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[Tophat_E]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.

Sho makes it short and simple. Leave letters to 5 of Carmello's confirmed underlings, asking them to meet up with him.

2. Make your way to the Jewelry Store in Belmont Heights.

First, Sho leaves a car near the destination location.
Ever went driving in a truck? Well, Sho has. Sho has his men hijack a truck, capture the guy driving it and take the shit out, Sho disguising as a delivery man for the truck's company and his men hiding in the back. He uses his Calculations to find the jewelry store. After they find the store, one of the men pretends to be a delivery man, to be a getaway driver, as Sho and the rest move out. They're careful to leave some stuff from the truck inside.

3. Smash all the display case you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can.

With a few well placed shots, maybe a few baseball bats, Sho and his men smashed through the display cases
They make sure to take as much shit as they can.

4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.

Simple enough. Threaten em with weapons. Gun, baseball bats… if you got a family, you'd better just relax, and you won't get hurt! Sho keeps his word.

5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.

After bagging as much shit as he could, Minamimoto and his crew stash it in the truck which was parked on another block - through an alley. The getaway driver drives off towards the woods. Careful not to break speeding laws. If stopped by the police, it's the driver's job to convince them of their product. If push comes to shove, some officers ain't getting out  alive. 

Hopefully arriving in peace, Sho makes the exchange himself - and with the money, the crew abandon the truck in a river, using the aforementioned car to drive back to base.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.
[Clef starts of by sending some letter-based invites to 4 of Carmello's underlings. Don't want things to get too crowded, would you?]
2. Make your way to the Penny's jewelry store in Belmont Heights.
[He prepares himself with whatever weapon he could find. After that, it's time to find a car! Hijacked, stolen, whatever, he just needs a car!]
3. Smash all the display cases you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can.
[Using either the weapons he brought along or one of those retractable headrest thingies cars tend to have, he smashes as many cases as one could find. Hopefully he doesn't forget the jewels, but considering his track record. .]
4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.
[Start off with mind games. If they don't feel taunted, he'll injure them one way or another as a warning.]
5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.
[R u n. He orders everyone to run as humanly possible to the woods. Once they're there, Clef makes an attempt to make a deal between him and the guy that is Slick Eddie, before heading back.]

Alto has rolled a 2, 7, 4, 7 and 6 for a total of 26 points.

1. Unfortunately, your invites get lost in the mail. Yeah, the Crunch City postal service has been known to be quite inept.

2. You find yourself an Uzi, a perfectly good weapon for a nice jewelry store heist. And there's a parked car that happens to be unlocked that you hot-wired for it to head to the jewelry store. Isn't that kind of convenience nice?

3. You pull out your Uzi and fire at some of the cases. You manage to snag some nice gold rings and necklaces. But you forgot to break into the diamonds! Oh, well. Maybe the gold could be worth something....

4. Your mind games are effective; the hostages' minds are too confused and broken to try and stop you. Way to go! Maybe you can be the future Riddler....

5. You make a nice dash to the woods, where you happen to meet Slick Eddie. You all make your exchange and get a pretty good amount of cash before you go back to the mansion.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.

Sho makes it short and simple. Leave letters to 5 of Carmello's confirmed underlings, asking them to meet up with him.

2. Make your way to the Jewelry Store in Belmont Heights.

First, Sho leaves a car near the destination location.
Ever went driving in a truck? Well, Sho has. Sho has his men hijack a truck, capture the guy driving it and take the shit out, Sho disguising as a delivery man for the truck's company and his men hiding in the back. He uses his Calculations to find the jewelry store. After they find the store, one of the men pretends to be a delivery man, to be a getaway driver, as Sho and the rest move out. They're careful to leave some stuff from the truck inside.

3. Smash all the display case you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can.

With a few well placed shots, maybe a few baseball bats, Sho and his men smashed through the display cases
They make sure to take as much shit as they can.

4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.

Simple enough. Threaten em with weapons. Gun, baseball bats… if you got a family, you'd better just relax, and you won't get hurt! Sho keeps his word.

5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.

After bagging as much shit as he could, Minamimoto and his crew stash it in the truck which was parked on another block - through an alley. The getaway driver drives off towards the woods. Careful not to break speeding laws. If stopped by the police, it's the driver's job to convince them of their product. If push comes to shove, some officers ain't getting out  alive. 

Hopefully arriving in peace, Sho makes the exchange himself - and with the money, the crew abandon the truck in a river, using the aforementioned car to drive back to base.

