#confidence games

[blackredleathergloves]

In the big-con games the steps are these:

1. Locating and investigating a well-to-do victim. (Putting the mark up).

2. Gaining the victim's confidence. (Playing the con for him.)

3. Steering him to meet the insideman. (Roping the mark.)

4. Permitting the insideman to show him how he can make a large amount of money dishonestly. (Telling him the tale).

5. Allowing the victim to make a substantial profit. (Giving him the convincer.)

6. Determining exactly how much he will invest. (Giving him the breakdown.)

7. Sending him home for this amount of money (Putting him on the send.)

8. Playing him against the big store and fleecing him. (Taking off the touch.)

9. Getting him out of the way as quietly as possible. (Blowing him off.)

10. Forestalling action by the law. (Putting in the fix.)

-The Big Con, David W. Maurer

[blujaymi]

me every time i come back to the crossroads with even the slightest bit of new lore

[im-still-watching-anime]

apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB

apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally

[soath]

congrats to zerxus ilerez for shooting back up to the top of the “exandria’s sexiest and most likely to fall for a pyramid scheme” ranks. liliana temult, please turn your sash and crown in at the podium.

[suntails]

strength and nobility

[rainbow-taishi]

Black Swan, upon peeking into her memories: Never mind- I'm outta here! Nope! Nope! Abort mission! Oh crap! Too much information!!!

Acheron: *enjoying dancing*

[ranpoautism]

Love it when characters are so intertwined you cannot take them apart from each other unless you break their character. They are frequently bought together and cannot be separated. They need to be studied together.

[egophiliac]

(breathing into a paper bag) FRALIO....

can't believe they gave us another guy. oh my god. so I guess Kelka is more, uhhh, more OOO then, and Fralio is Ankh? not that it matters too much, although they do seem to be doing something with the connected Riders so. who knows. anything goes! or if I may, anything gOOOes! god. of course they're the Ambition parallel. of course they are. oh my god.

fortunately there's nothing else they can throw at me right now that could possibly --

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[lucabyte]

heres your highly requested fluff you fucking animals

[metamatronic]

yes i’m drawing 15-years-later ib AU comics 12 years post release date. what about it.

[blackredleathergloves]

The foot race. A pay-off game now obsolete which preceded the modern big-con games. The outside man posed as the disgruntled secretary of a millionaire (the insideman) who fancied runners and bet heavily on them. The secretary offered to double-cross his employer, fix the race, and share the profits with the mark. The racer who was "fixed" to win collapsed, a "doctor" pronounced him dead, and the mark lost heavily.

-The Big Con, David W. Maurer

[gelljc]

stargazing

[kittyoperas]

30 minute Lucanis doodle for no other reason than I wanted to draw him covered in blood.

[memorys-skyscraper]

hey atlus? what the fuck

[hungryhungrygames]

maybe peeta flirted with katniss before the games and she was just too oblivious to notice it

but i love the idea that peeta realized that he was being sent to his death with the girl that he has loved almost his entire life and just decided to give it his fucking all

[mitskiluvr]

this dialogue with akechi is set up the same way as the dialogue you get with all ur lady confidants right before you date them Do you know how funny that is. “I need to give him a serious answer…” as if he’s just proposed to you on the streets of kichijoji