Avalon

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Staging And Executing

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It was not as terrible as Nate expected when he first jumped the proverbial ship and slipped some keys off a ring of some rich person at the bar. He already was onto his regular hunts just more in the shadows this time. And gosh really so many of those city people are just bunch of teens.

It always irks him when they leave their stuff around and simply forget about it and get so drunk they can't even walk. Then it just becomes golden hour of guys like him that glowers about and wait for their moment. And yeah, it is roughly sixty seconds to get the small passenger fast cruisers to unlock and boot up. Luckily Nate was very tech friendly so he could basically charm the thing to work without a key.

But it was simply more easier to grab the card or chip from lock table and sneak up to the vehicle and buzz it's protection calibration to moon and reboot the wires.

Sixty seconds and he's out in the sky. Just the way Nate loved. And best thing was nobody ever tried to get those things back.

Tonight was a new and fresh for the job. Not his usual type but it works for times of dire needs. And Nate was desperate for some coin. Yet he hoped for a card one day but those came along very complicated and hard. Cards were next level for street wolves like him. He's done that though. Long ago. But the money on the card is tricky to treat and often leaves trace as long as Earth's equator. Bad for business and useless for anything than fast jobs.

He will leave them be tonight. It was time for just the fly-things and by the morning there was hope to line up nicely.

He badly needed nicely.

For the past two days Nathaniel has been in pain he usually wasn't used to. Not that his latest fall did any good to the guy but it wasn't like getting electrocuted by his own clumsiness.

It was running sort of deeper and irked the holy crackers and drove him bonkers more than anything else.

But there was no time for that now.

First was the delicate spotting. One truly had to work charm on scouting the target area well before anything. Caution was highly respected and ultimately very important if one wanted to get away with it.

Then you had to find the right target and keep scouting and observing. They usually had constant day rhythm however there suddenly could happen some unexpected occasion and then you're all fucked and doomed.

Nate rarely made those mistakes but once in a blue moon you could slip. And then it will become truly regrettable.

The most difficult part was to keep yourself unidentified and invisible to the target and everybody else nearby. Because hills have eyes and the rest of the song. Nobody ever wants to make that mistake and become imprisoned for life.

Definitely not Nate. He already had enough troubles to worry about and days usually didn't get longer to annoy him. -

Planning was something he did as thoroughly as he could. It always paid off to pay attention to details and plan for every book and cranny that could trip you the worst way.

It was a theft after all so why risk it.

Knowing target's moves and possible reactions was golden rule because they could get unpredictable in more ways than one and why take such risk unnecessarily.

Nate also pointed out where the other people in the place could be located. Because even if you get out of the room somebody could block you elsewhere and then where's the point in escaping.