and actually bring Hythlodaeus onto the team. This isn't the first time this guy has been part of a profitable heist, and the Admins would like to profit off of him more often.

Anyway.

Congratulations, Emet!

i swear this has nothing to do with steven watching the pokeverse equivalent of godzilla sp

[fingersandteeth]

STEVEN DURANTE AND VINEGAR DOPPIO

CURRENT RANK: Steven is still a Beta. Doppio’s still a Private.

REQUESTED REWARD: It’s Steven and Doppio. They’re always trying to rank up. Steven’s up for anything, but a battle item would be nice. Meanwhile, Doppio would love a powerful Pokemon.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Ah, summer. Now that June is in full swing, that means that everyone’s out enjoying their summer vacations in the usual summer haunts. For some, that means the seaside. For others? Camping out by the Lake of Rage.

Steven, knowing his current boyfriend’s inexplicable love of camping, has been idly thinking of taking him to the Lake of Rage for the one year anniversary of the day they met… but he’d really rather stay in one of quaint little cabins instead of sleeping in a tent or under the stars, as is Thace’s preference. It’s really too bad, Steven thinks, that he doesn’t have a better argument than his own personal preference for getting a cabin, but it’s not like Ragey just comes out of the water to rampage through campers’ tents…

And then Steven got an idea. Steven got a wonderful, awful idea. One that would delightfully scare the shit out of so many people. Steven misses scaring the shit out of people. And better yet? He could do it on behalf of Team Rocket. Honestly, if Steven was going to get the help of someone with a Gyarados (for verisimilitude!) he’d need to do this as a real heist, not just as terrorizing people for selfish purposes.

Luckily, he knows just who to ask for help: Vinegar Doppio.

The plan is fairly classic in its simplicity. Doppio and Steven head to the Lake of Rage and scout out the various campsites surrounding it, plotting which ones will be best to loot. Then, Doppio sends out his Gyarados to rampage through the campsites, chasing the campers off, while Steven’s Zoroark and his Chatot work together to make sound and visual illusions to make there seem like there’s one or more other Gyarados(es?) still rampaging while Steven goes in to loot the now defenseless campsites. The two of them will keep in communication via discreet earpieces to coordinate the ‘rampage’ to further decrease the odds of getting caught.

They’re not going to leave calling cards or wear their Rocket uniforms for this one, by the way, even if Steven does wear his gas mask to hide his face during the looting. Sometimes you need to do a subtle crime to remind the admins you know how to be subtle and also, it would defeat Steven’s purposes if it were obvious this was a Rocket operation. (But he might quickly fire off a little news brief in his capacity as Rocket propagandist about the Shocking Gyarados Rampage anyway.)

because sometimes you just have to menace a guy trying to hone in on your turf

[fingersandteeth]

STEVEN DURANTE AND RISOTTO NERO

CURRENT RANK: Steven is a Beta. Risotto is a Grunt.

REQUESTED REWARD: Steven honestly is fine with anything you give him, even if it’s just a cash bonus. Risotto wants a good, strong pokemon/egg to add to his Team.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Steven had been a bit on edge all this June anyway, given how he keeps being reminded of something he’s angry at his ex-boyfriend about. Then a certain former Rocket made his network post insulting the Team as a whole and Steven knew that he needed to find something to focus his buried anger on or he’d fuck up and actually knock someone’s teeth out at Fight Club.

Luckily, word came in at the base of some upstart named Roger who’d had the audacity to open up an unaffiliated, non-franchise “Game Center” just outside of Blackthorn City--and Steven had found the perfect thing to take out his general pissiness on. He got permission from the admins to deliver this upstart a lesson from Team Rocket on staying off their turf, then recruited Risotto Nero as his partner for the mission, mostly because his prior conversation with the man had made him suspect he’d make for exactly the right person to partner with for terrorizing someone who’d crossed Team Rocket.

