[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Ah the spring festival, a celebration of all thing spring including, spring plants, new baby pokemon, food that says spring time... and why am I even bothering to think about spring, I've got a situation and it's critical. The problem Boss is threatening to cut funding to the doc and my payback if I don't get them some funding aka get them some cash. If I want to keep things at a base normal with my cover story with my parents I better make sure that there is cash in the bosses bank account... well as they say survival of the fittest and I plan to survive.



Shadow was hidden behind one of Team Origin's few legitimate booths. Equipped with him was pokemon that could help extract stuff in secret.



He had

Hope - A Kirila with innocence just radiating from her very soul. She can slip into booths without a problem and is also able to teleport so that quick escapes can be made
and Psychic helps to move things around like cash
Z-Man - A munna- sleep expert that could put people to sleep by exposing them to his mist

Zorua - Trickster can just take the place of a downed target while the extraction is occurring then close up shop while we make a get-away
Candle - Psychic power is a big plus in extraction. Too bad she's big and noticeable but can take off with big things
Bass - Nothing says escape plan like a wild dragon causing Chaos and you slipping into the Shadows

Giant - Also a large ghost golem causing chaos wouldn't hurt either and both can take off flying



Hopefully his team mates would have other pokemon to help out in this mission...

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The last time Luke attended a festival of any kind was a painful memory to him now, but he did his best to push it aside. He was here to work, and he hoped to impress the higher-ups enough to land a promotion with today’s mission. He felt as though he’d worked hard enough up to this point, so if he could perform well enough today, that had to be enough.

Luke wandered around, pretending to be interested in the various decorations, stalls, and other attractions spread around the area. He intended to pickpocket whenever he thought he could get away with it, and his team was mostly spread out around the festival grounds to help. Each of them had been given a task:
~River the Greninja – find someplace just off the crowded paths to hide and use Lick to liberate wallets, bags, and the like from unsuspecting festival-goers. She was instructed to switch locations every couple targets, so (hopefully) no one would catch on to her presence.
~Midnight the Houndoom – patrol the festival grounds and keep an eye on her allies. If it looks like someone’s about to be caught, use Roar or Smog to create a diversion or provide cover for escape.
~Leaf the Snivy – stick close to Luke and be a distracting cute thing to make thieving easier.
~Canyon the Drilbur – check on everyone else from time to time and collect whatever had been stolen to stash in her tunnels until the mission was complete. If it looks like someone’s in trouble, Dig them an escape route
~Current the Tynamo – another patrolling Pokemon. Float around above the grounds and offer aid in the form of a distraction or a Thunder Wave if it looks like someone’s in trouble.
~Stripe the Zigzagoon – Pickup should make it easy for her to collect all the money they might need.

He hadn’t built this team for thievery, but he thought he had a good set-up. The team was split more-or-less in half, with half collecting money and half ready to provide an escape if needed. He just had to hope his luck was at a reasonable level and his superiors knew what they were doing.

[Naveta Lejori]

Her team seemed to think it was a good idea to their separate ways for this mission, and while it defeated the purpose of having a team in the first place, it didn't seem like a bad idea for this mission.  Naveta wasn't about to complain that she could just do her own thing for once, without having to worry about what the other people were doing and how they could mess it up. That said, they might have actually been useful here because something like this was a bit out of her area of expertise. Sure, she could break into places and sneak out without being noticed, she could go in grab information or small objects and get out without anyone knowing she was there. However, she almost always did that at night under the cover of darkness for one, and two, there were rarely more than security guards around. Here, she was going to be in a crowd in broad daylight, and one of the downsides to the way she lived was that she stood out in a crowd.

Naveta tried to mitigate that by wearing her hooded sweatshirt, but if anything it just made her stand out more. She was cleaner than usual, as was the norm before she started a mission, but it was way too hot to be wearing something like this and it was making her sweat like crazy. Her other clothes were still beat up and dirty, but she was at least able to hide her face and the wad of fibers on her head that she called hair. She was really going to have to find something to cover her face that wouldn't make her roast at some point. Regardless, she was not going to blend in with this crowd, and it was going to be difficult to move without that. She would most certainly need a diversion. Once she had that, slipping into shops should be relatively easy at least.