Sho has rolled a 1, 4, 9, 10 and 7 for at total of 31 points.

1. Bad news there. You didn't leave the letters to his underlings. You sent them all to cops. You find yourself surrounded by a SWAT team and get arresting for planning the robbery. Again, Carmello is willing to bail you out. But for real, you all need to do better so you don't draw any attention to the cops.

2. You take the delivery truck and head out there. Unfortunately, the jewelry store people know what the driver looks like, so they are not fooled by your disguise and they're about to call the police on you. You better think fast if you want to get out of this one.

3. Going through the cases works out perfectly for you. Not only do you get all the jewelry and diamonds, you also raid the cash register for every cent they got and also happen to find a very rare 1'000 year old Aztec necklace that they happen to have that's worth billions. Now all that will give you enough cash to rival Bill Gates.

4. The hostages won't be bothering you now because as you threaten them, your gun goes off, hitting a light fixture that comes crashing down and causing a huge fire that burns everyone who wasn't crushed by the falling fixture to death. You decide to make a run for it before the store burns down. Maybe that was all a bit much, but at least no one will play the hero?

5. You meet up with Slick Eddie and make the exchange, getting your hefty sum and abandoning the truck and taking the car back to the mansion. A job well done, even if you did get arrested and several people died.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Reminder that the challenge closes at 6PM CST today and still need the challenges from Hiro, Gin and Dedede.

@Subparman @IsThisAPikachu @Senͥtrͣeͫt

[PointMaid]

...Snakeweed shows up with red eyes and looking a bit out of it. She starts giggling. ...I'm alive again! Alive again. ....Dudes and dudettes of all assorted races, you will not believe the party I was at... thought I was dead...

[*This in reference to The Snake Pit vignette on Discord last night*]

[artsyGeek]

"Huh, weird. Don't think I asked though."

[. .rude.]

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

And you know, resurrecting you wasn't the most easy thing to do, especially since your body was completely incinerated by that volcano. But I'm glad you're back with us. Hate to lose my "little girl" again. Sorry, that was just too funny to me.

[Subparman]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.

>Figures this is gonna be where that childlike charm comes in handy. First thing's first, Gin hops over to whatever HQ the lower ranked underlings might be milling about in and rallies them with his earnest young gangster spirit. If his pure admiration for the boss and dedication to getting this job done doesn't reel them in, there's always the option to give them a cut of his earnings. Which, probably gonna be taken care of later anyway, but still.

2. Make your way to the Penny's jewelry store in Belmont Heights.

>That last attempt at travel didn't exactly go off well—Gin'll probably go with a different plan this time. So what now? Well, if public transport is a less-than-optimal choice, why not go for something more private? Maybe even... homemade?

...By homemade, we're talking thruster-powered golf cart. And not just any kind of thrusters, the kind propelled by thermite rockets. (...Hey, I did say there aren't really many other options for something a kid can drive.)

>So, after gathering the necessary materials, Gin's gonna mod his ride and let anyone he's managed to recruit aboard, then off to Penny's jewellery it is.

3. Smash all the display cases you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can.

>Yeah this one's more or less a straightforward job. Gin's claws can get to work pretty quickly here considering the kid's dexterity, but if not arming everyone else with the classic crowbars and some molotovs should cover it—you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find ones that burn hot enough to melt gems like those down.

4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.

>Hmm, how should we go about this one... I mean, they can't exactly talk if Gin shuts them up, can they? In a literal sense in this case. Instead of the traditional gun-to-the-chest, the kid and his gang literally lock the hostages into the nearest undamaged display case like a sardine can.

Slightly questionable way to handle things? Sure, but it's not like they'll be trying to pull a fast one on him. ... Even if he wanted them to.

5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.

>Easy enough, when your getaway car is a maniac's joyride fuelled by nothing but arson and spite. But, just in case, Gin has his comrades let loose a shower of ignited thermite fly out of the back of the golf cart and right onto the windshields of any pursuing vehicles—that should give them a good window to get away by itself, but why not aim for blowing up stuff like pipes and fire hydrants along the way? Slicked roads are always a neat trick to mess up those nasty cop tires.

>After that's over and done with, Gin hopefully brings the cargo in safe condition to Slick Eddie and snags a good cut for everyone involved. The cart's a wee bit conspicuous, so he'll take a walk going back instead (leaving it to the others to dispose of), but the cash is probably gonna be fine. Well, should be, anyway.

