Dirk Strider, Emet-Selch.... and Hythlodaeus, who isn't actually a member of Team Rocket.
CURRENT RANK: Beta and Private (and an Accomplice.)
REQUESTED REWARD: Reusable TMs or something for Dirk, Emet wants... similar, or a Pokemon, or money, it's whatever apparently. Can't crime just be its own reward?
JUSTIFY THE REWARD: This crime spree begins a day after the heist at Moomoo Farms, but they all hop over to Kanto, and begin their work there. The trio are exclusively hitting luxury townhomes or mansions and robbing them mostly of generic valuables. Emet's Rotoms and Yamask do their usual work to help circumvent security systems, and Dirk himself has no qualms about parkouring or rapelling up or around or down anywhere he might need to go. The unusual part is what happens in each residence when the owners come home...
Maybe its triggered when the front door is opened, or a tripwire is snagged, or a light is turned on, or the fridge door is opened. But each and every house is rigged with a Rube Goldberg Machine designed to sow chaos and indignity and reap property damage, Home Alone style.... but far, far more elaborately. Chandeliers are dropped, windows exploded, marbles cascaded, wooden bars swung into midriffs, paint poured, eggs (the food kind, don't worry) dropped on heads, and refrigerators flung across the room. Some of these disaster chains are so lengthy and absurd that they take actual minutes to be fully executed, minutes which the victims no doubt spend paralysed with mounting horror, or else trying desperately to intervene.
The first couple of days feature a good three or four of these heists in Saffron City, but as security mounts, they move to Fucshia, and then to Ecruteak, then Vermilion, and then Olivine, and then Celadon. They stop only when security is so heightened everywhere that it becomes too onerous to break in (and the time that Hythlodaeus and Dirk would spend making their contraptions is too expensive, riskwise.) The Yamasks and so on really cover their escape, but Dirk's Porygon2 has Teleport.... and. So on.
The entire point of these heists, fun and profit aside, is to ensure Team Rocket doesn't go idle just because "all" the transplants have travelled abroad. That would be far too suspicious.
To ensure that it's known who's behind this, Dirk has designed some purposefully tacky "business cards" for Team Rocket to leave behind. For some reason he's chosen to leave them underneath a bedroom pillow every time?
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Maybe its triggered when the front door is opened, or a tripwire is snagged, or a light is turned on, or the fridge door is opened. But each and every house is rigged with a Rube Goldberg Machine designed to sow chaos and indignity and reap property damage, Home Alone style.... but far, far more elaborately. Chandeliers are dropped, windows exploded, marbles cascaded, wooden bars swung into midriffs, paint poured, eggs (the food kind, don't worry) dropped on heads, and refrigerators flung across the room. Some of these disaster chains are so lengthy and absurd that they take actual minutes to be fully executed, minutes which the victims no doubt spend paralysed with mounting horror, or else trying desperately to intervene.
The first couple of days feature a good three or four of these heists in Saffron City, but as security mounts, they move to Fucshia, and then to Ecruteak, then Vermilion, and then Olivine, and then Celadon. They stop only when security is so heightened everywhere that it becomes too onerous to break in (and the time that Hythlodaeus and Dirk would spend making their contraptions is too expensive, riskwise.) The Yamasks and so on really cover their escape, but Dirk's Porygon2 has Teleport.... and. So on.
The entire point of these heists, fun and profit aside, is to ensure Team Rocket doesn't go idle just because "all" the transplants have travelled abroad. That would be far too suspicious.
To ensure that it's known who's behind this, Dirk has designed some purposefully tacky "business cards" for Team Rocket to leave behind. For some reason he's chosen to leave them underneath a bedroom pillow every time?