She stayed on the edge of the beach near the pier, out of sight while she surveyed the situation. It was as crowded as they said it would be, but Naveta couldn't help but see this whole situation as suspicious. Did a dinky little festival like this really bring in that much cash? Wouldn't it make more sense to rob a bank? Or kidnap some rare pokemon? Or kidnap a politician and hold him for ransom? Or even hijack some of the ships that bring supplies to the island and sell them back to society at ridiculously inflated prices? Why target a place like this? There weren't even any permanent buildings, and most of them were about as sturdy as cardboard. This just seemed petty for such a supposedly established gang. At this point she was sure they had some kind of ulterior motive, and not looking into it was driving her crazy. So far, she'd been good and hadn't done any investigation about anything that didn't involve looking at rocks, but she wasn't sure how long she'd be able to do that. Feeling like she was in the dark was just making her more paranoid than usual. She was pretty sure that if she did sleep, she'd be losing a lot of it right now.

For the mean time, the mission itself would make a decent enough distraction from her thoughts. At the very least, she couldn't let herself get so distracted by wondering about all this that she fucked up the mission. She reached down for her pokeballs and recounted what she had planned. She had her usual infiltration team, the one she'd been using ever since she caught Cirque in the first place, but she had a lot more pokemon than usual this time. Limiting it down to a reasonably sized team was actually fairly difficult. She was confident that her old team would be able to handle most things, especially now that they finally evolved, so the rest of her team was more for dealing with what could happen if she got caught.

Arkose, her Mismagius, was mostly used for scouting in the past. That wouldn't be useful here, however his species was known for having a hallucinogenic wail. She'd have to be careful with it so it wouldn't affect her teammates, but it would likely make a good diversion.

Cirque, her Zoroark, could only do simple disguises in the past, but her evolved form was that much better. Zoroark were known to craft realistic illusions to hide their nests, so they could do much more than disguise themselves. Cirque's disguising ability was nothing to sneeze at though. If she wasn't so damn lazy with no sense of subtlety she could probably do this entire mission herself. She'd probably be able to cause a diversion on her own pretty well, and she'd be quite good at hiding Naveta if it came down to it.

Swash, her Frillish, was definitely emergency backup. Frillish were known to paralyze people and pokemon and then drag them to the bottom of the ocean. Dragging them into the water would be unnecessary, but being able to paralyze anyone that finds her would be useful.

Sima, her Rotom, was something she was very pleased to have come across. Naveta could break into just about any safe or computer on her own, but having a pokemon that could just disrupt it near instantaneously was just so much faster and easier. With this, no safe or cash register would be safe, and it would take mere seconds to take everything out of it.

Rayleigh, her Lucario, was brought along for two reasons. First being, if she did get into trouble, he was a good fighter and could likely handle anything these stupid tourists would throw at her. The higher ups didn't want them to cause that much trouble, but it was always good to be prepared. Second, his species could sense peoples' locations through their aura. It was good for keeping track of where people were and when she would need to hide.

Finally, Chalk, her Floette, was brought along to help Rayleigh with any trouble. If Rayleigh was the offensive force, Chalk was the defensive force with her wide array of healing and support abilities. She didn't expect them to be useful for grabbing anything, but she didn't need her to be at this point. She was feeling pretty confident that she'd be able to hit all the shops worth hitting without too much trouble at this point.

[Kitten4u]

You all arrive at the Festival Square in your own ways. The pier is in pretty rough condition, but no one seems to notice or care. The place is absolutely packed, it's difficult to get anywhere without at least bumping into someone. Everyone seems distracted, and really into the festival. As expected, most of them don't seem to be from around here. It's especially obvious with the ones wearing tropical prints and not enough sunscreen. Many of the people have pokemon as well, most of which are fairly common. There are a couple of people showing off less common pokemon, including one girl showing off her ditto and another showing off his shelgon, and another showing off her dragonair.

The shops are busy enough that it's clear the people running them are having a hard time keeping up. There's a shop for just about everything here, ranging from cheap nick knacks, to food, to cheaper (yet still quite expensive) jewelry and pokemon accessories. Everything is more expensive than it probably should be, yet the tourists are just eating it up. Most of the merchandise is just out in the open. The more expensive stuff is being watched a bit more closely, and it's likely they don't have their entire stock on display though.

There's also some activity going on by the contest stage area. There are some people setting up some equipment, and others talking to and encouraging their pokemon. There's likely going to be a show of some kind if nothing too suspicious happens.

You all may enact your plans! Roll a d20 at the bottom of your post. Some secret bonus points may be added to your roll for particularly well thought out and creative plans!