[PointMaid]

Snakeweed might be a little too out of it to have the 'you were literally dead an resurrected, that was not a vision' part fully sink in.

...That was no place for a little girl.

...She's either giggling or sobbing, it's hard to tell which.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.

>Figures this is gonna be where that childlike charm comes in handy. First thing's first, Gin hops over to whatever HQ the lower ranked underlings might be milling about in and rallies them with his earnest young gangster spirit. If his pure admiration for the boss and dedication to getting this job done doesn't reel them in, there's always the option to give them a cut of his earnings. Which, probably gonna be taken care of later anyway, but still.

2. Make your way to the Penny's jewelry store in Belmont Heights.

>That last attempt at travel didn't exactly go off well—Gin'll probably go with a different plan this time. So what now? Well, if public transport is a less-than-optimal choice, why not go for something more private? Maybe even... homemade?

...By homemade, we're talking thruster-powered golf cart. And not just any kind of thrusters, the kind propelled by thermite rockets. (...Hey, I did say there aren't really many other options for something a kid can drive.)

>So, after gathering the necessary materials, Gin's gonna mod his ride and let anyone he's managed to recruit aboard, then off to Penny's jewellery it is.

3. Smash all the display cases you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can.

>Yeah this one's more or less a straightforward job. Gin's claws can get to work pretty quickly here considering the kid's dexterity, but if not arming everyone else with the classic crowbars and some molotovs should cover it—you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find ones that burn hot enough to melt gems like those down.

4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.

>Hmm, how should we go about this one... I mean, they can't exactly talk if Gin shuts them up, can they? In a literal sense in this case. Instead of the traditional gun-to-the-chest, the kid and his gang literally lock the hostages into the nearest undamaged display case like a sardine can.

Slightly questionable way to handle things? Sure, but it's not like they'll be trying to pull a fast one on him. ... Even if he wanted them to.

5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.

>Easy enough, when your getaway car is a maniac's joyride fuelled by nothing but arson and spite. But, just in case, Gin has his comrades let loose a shower of ignited thermite fly out of the back of the golf cart and right onto the windshields of any pursuing vehicles—that should give them a good window to get away by itself, but why not aim for blowing up stuff like pipes and fire hydrants along the way? Slicked roads are always a neat trick to mess up those nasty cop tires.

>After that's over and done with, Gin hopefully brings the cargo in safe condition to Slick Eddie and snags a good cut for everyone involved. The cart's a wee bit conspicuous, so he'll take a walk going back instead (leaving it to the others to dispose of), but the cash is probably gonna be fine. Well, should be, anyway.

Gin has rolled a 1, 6, 3, 8 and 1 for a total of 19 points.

1. Your little kiddy gangster charm doesn't work. At all. All they do is laugh at you, telling you to go back to pre-school. And when you try to offer them your earnings, they dismiss you, saying you need that for lunch money. Not a good start for you.

2. You set off on your thermite-powered golf cart. You can hardly use the thrusts though as you do have to go through a steady amount of traffic, though you did activate them in those few moments alone. But you arrive to the jewelry store with no problems.

3. Damn, where did they get these cases from? Your claws cannot cut into them. The glass is too strong for the crowbars to break. And the Molotovs cannot burn them. What are they made of, kryptonite? You do snatch a golden necklace, but only because the clerk took it out of the case. Better than nothing, I suppose.

4. As established, those cases are damn-near indestructible.So you do manage to lock them all up inside those cases. Sure, they're all claustrophobic for everyone, but at the very least, they won't be bothering you.

5. And I think the thermite-rockets had something wrong with them. As the few seconds after you take off, they explode, completely engulfing you and the golf cart in a massive fireball that leaves a giant crater on the street. That would be the last thing you see before everything goes black. The next time you wake up, you're in the ICU of the hospital, being treated for massive third-degree burns all over your body. You do manage to make a quick recovery and are back at the mansion. But the lesson here? Never play with thermite.

[IsThisAPikachu]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.
I recruit your underlings into the ranks 'a KING DEDEDE whether they want ta or NOT! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!
2. Make your way to the Penny's jewelry store in Belmont Heights.
I decide to cruise there in the signature DEDEDE TANK! Complete with a Minigun and Canon!
3. Smash all the display cases you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can
Well that one's easy! All I need's mah mallet for that! I order mah underlings to take those jewels, and even suck one up for mahself as compensation! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!!!
4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.
I order some of my henchies to hold those boys at gunpoint!
5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.
I have mah henchmen drop the diamonds for me to suck up, and I fly all the way to Shady Woods and let them go home! I exchange the jewels for cash, and of course, keep one for mahself! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!!!

