Thief

The Thief is a both an NPC and playable character in Streets of Rogue. They wear a stereotypical criminal outfit with black and white stripes.

Super Special Ability

 * Pickpocket without being noticed.
 * When you start the game with Super Special Abilities mutator enabled, you will begin with a Skeleton Key and Safe-Cracking Tool instead of 3 Lockpicks and 3 Safe Busters.

NPC
As a NPC, the Thief will generally spawn in houses, Shelters, and Drug Dens, and will be chased out of shops they spawn in due to the fact that they're Suspicious. They tend to carry crowbars.

When walking past a Thief that's not Loyal, Friendly, Aligned or without having Honor Among Thieves, they may steal an item from you and run away and become Hostile. They will not leave the level, and can be found and killed, although they will keep on running away which may make this difficult.

In Downtown, they can jump out of Manholes, unless you have Honor Among Thieves. Once they jump out, they will attempt to steal an item and run away. Again, if you find and kill them, you can get your lost item back.

The Thief can steal from other NPCs as well. They will continue to run away from everyone, including you, for the duration of the level. And they also attack characters riding the Mech or that have Scumbag Slaughterer in sight.

You can hire thieves to open a Door or break a Window for a price. They will leave your party after being done with this task however. There is also a bug where they will not open Steel doors.

Drops

 * Money.png Money
 * Crowbar.png Crowbar
 * CardboardBox.png Cardboard Box
 * BodySwapper.png Body Swapper (Item)
 * Lockpick.png Lockpick
 * SafeBuster.png Safe Buster
 * WallBypasser.png Wall Bypasser
 * WindowCutter.png Window Cutter

Playable

 * How to fight: You have average attack stats and low health as a Thief, so be cautious. The whole point of playing a Thief is not to get caught or seen. If you do need to kill somebody, try to ambush and overwhelm them with attacks before they can fight back.
 * How to finish a mission: Your thief equipment will make retrieval missions very easy but make sure consider your options for each mission carefully. You only have so many uses of your thief equipment after all. Try to avoid and reduce combat as much as possible. Look for alternate ways to complete missions instead of the normal "kill everything" approach.
 * As a Thief, you are heavily reliant on your starting items. If you run out, you should look for either another Thief to buy items from (Thanks to Honor Among Thieves), or buy them from a Loadout-O-Matic.
 * Sticky Glove lets you steal from strangers on the streets for Money and various items. It's in your best interest to rob everyone you can.
 * Your Cardboard Box allows you to move through cameras' lines of sight without setting off their alarms. Usually you should use it to move around hideouts
 * If you do happen to be spotted under a Cardboard Box, take it off as quickly as possible, even if it means getting spotted by a camera. If the hostile NPC uncovers you, a cardboard box is permanently lost from your inventory
 * NPC Thieves are most common in the Slums and Industrial zones, non-existent in the Park, and rare in Downtown and Uptown. Make sure to stock up on extra thief equipment early!
 * Loneliness Killer is a really good trait for the Thief as it will give you a shop every floor and a free lockpick or window cutter.

NPC

 * Without Honor Among Thieves, thieves wandering the level can steal from you. These items they can steal also includes weapons and armor from your inventory, such as Axes if it's not currently held in your hand. Should this happen the thief will smack you with your Axe they just stole from you. Avoid being seen by them or take them out in sight.


 * If you want to hire a thief without them stealing from you. Thieves inside of buildings such as Apartments and Drug Dens are usually safe to hire. Freed thieves from Prisons are also safe to hire as well since they're Loyal towards you.
 * Also making them Friendly or Aligned will make them not steal from you. Either by using Cologne or using a Hypnotizer on one.
 * The Bartender doesn't usually have to worry about it, since Charismatic makes them already friendly towards you.


 * With the Shop Drops trait. Thieves will drop items they usually sale, even without Honor Among Thieves, this can be extremely helpful for stealth runs.

General chat:

 * The only prize I've never stolen, is the heart of another. Sigh.
 * Know what's really hardcore? Pickpocketing yourself. Super hard.
 * When you steal something, at what point does it truly become your own?
 * I prefer when people don't catch me stealing, it makes things really awkward.
 * Word of advice, never try to pickpocket a naked person.


 * Hello, fellow criminal scum! (If the player is also a Thief or has Honor Among Thieves)

Hiring:

 * You're the boss! (Upon being hired)

Stealing using Sticky Glove:

 * Yoink!

At the Homebase:

 * I've been able to 'confiscate' some things for the Resistance...

Trivia

 * In the early Chinese version of the game, the Thief wore solid black clothes instead of the black and white stripes.