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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)
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:

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!

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CHARACTER NAME HERE Dirk Strider & Carly Nagisa

CURRENT RANK: Grunt & Grunt

REQUESTED REWARD: Dirk's Requests: No reward except keeping a pair of Farfetch'd, unless a bump up to private is something you can get after one heist (and two... full time jobs? Ugh. Okay, fuck this dude.) He just wanted to make a good early impression... boss.

Carly's Request: One of the pokemon from the haul- oocly, if it is okay, I would like for her to receive a shiny pokemon! (This is of course...why I didn't specify which pokemon. I'm assuming that's a matter of a random roll.) *and i mean if this could get them promoted then heck that's super rad too

*Carly, Tragically, does not know how to barter for rank and pay in these situations, and just didn't want to look bad when the guy she recruited went and took initiative.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: On October 17th, after defeating the Cianwood Gym, Carly and Dirk set out to perform a mass heist on the Safari Zone patrons.

As part of this, there was a lot of scouting around the place, with quite a great amount of preparation put in to make sure that their escape and theft would go as cleanly as possible. In addition to using the setting sun to their great advantage, mechanical dummies were made to take and redirect attacks from themselves, while they- in disguise and later bold uniform- got to work.

Heist work was a simple matter of using sneakier pokemon techniques to disorient people coming down the road from the Safari Zone, stealing as many pokemon as possible both to maximize the yield, and also prevent retaliation- the aim was to get the pokeballs before pokemon were even released.

Once combat Did begin to come into play, there was lots of pulling out the larger (scarier) pokemon for posturing and threatening involved (while actually pummeling who they could). As soon as it became clear the police (and possibly Chuck for that matter) were coming however they announced their win, and flew out under the combination of a disguised Delibird and disguised Golurk, flying off to the nearest hide-away to get changed. (and from there, fly out Farther, separately)

ICly, it should be noted that Carly didn't expect any reward other than the standard 'you get a TM and some cash for a pokemon over X level'.

Edited (EDITING because last minute changes to escape stories- time has been a Mess) 2019-11-10 19:17 (UTC)

Approved! For taking initiative and coming back with a sack of Pokemon (along with Dirk's overtime work and Carly's team spirit in recruiting him and ~~tagging along~~ "mentoring" him), both Dirk and Carly are getting promoted to Private. The next jump in rank will probably take more work, but for now: congrats!

Dirk is allowed to keep two (2) Farfetch'd upon his request... who both turn out to be male. No breeding pair for you, Dirk - try again next time!

Carly is given one of the less rare Pokemon as an additional reward... only it seems like whoever was in charge of sorting through them is colourblind, because when she releases it from its pokeball, she'll discover a shiny Quagsire! (Press F for the unfortunate sorting Rocket once their superior hears they gave a shiny to a Grunt...)

MASHES F WHILE ACQUIRING THE SIRE,

Thank you so much for this, and Rip Dirk (but hey congrats dirk on being promoted like. Weeks after joining bud)!

Dirk Strider (and Carly, and Connie, and Steve, and Jack, and Steven...)

CURRENT RANK: Private (Carly and Dirk), Grunt (Steve, Steven, and Connie), Alpha (Jack)