After taking a couple days to perform reconnaissance on the ersatz Game Center while in street clothes and figuring out the daily route of our upstart Roger, Steven has his Xatu abduct the fellow on his way home by the simple expediency of Teleporting in, grabbing onto Roger’s shoulders, and teleporting out. He then has Tyler’s old Hypno (which he’s brought with him) to use Hypnosis to send Roger to sleep.

While Roger awakens, he’ll find himself in an out of the way corner of a very dark cave, rooted in place thanks to Steven’s Klefki locking his movements--at which point Steven and Risotto use a combination of pokemon moves and their own intimate knowledge of being scary motherfuckers back home in order to make Roger piss himself in terror. Xatu’s Night Shade summoning terrifying illusions, the tingling paralysis of Gastly’s Lick… and of course there’s Steven lovingly describing all the different ways he knows how to kill a man with his bare hands, while Risotto sneaks up behind Roger like a creep, saying a lot of cryptic dramatic bullshit detailing all the ways they can hurt him very badly with Pokemon powers if he persists on trying trying to fuck around on Team Rocket’s turf.

Eventually Roger passes out again--helped along via Hypno’s Hypnosis--and while under that Hypnosis, Steven has Hypno use Dream Eater to remove his and Nero’s distinguishing characteristics from Roger’s memory--though not that they were Rockets. Risotto’s Spinnerak then uses his webbing to securely bind the upstart. At this point they return to the outside of the Ersatz Game Center, which at this time of night is only watched over by a single security guard. Risotto then uses the bound body of Roger to lure the security guard out, leading them on a merry chase through the countryside with the help of Xatu and his Teleports as Steven uses the key they took from Roger’s body to enter the Ersatz Game Center, grab whatever money is in the safe with the help of Klefki and his own Rotom to unlock it, snatch up whatever pokemon and item prizes remain inside the building, and then get the fuck out and away from the building so Tyler’s old Forretress (which Steven also brought) can Explode a nice hole or two into the ersatz casino and its ersatz gambling machines.

The sound of which is the cue for Risotto to drop Roger, Xatu to Teleport Risotto back to Steven, and then both of them to abscond via Steven’s Golurk, which is large enough to carry two passengers. Said Golurk finds a quiet place after an hour or two of flying to let them down so they can change out of their Rocket uniforms and into normal street clothing. After that, Golurk flies them onto Mahogany (if Risotto has the Ecruteak warp) or Ecruteak (if he doesn’t) and they warp the rest of the way home, where they provide proof of their successful intimidation to the admins.

Nobody steps on Team Rocket’s turf and gets away with it.

[indigo_league]

Nice work!

No promotions for this one, but Steven does get a nice Razor Fang!

Doppio, meanwhile, gets a level 20 Seadra. The good news is that the Seadra knows an egg move. The bad news is that the egg move is Splash At... at least it's thematic....? Besides, Seacdra do evolve into Kingdra with the right item, and those are pretty powerful! So he got his wish. Kind of.

[indigo_league]

My goodness. Usually Team Rocket has its own squad of "problem solvers" for this kind of thing, but the admins appreciate a go-getter attitude and a job well done.

Steven just gets the pay that would have gone to the usual guys (whoops?) but Risotto, however, gets a level 15 Cufant. You don't see many of those around Goldenrod!

[breakyourlife]

CHARACTER NAME HERE Steve Palchuk

CURRENT RANK: Private

REQUESTED REWARD: Nothing because this is incredibly stupid. I'm sure Steve would like something, but uh... maybe just give Beaky a nice snack for her efforts?

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: This is a very backdated report from Steve's temple exploration with Riku and Doppio. Please pretend we're still in August and this isn't horribly late.

The day after they return from their exploration Steve will send off his Pidgeot to HQ along with a very crude description of the underwater passages and the arena they discovered. He has also included some drawings of the treasures they discovered, and requested funding to try and recreate the hotdog he found. There's probably an entire page dedicated to describing how amazing that hotdog was and how much money they'd make if they managed to bring it back into the world.

