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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Re: Requesting a Reward

[fingersandteeth]

STEVEN DURANTE AND HANDSOME JACK

CURRENT RANK: Steven’s a Private. Jack is our local Alpha.

REQUESTED REWARD: Steven hopes to be promoted to Beta now or in the near future, citing his participation in Dirk’s Lapras heist as well as his Saffron Mugging Speedrun (and its subsequent repeat here in Goldenrod) as further proof of his dedication to the Team. He also very regularly turns in more pokemon for his quota than the minimum.

Jack mostly just wants those fat stacks of cash money, because having risen as far as an otherworld transfer has been allowed to go, what else is there left for them to reward him with? (Seriously, though, make Jack an admin already #JusticeforJack)

JUSTIFY THE REWARD: So. While they were working closely together on Fight Club in the aftermath of Jack’s little shitfit about not being mentioned in the Help Wanted Ad, the subject came up between Steven and Jack that for all that they’d both been a part of Dirk’s Fossil and Lapras Heists and for all that Jack had played a supportive element in the Great Baseball Heist and the Saffron Mugging Speedrun… despite all that, they’d never truly teamed up to do crime together. Jack had been paired up with Carly for both of Dirk’s heists, after all, and he’d spent most of the other two being an allibi--well and a temporary doggy babysitter.

Obviously, they needed to pull off a heist together. Maybe spend a long weekend in the Sevii Islands, hit some tourists and rob… something. Something, maybe, like Resort Gorgeous. Jack’s filthy rich, after all, he can afford two or three nights there for the two of them while they prep the heist. And Steven’s got plans leftover from the S.S. Anne heist that he and Tyler never managed to pull off due to various issues around timing that he can easily adapt to an actual luxury resort on land vs a floating luxury resort at sea.

And you know, Steven getting transferred to the newsroom at the radio tower is a pretty decent excuse for a little getaway to celebrate--and he’ll have what amounts to a few extra days off between finishing the reception job and starting the newsroom job. This is the perfect time to do the job, especially since the weather on Sevii is rather nice in May anyway.

So! Jack books them for a nice long weekend in one of those Couples Villas and the two of them head off to Sevii--but before all that, they stop at the department store, so they can buy the Teleport TM for Jack to use on his Porygon, because Teleporting is very useful for crime and Steven’s surprised that Jack didn’t have a Teleporter already. They also stop by Tyler’s flat, so Steven can borrow EVA for the long weekend.

Once they reach Resort Gorgeous… they spend the first night there just being rich gay tourists living their best life. And most of the next two days being the same… while also quietly paying attention to things like when the bungalows get cleaned, where the cleaners have their uniforms… things like that. You know how it is. A pair of cleaner’s uniforms might go missing from the employee’s only section, but it’s fine. It’s fine.

(Sometime during all this, Steven probably visits Armin. Both because he said he’d come and see him if he was ever at Sevii and also, secretly, to check up on him post-heist.)

The third day, they check out in the morning, before heading into town to rent a boat for the afternoon, mooring it at a rock formation sufficiently away from shore and letting one of Jack’s Meowths (honestly, it’s probably Cattrap) out to guard it. Then they quickly change into their stolen cleaners uniforms and through the magic of wigs, fake beards, and padding, thoroughly disguise themselves as the humble cleaners of hotel rooms.

Traveling by teleport, they reach Resort Gorgeous just in time to see the real cleaners finish their rounds. Still disguised, they then visit all eight bungalows, using a combination of Skeleton (Steven’s Klefki) for getting past physical locks and EVA (the Rotom he borrowed from Tyler) to get past the electronic ones. They then proceed to loot the room/bungalow safes with Skeleton and EVA, taking whatever valuables lie within, be it jewelry or rare pokemon. A business card with the Team Rocket logo is left behind at each.

More teleports get them back to the rental boat, where they change back into their normal clothes and clean up to their regular appearance. They stash the valuables in the false bottoms of their luggage and not too long after, take the boat back in and get on the first of multiple ferries that will take them back home.

Once back at Jack’s house, they review their loot and see if there’s anything in particular they want to keep. Then they bunde it up to bring to the admins together. And while the quantity of the stolen goods is by nature limited--there’s only eight bungalows to be occupied at Resort Gorgeous, after all--the high price tag of a night’s stay at the Resort means that the Pokemon and valuables locked away are almost sure to be extremely high quality.

They’re a pair of high quality criminals, after all.

P.S. Needless to say, if they're about to be caught, they're immediately teleporting the fuck out.

[indigo_league]

Jack gets his stacks of cash, of course.

But while the admins are DEFINITELY impressed with Steven... they are reluctant to award such a high rank to a Rocket who hasn't been part of the team for so short a time. He is assured, however, that when the time comes, this and all his other accomplishments will be taken into consideration.

In the meantime, they have noticed his propensity for Ghost types, and they believe he will be able to make good use of this TM....

... which is to say, he will receive one (1) reusable Toxic TM!

[fingersandteeth]

Steven will admit that that's more than fair—he's been on the team for less than six months as of yet. But he also says that he won't stop doing all that he can to prove he's worthy of it. And he hopes when the time comes he'll be able to show them that.

Just please let him make Beta before Solus does. Preferably before Solus makes Private.

And he appreciates the TM. Thank you, so very, very much.