siren's pull; bounty hunting information
BOUNTY HUNTING INFORMATION
This is a list of guidelines for being a bounty hunter and/or placing a bounty on another character, either an NPC or a player-character.
We'd really like to avoid player-characters having a "hit" put on their heads without their knowledge, especially if it's planned out in a friends-locked community. To avoid this, we've created an official channel through which those kinds of plots can be carried out. Any normal murder, kidnapping, or other type of thing that's been worked out between players is perfectly fine.
However, if your character wants to specifically take someone out for major plot-related reasons, please use the following resources. This also includes helpful information for characters who are apped with a mind to becoming a bounty hunter.
All questions about bounty hunting or requests to put a bounty on a player-character's head should be posed to Kelly via IM, PM, or email. Contact information can be found on the mod contact information page.
How Bounty Hunting Works
Bounty hunting is killing or capturing a character for money.
Basically, if an organization or person wants a character dead or captured (dead or alive), they can offer a certain amount of money up to the bounty hunters of the City and the bounty hunters will then do the research needed to find that character. Upon finding the character and either killing or capturing them, they would return the character or their body to the central bounty hunting office, and would receive the payment offered for that bounty.
An NPC, St. Matthew, is in charge of bounties, so most bounty hunters will never deal directly with the character or company that took the original bounty out. St. Matthew will handle the transactions of money and confirming everything, since that's her job.
All bounties placed on player characters' heads MUST be approved by both parties and a mod.
If your character wants to put a hit on another player character who's apped into the game, then you have to contact that player and inform them of the situation, as well as get their agreement to it. The mods will be checking this with the other player, so please don't try to pull the wool over our eyes. We don't want anyone's character to be killed or hunted without their permission.
Putting a Price on Someone's Head
You can put a bounty on a player character's head.
If your character wants to put a bounty on the head of a player character then, as stated earlier, the plot must be worked out between both players. When a bounty is requested by a player character, the character requesting the bounty must have funds to cover the bounty themselves. Please be realistic when it comes to the amount of money a bounty costs and how much money your character could conceivably have made while in Siren's Port to date. However, if it is a plot point that your character can't pay the bounty that's fine too, for example, if you'd like the bounty hunter to come after your own character later for the money or any other related plot. Just as long as you explain this is the case, it should be good to go.
Working as a Bounty Hunter
Bounty hunting is generally a neutral job.
Though any character can be a bounty hunter for one specific faction, to facilitate a nice pool of capable bounty hunters that either side may choose from, bounty hunting is generally considered a neutral job. This means that neither faction will be pounding down your door to get you to join them, if you're a bounty hunter.
Finding a bounty.
IC Transactions go through St. Matthew, At her Contact Page.
Players will be able to use the NPC bounties listed for the purposes of acting as a bounty hunter. Please be realistic when it comes to how long it would take your bounty hunter character to find a bounty, and how much they will be receiving for the difficulty level of the bounty - don't make it too easy.
Please keep in mind that anyone abusing the bounty hunting system to make their characters overnight millionaires will likely face consequences both IC and OOC - above all, keep it realistic. Your character cannot find a high-level bounty for a lot of money in just one day.
Difficulty levels and prices.
Difficulty levels may seem subjective at first, but to give you a generalized idea of how they work, here are a few key points:
- A normal human with no superhuman ability would be considered a 1/10, while people with abilities that are defensive rather than offensive or non-combat abilities would still be considered 2/10 to 3/10.
- The NPCs in Siren's Port are no slouches or norms. They all have abilities, and they are mostly bitter, jaded, and very experienced - especially people on the bounty lists. The most powerful player character in Siren's Pull at any given time would be considered an approximate 9/10 for the bounty list. The most difficult bounties in the City would be nearly impossible for any one character to take out.
- Bounties are usually for either a dead target, or a live target. Bounties for targets wanted dead will be in the lower end of the range listed, while bounties for targets wanted alive will be in the higher end of the range listed. Catching a bounty alive is often more difficult than dead, so the compensation is higher, particularly in cases where the target is wanted unharmed.
- Prices range as follows:
1/10: $1,000-$3,000
2/10: $2,000-$4,000
3/10: $4,000-$6,000
4/10: $6,000-$8,000
5/10: $8,000-$10,000
6/10: $10,000-$12,000
7/10: $12,000-$15,000
8/10: $15,000-$20,000
9/10: $20,000-$30,000
10/10: $30,000-$50,000
11/10: (faction leaders only) in the millions
Getting a bounty payout.
For any NPC bounty under $10,000, it is pretty safe to assume that with at least two weeks of IC researching/hunting your character can take the bounty payout.
Any bounty $10,000 and over MUST be approved through Kelly before the character receives the payout, and must be played as labor-intensive. Payout for bounties $10,000 or over can be submitted in a comment to this post, and will be approved or more effort requested before payout occurs.
If your character has special tracking skills that would help cut these times, or you feel that your bounty hunting character is in some other way an exception to these guidelines, please speak to Kelly before commencing with bounty hunting.