REQUESTED REWARD: Dirk micromanaged this heist down to the fucking second, but all he really cares about is rank and the satisfaction of controlling a bunch of shit to achieve an outcome. Steven wants a promotion from Grunt to Private. Connie, Steve, Carly all want to keep fossils and/or acquire shinies (Carly REALLY likes shiny Pokemon!) (If Steven can’t nab a promotion, he’ll go for the same thing as the others.) Jack is keeping a fossil, but also I'm amazed he even came and then Dirk sidelined him on purpose because he has a control complex.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Late one February night, the current contingent of Rockets is hitting the Pewter Museum of Natural History. Carly and Dirk have traded Pokemon temporarily--she has his Smeargle (who knows Transform) and he has her Salazzle (who knows how to be a living blowtorch.) Jack and Carly are on perimetre duty--to start with, Dirk's Smeargle is doubling the effectiveness of Carly's Joltik to short out power to the building, and Carly has been further entrusted with his TriCal Threat (working title, he's also considering the BroPro) to keep a 360 degree lookout for the cops. Dirk, taking Carly's Salazzle and his own Greninja (along with Steven) is doing the breaking and entering. Connie and Steve are team B, following about ten or fifteen minutes after. Partially so that Dirk and Steven can clear the way (rather than using Pokemon against any security, which could be identifying or lead to an actual battle that would eat time and be too much of a liability, Dirk is taking them out physically, aka blunt force trauma by fancy santa... while Steven is going to have to learn to choke a man out on the fly) and partially so that no one gets the drop on Steven and Dirk from behind them. (He's matched Connie and Steve because Steve has powerful Pokemon and battle experience and Connie is quick on her feet, both physically and mentally.)

They're not going for the exhibits, though. That would be WAY too risky. Instead, they're going to museum storage.... Dirk's robbed a museum before (Homestuck just happens) and knows there's drawers and drawers of temperature controlled specimens locked away from the public eye. If he can't get the door open using Greninja or Salazzle, he has a fucking Machoke that he WILL evolve on the spot by trading it to Steven. Once they're in, the four of them will be literally filling bags with the most intact fossils they can get their gloves hands on and then getting the FUCK out of there.

If need be I can get REALLY detailed about how everyone's Pokemon and skills are going to be useful here but I'm trying not to write a short story and if I get MORE specific it'll be literally a blow by blow of the minutes as they occur and that's fucking nonsense. So a rewrite may be required? But Dirk basically improvised his way through Unite, Synchronise at the age of 15, he can probably get four people in and out of a mostly empty museum. Or maybe the whole thing is a fucking trap, maybe Team Rocket's been here before and this is about to be hilarious.

Jack and Carly are literally responsible for securing the perimetre and, if necessary, slowing down the Jennies. They both have well-coordinated, level 100 teams. Carly has 360 degree, unsettlingly blue-eyed vision with a zoom function and a miniature catapult that totally didn't come from Fred, which are armed with nets that she can electrify with her Joltik's electroweb. Jack has himself. It should be fine.<

The Rocket heist on the Pewter museum goes perfect. Well, almost perfect. There is one small hitch.

While they are inside the museum’s storage filling their bags with as many fossils as they can grab, they run into a museum employee. Strange, you wouldn’t think anyone except security would be working this late at night, but there she is. However before any Fancy Santas can be deployed (or fold-up chairs can be brought out) the employee curses, holding up her hands and she… offers them a deal?

It turns out that the museum employee (whoever this slightly messy woman in mismatched shoes might be) was also definitely not supposed to be there at that time. And she seems desperate to cover up her presence, even going as far as to offer Team Rocket a deal. She has, so she claims, recently revived new fossils! Powerful fossils! Fossils the world has never seen before. If Team Rocket promises to stay quiet about seeing her in the museum storage, she will also stay quiet about running into them and will allow them to get away freely. Pretty great deal, right?

Well. Better than bringing the Jennies there, right?

At the slightest sign of a yes (or at least not an immediate no) the woman rushes forward (This close, you can read the C. Liss name tag on her coat) and digs several slightly muddy (why are they muddy, what is going on in her pockets) poke balls out of the pockets of her lab coat, shoving them into the hands of the nearest rocket, before she takes off, nearly knocking over a table in her haste to get anywhere but here.

That was. Uh. That was weird.

Still, apart from that little hitch, all of Team Rocket manages to get in and out of the museum without being caught. By the time the EV news broadcast is reporting on the heist, they are safely back at base, handing over bags of fossils to their superiors. The muddy poke balls they received from the museum employee sure end up containing new fossil pokemon as she said but… are they supposed to look like that? Is that one’s mouth supposed to be upside down? Why is its head so small? That one can barely move?!

What are these fossils?

