The Outcast Heist

Chapter 6: The Plan and the Scrap Junkie

After our group met up at the Spin and Spin and the newly acquired ally in my older brother. A few days passed by. And it was like walking on landmines the entire time! My brother and I have never seen eye to eye on anything. This became apparent right away when me and him got into a heated argument over scouting plans. I know I have talked about my brothers vaguely so I might as well talk about us in a little more detail. We are the Von Barely brothers born and raised in sector 9. From oldest to youngest there is Miscellaneous who is stern and pissed off at everything in life. Then after him is Dankee, a dwarf who is a mama's boy, but keeps mostly to himself. After Dankee is Raphel he is a Tiefling and by far is the most spoiled psychopath I have ever met. After Raphel there is me, the "prodigy" as my father liked to say. Lastly there is Brick, a half-orc who spends most of his time tending to gardens and the only brother I actually like. Together we were trained to become a group called Princeton's Hunters. We did awful things and when I could I left that life to do what I do now. From what I heard most of my brothers despised me for this. I'm sure they were just jealous that I had the guts to escape the grasp of our father.

Anyway the next big event is when we met a woman named Zara. She was searching for us to help her with a mission and after some convincing, mostly for Olivia, she joined our group in preparation for our big heist. Which was made harder now because of the attack that is currently happening on the capital. I guess Gagwen was correct on his suspicion. I tried to convince the group that we needed to postpone the mission because it was too dangerous instead it went like this.

We were standing around a table in the spit in spins basement the only lighting being the torches that surrounded the room. William spread a map out on the table of the capital. Cammy was sitting on a spot that was free from the map's touch, kicking her feet and humming as William prepared documents. One such document was the one we stole from the Governor not too long ago. Tension was high after receiving news of the attack that was happening in the capital. After a few minutes of silence William spoke.

"We will continue with the heist."

"Wait! What!? What do you mean we're going to continue!?"

William unfazed looked up.

"As I said we will continue with the heist. This could be an ample opportunity for us we can use the attack to our advantage catch them by surprise-"

"Or get ourselves killed!"

I say back.

"This mission was already dangerous enough, but now we have undead and Spearheads. This could potentially lower our chances of success!"

William sighed and Cammy giggled.

"Are you scared Kingvin!?"

Cammy said teasingly.

"Are you all not!?"

I snap back.

"I mean this is suicide!!!"

The room went silent. I looked around the room at everyone. Olivia was cleaning her rifle unfazed. Tuck-tuk was standing silent. Cammy was smiling like she tends to do. My brother stood there staring and studying the map. William looked up,

"We all know the risk and we are prepared for any consequences that come with it."

I stood there dumbfounded. I looked over at Zara. She seemed to be level headed enough and she had a military background so she must be thinking the same as me...right?

Zara spoke

"I think Williams' plan could work. All the forces would focus on the upcoming attack adding to your survivability when it comes infiltrating the Venom Pendragon's headquarters. This works even better because we are splitting up the team. Dealing with fewer enemies would help Kingvin.