Please use the following form to post a payout request for a bounty $10,000 or over:
Character's Name:
Bounty Difficulty Level:
Bounty Amount:
Time Spent:
Link: (include a link to relevant in-game threads or logs where this bounty is mentioned)
Level 2
$1,000 For locating and successfully recruiting him to AGI affiliation
$2,000 SPPD, Citizen's Arrest
Name: Carlos Teveria
Age: 31 years old
Appearance: 5’10”, black hair, thin build.
Carlos has been running a small arms store down in the slums, and while he manages to stay under the radar most of the time, he’s been found to be building up his business, something that needs to be stopped before he can build it bigger. The SPPD is looking for him as well.
Carlos has super strength, allowing him to bend and build his own line of firearms.
$2,500 - Live Capture & Delivery to SERO Corporate Headquarters
Name: Tanya Adkins
Age: 19 years old
Appearance: 5’2”, black hair and brown eyes, slight build.
Tanya was a student at Hawthorne before she fell off the grid after her sister died during her first semester of college. After that, she came up again with the codename “Sis” among hackers in the Port. Her first job was getting into the police database and getting all the files on her sister’s murder, and she has expanded her network since then. SERO is interested in having her come work for them.
Tanya is a technology genius; she is able to manipulate machines to work for her.
$4,000/$4,000 - Live Capture/Citizen's Arrest
Name: Lida and Nida Meetchek
Age: 23 years old
Appearance: 5’7”, blonde and blonde, twins
Lida and Nida are a pair of kleptomaniac twins that have been robbing stores of their money for years, ever since they were six years old and with their parents. They play a game of making sure that when one is in the store taking the money, the other is somewhere else so that they have deniability to being involved, and act like one person. Recently, they’ve been hitting up SERO pharmacies for more than just their money. SERONEX Pharmaceuticals is sponsoring the bounty, and successful capture will earn a Hunter positive SERO association.
Lida and Nida have the literal sense of twin telepathy, and will warn the other if one is about to be caught.
Claimed by Re-l Mayer
$4,000 - Live Capture/Citizen's Arrest
Name: Richard Hardwell
Age: 45 years old
Appearance: 5’11”, brown hair and green eyes.
Richard prefers to be called Rick; he was a painter who found that managing a gallery was a better deal. He started to make deals with people at his gallery, giving them a five year span of whatever they wanted before he came to collect on his payment, which was always whatever they wouldn’t want to lose the most. After making a deal with someone from AGI and collecting after five years, Rick closed the gallery and has been in hiding ever since. A joint bounty from the UCMA's Black Market, Keelson Auctionhouses & an Anonymous AGI-affiliate has been raised for his capture.
Rick is able to make deals with people and give them whatever they want; all that is needed is a handshake to seal the deal.
Level 3
$5,000 - Live Return to Asylum Claimed by Deathstroke
Name: Ewald Junge
Age: 23
Appearance: 5’8”, blond, light build
Ewald suffers from schizophrenia and believes the Darkness hunts him even in day light. He has the ability to create psychic barriers that can throw people over large distances.
$2,000 - Dead
$5,000 - Live Citizen's Arrest
Name: Sean Boyd
Age: 38 years old
Appearance: 5’6”, long brown hair, is in a wheelchair.
You would think someone in a wheelchair would be easily found, but Boyd is anything but easy to get a hold of. His interests lie in mechanics and with his ability to fix things with just a touch of his hand is useful when it comes to making things work just like new. His wheelchair is a prime example of that; he’s able to make it transform with just a single touch into a suit of armor that walks for him and everything. He’s used this armored wheelchair to steal parts from several different car mechanics in the city, and the union is starting to get upset.
Watch out for his wheelchair armor; it looks a little like a car that transforms into a robot. Using it, he can break through walls, as well as people.
6,000 - UMCA/Sparks Casino/Grant Stadium Sponsored, Live Citizen's Arrest - Claimed by Claire Stanfield
5,500 - SERO Sponsored, Live Delivery to SERO Hospital & Labs
Name: Marco Delive
Age: 34 years old
Appearance: 6’0”, red hair and already balding, tall and thin with glasses.
Marco is a college dropout who found that once he could see the future in two minute bursts began to move about the city in search of something that would help him get money. He’s taken the casinos for almost 200K, and SERO is very interested in studying his ability. There is a counter offer from SERO for him.
Has the ability to see the future up to two minutes.
Level 4
Claimed by Dante
$6,000 Live Citizen's Arrest to SPPD
$8,500 Dead or Alive delivery to AGI Tower
Name: Leon Sullivan
Age: 26 years old
Appearance: 6’0”, blond hair and green eyes, good build.
Leon worked as a Black Jack dealer at the casino as his day job, while at night he was a highly paid assassin. He’s done work for outside sources, and recently worked a job for AGI, which is why he’s being put on the bounty list; they’ve realized that he is a danger to them as well. He has perfect aim, and never misses, and the SPPD has a counter offer as well for bringing him in with connections to the assassinations he has done.