Well, one of the stunned superiors finally ends up say. Well, that sure is a find you guys managed to make. You, uh. You can keep those. As a reward. Yeah. Congrats on your new reward. Hey can someone give me a hand dragging these bags of fossils to the vault?

For their hard work, each of the member that participated in the heist receives one slightly muddy poke ball containing a level 10 Revived Galar Fossil Pokemon (of the player’s choice), as well as a nice monetary bonus wired to their accounts. Though, if you take into account just how many fossils they just brought in, that seems a bit paltry…

As you look at your new Galar… friend? monstrosity?? some might not be able to help but wonder… did you just get suckered?

Edited 2020-02-22 21:57 (UTC)

Any promotions for the Grunts or are they still stuck as Entry Level Criminals?

No rises in rank this time! (though we will take it into account for any next missions)

I GUESS WE NEED TO PLAN ANOTHER GROUP HEIST FOR NEXT MONTH.

Steven Durante, Tyler Huang, Lydia (with a smol assist from Handsome Jack)

CURRENT RANK: All Grunts, baby! (... although Jack is a Alpha)

REQUESTED REWARD: As the man leading the mascot heist, having come up with the idea and recruited the other two into it, Steven D wants to be promoted up to private. (Further justification: he’s been part of a successful large-scale heist before and often goes beyond the minimum in turning in ‘mons for his quota.) Tyler is looking to pad his crime resume to make way for future promotion! Lydia desires fame/recognition within the Team and CASH MONEYS. (Actually, money would be nice for all of them. These are some basic-ass bitches.) Team Rocket basically allowing Tyler and Lydia to each keep one of the guards’ pokemon (while handing the other two in) if we manage to grab them would also be cool, guys.

Steven also would like some of the credit for their heist to go to Handsome Jack, who has been mentoring all of them and who played a minor but key part in this. While he was not an active participant in the heist, it was done with his full knowledge and approval and he allowed them the use of his home as a base for the heist. Also, he kept an eye on Fuzzles after Steven and Tyler dropped him and his dog stuff off, so that they could return to the scene of the crime to give Lydia back-up AND WRECK MOAR HAVOC in the glorious name of Team Rocket.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Steven, Tyler, and Lydia are here to steal the shiny mascot of the Goldenrod Granbulls (Zeus AKA Fuzzles) and in general destroy baseball in Johto, right before the new season opens.

SO! This particular heist caper is taking place not the night before the baseball season opens, but the night before the night before, in order to take advantage of the last night with minimal security presence. Given that it’s a baseball stadium that they’re attacking, this is going to be more or less an open air heist, which is useful as teleporting is an important part of their strategy. Also, given that these Rockets are all relative babies in terms of pokemon levels--Steven’s Murkrow at 30 is their highest--actual pokemon battles are to be avoided at all costs, in favor of human-on-human and pokemon-on-human physical violence.

Also, everyone is wearing gas masks with their Rocket uniforms, for very important reasons that mostly involve each of them having a pokemon with gassing capability and there being a likely chance they’ll need to use them. They also all three have teleporters and hypotizers. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. They’ve all prepped by practicing teleportation with their various teleporters, so that said teleporters can bring them along too when they poof in and out. Everyone is keeping track of the number of teleports they’ve done, so they know when they have to clear the stadium. Everyone’s got a full complement of pokemon with them (except Tyler who only has four so far) and will be letting as many out of their balls as they need to at a time.

The heist begins not long after midnight, at a time when they know the patrolling guard to be far away from the pressbox. All three teleport in, Steven and Tyler to the stands up near the pressbox and Lydia at a point in the stands/stadium/diamond that is both far from the pressbox and relatively far from the patrolling guard. Lydia goes into full drama mode and plays distraction for the guard as an EVIL ROCKET who is KIDNAPPING A CHILD (that child being her Zorua in disguise.) This ought to lure the guard rushing in towards her--at which point she’ll teleport away further leading him on a merry chase around baseball diamond where she teleports away whenever he seems to be closing in.

