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    The Long Con by for FabulaRasa

    Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Green Lantern (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)  

    19 Jun 2021

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    There are 5 steps to a long con:

    1. Foundation work: Preparations are made in advance of the game, including the hiring of any assistants required and studying the background knowledge needed for the role.

    2. Approach: The victim is approached or contacted.

    3. Build-up: The victim is given an opportunity to profit from participating in a scheme. The victim's greed is encouraged, such that their rational judgment of the situation might be impaired.

    4. Pay-off or convincer: The victim receives a small payout as a demonstration of the scheme's purported effectiveness. This may be a real amount of money or faked in some way. In a gambling con, the victim is allowed to win several small bets. In a stock market con, the victim is given fake dividends.

    5. The “Hurrah”: A sudden manufactured crisis or change of events forces the victim to act or make a decision immediately. This is the point at which the con succeeds or fails.

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    Hal is adamant that he's not going to spend Bruce's money. Bruce intends to change his mind about that. (A sort-of 5+1 fic)

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    12 Aug 2025

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    a place we've never been before by

    Fandoms: One Piece  

    17 Aug 2022

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    It’s hard to know when the first time was, because there was so much going on and it’s not like Sanji hadn’t clawed his way back from certain death before. Later, Chopper will insist that several of those bullets should have struck him dead and Jinbei will be sure that no one could survive a fire like that and Usopp swears he saw a whole building come down on their cook — but then they will all later concede that, actually, they had seen Sanji survive all of those things before, so the whole thing was all still up in the air.

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    Thirty-seven ways Sanji doesn't die.

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    07 May 2023

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    Viscount Addams by

    Fandoms: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms  

    15 May 2020

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    You know the story of Little Lotte and the boy who rescued her red scarf from the sea. This is not that story. 

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    21 Apr 2021