Planning a Heist (Hub)

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The Flit gives you access to contacts, secret ways and thiefly gossip that would be the envy of any aspiring burglar. [see below]

Description summary:
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HeistDescription
0What daring robbery are you planning?
1Your target is the House on Cubit Square.
2Your target is the offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece.
6Your target is the Circumspect Envoy's townhouse in Elderwick.
7Your target is the home of an Admiral's Widow who possesses a cache of Justificandes.
10Your target is the mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord.
11, 12Your target is a precious treasure.

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The House on Cubit Square
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    Success

    High walls and barred windows

    Success Instructions: Build up Casing... to gain access to the story. The higher your Casing goes, the more advantages you'll have going in.

    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the House on Cubit Square. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 1 - The House on Cubit Square, where Mr Leadbeater counts his shipbuilder's Echoes.)
    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Shuttered: not too secure. (Sets Target Security: to 1 - Shuttered)

    Conclusion: ...Mr Leadbeater's Fortune

    ^
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The Offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece
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    Success

    A crooked sprawl of stone in the shadow of the Bazaar

    Success Instructions: Build up Casing... to gain access to the story. The higher your Casing goes, the more advantages you'll have going in.

    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 2 - The offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece, where lawyers hoard secrets.)
    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Triple-Bolted: quite secure. (Sets Target Security: to 2 - Triple-Bolted)

    Conclusion: ...a Sealed Archive or ...Mr Baseborn's Papers

    ^
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Making Your Name: The Records Office in Concord Square
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    Success

    Into the belly of the beast

    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the records office in Concord Square. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 3 - The records office in Concord Square, where the Constables keep their failures)
    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Triple-Bolted: quite secure. (Sets Target Security: to 2 - Triple-Bolted)

    Conclusion: ...the Constables' store of records

    ^
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The Balustraded House in Elderwick
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    Success

    Behind shuttered windows

    Success Instructions: Build up Casing... to gain access to the story. The higher your Casing goes, the more advantages you'll have going in.

    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the Elusive Countess' mansion. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 4 - The mansion of the Elusive Countess, where she resides along with her servants.)
    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Triple-Bolted: quite secure. (Sets Target Security: to 2 - Triple-Bolted)
    • Manaclessmall.png You've lost 5 x Favours: Criminals

    Conclusion: The chambers of the Countess

    ^
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The Circumspect Envoy's Townhouse
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    Success

    An embassy never sleeps

    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the Circumspect Envoy's townhouse in Elderwick. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 6 - The Circumspect Envoy's townhouse, where the Envoy from Arbor hoards her city's secret)
    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Triple-Bolted: quite secure. (Sets Target Security: to 2 - Triple-Bolted)

    Conclusion: The Envoy's Study

    ^
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The Home of an Admiral's Widow
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    Success

    Enhanced by the Admiralty

    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of Justificandes from an Admiral's Widow. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 7 - The apartments of an Admiral's Widow, where there is a small cache of Justificandes)
    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Well-Guarded: notably secure. (Sets Target Security: to 3 - Well-Guarded)
    • Shipsmall.png You've lost 3 x Favours: The Docks

    Conclusion: The Widow's Bedchamber

    ^
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The townhouse of a Discerning Deviless
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The mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord
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    Success

    Opulence from squalor

    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Well-Guarded: notably secure. (Sets Target Security: to 3 - Well-Guarded)
    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 10 -The mansion of an Unsympathetic Landlord)

    Conclusion: The Landlord's Safe

    ^
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The shaded estate on Hemlock Row
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    Success

    Slip inside

    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Perilous: extremely secure. (Sets Target Security: to 4 - Perilous)
    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of a precious treasure. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 11 - The hiding-place of a precious treasure)

    Conclusion: ...a very particular treasure

    ^
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The Museum of Prelapsarian History
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    Success

    Antiquity and modernity

    • Keyhole1small.png Your target is Well-Guarded: notably secure. (Sets Target Security: to 3 - Well-Guarded)
    • Furtivehandsmall.png You've begun planning a burglary of the Museum of Prelapsarian History. (Sets Planning a Heist: to 12 - The Museum of Prelapsarian History)

    Conclusion: ...the Archaeology Wing or ...the Osteology Wing

    ^
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Leave; attend to other matters
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    Success

    Something has come up

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Prepare for your heist
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Begin your heist!
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    Action Cost: 0
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    Redirects to:

    Prepare your Heist

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