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[color=9370D8]♦[/color]  [color=9370D8]SELINA KYLE [color=9370D8]♦[/color] "PROCUREMENT"  [color=9370D8]♦[/color]  GOTHAM CITY [color=9370D8]♦[/color][/color][/sub][/sup][/h3]

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[CENTER][sup][color=green][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3UdRmhgvM]"At the dark end of the street/That's where we always meet/Hiding in shadows where we don't belong/ Living in darkness to hide our wrong" 
-- James Carr[/url][/color][/sup][/CENTER]

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Born and raised on the mean streets of Gotham, Selina Kyle has done and seen it all. A teenaged petty thief turned major league carjacker, the choice of prison or the US military meant she said خداحافظ to Gotham and سلام to Afghanistan. After leaving the army and spending some... colorful time in Europe, Selina returns back home to Gotham and opens up shop offering a very particular service. If you've lost something or had something stolen from you, she can get it back no questions asked. Lost causes, regular civilians, and even the occasional crime lord find themselves employing Selina for her services. And you too can employ her for help at the mere cost of 40% of your stolen items value, her cut.

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[color=9370D8][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]P L O T ( S )   &   G O A L ( S ):[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT] [/indent][/indent]

1. [b][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8]"Fever"[/url][/b]

[indent]A serial arsonist has Gotham in its grips in the middle of a scorching summer heatwave and Selina finds herself in the middle of it when Rupert Thorne, noted slumlord and champion of the 1%, comes to her in need of help. The rampant fireburg is targeting Thorne's properties throughout the city in search of something inside the burnt homes. Not even Thorne knows the arsonists true agenda as the spree continues. Selina must race against the clock and beat both the cops and the Batman to recover whatever it is the firebug is after.[/indent] 

2. [b][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QfXjsoNe4]"The Girl From Ipanema"[/url][/b]

[indent] Selina and Holly leave the dark and gritty Gotham behind for a trip to Europe. When a former client asks for help in recovering a stolen painting, Selina finds herself back in the high-stakes world of European art theft. As she and Holly dash across the continent one step ahead of INTERPOL, Selina reconnects with an old friend with a mutually invested interest in seeing the painting safely returned to its "rightful" owner. [/indent]

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Holly Robinson - Selina's assistant and protégée 
Alice Tesla - A former client turned technical support for Selina
Jimmy Burke - GCPD robbery detective, Selina's source inside the force
Rupert Thorne - Shady businessman and client of Selina's
Cameron Chase - INTERPOL agent
Louis "Bone" Ferryman - Mid-tier Gotham gangster 
Count Vertigo - International criminal and art collector
Parker - World's greatest thief

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[i]*This is from a previous game, but characterization and plot are generally in keeping with my intended tone.[/i]


[b]Downtown Gotham
12:11 PM[/b]


“You come highly recommended, Ms. Kyle.”

Selina looked over her sunglasses at the fat old man. They were sharing a table on the outside patio of the swanky coffee shop. Rupert Thorne looked Selina over like a piece of meat, the old man doing what he thought was a charming smile. She would have been creeped out by it if not for the bits of pastry flake on his tie. It made him more comically sad than anything.

“I do my job well, Mr. Thorne.”

“I can only imagine,” he said with a sleazy smile. “The only thing they wouldn’t tell me was your asking price.”

Selina sipped from her latte before answering.

“Forty.”

“Forty thousand seems steep.”

“Percent. Whatever you want found, I get forty percent of it.”

Thorne frowned “It’s… it doesn’t work like that. What I want is only valuable to me.”

Selina spread her hands and offered a smile that was a little smug without being too smug. “Then forty percent of whatever it’s worth to you. That’s my price.” 

“That’s highway robbery!”

“Then call the cops,” Selina said with a smirk. “But if you were able to call the cops, you wouldn’t reach out to a… procurement specialist like myself. And since it sounds like something pretty valuable to you, the longer you haggle the more my price goes up.”

Thorne put his balled up fists on the table. They were squeezed so tightly that they were beginning to turn white. As fun as it was to see him squirm Selina knew that a delicate touch would be needed here on out if she wanted the job. All these rich old men. For all their power and arrogance, they just couldn’t handle a woman even appearing to get the upper hand. It was time to put on the motherly concern.

“Start at the beginning, Mr. Thorne,” she said calmly. “Tell me what’s been taken and we’ll go from there.”

Selina listened intently as Thorne told his story. She wasn’t the only one interested in the tale, however. Inside the coffeeshop a young man sat in front of a laptop with earbuds in and a Gotham Knights baseball cap obscuring his face. To anyone passing by he looked like another would-be writer trying to write a screenplay. 

But Bruce Wayne’s earbuds were relaying to him every word of Thorne’s story. The small listening device embedded in the band of Thorne’s wristwatch had amazing sound quality. He was able to perfectly transcribe the details of what Thorne was saying. Since Falcone’s fall, Thorne had become top dog in the criminal underworld. Without the ties to the Italian Mafia, Thorne ran his criminal organization like a business. And like a CEO of a Fortune 500 Thorne kept trade secrets close to the vest. He was too careful. Compared to Falcone and Maroni, Thorne and his men had the discipline of monks. After a year of intense surveillance Bruce was nowhere near finding any evidence that proved Rupert Thorne was a criminal kingpin.

But now?

Now there seemed to be a path to see Thorne thrown behind bars

He just had to make sure he beat Selina Kyle to it.


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