Yes, the best tale consists of an exciting and interesting fictitious story wrapped around a thread of truth.
Because there’s an entire episode on the formula of heist movies like Ocean’s 11.
You’ve got to assemble a crew, have at least one double-cross, and a twist, for example.
But being turned off by the Rick character is fair enough.
Get the protagonist to use hypnosis and other tricks to make the people with magical powers pull off the seemingly impossible heist.
Couldn’t you just cut them in on the take? We are assuming that for some reason in this society of magically and/or super powered people there is a need for money in the first place, so some of them must have less than others. The rest of the privileged snots will sneer at their poorer comrades much in the same way they do at you so it won’t take hypnosis to get them on board,
I suppose it’s similar to writing mystery or crime novels. You have to see what strikes you as clever or scary and follow that vein of inspiration.
True-people are usually the weakest part of any security system. I did work in a casino at one point. Hmmm…
Lots of good thoughts here.
So it be like the Weasleys conspiring with a muggle to rob the Malfoys? I like it.
The whole ‘magical powers’ angle is a can of worms, though. What are the rules? There are no rules. Except when there are. Cascading paradoxes.
Hey, I could start a business like that! We could band together and make millions*… I feel like that’s what everyone here does for me, every day.
Thanks for the free ideas, suckers!
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*Plus whatever we make from pulling a heist using <3 Rhomboid’s story…
A guy solicits plot ideas online, and suddenly there is a raft of crimes that are amazingly similar. It’s up to a lowly surfer to bring the culprit to justice.
‘Surfin’ The Web! Now on Hulu! Starring ________ and ________!
What stops magic/powers/futuristic types from pulling off a heist?
Is it that their special abilities don’t work at all there, putting them on the same level as the ordinary? Or is it that abilities become worse than useless — say, against barriers that stop, or are powered by, mystical auras and the folks emanating them, or something? Or is it that the abilities pretty much work just fine, and the fantastic security is largely a matter of identifying culprits or tracking them down or otherwise playing catch-up afterward? Or maybe abilities work just fine, and so do the also-works-just-fine abilities of the super-personnel standing guard?
Or what?
Could the heist be to steal some sort of material that renders the superpeople powerless (think Kryptonite), so having no powers makes no difference?