While all this is going on, Lydia’s Vulpix is busy creating a big R of fire in the middle of the baseball diamond, only it doesn’t quite close the loop on top so it kind of looks like a funny-looking K. THEY ARE NOT GOOD AT THIS THEY ARE BABEY.

With Lydia and her pokemon in full distraction mode, this gives Steven and Tyler the opportunity to sneak into the little pressbox building, using Steven’s Klefki as a masterkey to unlock any doors in their way. WITH ANY LUCK Fuzzle’s handler is still asleep, but if not Tyler’s Drowzee and Steven’s Gastly both have Hypnosis and can make him sleep. (And in the Gastly’s case, can sneak through cracks in the door to put people to sleep before anyone else even enters the room.) They make sure the handler is snoozing, steal some of his laundry so that they’ll have the right scent for Fuzzle, then use Steven’s Klefki’s amazing locking/unlocking powers to seal the handler in his room.

Then it’s time to get Fuzzles! The Drowzee/Gastly dream team keeps the mascot ‘mon a-snoozing, which allows Steven (who’s got some of that laundry on his shoulders) to scoop up Fuzzles and Tyler to gather up as much dog care shit as he can carry--including the mascot’s pokeball, which they should have by now. Team Rocket calling cards are left on the scene.

Then Steven’s Stufful uses its murderously strong punching ability to create a hole in the pressbox for an even quicker getaway and once Steven and Tyler are out in the fresh air again they teleport to Jack’s backyard, at which point they immediately run into the house, depositing Fuzzles and his various paraphernalia with the waiting Jack (who’s honestly probably just been watching TV or listening to music all night), and run the fuck RIGHT BACK OUT so that they can teleport back to the stadium in order to provide Lydia back-up and in general WRECK HAVOC. All the havoc. All of it.

Spamming teleports allows them to get the drop on both janitors and guards and physically assault them. As noted above, they are concerned with issuing human-on-human and pokemon-on-human violence whenever possible. Steven’s preferred method of human-on-human violence is ~~choking out~~ strangling people until they lose consciousness (thanks Jack!) and Tyler is into cold-cocking through various means. Lydia is above physical violence and just sends her pokemon to attack the humans directly.

When attempting to take down the guards (who we’ll assume are BOTH on the scene by now), Steven and Tyler will teleport in from directly above an individual guard, hoping to knock said guard over as gravity takes its toll. Whether or not they can, they spring into physical assault mode. Lydia stops playing keep away and sends her Gastly up into the faces of the guards, attempting to poison them. Licking may also ensue, in hopes of causing paralysis. Lydia’s Hoothoot and Steven’s Gastly, Shuppet, and Murkrow also join in the fun, also targeting the guards themselves and not their pokes. Meanwhile, Steven’s Stufful and Tyler’s Galarian Farfetch’d are just tearing up however much of the stadium they can for funsies. At one point a gas cloud is probably turned into a fireball with somebody’s fire pokemon as a lighter. There is even probably some graffiti happening if they get the chance to.

IN GENERAL, their goal now is to cause as much chaos and havoc as they can and hopefully make every last guard or janitor unconscious before they get too close to their teleport limits and have to abscond away to Jack’s backyard. Whoever they knock out will have all their pokemon stolen, that is just a fact. If it sounds like the Jennies are coming, they will also recall all their pokemon to their balls (except the teleporters) and teleport the fuck out. Or, you know, whenever they get bored of wrecking a baseball stadium, if the Jennies don’t come.

Once they’re all clear and in Jack’s backyard, it’s back the fuck into the house, time to shed our uniforms and retreat to the finished basement (and Steven’s collection of ghosts that live there) to lie low for the rest of the night and recover from how goddamn nauseous they are from all the repeat teleporting. Everyone gets a turn in the downstairs shower ~~except Steven who gets to use the one in Jack’s bedroom~~. Time to count up our stolen pokeballs and see if we can persuade Fuzzles that we’re his friends. (Doom Boner, Jack’s incredibly fat Houndoom, probably has decided that Fuzzles is his new best friend.)

