Vox Akuma’s Legion Finally Pulls Off the Laundromat Heist After Hours of Server Trouble

NIJISANJI — Vox Akuma and the Legion gang completed the laundromat heist on Day 9 of DistrictV2, a Grand Theft Auto V roleplay server, more than ten hours into the stream. A server outage and a painfully slow game download had put the day’s chance at it in doubt. The heist produced a Bobcat security key card, which Vox said opens the next heist in the chain.

The server was down for hours. Vox spent the wait in World of Warcraft on a roleplay realm, leveling a warrior and chatting with viewers, and said at one point that the outage was close to four hours. When the server came back, the roleplay server’s in-game trading card game, which features the streamers themselves, had to download first, and it crawled. Vox tried a VPN without success, then flushed the computer’s DNS cache on a viewer’s suggestion, after which the download sped up. Vox said the server’s staff could not extend the day, so crime had to be set up within about 30 minutes.

“We took a long time but we made it. We made it in the end.” — Vox Akuma, after the heist

The laundromat then proved as temperamental as the gang had feared. The clerk at the front desk stuck with his hands up and could not be interacted with, and the group spent a long stretch working out how to get the door code. Once inside, the crew left with the heist folder and the Bobcat key. A police chase followed, including officers on bikes, and ended with the crew hiding and then splitting up to meet back at base.

Earlier in the stream, Vox’s character Ricky Pizza broke from his newsreader role on a live Weasel News segment and shot a man on air, a bit Vox said grew out of an idea from a post on Twitter. Vox also played Father Archibald, who tearfully addressed a congregation about the desecration of his church. Chat sent 37 Super Chats and Stickers over the night, and the busiest stretches of chat came as the server reconnected and during the final chase.

Vox said the Bobcat heist is next, one he had helped test, and that the crew will need items such as C4. As for the next day, Vox said the character Local Citizen would return and that it would be “a very interesting day.”