Jesse returns to Corsio’s Los Angeles safe house carrying the finished North Shire Community Bank plans and the equipment estimate. John Cavier remains in the office, watching from beside the workbench.
He places the marked floor plans, camera notes, and escape routes across Corsio’s desk. The figures follow: fifteen thousand dollars total, including five thousand for silenced guns and ten thousand for a heavily modified escape car.
Jesse
The emergency reserve is already gone.
Corsio Angelico
The reconnaissance is thorough. The cost is not excessive, but 7 Aces has no reserve left to cover another mistake.
John Cavier
Ten thousand for a car? We need transportation, not a racing machine. You planning to outrun every cop in Los Angeles?
Corsio ignores the jab and studies the escape route, then the vehicle estimate. His signed authorization has already spent the group’s emergency funds, leaving procurement as the immediate problem.
Corsio Angelico
The bank remains untouched. Before anything proceeds, tell me where this fifteen thousand comes from, and who secures the car and weapons.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure funding for the operation
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure proper equipment for the operation
“I know of a politician that needs removal from office. If my intel is right he has 50,000 in a secret drawer at his luxury penthouse. I will go iminate the target and take all that he has to cover this bank heist.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Firearms, rolled -1)
Jesse
I know a politician who needs removing. My intel puts fifty thousand in a secret drawer at his penthouse. I will take it and fund the bank job.
Corsio’s expression hardens, but Jesse is already moving. He leaves the safe house, reaches the luxury penthouse, and uses the service access identified during his surveillance.
The politician is removed from office permanently off-camera. Jesse finds the hidden drawer, collects the full fifty thousand dollars, and leaves with the money secured.
The cost arrives at the exit: a security alarm sounds, and a shard from the damaged service door cuts Jesse’s palm. He escapes before responding officers arrive.
Hours later, Jesse returns to the safe house with the cash and a wrapped hand. He places the money beside the fifteen-thousand-dollar estimate on Corsio’s desk.
Corsio Angelico
You solved the funding problem, but you also created attention. This money covers the equipment and leaves thirty-five thousand for the crew.
John Cavier
A politician, a penthouse, and an alarm. You call that preparation? The police will be searching for whoever made the withdrawal.
Quest Complete
Secure funding for the operation
+ New Item Acquired
Fifty thousand dollars