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Shadow targeted his first booth. The operator of the booth was selling jewelry at an outrageous price and Shadow was more then sure that the greedy punk was hoping to make a big profit. Well too bad Money man, Shadow got you in his sight and it's time to apply a little robin hood technique, rob from the rich and give to the poor, poor old Shadow that is. Now here was the blueprint that he came up with and he put Hope in charge being the smartest.

Shade the Zorua would first become a jewelry wanting girl and with a little feminine wiles and Hope's projection help ask the dealer if he has any more in stock. When the dealer would go check, Z-man would be nearby using his dream mist boosted yawn attack to put the guy to dream land then when the dealer was out like a light. he would be removed from play via Candle using Psychic and put somewhere secure. With the dealer out of the way, the booth would be run for a bit using Zorua who would transform into the dealer and with Hope's help make deals for the jewelry and the money that was received for the goods would be put into a bag Santos had. Then when there was a moment of clearance they would close up shop and take whatever money the deals made plus whatever was leftover of the jewelry and disappear from the scene with his pokemon. One takeover as quiet as could possibly be and withdraw and if this jewelry booth was ran by Team Origin hell next time put some sort of marker or say don't hit here and get someone who has a better sense of security.

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The area was crowded, but that only helped him in his task. A little “accidental” bump every now and again followed by a swift, practiced hand would end in a brushed off apology and a stranger’s wallet in his own pocket. When that would fail, Leaf would try to snuggle up to a particularly friendly-looking person, distracting them so Luke could take their money without being noticed. He’d collect from a few targets at a time and wait somewhere relatively out of the way for Canyon to find him. Then she’d disappear back underground with the stolen goods and he’d wander off to a different area to repeat the cycle. He ignored the people showing off their Pokemon – he was not one to break apart a family, after all.

While Luke worked, the rest of his team went about their tasks. He caught the occasional glimpse of Current floating above the merchants or Stripe darting to and fro and collecting anything shiny the festival-goers might have dropped. He didn’t see River or Midnight, but he trusted his starting Pokemon to do the tasks they were assigned. Perhaps Midnight was making sure River didn’t get into any trouble elsewhere.

He turned a corner, “accidentally” bumping into a tall, middle-aged man. He pretended to stumble on impact and used the movement to aid him in liberating the man’s wallet from his back pocket. The man yelled at him and walked off, thankfully unaware that he was missing something. Luke pocketed the wallet quickly and continued on, stopping when a little girl came up to admire the Snivy. Her mother retrieved her after a moment and the two headed on their way without incident – if it had been a teenage girl or young woman it might have been an easy matter to free them from some of their money, but he couldn’t target the parent of a small child.

Soon he found himself at the contest stage…apparently right as they were setting up. This could be promising… He waited away from the bulk of the crowd for Canyon to come find him again, gave her his findings, and instructed her to send River and Midnight his way. River was stealthy enough that she could probably lift a few purses and wallets from the distracted crowd (especially if she used Lick to do it), and Midnight’s Smog could help cover their escape if something went wrong. He would wait until the show was about to begin and take a seat near the back. With any luck, he wouldn’t be noticed, and he could steal from the people in front of him as soon as he thought he could do it without getting caught. Alternatively, if one of his teammates also decided to take advantage of the contest, he’d be in the perfect location to offer support.

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[Naveta Lejori]

Naveta took a deep breath.  It was time to go in.  First she released Rayleigh to identify the locations of her teammates.  It would be bad if they got caught up in any of this.  Once she identified the areas she could safely hit, she released Arkose from his pokeball, motioned towards the festival and nodded.  His eyes narrowed into a smug expression, even smuger than usual if that was possible.  He slunk off, vanishing from sight just before he reached the edge of the pier.  About a minute later, he appeared in the middle of the crowd and started wailing.  Naveta quickly put in her ear plugs before the wail could affect her.  Once the crowd appeared to be in a hallucinogenic stupor, she ran for the nearest shop.

The downside to this kind of plan was that most people would realize something was wrong.  It was noticeable.  The owners would likely check their shops to make sure nothing was stolen once they came to her senses.  Naveta knew this, and that's why she wasn't stealing anything tangible.  Any place that took credit cards had to store that information somewhere.  Receipts would show names.  This was the perfect opportunity to get some information on people, whether it be their credit card numbers, or even just their names that she would then be able to potentially trace back to their bank accounts eventually.  People underestimated just how much information stores at about them, and what could be done with it in the right hands.  Just in case, Naveta had Cirque use an illusion to shield her, but she figured she'd be in and out of there before Arkose needed to stop.  Any digging she needed to do could be done later, far away from the festival itself.