[indigo_league]

It takes the admins a while to get around to dealing with Steve's report, mainly because, well, what the heck are they going to do with that?

In the end, they give Beaky some nice snacks, stick a 'You Rock(et)' sticker to Steve's report and 'can I have the funding to create a hotdog' becomes an in-joke among the tired Rocket Admins as they try and deal with all the crazy requests that come in on a daily basis.

OH GEE OH GOD

[insidescoop]

Carly Nagisa

CURRENT RANK: Beta

REQUESTED REWARD: Technically speaking the request isn't actually there beyond 'Is it Go Time? Can it be GO TIME?', since this is more or less the official kick off of THE BASE. ...oocly if this got her closer to alpha that'd be super rad tho uhhh

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: The local Admins may have noticed rather recently that the official opening of the Two Island Gym has occurred, and wondered, exactly, what Carly has been doing other than setting up the Gym.

They will not wonder long, as she personally arrives with papers and documents that prove the Gym is far from the only thing she was working on.

Carly has put together a system to train up grunts in the skills she's used, and employed, over time with Team Rocket- and then some. Information gathering, tracking, stealth, long-term targetted theft, her goals are to obtain permission to train grunts on Two Island in these skills so that they can go forth into the world and get some real results- either with all the flair as displayed on the S.S. ANNE that fateful night with Connie, or with nothing but the shadows to ever say that anything was there...if any could say at all.

It will be a non-uniform base, and essentially any grunt there will be taken on as an employee of the photo studio or gym itself- for real, as well, because as Carly will be teaching them? The best way to ensure your cover is if you can actually do the job you seem to be there for. (The grunts probably won't mind anyway)

Grunts will learn on the job how to spot marks, and more importantly, track them properly. Stealing a pokemon right away is never a good thing after all, and for that matter if everyone who went to the gym as either an audience member or a challenge goer was a victim of Team Rocket it would get pretty suspicious. Heck, even just connecting the dots to Two Island could get dicey, so sorting out the best ways to dismantle that kind of suspicion is one of the big lessons in the plan. For housing, Carly has worked out a few locations on the island already where possible employees could stay, setting things up ahead of time and claiming that she intends to allow the open, part-time to full-time system that a lot of places have for travelling trainers and breeders. That way, when each Grunt cycles through and eventually leaves to do their job elsewhere, it won't look strange that so-and-so up and left their job!

And of course, they get added pokemon training as well; and everyone loves a Grunt that can actually hold their own in addition to being able to avoid trouble.

So how about it Admins?

Two Island Rocket Training a go?

[indigo_league]

The admins love it. They love it so much that not only do they declare her (with some relief) the new/first Off-Worlder Alpha, they send her off with four Grunts to start with, each apparently "hand-picked" by Auntie Apricon.

As an Alpha, she is of course permitted to tap other Rockets below her in the heirarchy to do her bidding crimes for her. But with her hands full of trainees, she won't be bound by quotas any more. The gig she's pitched is not only a promotion but a full-time job!

On a mod-to-player note: these four Grunts are yours to flesh out or use in the pursuit of Crimes and/or hilarious network posts! You're also free to plot with Player Rockets, Carly has the authority to "claim" Grunts and train them (so long as she doesn't end up with two dozen of them under her roof or something... this is a covert operation, not Carly's Home For Lost and Wayward Criminals!)

[outofsynth]

CHARACTER NAME HERE Min-Gi Park & Asa Mitaka (Ft. Carly Nagisa)

CURRENT RANK: Grunt, Grunt, Alpha

REQUESTED REWARD: Min would like Leftovers, Zoom Lens, or something like that. Asa would like a Pokémon, please! Carly isn't asking for a reward since she just here to advise and make sure they don't fuck it up.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD:

Min and Asa are still very baby when it comes to crime, so while this is definitely their mission, they have consulted with Carly for support and advice. As neither of them are very experienced in battle yet, nor do they have very powerful Pokémon, this is a mission of stealth as much as possible. In the case of an absolute disaster they are both equipped with Escape Ropes and will not be hanging around to try and fight their way out of the situation.

