Took a different approach this time, kept it simple. Snuck onto the property, subdued the staff working around the ground floor bathroom/locker room near the kitchen, and waited for the target to arrive. Places the two coins found in the hallway near here on the ground inside to make him get close before putting on his staff disguise, and hugged the wall inside the niche where the toilet is, Black Lily at the ready. As soon as he came inside, approached the coins, and the door closed behind him, I leaned out from behind the wall and plugged him twice in the chest. Subdued his guard, snuck my way up to where the painting is, used the target’s own hobby knife to claim it, then snuck my way to the exit. No thrills or frills, first try, SA 5 star.
I chose to do it this way because I try to follow a theme for the ETs every year, and after killing the Heartbreaker with his own scalpel and electrocuting the Broker, I’ve decided that this year, all ETs who are explicit killers (i.e. the Collector, the Censor, etc.), or implicit killers who are repeat offenders (i.e. the Deceivers, The Rage, etc.) will be directly assassinated, and in ways that I’ve never killed them before, while all other ETs will be killed in accidents, in the way I usually kill them. The exceptions to this are the Fixer, who is not a killer as far as we know, and who I stabbed with a knife, and the Liability, who by his nature I simply can’t pass up killing via accident every time, even though he’s an implicit killer. I may alter this strategy here and there depending on how I feel at the time any given ET is activated, but that’s how I plan to approach the rest of Year 5 as of now.