Pick & Lift
Read the crowd. Pick the mark. Be gone. 3 Nerve per try. Watch the crowd stream past.
- Nerve per try
- 3
- Unlock
- Open from the start
- Enhancer
- Long Coat +5%
- Targets
- 6
How it works
Watch the crowd stream past. Read each person's tell and tap your mark while they are in reach. Some marks are cops.
Press Watch and a crowd walks past for a few seconds. In clear weather 7 people pass; in rain or a storm only 5. Each person shows a look and a tell, and you pick one of them while they are in reach. You get one pick per crowd, and the Nerve is only spent when you pick.
At first you only see the tells. Pick a type of mark 3 times and you learn to read them: from then on the crowd shows their name and your odds against them.
Reading the crowd
| Mark | Tells | How often | Base odds | Critical fail | Rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Tourist Wide eyes, open bag. | checking a paper map, camera around the neck, staring up at the towers | 22% | 72% | 3%: jail 5 min to 15 min | $20 to $80 cash (58%), Lost Wallet (20%), Burner Phone (14%), Designer Shades (8%) |
| Tired Commuter Running on autopilot. | headphones in, half asleep on their feet, scrolling a phone | 22% | 64% | 4%: jail 5 min to 15 min | $15 to $60 cash (50%), Wireless Earbuds (22%), Burner Phone (20%), Lost Wallet (8%) Unique: Unsent Love Letter: 0.8% per success from skill 10, once per player |
| Night Owl Had a good night. Will not remember you. Only at dusk and night. | swaying slightly, singing off-key, leaning on a lamp post | 16% | 78% | 2%: hospital 5 min to 10 min | $5 to $120 cash (68%), Pack of Smokes (17%), Lost Wallet (15%) |
| Glass Quarter Exec Expensive everything. Skill 15+. | tailored coat, loud on a call, checking a steel watch | 12% | 45% | 6%: jail 15 min to 30 min | $100 to $400 cash (48%), Steel Watch (20%), Bottle of Cologne (17%), Gold Chain (15%) |
| Wary Local Born here. Knows the game. | hand on their pocket, glancing around, walking fast | 16% | 32% | 8%: hospital 10 min to 20 min | $30 to $150 cash (80%), Gold Chain (20%) |
| Plainclothes Officer Looks like anyone. Is not. | scanning faces, a coiled earpiece wire, standing too still | 12% | 15% | 75%: jail 20 min to 45 min | $150 to $500 cash (100%) |
Weather
Fog adds +5% to every mark and a storm takes away 5%.
Odds, critical fails, skill XP and Crime Rank work the same for every crime: see how crimes work. The Long Coat only has to be in your inventory to count.