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

1. Recruit some of my underlings to join you all. Be a lot easier than robbing someone solo after all.

I recruit your underlings into the ranks 'a KING DEDEDE whether they want ta or NOT! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!

2. Make your way to the Penny's jewelry store in Belmont Heights.

I decide to cruise there in the signature DEDEDE TANK! Complete with a Minigun and Canon!

3. Smash all the display cases you can and take all the jewelry and diamonds you can

Well that one's easy! All I need's mah mallet for that! I order mah underlings to take those jewels, and even suck one up for mahself as compensation! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!!!

4. Make sure the hostages stay put and to not try anything funny.

I order some of my henchies to hold those boys at gunpoint!

5. Evade the authorities and head up to Shady Woods and meet up with Slick Eddie and exchange the goods for cash and head back to my mansion.

I have mah henchmen drop the diamonds for me to suck up, and I fly all the way to Shady Woods and let them go home! I exchange the jewels for cash, and of course, keep one for mahself! HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH!!!

King Dedede has rolled a 9, 9, 9, 4 and 4 for a total of 35 points.

1.      Thankfully, you have recruited some of the best underlings you can bring into your army. Very masterful thieves, some real tough sons-of-bitches that are handy with weapons and their hands. All worthy for a king like you.

2.      And as you arrive in your Dedede Tank, everyone is wise to stay out of your way, not wishing to be squashed under your might or be torn apart by their guns. You are greatly feared by everyone, and for good reason, too. It's good to be the king, isn't it?

3.      And you smash all the cases and the underlings take everything, robbing the store blind. And not just that, a shipment just came in and you all rob that too. And you suck up a golf-encrusted diamond that's worth billions. Very fitting for royalty indeed.

4.      Though things don't go completely your way. The hostages decide to fight back some of these underlings and are putting up quite the fight. They manage to subdue some of them for the cops to take away but a few leave with you.

5.      Unfortunately, you're not able to suck up everything they robbed as your stomach can only hold so much, so the last of the thieves take the rest of it for themselves while you head off and cash in. Turns out they're not that valuable, but you still make an all right sum in the end.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

OK, and time's up for the challenge! Unfortunately, yesterday's winner, Hiro, was unable to participate, so he will not receive his pay for the day. However, the best performer here for this day is Chili Pepper Cookie! So congratulations to you! You'll receive top pay for the day and immunity for the night. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to head to my office and figure out your pay. Expect it soon though!

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Pfft! Of course I did the best! This stuff's in my BLOOD! Now, hurry up with the pay! I wanna get to have it!

[KungFuCutbug]

[Pizzabug gives Chili Pepper Cookie a thumbs up.] "should've expected this outcome, heh. congrats, Chili!!"

[MadeOfMilk]

Excellent, excellent. However, have you considered starting your own religion?

[KungFuCutbug]

"...please don't encourage that," [Pizzabug quietly responds to Escargoon, sounding more serious than usual and clutching their hammer tightly.] "I, uh... kinda have bad experiences with cults. long story. you get a pass for now because yours was kinda accidental, but... if you try to indoctrinate me into it I'll shove those eyestalks where the sun doesn't shine. we got a deal?"

[Kennifer]

"Ah hey, good job! Wish I'd done better myself, but there's always next time, right? Well, long as I survive til then, of course." Kim grins at Chili Pepper Cookie.

[MadeOfMilk]

....Alrighty then, pretty pink princess. It's more intimidating when His Majesty says that anyway.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

A cult. hm? Sounds fun and all, but that's not really my thing. Sure, legions of adoring followers is great and all! But dammit, I know people, and one of them's probably just gonna ruin it all for me!

[KungFuCutbug]

"I'm not a princess, I'm traumatized. ...well, whatever. thanks for understanding." [Pizzabug lies back down on the couch, still drinking her soda from earlier.]

[Kennifer]

"Not interested in forming or joining a cult myself, but if you want matching tattoos for your members I can help out with that."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Hey! No one's copying my tattoos, alright?! Wait, you meant Snail Manson over there.

[Kennifer]

"Yeah, I was talking designing, not copying."

[MadeOfMilk]

Well, if a permanent drawing on my skin keeps the higher-ups at 4Kids away, then maybe....

Seems like nobody has told Escargoon that 4Kids has been defunct for years now.