Congratulations on Casting In With a Den of Thieves!

You’re an unsuccessful graduate student working towards your doctorate in theoretical chemistry. Your research primarily concerns manipulating enthalpy and entropy in order to generate favorable conditions for reactions regardless of environmental circumstances.

It’s pseudoscience at best, rooted entirely in equations, and you’ve had absolutely no luck moving forward at all. While you acquired a lot of funding based on your promising performance at various other academic institutions your lack of productivity has lead to the loss of most of your financing as well as all of your grant money.

You’re already falling on hard times and by the beginning of next week you’ll be hitting rock bottom. You’ll be considering a move back in with your parents and taking some researching positions when a knock sounds at your door.

An attractive young woman will be standing there, looking pissed off. She’ll be slight of build, pretty without being intimidating and she’ll have eyes that seem to see through you.

Still, she’ll seem completely natural there, like you were expecting her and she’s just showed up a little late. She’ll push past you, knock your books off the coffee table, scattering them on to the floor and say “What the fuck are you doing with your life?”

You’ll stammer. You’ll tell her you’re trying to do important work, maybe the most important work ever. You’ll tell her that you’re trying to uncover just what makes the universe tick and figure out how to best use it. You’ll tell her all that without knowing why you’re telling her.

She’ll look you up and down slyly, then lean close to your ear and say “Want to do something real important, right here, right now?”

Her body inches from you, she’ll outline her plan for the heist tomorrow, knowing exactly what parts you can and can’t handle. Before she leaves you’ll know for a fact that she’s the most entrancing woman you’ve ever met, but you won’t be able to recall her face for the life of you.

You’ll spend the rest of the night trying to figure out just what happened and why you felt such a connection to that woman. But you’ll never second guess your choice to help her. You’ll see the right in it, in her way of thinking, and you’ll want nothing more than to help her.

The next day you’ll show up at the appointed place at the appointed time outside the lab where you’ve been doing your research. Together you’ll grab what she needed, and by the day’s end your head will be crystal clear and you’ll know there’s no turning back.

We don’t want to spoil anything, but say hi to Solid Gold Gorilla when you see him and congratulations on casting in with a den of thieves.