Story/plot idea for Payday 3!

[WhiteTerrorist]

Wassup, heisters! Been thinking about this for a while and just wanted to get it out there. An idea for a version of Payday 3's story/plot. The Payday gang going global. Probably some Payday 2 spoilers.

PAYDAY 3

The story begins when the Payday gang has returned to the Washington safehouse. Remaining active members that haven’t retired or died yet for me would be - Sangres, Sokol, Joy and Duke as the main 4 for the start of the game. They revel in their notoriety, success and cash that they have after Payday 2 until one day their safehouse gets attacked by a military force (that turns out to be Kataru). They barely fight off the raid (with maybe a casualty from another PD2 character for drama) and receive a warning that Kataru will keep coming. Realizing that they are outnumbered and outgunned, the gang gather their unscorched things and leave for New York to try and escape.
While on the way there, heisters contact Dallas and Locke in Joy’s van to explain what happened. They conclude that this is war so they have to go after the remaining kings of Kataru or none of them will be safe. To do that the crew will need to travel east to Europe and Asia gathering allies and cash along the way. First they need a transport for that so Locke remembers that there's a military Boeing with a hub space and living quarters being guarded in a base nearby. Dallas supports the idea and says that he will send Houston to help since he has become a getaway pilot since PD2. The gang infiltrate the base, steal some weapons and board the plane when Houston catches up to them. They set off for Europe.
In the hub of the plane they come up with an idea on how to gather new allies and cash for their mission. Locke and Joy create a global version of Crime.net. Where criminals from around the world can help and get help from other criminals. Their first stop is in Spain where they meet a burly Spaniard to help him on a job after which he joins the gang and becomes friends with Sangres. Next they travel to France where they meet a cat burglar lady that Duke grows fond of while they rob the Louvre (or smth like that). After that they stop by the UK and cooperate on a job with a Jason Statham type character about Kataru European branch movements and help out Hoxton with Kataru attack on his mansion after which he joins the new crew for revenge. Then they go to Germany to acquire a talented engineer character. (All these characters could impact the gameplay or weapons in some way). At this point Sokol gets home sick so the gang does a heist in Russia and picks up a tough Russian lady for the team. While in the vicinity they drop by Sweden to check on Wolf since he’s been silent for a while only to find out that he has been killed by Kataru which reinforces Hoxton’s thirst for revenge. Then they jump to Italy to rob some locations with a Casanova Italian robber. Mostly the places they rob are connected to Kataru so at this point Locke pinpoints the king of the European Kataru branch has gone to Greece so the Payday gang follow him. In Greece they find Kataru king’s main base and an ancient temple connected with it for some multi-stage battling. Kataru seemed to know that they were coming so after a difficult fight (with the king having the ability to drain the lifeforce from his loyalists to stay alive using his own ‘’Ark of the Watcher’’, similar to the Dentist having had the ability to possess someone else) they defeated the king and ended the Kataru influence in Europe. His ‘’Ark of the Watcher’’ getting destroyed in the process. (I wanted to add Egypt heist as well but I don't know if it would fit better as a side heist or DLC.)
After Europe the Payday gang check-in with and remind Dallas to watch his back, and travel to Abu Dhabi for a quick heist. Then they do a heist in India where they meet a talented young Indian criminal that helps them and then joins the crew. Heister travels lead them to China where they attempt to raid a Chinese location when they are confronted by Kataru. Turns out they once again knew the PD gang was coming and prepared for it. After defeating the foe and looting the place, the gang starts to get suspicious of each other because Kataru knew they were coming back in Greece and now here. As well as multiple run-ins along other missions. The gang lands the plane and to narrow down the mole they decide to split into 3 teams 4 heisters each with Joy staying in the plane’s hub to oversee and report to Locke. All teams would get their Chinese heist locations separately so the one that meets Kataru should have the mole in it. The teams engage in their heists but sooner or later all of them run into Kataru. After getting through their heists, teams are left confused and on the way back they contact each other to assess the situation. When they arrive the gang is met with a dreadful surprise. Their plane explodes.