One long rest later (and certainly enough time for news of the stadium attack to spread throughout the city), they’ll make their report to the admins. Steven is personally handing in Fuzzles, as well as any Trubbish or Grimer that they got off Janitors. He’s not requesting to keep anything. Lydia is handing in Lucario from the Arcanine + Lucario team if we get our hands on it and would ask to keep the Arcanine. Tyler is handing in Stoutland of the Machamp + Stoutland team members if we got our hands on that one and would ask to keep the Machamp.

Jack is handing in no one, but he’s probably there to be smug and brag about his team.

P.S. If the heist plan fails or is only a partial success (we get Fuzzles but no one else), Lydia's player is happy to have her get captured.

P.P.S. Steven and Tyler would definitely prioritize their safety over freeing her and get out ASAP.

Edited 2020-03-09 06:15 (UTC)

Approved.

For taking initiative and taking part in a second successful heist in a relatively short time, (as well as keeping up on his quote even if the admins have been having to pass off a lot of Trubbish onto new grunts) Steven is promoted to private!.

For taking initiative and participating in a successful heist so soon after arriving, Lydia is allowed to keep the guard’s Arcanine (though as such a loyal pokemon, it certainly isn’t enjoying the sudden change of ownership).

For taking initiative and participating in a successful heist so soon after arriving, Tyler is allowed to keep the guard’s Machamp (though due to its high level, he has some real issues obeying him)

The machamp and Arcanine are both level 43.

For successfully pulling off this heist, all three will also receive a bonus in addition to their normal wages.

For. Uh. Standing there, looking proud as a Unfezant, Jack will receive some approving nods from the admins. Good to see an Alpha take new rockets under his lawless wings and groom them into perfect little criminals.

All is well that ends— Wait. What is that very public broadcast on the network two days later?

With all the frenzy that whips up and everyone trying to find Fuzzles, the city of Goldenrod turns into a bad place for crime for at least the next month. As such, Team Rocket ends up having to curtail their normal illicit ways for the next few weeks, while having one hell of a hot potato on their hands. Steven’s promotion and Lydia and Tyler’s reward won’t be taken from them, but uh. It might be best if they stay out of the admins’ ways for a little while. Until everything cools down.

OH FUCK YES.

Do the Arcanine and Machamp have any special/TM moves, or are they just bog standard big boys?

Just your standard big boys, I'm afraid. Maybe private security doesn't pay well enough to afford nice TMs?

HELL YEAH SHE GETS HER AESTHETIC GORGEOUS LION-DOG THING.

CARLY NAGISA

CURRENT RANK: Carly - Private
Dirk - Private
Steven - Private
Steve P - Grunt
Connie - Grunt
Tyler - Grunt

REQUESTED REWARD: ~Nothing But A Job Well Done~

Well technically it's CoolRep with the Admins, but you'll see BELOOOooooow...

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: As seen last week, things haven't been very Golden in Goldenrod, and Carly has been watching the proceedings like a hawk. She knows what kind of fallout comes of these things. It's not good.

Now technically it Could have blown over with further time, but she's got better ideas, one that she ropes Connie into first before extending the olive branch to the remaining 'transferred' Rockets.

They're gonna handle the Admin's Hot Potato, for...Nothing more than the Glory of Team Rocket, one could say.

The plan begins with perhaps the most important part.

Namely Carly sucking up to the Admins.

Specifically Carly takes a brief trip to Goldenrod via train, and after figuring out just whereabouts the Admins will be, prepares her steely 'i get shouted at by my bosses a lot and no longer care' heart to go face them while using her villain voice and composure. And she offers them a solution to their...recent dog problem.

It's not going to go away after all. And the people are upset. Baseball was ruined! Hearts broken! She understands the importance of well placed villainy, and this is far from it. But she has a plan; it may cost a bit of image, but that's something she insists will be brought back very readily- she has a plan deserving of Rocket's Name. One that won't end up with dangerous merchandise burning a hole through their base.