Leon has perfect, supernaturally enhanced aim guided by a telekinetic bond with his weapon, and never misses a shot.
$6,000- Live Return to Asylum
(SPPD Officer Zoey Assigned to Case)
OR $25,000 (SERO counter-offer for live return to corporate headquarters)
Name: Zacharia Torribio
Age: 62
Appearance: 5’4”, grey hair, strong build
Zacharia once worked as a guard for SERO but saw something she should not have and SERO had her declared mad. Since then, she’s managed to convince herself that she is indeed crazy and has sunk ever deeper into dementia. She shows signs of schizophrenia, but the nature of her pathology seems to change and worsen as time goes on.
Zacharia is a powers nullifier.
Level 5
$8,000 - Dead Claimed by Misato
(Completing this bounty will earn you positive SERO affiliation IF you allow St. Matthew to pass along your name to the client)
Name: Vivian Sheldon
Age: 37
Appearance: 5’6”, brunette, a bit on the chubby side
Put simply, this is a company traitor that SERO wants gone. An executive-level secretary at SERO labs, she was entrusted with company secrets until she turned coat back in April. Under 24-hour guarded protection by two AGI bodyguards, Ms. Sheldon has since been comfortably relocated to a penthouse apartment in lower sector 1. She has two sets of arms, but cannot control the lower one on her left side, which has atrophied.
Level 6
$10,000 - Live Delivery to Spencer's Hunting Grounds, Unmarred
- Matched Counter-Offer by McKinley Zoo, Same Conditions
Name: Unknown (Psssst, it’s Aslan!)
Age: Adult, Unknown
Appearance: African Lion, fully grown male, brown mane and golden coat, amber eyes.
This lion has been sighted out in the darkness, holding its own against creatures. It is capable of speech, and is wanted for trespassing on private property and disrupting an African safari-themed hunt, carrying off some of the rare, imported game wildlife. Henry D. Spencer III of the city’s Hunting Grounds wants the Lion captured live, sedated and delivered to the Hunting Grounds, to be placed in a highly anticipated special hunt. Special instructions on this Bounty are: absolutely no damage to the animal’s pelt.
$10,500 - Live Return to Asylum Claimed by Wolfwood
OR $12,000 (Counter-offer from an Undisclosed Client, Dropoff Alive at Underground Mall's Black Market)
Name: Ritika Nikula
Age: 47
Appearance: 5’4”, black hair, olive skin, strong build
Ritika was a successful con artist until she was finally arrested. While in prison she became prone to histrionic fits and was recommitted to the asylum.
Ritika can bend time backwards or forwards up to five minutes, allowing her to “redo” fights and conversations to her own advantage.
$5,000/$10,000 - Dead/Live Delivery to Mac in the Black Market
$12,000 - Live Delivery to Spencer's Hunting Grounds, Unmarred
$12,000- Matched Counter-Offer by McKinley Zoo, Same Conditions
Name: Unknown
Age: Adult, Unknown
Appearance: Unicorn, a dainty white mare with a pearlized horn.
This unicorn has been sighted in the woods of Sector 7, tending to creatures there. It is capable of speech, and is wanted for trespassing on private property and disrupting an African safari-themed hunt, carrying off some of the rare, imported game wildlife. Henry D. Spencer III of the city’s Hunting Grounds wants the Unicorn captured live, sedated and delivered to the Hunting Grounds, to be placed in a highly anticipated special hunt. A counter offer has been made by the McKinley Zoo and interested parties in the Underground Market.
The Unicorn may be capable of purification and healing abilities.
Level 7
$13,000 Live citizen's arrest, with sufficient evidence to build a case against her.
Name: Jeanette Verinis
Age: 28 years old
Appearance: 5’4”, brown hair, petite build.
Jeanette is a five time widow; all of her previous husbands have died from what have seemed like natural causes, though now that the fifth one has died, the insurance companies are looking into her. No formal investigations or warrant have been issued by the SPPD, possibly because she is paying someone off through a second party. Her nickname is the Black Widow.
Note: Jeanette creates a poison that can be transferred through her giving something as simple as a hug.
Level 8
PLAYER-CHARACTER BOUNTIES
If you wish to place a bounty on a player-character's head, discuss it with that player, and contact Kelly.. Once a player-character has had a bounty put on them for plot purposes, that character will be listed here as a bounty.
Completed Bounties
Sherlock Holmes - Gregory Tresler
Danny - Teodora Lund
Hitsugaya - Sophia Abspoel
Schwarz Bruder - Gunther Barros
Superman - Adrian Hoffman
Shinji Nishizono- Ruperto Kelly
Re-l Mayer - Augustas Boyce
Yako, Urick & S. Snake - Frankie Nichols
Dr. Seward - Luana Nilson
Sam Winchester - Riley Ripley
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