Now hubless, suspicious, confused and mourning Joy they all decide to stay together and keep an eye on each other. The gang contacts Locke to ask for guidance but he, distraught in his voice, could only explain that the last thing he could learn together with Joy was a big meeting of Kataru members will take place in Hong Kong. The building was heavily guarded but they still could choose the stealth option if they wished. The crew buys a bus and drives to Hong Kong. After making their way through the building gathering artifacts, the gang reaches the meeting room. Clearly surprising the members, they hold them at gunpoint and demand answers. The crew can only learn that the last king of Kataru had gone to Japan before one of the members taunts them with Joy’s death so the gang shoots them all to hell. With only one lead they contact Locke only for him to tell the crew to meet up with help in the Shanghai port in a few days. While being uneasy with each other but clearly wishing to see this to the end they arrive at the port on the designated day. To not waste the opportunity, the crew silently loots the port and meets up at the right dock. Worrying that they could get attacked at any moment they suddenly get spooked by the noise of a boat horn. They turn to the water and see it... Dallas’ Medic Bag docking with Locke and Chains in front of its deck.
All of them get on board, meet up and debrief on the situation. Then they set sail for Japan. Chains had ‘’jumped onboard’’ after he got attacked as well but him and Gage had enough firepower tucked away to fend Kataru off. He also brought that firepower with him on the yacht to arm the gang. Locke now wants retaliation for Joy. Dallas had his own hub on board so the gang could plan their strategy. When they arrive in Japan the crew decide again to split up into 3 teams with Locke, Chains and Dallas being their contractors. That way if there is a mole in one of the teams they wouldn’t be able to warn all 3 Kataru locations the gang is raiding. Surprisingly, none of the locations are on high alert so either the mole is playing a long con or it's not one of the teammates. After the 3 heists the contractors compile the info they retrieved. Learning that the gang weren’t expected by Kataru after receiving contracts face-to-face and not through the new Crime.net Locke suspects his creation is compromised. So he decides to create an ambush for Kataru by setting up a heist location where the gang will already wait for them. After 3 stages of bloody shootouts with 3 teams, the gang defeats the Kataru forces and learns from their dying captain (who could be the Watcher for the Asian Kataru king) that it was Joy that betrayed them and that she is with the last king.
Baffled by this revelation, the gang gathers all the information they have to pinpoint the location of the last Kataru head. They manage to narrow it down to 3 locations. The first team doesn’t find anything but valuable loot and some info about Kataru past at the first location. The second team finds valuable loot at the second location as well as an imprisoned Joy. After being freed she hacks into Kataru database to find out what happened to her. Turns out Joy’s parents were Asian Kataru loyalist descendants. And all Asian Kataru loyalists had to undergo a ritual that gave the Asian Kataru king the power to mind control any of them and their descendants (Kento was one such descendant). Asian Kataru king’s way of staying immortal was reincarnating through one of the babies of his loyalists and growing up to resume the throne. So when Kataru spies learned Joy’s identity and heritage the king took control of her and made her give up access to the new Crime.net for Kataru. Joy is devastated so the team takes her away and puts her somewhere safe until the king is dealt with. The third team got a lucky draw because the third location is the king’s domain. It is a base next to a mountain. They battle through the king’s lackies until they reach his throne room which has a huge cave behind the throne.
The room has many valuables from all over the world and different centuries. There is also a cryptic looking device which the gang assumes to be his ‘’Ark of the Watcher’’. After confronting the king he laughs and declares that even if the crew kills him he would return. That's when Locke realizes he can’t do that without his ‘’Ark’’ so he urges the Payday team to blow the device to bits. Doing that made the king release a frustrated scream before suddenly the cave starts to shake like something big is approaching. Then the crew nearly ♥♥♥♥ themselves because it turns out to be a giant Nephilim. It crushes the last king before he could beg for mercy and the gang now has to fight it. Emptying their weapons into the giant eventually brings it down but doing that also starts to bring down the cave so they bolt for the exit grabbing any treasure they can along the way. Barely escaping the crashing mountain, they make their way back to the Medic Bag. It then sets sail for America while the Payday gang celebrates all the way there.
When they reach California they sell all the loot they have gathered since China and split the money. After the final conversation, Locke reveals that there is another Boeing not too far away. Dallas jumps on his Medic Bag, Chains goes back to Hollywood while Hoxton hitches a ride on the plane to skydive over his mansion. Sangres takes his best friend Spaniard to Mexico. Duke has a romantic getaway with the cat burglar. Joy visits her parents while Sokol and Houston take the new team on heists all around the world. Locke has an off the record meeting with the president involving a few beers and cigars to fill him in on what his old gang has been up to. *roll credits*


That’s about it. Of course there’s character interactions and lore along the way as well as post game content but that’s for another time. This is a first for me so hope you liked it. If you have any questions, potential improvements and/or heist specifics, let me know. I’ll be posting this on Reddit and Steam cause I’m not sure which would care about this.