But more on that later, she'll explain- because after all, a truly wonderful plan would be something she runs by them before putting into action, so they'll hear about those ideas before it happens, with plenty of time to stake their own well deserved claims on the payoff!

For now, a payoff of a different sort. She puts it clearly; there's a reward for the dog. Of course there's a reward for the dog, everyone loves him. So she explains that with her experience in media, she has the plan to stage a 'rescue' of said pokemon by one of their younger grunts. Notably, Connie is with her as she explains this, with Carly explaining that she's taken the young hopeful under her wing. And she's doing MARVELOUSLY, Admins! Why, her skills in improvization and deceit are second to none! You should have seen her in the double battles, not to mention her place in the Rat Race, using civillian roles.

And that's just the role she'll be taking up for this; the plan is that she'll 'rescue' the granbull, return it to the baseball team, and cash in the reward...

Which, of course, goes directly into Team Rocket's hands. A small reward, true- but at the very least, it means that they don't carry a growing target in their hands, and really, isn't that what's best?

Now, presumably this is 'okay'd'. Ultimately Carly can't really do anything if the Admins don't give the Go-Ahead, since the entire point is buttering them up for future credit.

Using a script put together with special pokemon-induced effects (most notably that of Peaches' transform skills, a zorua playing the role of that 'kidnapped' child again, and Connie's Zoroark creating a heck of a stage), and the skills both known and absorbed via Fuchsia's film industry (Carly and Connie spent the prior week sitting around the city), the entire team puts together an act where just enough trainers will be around to see what's going on.

It's risky- some of them may well join in- but part of the plan counts on Connie's pride and pokemon keeping them back as she handles the job herself. Well, mostly by herself. Playing the role of hero in a very...Faego Flavored Script (which is to say that Tyler and Dirk have pulled from murdertastic drama and pro wrestling, fortunately with Less Murder, for inspiration), Connie will be performing a daring rescue, helped by the soon released 'Zeus' (...Peaches) himself! But alas! Team Rocket blasts off yet again, their escape leaving them out of the clutches of law once more!

But at least 'Zeus' has been recovered!

From there, she takes the real Zeus to the authorities with helpful guidance from whoever is around, and gets the reward. It's really as easy as simple money transfers after that (and naturally, Fuzzles was nonethewiser, simply sleeping soundly in his pokeball after a delightful week of playing around with a houndoom. We love you Fuzzles).

It's a lot of work just for something like this, but ultimately that's something Carly intends to work in their favor as well.

Anything for the glory of Team Rocket, after all.

CHARACTER NAME HERE Tyler Huang

CURRENT RANK: Grunt

REQUESTED REWARD: Mostly just recognition and some extra helpings of cash? He doesn't think this will earn him a Private rank but it's good to try and repair his image in the admins' eyes after the Fuzzles Kerfuffle.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Tyler is going to be spending the week when he gets back to Goldenrod (so from the 1st to the 7th) hanging out in different districts of Goldenrod and attempting to rob people.

It's a two-fold operation: Tyler will use his Natu to mentally ping potential targets - these being rich-looking, older businessmen who look like they could be CEOs or whatever - and use that to manipulate their thoughts and coax them into a quiet area with no witnesses or cameras (could be booth seats at a restaurant, or into an alleyway, or a toilet. Just. Out of general sight). Once they're alone, he'll use his Hypno to hypnotise them completely, and get them to hand over A) their credit card details, and B) one of their rarer Pokemon, where applicable: specifically he will be aiming for Pokemon not typically found in Johto alone. He will be handing everything he collects over to Team Rocket, because he doesn't actually care about it for himself, but he won't object if he gets one of the Pokemon as a reward.

