Close calls
Have you seen that show Monk? If you haven't and like detective shows then maybe check it out. Anyway he has a great many phobias, 38 I believe, a few are Milk, Mushrooms and bullies. His fears are crippling to him, but mine on the other hand are not.
Everyday or so I have to deal with the many, many, many, many, things that can kill a person.
- Toothpaste
- Carpets+door knobs
- Walls
- Things that are behind me
- Driving
- Cars
- Airplanes flying over head
- Forks
- Snakes
All of those things can kill you on a daily, hourly, and minute by minute basis. Well most of the time I try not to think to hard on whether or not my toothpaste has been filled with acid or if a snake finally slipped into my shoe, but sometimes I have to check things out pretty throughly, like if someone is behind the shower curtain, before I can do anything. I just have to hope I don't turn into some one like Monk.
Heist
Been working on a Heist game with the Tuesday gang for a while now. It started out as a board style game but that lost steam pretty fast, but I have been working on a pen and paper style version of it and it is coming along better then I thought.
Thinking about 3 basic types of robberies:
Intelligent: This is the guy who plans everything down to a T, add in some computer support like making the traffic lights go in your favor.
Charisma:This guy like me knows guys who can get things done. Gonna drop in an "Out of Sight" reference here, walking into a bank with a envelop and telling the tellar that you have a bomb in your hand takes some charisma.
Violence: Now every bank robber needs a tiny bit of this but the true violent robbers, run into a bank shoot a few times in air and maybe a knee cap or six
Now I am thinking that those three qualities can be the "stats" that you need to increase in order to commit better and better robberies.
Some downsides to the qualities
Intelligence:
You are so smart that your plans start to get abstract and you can lose track of the simple things and the simple things can pull the thread and your plans.
All your brains makes you look like a nerd, so your underlings might think they can be the big man in charge and take you out.
Charisma:
You become very very memorable, all eyes focus on your amazing voice or soothing personality and all fingers point to you in a line up.
Relying on just charisma you have to play your team against each other. Telling everyone that they are Riker to your Picard. When they find out....
Violent:
Each murder you do, each innocent you shoot and laugh at, will get you more news coverage and more Law enforcement coverage. You aren't just someone they need to stop becuase banks are getting robbed. You are the guy that shot some ones parents or child and they WILL catch you.
Simple. Your team is scared of you, and when people are afraid they react badly.
The idea would be to try and balance the qualities, so you can last longer and get more cash. Or hope that you can max out one and survive long enough to get out of the game.
Thinking of starting out small then get bigger...like most things do
Rob a person
Rob a 7/11
Rob a local bank (small)
Rob a Metro Bank (large)
Rob a casino (huge)
Thinking of adding in a "suggested" cool down timer for each place. Otherwise you might become predictable and get caught easier...I don't know. The game gets kinda fuzzy here because I don't know how to play it. Will it be co-op with the other players? Maybe everyone v everyone and each level you gain allows you more crew. Could be a mix of both. Need to get some type of dice rolling thing in to let you know if you can do something or not.
Maybe right from the start you get some cash to buy things with such as: a crew member, a gun, some surveillance equipment. Thats it for now.
Out with the old
In my long long life of 24 years I have moved around 19 times, all within the town of Santa Rosa. Now that is a lot of moving, and in all that moving I have developed a habit, I guess you can call it that, of getting rid of stuff once I don't need any more. Well its not the best way to do things because its just wasteful, and you could need it again. So many times I have said to myself "it would be great if I had that thing again". Well too bad for me, since I would have to buy it again and if i got rid of it in the first place it couldn't of been that important.
Well my girlfriend has been with me for almost 3 years and has moved 3 times....yeah my fault, but having lived in once place for 22 year she has been able to keep pretty much everything she has EVER had. Now that is a lot of stuff. I am not saying its a bad thing. I would totally love to be able to go into a closet and pull out my old action figures (ninja turtles mostly). This is where i lose track of my thoughts becasue i am thinking of ninja turtles. Ummm, yeah but there is point where you just have way to much stuff. I hope that in our years to come then we can find a balance between pack rat and nomad.
