Parting Fools and Their Money (A Con Artist Quest)

[x] New Face, New Clothes, New Mannerisms: Sometimes when the fuzz is closing in, you just need to disappear. In those cases, it is extremely useful to be able to seem like a completely different person from your previous identity.
[x] When To Fold: A lot of scammers get caught because they keep trying to wring more money out of their marks even when the house of cards is already collapsing and it's time to disappear. Yeah, no, you've honed your awareness of when it's time to grab the money and GTFO to a razor sharp edge.
[X] Smooth Talk: Sometimes, you just need to talk to someone face-to-face in order to get them to do what you want. As such, you have gotten rather frighteningly competent at manipulating people face-to-face.
[X] Multilingualism: Why restrict your operations to the USA? You've put in the effort to achieve fluency in the top ten world languages, greatly expanding the places where you can scam people.

[x] Favored by Coyote: In your youth, you met Coyote, the trickster deity of Native American legend. Somehow, you convinced Coyote that you'd be more fun to watch if Coyote gave you a little bit of his power to play with. As such, you can muster the occasional bit of supernatural trickery if you need to. Casting illusions, finding shortcuts that don't exist, bodging together the occasional short-lived magical artifact, and making fair dice roll as if they were loaded are all things you can do.
 
Vote Tally 2
Skills
Forgery: x
Smooth Talk: xxx
BUY NOW!: x
Creative Accounting: xxx
Multilingualism: xxxxxx
New Face, New Clothes, New Mannerisms: xxxxxxxx
When To Fold: xxxxxx

Edge

Favored by Coyote: xxxxx
Psychic Interludes: xx
Hypnotic Gaze: xx

Winners

Skills
-New Face, New Clothes, New Mannerisms
-When To Fold
-Multilingualism
-Creative Accounting
-Smooth Talk

Edge
-Favored By Coyote

Adhoc vote count started by I just write on Feb 13, 2019 at 9:13 PM, finished with 14 posts and 9 votes.

  • [x] New Face, New Clothes, New Mannerisms: Sometimes when the fuzz is closing in, you just need to disappear. In those cases, it is extremely useful to be able to seem like a completely different person from your previous identity.
    [x] When To Fold: A lot of scammers get caught because they keep trying to wring more money out of their marks even when the house of cards is already collapsing and it's time to disappear. Yeah, no, you've honed your awareness of when it's time to grab the money and GTFO to a razor sharp edge.
    [X] Multilingualism: Why restrict your operations to the USA? You've put in the effort to achieve fluency in the top ten world languages, greatly expanding the places where you can scam people.
    [x] Favored by Coyote: In your youth, you met Coyote, the trickster deity of Native American legend. Somehow, you convinced Coyote that you'd be more fun to watch if Coyote gave you a little bit of his power to play with. As such, you can muster the occasional bit of supernatural trickery if you need to. Casting illusions, finding shortcuts that don't exist, bodging together the occasional short-lived magical artifact, and making fair dice roll as if they were loaded are all things you can do.
    [X] Smooth Talk: Sometimes, you just need to talk to someone face-to-face in order to get them to do what you want. As such, you have gotten rather frighteningly competent at manipulating people face-to-face.
    [X] Creative Accounting: Certain types of scams (such as ponzi schemes, for example) require some rather interesting financial manipulations in order to keep raking in the money. Such skills are also useful for 'cooking the books' in order to hold onto what you get and anonymize payments.
    [X] Hypnotic Gaze: You suspect that there might be some faerie blood in your ancestry somewhere; with a bit of focus, you're able to get people into a ludicrously suggestive state, able to convince them to do things that even a master of normal manipulative shenanigans couldn't pull off. Coupled with actually being good at talking to people, there's very little you couldn't get someone to do.
    [X] Psychic Interludes: You are really good at getting inside people's heads, to a degree that quite bluntly defies logical explanation. When you're talking to someone you often get an additional feed of information about their mental state that couldn't possibly be conveyed from their words. Even freakier, if you focus you can see things from another's perspective from any range. As in, you see through their eyes, hear through their ears, and get a direct feed to what they're thinking while you're listening in.
    [X] BUY NOW!: The media side of running a con involves making whatever enterprise you claim to be representing seem legit. That includes making websites, putting ads in newspapers, and deflecting suspicion just long enough to get your hands on the money.
    [X] Forgery: Be it whipping up duplicates of famous paintings, putting people's signatures in places where they really don't belong, or making a random hunk of junk look like a valuable antique, you are particularly skilled at making fake things look real.
 
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