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keith keith, the liger man ([personal profile] secondnature) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology2018-05-03 11:08 am

[open] i would give it all

CHARACTERS: Keith + anyone willing to help
DATE: From the opening of the upper levels to the end of the mission (with caveats that conditions will change depending on overall game plot parameters)
WARNINGS: None.
SUMMARY: A purple bounty! Keith has decided to rename himself Robin Hood. Or, more accurately, he's stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. (mood music)

[All his life, Keith had always preferred action over words. Associating with other people can be difficult. In fact, it can almost be impossible when the going gets tough. Becoming a Voltron paladin had been an answer for him. He could help people. He could fight. He wouldn't have to think too hard about it all, because he could follow Shiro.

And then ... things changed. Things changed back home and things changed here, most recently as a member of Hathaway. There's a lot of baggage associated with that change, so Keith has been keeping his eye on a single prize. He doesn't know how to set up a new government or do diplomacy, but he does know about providing goods to those who need it and helping them out of a bad situation. He knows what to do to survive. Not everyone has that strength or the ability to have someone help them. Simply put: not everyone has a Shiro to help guide them toward the right path.

He's not going to fool himself into believing that he can be "a Shiro"—that's the problem with being him, right? But he knows he can do good. So, he hatches his plan, and calls in for assistance from his guildmates. It's a three prong plan, with different actions needed.

To find out that Keith is doing this, there are two ways. One, he spoke about it on the magitek network. And two, he's doing some set up in the hotel, and is probably stealing some stuff from there, too. The robots won't miss it. Probably.]

a: theft of goods

[Keith plans on overseeing all of the thefts, in part because he doesn't want any of his teammates to be caught unexpectedly.

He shows up at every point of theft in full Marmora gear: a black suit with purple lights, as well as a mask that conceals his face and gives him a voice that sounds like Keith, but comes out through a slightly robotic filter. It also has a helpful hood, because of course it does. Would it look cool otherwise? Probably not.

His targets are specific when it comes to theft: food. Clothing and other goods can be gained through other means, and probably should be. But food? Food is something that he can see that the upper levels aren't doing without.]


Try not to hurt anyone. Take the food and bring it to the agreed upon location. And keep your masks on. We can't risk being fugitives.

[Of course, there are also other versions of theft. Not all of them are as scheduled or efficient.]

b: trafficking of stolen goods

[When it comes to "trafficking," the parameters remain the same. Keep on a mask. Make sure no one gets hurt so there's less of an excuse to follow someone. Get everything from the upper levels to the lower levels quickly, and use designated locations that have been picked out along the way. Avoid surveillance at all costs.

The "trafficking" involves a lot of backpacks and hoods, so that people can hide that they have a bunch of food on them that's being carted down. Anything that's perishable is frozen before it's brought down. Keith figures that "freshness" isn't measured by whether it was frozen first. Or, well, he hopes not. He's not exactly the guy who cares if something's been marked as "previously frozen."

There's a final designation just before the depths of the lowest levels. That's where other goods, like blankets or boots or jackets, are kept waiting. They don't need to be snuck down as carefully, because there's no chance of them going bad. Plus, they were probably mostly acquired "legally."

Emphasis on those quotation marks.]


c. delivery of stolen goods

[Charity is far from a common thing for the people of the lower levels. Charity that could seem suspicious and involves stolen goods is even more difficult. How to get things out there? How to offer help? This is going to be the most difficult task: convincing people to take goods, convincing people that they deserve it, and most importantly, asking what else they might need.]

Take note of anything else they might want. We'll come back later with it. Or, uh, someone will.

[ooc: this is a purple bounty, and the different prompts are loose parameters. I am looking for a thread of at least ten comments so I can meet my bounty, but I figured this would be a fun thing for people to do!]
forcevisions: (sick of all these people talking)

[personal profile] forcevisions 2018-05-14 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
He's very good.

[ Rey smiles at that. It seems to make her steps lighter, and honestly, it's probably for the best. She looks much more natural and less suspicious, distracted by recounting this. ]

It reminded me of Jakku. Not the bad parts. [ She clarifies that quickly. ] But I was like them, then. I'd trade portions that I'd earned for stories of the Rebellion. Of Leia and Luke and … [ She looks over at Keith. ] People like Voltron. Like Rost. They gave me hope. That's as important as a full belly.
forcevisions: (since we met)

[personal profile] forcevisions 2018-05-14 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You could too.

[ Rey says this now to contextualize what she's getting at. ]

Voltron may sound like a fairytale to them, but so did Luke Skywalker when I was growing up on Jakku. It doesn't have to be real to be inspiring.
forcevisions: (this guy decides)

[personal profile] forcevisions 2018-05-15 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't trying to make you feel obligated.

[ She feels weird about suggesting it now, or giving him an avenue. She just thought maybe it was his general antisocial tendencies, and that it'd be a good thing for him to learn. Leader skills? But maybe that was presumptuous on her part too.

In part, though, she recognizes that some of her sheepish retreat from the suggestion is born from the fact that pointing it out was also opening up about how she'd felt when she was like that. It's become a more sensitive topic than usual, following the acknowledgment that she'd been lying to herself about just how bad it was.
]
forcevisions: (I'd be usin')

[personal profile] forcevisions 2018-05-15 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She nods. ]

Yeah. I know.

[ He's not the world's biggest people person, even now that he's a little more comfortable in himself. She gets that. It should go without saying by now that she's had her issues adapting to people too, even if the discrete interactions are often more natural for her. ]

It was just a thought.

[ Practice makes perfect ??? Or something. ]