Naveta figured that she would pull in the smallest haul today, but it would likely result in more long term income.  Most people didn't watch their finances closely enough if someone only took a few dollars out of it a month.  Combine that with a few hundred accounts, and it could pile up pretty quickly.  Hopefully the higher ups could appreciate a more long term solution to their problem.

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[Kitten4u]

All your plans go without a hitch! You all have a meager amount of money, but given the circumstances, you all really couldn't have expected to do much better. It was just a dinky festival after all. You have time to regroup!

However, during Naveta's run, someone spotted her in the crowd as she made her escape, and informed very skillfully managed to follow her to the edge of the pier from a great distance with the help of her watchog. Once she couldn't use the pokemon's eyesight anymore, she got just a little too close, thus allowing her to be spotted. It looks like she's going to run away and possibly call the police!

What do you do about this? Or do you just take your earnings and try to high-tail it out of there?

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Shadow was packing what cash into his bag and making sure to stash enough in his own wallet to cover a full paycheck just in case Team Origin decided to cut his paycheck. I mean sure he'll give the bulk of what he got to the team but this was his hard earned cash so naturally he took a cut that he just wouldn't report.

As for heat, there shouldn't be any heat on him in particular. Jewelry was sold by the dealer, customers were happy with the jewelry and such and when the shop closed up that was it. He closed the stand and withdrew behind the cloth divider. The only person who would get hurt out of this would be a greedy shopkeep who was overcharging for the jewelry not getting any money from the sales. If he lost track of sale receipts and cash that's his problem.

As Shadow was finishing closing up his bag. He thought he could just walk off free like and just report back at HQ but then something happened

"We have a situation Santos." The voice of his Kirila rang in his mind

"what's up." Shadow stated as he looked at the emotion pokemon who was sitting on a nearby box, looking in a direction as if she saw something in that direction.

"it's seem one of our other teammates on this mission attracted the attention of a by-stander who is now most likely going to call the police. Also the heat level is up in general because of what occurred in the center of the festival."

Shadow hissed in displeasure "great, what does that mean for us."

"we may have to use teleport to get out of here."

Shadow hummed "alright..." He looked at the three others who were with him "good jobs guys you did your part." He recalled Shade, Candle and Z-man into their balls

A beeping sound was heard

Shadow pulled out his PDA and it was a message to meet up back at the disclosed spot. Shadow growled "they must not be aware that there's trouble or if they are aware they aren't telling us.

Hope hummed "what are you going to do."

Shadow hummed "if I report back, I might expose myself. If I don't report back I might get flak..." He looked at his loot "and then there's the matter of this." He hummed "you know what screw following an order I've got this to take care of first." He worked with his PDA and sent a text back

"dealing with excess baggage, can not return to coordinates. Will return to base with mission requirements." He then sent a message to Luke who he had exchanged numbers with from a previous encounter

"Luke, Heat Alert, take what you have and withdraw from area."

Shadow hummed once he sent both texts. "Get us out of here with the loot Hope back to base."

Hope hummed "teleporting now."

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Shadow is teleporting out with his bag of loot. Exposure risk too high to do anything to aid against crime watcher and still complete mission.

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Everyone else’s eyes were on the stage. His were on the audience. He and River worked to relieve the distracted spectators of their cash, with Midnight on standby in case something went wrong. When he thought he had as much money as he could conceal, he stood and walked off, pretending he needed the restroom and heading in that direction until he was out of the line of sight of anyone that might have seen him near the sage. AT that point, he wandered aimlessly a bit, trying to decide if he should bother going back to the stage area or if he should call it a day. He’d collected a decent sum, he thought, and his Pokemon might have done even better.

Then his phone beeped, and he read the text from Shadow telling him to withdraw. He sent back a quick “Acknowledged” and made his way to the most secluded bit of ground he could find in the general area.

Once there, he waited for Canyon to find him, and instructed her to tunnel them out. She widened the hole enough for him to drop down and went to gather the other members of their team while he worked on gathering all the loot. Once the team was assembled, Canyon would tunnel them away from the festival and they’d make their way (presumably) safely back to HQ.

((No hard feelings Naveta, just following orders. ^.^)

[SMARTAgentKC]

well it seems someone knows when to beat a retreat. Well we'll work with what you got for now. Take your pay by choosing what held item you get and be on your way.

Mission Finished