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indigo_league) wrote2017-10-16 04:15 pm
indigo_league) wrote2017-10-16 04:15 pm
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Rocket Missions V.2
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) | ||
RADIO TOWERS (Goldenrod City and Lavender Town) | ||
GAME CORNERS (Goldenrod City and Celadon City) | ||
STREETS AND ROUTES (anywhere) | ||
OUTPOST | ||
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) Vinegar Doppio (epitaffio) Min-Gi Park (outofsynth) 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:
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:
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!
let's go fuck up old man kurt
or something with a cool mega-evolution. (Honestly, just being able to get himself on the air for fifteen minutes was reward enough but he’s not telling the admins that.)Steve P would like either a reusable TM or a battle item!
Tyler will nab one of the slowpokes for his own if it’s either Shiny or Galar (or BOTH), but if not, then he’s just sort of phoning the whole reward request in. Cash money, TM, whatever’s good.
Now, the easiest thing to do in this case would just be to declare his intentions of going there to mug a couple people while in uniform and then split. But that’s not how Steven Durante rolls. If he’s going to do this, he’s going to do a proper heist, one that will remind the admins how capable he is, so that when the proper time comes they will promote him to Beta. So Steven goes to the Rocket Archives and starts going through their records of various crimes and capers done in Azalea Town for inspiration and that’s when he sees it: The Incident With Kurt At The Slowpoke Well.
Steven immediately hatches a Plan. One that not will only give him an excuse to travel to Azalea and expense it to the Team, but one that will also give him the chance to be broadcast on the radio, albeit as part of a pre-recorded fifteen-minute segment and not as an actual host. He frames the entire heist as a long-delayed revenge on Kurt to the admins: long years ago, Team Rocket was absolutely humiliated by being forced out of the Slowpoke Well by an old man and a couple of kids. Now they’re going to humiliate him back.
So! Steven heads down to Azalea by way of Violet alongside Tyler--who he tells about the heist plan along the way--and finally grabs the two early warps he missed. He then spends a couple days in town, interviewing people about the slowpoke well and the incident all those years ago--including Kurt and his granddaughter Maizie, in their own home, which allows him to do some preliminary casing of the joint. In the course of the interview, he asks just the right leading questions to ensure that Kurt and Maizie both make statements that can be seen as a challenge to Team Rocket.
Then it’s back to Goldenrod, where Steven edits his audio recordings from Azalea into a coherent narrative piece, even as he and Tyler are reaching out to Steve Palchuck to help them on the heist itself, since the plan that Steven’s developed (with Tyler’s input) is definitely a three man job. They also buy some Teleport TMs at the Department store.
Steven’s fifteen-minute segment airs at some point mid-month. Two days later, the three of them strike.
Everyone has a job. Tyler’s is to incapacitate Kurt. He makes liberal use of his Hypno Teller’s psychic abilities to put Kurt to sleep, divest the old man of his Pokeballs and handle items without leaving marks or disturbing any dust marks that exist--as well as to stash Kurt at the bottom of the slowpoke well at the end of their heist. But more about that later.
Steve P’s job, as primary muscle, is to distract the fuck out of Maizie. Although he initially won’t deign to physically fight a girl, once she blacks his eye playing nice is off the table. And once she makes it clear that she’s not going to let her grandpa go without a fight, Steve P has his Grumpig, Slinky, hit her full-on with a Confuse Ray to make her stop and a Belch to knock her out, so Steve P can tie her up as well without any issues. She’s going to be locked into the back room of Kurt’s workshop. (When she’s found later, for some reason she has a black eye.)
Meanwhile during all this, Steven D is using his Klefki, Skeleton, to circumvent all the locks and take anything that can be safely lifted--mostly in the form of cash there, but since there’s likely to be a lack of that it’s mostly snooping to see if there’s anything else worth taking that can be easily fenced for a high value. Steven D is also the one who makes the executive decision to put Kurt somewhere where he won’t be easily found, to send a message that Team Rocket isn’t to be trifled with.
Neither Steven D nor Tyler is actually very pleased with this--the general order to ‘deal with the old man’ comes from higher up, so it’s not exactly something they can leave out of the general plan. Steven D suggests leaving Kurt down the well
with a Team Rocket sweater on him ostensibly as further humiliation but really to keep the old man warm, as a callback to the major event, and passes the task off to Tyler so Steven D himself can keep an eye on Steve P--he trusts Tyler’s discretion to handle the old man, after all. That’s his job here.Tyler, however, makes something of an other plan. Sure, he leaves Kurt tied up at the bottom of the well--but in a location where he’ll be easily spotted or heard from whoever might come down the well later. And to guarantee that, he makes sure to get Teller to telepathically ping as many people as he can in the surrounding houses so someone will spot Tyler in full Rocket get-up “climbing out of the well”, which should hopefully prompt someone to search it. It’s not like most people would be able to tell the difference between a fake distress call from a Hypno and a real one from a Slowpoke. He also leaves Kurt’s Pokeballs dropped randomly around the entrance to the well.
The three of them multi-stage teleport away to a predetermined location in Ilex Forest, change out of their Rocket Uniforms as much as possible (as a note: Steven and Tyler were wearing their gas masks for full facial coverage), and fly most of the way back to Goldenrod. They’ll break for a late supper at Steven and Jack’s house and to catch up with any news reports surrounding their attack on Kurt, then report to the admins with whatever they managed to bring back from Kurt’s house, as well as photographic proof (in polaroid form) of Kurt gussied up at the bottom of the Slowpoke Well with a slowpoke tail stuck into his mouth, having been stuffed in that Team Rocket sweater for added humiliation
and warmth.Steven D in particular will be very interested to see how EV News treats their attack, especially since he timed the heist and edited the broadcasted segment in order to frame the crime in a particular way to the general public, so they’d assume that Team Rocket, having been reminded of their failure by the broadcasted new segment in general and by Kurt’s and Maizie’s inflammatory statements in particular, had sent their team after Kurt as a barely-planned crime of passion and not as a fully prepared for heist, weeks in the making.
(There is no real reason for him to attempt to manipulate public opinion, of course. He’d just be doing it for the sheer enjoyment of making people assume what he wants them to assume, because Steven Durante is one of nature’s spin doctors.)
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Unsurprisingly, most of that news centres around the cruelty of Team Rocket, with worried callbacks to a raid on a museum in Kanto, as well as recent crime sprees in major cities. There is also a great to-do about Kurt's age and health, with assurances to the public that he's in stable condition and that the Johto police have already put their Growlithe on the case, sniffing the sweater and crime scene up and down for clues.
(Uh oh.)
There's even retrospective footage of the original Slowpoke Well Incident, just in case anyone could have forgotten it in the intervening years.
Is Team Rocket gearing up for a major comeback??
Tyler will have found his shiny Slowpoke, though it's hardly more than a baby... and only level three.
Steven's reward is a level forty Slowbro... that also knows Trick.
Hey, Slowbro does have a Mega Evolution.
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Steve P gets a reusable TM for Fire Spin!
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