The target is one of Viridian's battle clubs, and they are timing it take place during the tournament battles so they can maximise chances of avoiding confrontation. Before anything else, Asa's Dreepy, along with Min-Gi's Dreepy-shaped Ditto will be scouting out the location. Being both tiny and ghostly should give them a pretty good edge in checking out security measures, entry points, and item locations, as well as making sure the place they want to rob is actually empty.

They would ideally like to get in without causing damage/drawing attention to themselves, so in the unlikely event there is an open window or anything like that they'll take that option. If not... well, lock picking a relatively well obscured entrance it is. If there was still someone home, they should be aware of this and Asa's Glameow knows Hypnosis. It will use this to buy them the time they need to carry out the robbery.

Inside, they hopefully won't have too much trouble finding/accessing what they want thanks to Yoru and Camo locating them in advance. They are primarily aiming to take held items, or healing items like potions/revives. They have talked to Carly about what's rare and/or valuable, so they will be doing their best to prioritise stuff like that.

Where possible they will be using lock picking to get to anything that's locked away, but they have Croagunk and Prinplup to brute force anything they can't access through more subtle means.

From there it's a matter of taking as much as they can and getting out of there as fast as possible. Even if everything has gone exactly as planned it's still a safer bet to use the Escape Ropes, so that's their exit strategy.

[indigo_league]

For their success, Min-gi receives that coveted Zoom Lens, and Asa receives an adotable yet surprisingly criminally-compatible Emolga, level 10!

And for her role, Carly receives a non-literal pat on the head.

local gangster commits crime...

[orangesmith]

Narancia Ghirga

CURRENT RANK: Grunt

REQUESTED REWARD: Narancia isn't sure what he wants for doing this, tbh. He'd probably take whatever, though he'd probably be extra happy to receive anything Flying type related.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: So Narancia needs to do something for Team Rocket, considering he's kinda been just doing the bare minimum for a while. The good (?) news is that he's got a twofold plan in place, and while it's nothing fancy, it's something.

The first part of his plan is quite simple. He's going to dress up in nondescript clothes and go pickpocket people at the Fuchsia amusement park. Between the general excitement of an amusement park, the fact that people usually have some sort of money with them at an amusement park, and the fact that he knows how to pickpocket, this should go easily enough. He'll book it out of there (as in duck somewhere out of the way and have Basilico Teleport him out of the park) either once he's got a decent amount this way or if he thinks he's in danger of being caught, whichever comes first.

The second prong of his plan is trickier. He's going to warp to Celadon City and have Torta lead/lure people into an isolated alley where Basilico is waiting to knock them out with Sleep Powder. From there, Narancia will step out of hiding (now in Rocket uniform) and, alongside Mr. Smith, loot the unconscious victims while Torta stands watch. Narancia is primarily targeting valuables in his search, while Mr. Smith is grabbing any Pokéballs and tossing them in the bag. Once the victim is picked clean of valuables, Narancia will recall Mr. Smith and Torta, then Teleport out to another location within Celadon to repeat this. He'll probably repeat this three or four times at most before taking all his loot, running off to quick change out of Rocket uniform, and returning to Team Rocket for the hand in.

And if someone walks in on him doing this? Well, Narancia's got Mr. Smith (lv 100), Torta (lv 66), and Menta (lv 60) on hand to fight off any attempts to stop him if needed. If seriously overwhelmed, he'll recall most of his Pokémon, have Menta use Smokescreen, then use the ensuing confusion to recall Menta and have Basilico Teleport him out of there. But hopefully it won't come to that and it'll go smoothly!

[indigo_league]

It might not be anything fancy, but it is good, dishonest work.

For his criminal efforts, Narancia will get a good note in his files (keep working for those higher ranks) as well as the TM Acrobatics. This should suit his flying types very well.