Set Juniper and 4st’s plan to Flee, and consider the common proposition on the most recent haul to Request to Punt, then perform the Distributing atomic action on the most recent Haul.

JonathanDark spends an hour lingering among the crooked shadows a few streets away from the garret, while 4st lays low and Juniper continues her rest.

The Haul is empty.

4st leaps and clambers through an awkward upper window, taking a bodily injury. After the door is unbolted, JonathanDark takes a lingering walk around the shop. Back at the garret, Juniper spends the evening resting up and nursing her injured foot, and at some point during the night Clucky clears out and flees town.

The Haul is a Glove.

Welcome to this edition of the City Distorter, bringing you fake news from the Cities underbelly. 

In this new series of stories, we will visit the “Real Thieves of the City”. We are lucky to connect with a recently retired but still notorious operator.  We will refer to him as Mr N for sake of anonymity.

Reporter: “Mr N, with your recent retirement, do you miss that lifestyle at all?”
Mr N:  No, I don’t think so.  Things are different now with the City cracking down,  I don’t think this is a viable lifestyle anymore.

Reporter: You still have connections on the streets, what are you hearing this week?
Mr N:

Well, there is still a very active group trying to squeeze the last florin out of the City.  There was a recent job down at the Needleworker but, it pulled in a pitiful haul.  Nothing like the old days. 

Overall not much happening on the streets:

4st:  The Informant managed to nick 3 florins from me as I fled the city.
Clucky: Roamed the streets picking pockets.
Jonathan: Joined looking for pocket change.
Juniper: Ever the hard worker, she kept slogging away as a laborer.

Reporter: How do you see this playing out?
Mr N:

Well, it’s still somewhat close but Clucky has a lead and it’s his to lose.  I always liked to keep good books so, the way I size the net worth up is:

Clucky:  121 (Florins: 13, Pouches: 83, Possessions:  13, Secret Hustles: ~12)
4st: 112 (Florins: 32, Pouches: 39, Possessions: 26, Secret Hustles: ~15)
Jonathan: 108 (Florins: 9, Pouches: 96, Possessions: 3, Secret Hustles: ~0)
Juniper: 27 (Florins: 21, Pouches: 3, Possessions: 0, Secret Hustles: ~0)

4st could add an easy 12 points by finding or buying a Loupe, minus it’s cost, but still has to deal with the selling process.
Jonathan is a bit behind with a 13 florin gap to close, that will be tough, maybe he’s banking on some bad luck hitting others.
Juniper could be a swing vote with this lot needing three votes to pass anything.
Clucky will want to keep things quiet, hand out a florin here or there and time his exit.

Reporter: Can anyone really know what’s going on?
Mr N: I don’t know, this is just my best guess.

Mr N: (sipping a glass of wine) Me, I’m just going to enjoy the sunshine.

Well that wraps up this edition of the “Real Thieves of the City”.  Stay safe out there.

In the rule “Possessions”, replace the text for the Effect of Glove with the following:

The Linger Plan gives you 4DICE2 Florins Covertly instead of 2DICE2

Two figures prowl silently across the rooftops of the city, looking out for the right opportunity for the next haul. Juniper scouts an open skylight, slipping on the roof tiles and injuring their foot in the process, and after a moment’s pause 4st leaps down through it. The rest of the team are absent: Clucky and JonathanDark are laying low, and when the group return to their lodgings they find that NadNavillus has fled town.

The Haul is 7 Florins and a Glove.

In the rule “Distribution”, remove every sentence and bullet point that contains the term “punt”.

In “Rules and Votable Matters” part of the Clarifications section of the ruleset

replace

If the City has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, that vote is instead considered to be valid and either FOR (if more Thieves have a valid FOR vote on that Proposal than have a valid AGAINST vote on it) or AGAINST (in all other cases). However, in either case, votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Thieves on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid. If there are six or fewer Thieves, then the City’s vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal is only affected by this rule if all Thieves who are not the City have cast a vote on that proposal.

with

If the City has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they are not considered to be a Thief for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal. Votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Thieves on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid, but the Thieves who made them still contribute to quorum

NadNavillus eavesdrops while posing as a customer to learn where the artisan keeps their most precious wares, JonathanDark scouts out a loose window, and 4st leaps away across the rooftops with the goods later that night. Clucky and Juniper lay low.

The Haul is 6 Florins, a Candlestick and an Unappraised Gem.

Add to the section named Black Market:

As a Street Action, a Thief may attempt to Offer one of their possessions from their Inventory to the Black Market by performing the following Atomic Action:

Identify a Possession in their own Inventory and remove the Possession from their Inventory.
Determine the possessions Value from the Possession Table; Rolling for possessions of random value. This is the Determined Value
Increase their Notoriety by the Determined Value
Roll a DICE 4, then set the Possession’s Black Market Price for this instance of the atomic action to be the Determined Value minus the result of the roll.
If the Possesion’s Black Market Price is positive, the Theif may Gain Florins equal to its Black Market Price.

In the rule “Hustles”, replace

As a Weekly Action

with

As a Street Action

and replace

defaulting to “One of Us”

with

defaulting to “Labourer”

Add a Hustle named Snitch to the Hustle table:

| Snitch || Action: This Thief gains 2 Notoriety then the City makes a Story blog post reporting all Thieves chosen Hustle.