[Bad Ass Jorge]

Love the effort man I could tell you had fun good job

[Cursed Hawkins]

Ursprungligen skrivet av WhiteTerrorist:

Sangres, Sokol, Joy and Duke

Pretty sure these four ARE retired if you pay attention to their descriptions of what they did after the secret ending, to give you an idea on who's most likely gonna be in PD3 in some shape or form I suggest watching this video.
https://youtu.be/fICZ9307UcE

[MOSQUITO BURGERS]

We'll have to wait for John Wick 4 to provide us more clues.

[WhiteTerrorist]

Ive seen that vid before. It doesnt say that they have fully retired from crime. Just that they are doing smth else currently. I didnt really comply with those ending texts for this story cause they seemed a little too random for me.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cursed Hawkins:

Ursprungligen skrivet av WhiteTerrorist:

Sangres, Sokol, Joy and Duke

Pretty sure these four ARE retired if you pay attention to their descriptions of what they did after the secret ending, to give you an idea on who's most likely gonna be in PD3 in some shape or form I suggest watching this video.
https://youtu.be/fICZ9307UcE

[Cursed Hawkins]

Ursprungligen skrivet av WhiteTerrorist:

Ive seen that vid before. It doesnt say that they have fully retired from crime. Just that they are doing smth else currently. I didnt really comply with those ending texts for this story cause they seemed a little too random for me.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Cursed Hawkins:

Pretty sure these four ARE retired if you pay attention to their descriptions of what they did after the secret ending, to give you an idea on who's most likely gonna be in PD3 in some shape or form I suggest watching this video.
https://youtu.be/fICZ9307UcE

Well as of right now its the only connection to a story Overkill can work with! Especially when you take into account of all the characters that are either from over games outside of Overkill's creation like Jacket or movies like John Wick and Scarface likely aren't gonna be making any kind of reappearances in PD3 except maybe as easter eggs but that's about it. The endings also do mean that even if they appear "too random" to some people everyone does have to eventually retire from their line of work in some shape or form and I'm sure you've probably even seen a few people retire from their line of work that to you would be "too random"

[WhiteTerrorist]

Retcons happen often. They might do it as well. I just preferred to use their original characters cause like you said - crossover characters have a low chance of returning.


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Well as of right now its the only connection to a story Overkill can work with! Especially when you take into account of all the characters that are either from over games outside of Overkill's creation like Jacket or movies like John Wick and Scarface likely aren't gonna be making any kind of reappearances in PD3 except maybe as easter eggs but that's about it. The endings also do mean that even if they appear "too random" to some people everyone does have to eventually retire from their line of work in some shape or form and I'm sure you've probably even seen a few people retire from their line of work that to you would be "too random" [/quote]

[Cursed Hawkins]

@White
You don't have to type your comment first then quote who your trying to send that towards, sense that's likely has the chance of breaking the quotation system which just happened.

[RobertTGM]

Love the story. Maybe the beginning should be slowed down a little, like instead of the safehouse being attacked right away, heisters do some normal stealing heists before(banks, jewelry stores, museums etc.), then at one point in some of these heists (the younger heist chronologicaly), they get a message from kataru that they seek revenge for killing dentist and raids. Now that they know about the revenge, the gang seeks new members from Europe and other parts of the world (like in the story) they consider the best. They do heists around the world, raids, burglary etc. Also, old heisters that are like retired might give some information regarding story. Pretty much idea on how this might improve. Not saying its bad btw, you did a fantastic job. Respect. I have a question tho. After the Washington safehouse got raided, will the new one be the boat or the island in the secret ending? Maybe they could have something with the lore, like the island has some secret. I liked secret solving in the washington safehouse, maybe the could expand it.

[WhiteTerrorist]

Thank you for the kind words. Yeah i could see the beginning being stretched out but i just wanted to start off with a bang and considering i already put 25 heists in there i didnt want to spend too much time in America cause the previous 2 games already did plenty of that. I was thinking the safehouse would be the plane and sometimes the boat. Or maybe multiple buildings around the world cause those transports would run out of space for the heisters and their loot. Was it an island in the secret ending? I thought it was just a beach.