When Tyler does this, he will be wearing a different outfit every time, and also an assortment of wigs so each time he looks different enough to cause doubt. At least once he will wear his skirt-Rocket outfit to shake things up. He will have his Natu in its Pokeball until he starts the sting, and teleport away from each scene when he leaves (and end up back in Rocket HQ).

Approved! And our apologies for this taking this long.

In any case, because Carly leaned so heavily on this all being for the glory of Team Rocket, none of the people involved will receive anything more than a nod for a job performed adequately and a slight uptick in their reputation among the admins. Not enough to quite cover the amount of reputation the three behind the baseball raid lost from everything going all pear-shaped (nevermind that all the admins thought it was a great scheme right up until it blew up in their faces afterwards) but at least enough that they won't need to fear getting assigned all the very worst jobs.

Approved! And again, our apologies for this taking so long.

Tyler is wise to try and boost his reputation among the admins. Sure, helping Carly out with returning Fuzzles to his rightful owners helped some, but there is still quite a bit of reputation damage left to fix. Being the somewhat petty admins of a criminal organisation means Tyler won't exactly receive a reward for his efforts this time. Not even a cash bonus! But after handing over all that cash and a few rare pokemon, his damaged reputation will be mostly restored and at least one Admin, who is rather impressed by this fairly classy and high rewards type of criminal activity (when a lot of grunts seem to believe spraypainting 'TEAM ROKCET ROOLS, JENNIES DROOL' on buildings is the height of crime, just about anything will look classy) and tells him to be ready to repeat his little crime trick in the future. He might even be allowed to actually keep one of the pokemon he steals in the future.

Steven Durante

CURRENT RANK: Private

REQUESTED REWARD: Honestly, he’s just trying to restore his reputation with the admins from the huge ding it took after the Mascot Heist backfired. And, you know, if increases said rep past the ding it got from Mascot Heist, that’s good too.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Okay. So. After Tyler’s week of nightly pokemon theft begins to draw to a close, Steven realizes two things: first, that he needs to get on his own ass in gear to repair his own rep with some sort of large-scale pokemon haul… and second, that Tyler’s strategy of using his birb to psychically lure people off was a damn good idea and definitely something to include in his own efforts. But because he doesn’t want to get in Tyler’s way, he doesn’t want to do his thing in Goldenrod.

Saffron City, however…

Well. Taking an overnight trip with his boyfriend is a decent enough excuse to be there, isn’t it? And a decent enough cover for his activities too. They can do some shopping, maybe go to Silph Co and look at (but hopefully not adopt) some of the Nulls… have an early supper and retire to the penthouse suite, complete with roof garden, of the fancy hotel they’re staying at before it’s even ten o’clock… and given how they’ve been eyefucking each other all night, how they played footsie at their supper out, and the little subtle touches they’ve been giving each other… I mean, it’s obvious to any observer what’s going to happen next, right? Two grown-ass men having wild monkey sex all night, right?

That’s going to happen eventually, actually. But not quite yet.

Steven’s been to Saffron before as a tourist. He’s got a decent idea of where there’s a fair number of dark corners and darker alleyways. Enough of an idea to plan what’s basically a teleportation route of certain alleyways scattered through various neighborhoods in Saffron--basically, all the districts that have anything resembling a night life--with ten separate stops, one that bounces all over the city in a way that can only done practically with teleportation..

So. Once Steven and Jack are alone together in their penthouse suite, Steven will change from his normal date night clothes to a plain all black ensemble and don the gas mask he’d originally procured for the mascot heist, thus completely obscuring his facial features, before heading out to the rooftop garden at ten o’clock.

That’s when Acatl, Steven’s Xatu, will teleport him to the dark alleyway that’s the first stop on his route. He’ll release Miasmagoria, his Haunter, and Skeleton, his Klefki, and the three of them will lie in wait while the Xatu psychically scouts out small groups of people out enjoying the night life--young couples, perhaps, or friends going out to have fun together. The Xatu will psychically lure those small groups into the alleyway, at which point the Klefki locks their movements in place, so they can’t leave and the Haunter immediately swoops in to gas them all into unconsciousness. Meanwhile Steven’s Haunter will also use Night Shade to show their victims an unreasonably terrifying mirage once they enter the alleyway, hiding Steven’s form (even if it won't do damage to them), but even if she wasn't, Steven’s still going to be in an even darker corner of that dark alleyway, with a gas mask obscuring his face, so there’s not going to be any real identifying details for the victims to go with, other than he’s tall and jacked.