Clucky and Jonathan scout out the building from across the street, and NadNavillus eavesdrops to learn when the workshop will be left unattended. A few hours later, 4st leaps in through an upper window, unbolts the main door from the inside and the team clear the place out. Juniper lays low.

The Haul is 14 Florins, a Candlestick and a Helm.

In the subrule “Notoriety”, replace the second step of the Notoriety Check with the following steps:

* Roll a DICE(51-N) where N is their Notoriety. If result is not 1 then the check succeeds and all remaining steps are skipped. Otherwise, the check fails.
* Subtract 10 from their Notoriety
* If they have any Pouches in their inventory, remove one randomly-selected Pouch from their inventory
* Remove 50% of their Florins, rounded up

Clucky, Jonathan and Juniper scouted out the shop out for anything of value, NadNavillus eavesdropped to learn which were the more valuable and stylish fabrics, and 4st leapt over the counter to grab a gemstone from a piece that the tailor was working on, injuring their hand on the pins and needles that were holding it place, but escaping with it regardless.

The Haul is 14 Florins, a Cloak and an Unappraised Gem.

If https://blognomic.com/archive/financial_planner is enacted, this proposal does nothing.

Add a new dynastic rule called “The Countryside” and give it the following text:

The Countryside is a publicly tracked list of Thieves. Thieves in the Countryside may not take dynastic actions and are not considered to be Free. Thieves in the Countryside always have a Plan of Rest, a Hustle of Retired, may not be added to Gaol and are not considered to be Thieves for the purposes of the Informant Hustle or when Florins are distributed via a Notoriety Check

When a Thief Flees Town, the following atomic action occurs

- Destroy all of their existing Pouches by removing them from their inventory, and gaining Florins equal to their value
- Perform a Notoriety Check
- Add them to the Countryside

If all Thieves are in the Countryside or Gaol, the Thief (or Thieves) who is in in the Countryside and has the most Florins (amongst those in the Countryside) achieves victory

Add a new plan called “Flee”

You Flee Town

Add a new Hustle called “Retired” with Description

This hustle has no effect

Add a new dynastic rule called “Police Presence”

There is a publicly tracked value called Police Presence, which is by default 0 and represents the City’s ability to crackdown on crime.

When the City performs a Crackdown, a DICEX is rolled where X is the Police Presence. If the result is greater than 10, all Thieves not in the countryside are sent to Gaol.

Add the following steps to the “Distributing”  atomic action, right before “Change the status of the Haul post to enacted”

- Increase Police Presence by DICE3
- Perform a Crackdown

Swap the third and fourth bullet points in the rule “The Haul”.

Add a new rule named “Retirement” with the following text:

Each Thief has a Retirement, which is privately tracked by the City and defaults to empty. A Thief with an empty Retirement cannot achieve victory.

As a Street Action, a Thief can privately communicate a new Retirement to the City. A Thief’s Retirement, when not empty, must contain all of the following at the time that it is communicated to the City:
* The text “Combined Florins and Pouch Values greater than:” followed by an amount equal to this Thief’s current Florins and Pouch Values combined plus 50
* The text “Have in Inventory:” followed by one or more unique types of Possessions (not counting Pouches) with static Values, in which those Possession types have a combined Value of at least 10 and this Thief has none of those types currently in their inventory
* The text “Notoriety less than:” followed by an amount equal to this Thief’s current Notoriety minus 10

At any time, a Thief can privately communicate to the City a request to get the contents of their Retirement, and the City should privately respond at their earliest convenience with the contents of that Thief’s Retirement.

A Thief may Retire by making a blog post with the Story Post category and the text “Retiring” somewhere in the post title, and in the body of the post the contents of their current Retirement as tracked by the City. A Thief who has Retired has achieved victory if the contents of their posted Retirement, when treated as criteria, are all true for that Thief at the date and time that the post was made.

In the subrule “Containers”, add the following text:

At any time, a Thief may privately communicate to the City a request to get the Values of all of their Pouches, and the City should privately respond at their earliest convenience with each Pouch by name in that Thief’s inventory and that Pouch’s associated Value.

A busy half-hour is spent rifling through the pockets and bags of other patrons. Clucky, Jonathan and Juniper keep a Scout’s eye on which of the customers seem to have more to spend, NadNavillus does some Standard distraction work, and 4st makes a Leap for the coatrack on the way out.

The Haul is 23 Florins and a Cloak.

Add “Roll a DICE3. On a 1, gain a random injury” to the effect of Scout

Give the Body injury the following Effect “If you have three or more Body Injuries, you may not take dynastic actions and your Plan is always set to Rest during a Health Check.”

In the effect of Hand injury, replace “Standard, Pocket or Scout” with “Standard, Pocket, Unlock or Scout”

Add a step to “The Haul” after the third:-

* Roll DICE3 in a secretly random manner. On a 1, select a secretly random Thief and change their Plan to “Lay Low”.

Pushing cheap cuts of meat around their plates, JonathanDark, Juniper and NadNavillus patiently watch the counter staff and Scout their sightlines, waiting for the moment to move. When it comes, Clucky takes a straightforward Standard approach at the till. Once the takings have been grabbed, 4st makes a Leap across the top table to grab some silverware, and the gang make quick their escape.

The Haul is 22 Florins and a Candlestick.

In “Distribution” replace “then that Target becomes the Current Target. Otherwise the Current Target becomes Restaurant.” with “then Next Target is set to the name of that Target. Otherwise the Next Target becomes Shop.”