Once his victims are unconscious, Steven will quickly and methodically search their bodies, removing any valuables and any pokeballs on them, and then proceed onward to his next stop on his route. Lather, rinse, and repeat nine more times. At bare minimum, he ought to be able to steal cash from twenty people this way and probably net a comparable number of pokeballs. And because he’s doing this quickly and methodically, he ought to be able to get his route done with by one in the morning, if not sooner.

At which point Steven and his team teleport back to the rooftop garden, so he can saunter back into the penthouse suite where Jack awaits him, probably having been watching hotel pay-per-view porn or some other television since he left. Steven strips off his heist clothing, stashes the stolen goods and heist clothing in the false compartments of his and Jack’s overnight luggages, and then, finally the two of them get to have wild monkey sex for the rest of the night. (And post-crime sex is always, always good.)

They leisurely leave Saffron the next morning, like the overnight trippers they are. Once back in Goldenrod, Steven removes the stolen goods from the luggage and packs it up to take to the admins that afternoon. He apologizes to the admins for the trouble he and his crew created via Fuzzle’s kidnapping and says that he hopes that this might somehow make up for it.

Given that he just presented them with the stolen goods of twenty-to-thirty people? Hopefully it will.

ETA: Obviously if things look like they're going south, he's ditching the plan and teleporting back to Jack ASAP. A repaired rep is not worth getting caught.

Edited 2020-04-24 04:38 (UTC)

Lydia

CURRENT RANK: Grunt

REQUESTED REWARD: For the admins to honestly not hate her guts after the baseball thing if they still care. If not, just some extra clout to work up that ladder, baby.

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: Hilariously all she's doing is teleporting from Ecruteak back to Goldenrod to shove a female level 25 pangoro at their faces. THAT'S A FOUR STAR POKEMON, SHUT UP AND TAKE HER POKEMON. ~~That she caught on Route 42 around midweek.~~

The admins' moods are as difficult to read as ever, but while they don't award brownie points for just one Pokemon, Lydia's interest in maintaining her reputation has been noted. Consider any reservations they held about her performance cleared.

While the big bosses are (obviously) aware of Steven's relationship with Jack, they keep an eye on it only to ensure he's not using it as an excuse to slack off. Team Rocket doesn't exactly have a workplace code of ethics other than "make us money." Which, good news: this DEFINITELY makes them a nice sum of money!

Not enough to advance past Private, of course--you'll have to work harder than that, or at least work hard like that WAY more often--but they are very happy to see he's not under the impression that Jack's position hasn't give him a false sense of security, or unmerited confidence. Or at least, not so much unmerited confidence that he isn't working hard to make them money. Or owning up to mistakes.

So that reputation? Looking pretty good right now, actually.

Excellent! Does this mean he's in good standing enough to request transfer to the newsroom in May? (Especially since he's likely to pull off a repeat of the Mugging Speedrun in Goldenrod itself this weekend Saturday?) I know that as a 'medium' mission, we don't actually need mod permission, but I want to be more or less realistic with this shit.

Also, re: the newsroom position in the radio tower, how many hours per week is it? It's part time, but is that 20hr/wk like I've been assuming receptions is or 30hr/wk?

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Rocket Missions V.2

Rocket Missions

Rockets on Duty

Requesting a Mission

Requesting a Reward

slaps this down to cover me an raile both

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AND THEN TEAM ROCKET RUINED BASEBALL

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maybe the real reward was the butts we kissed along the way

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Is there any professional skill as valuable as kissing ass?

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someone needs to get his rep back too

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