Tricks, Cons and Bamboozles | Wednesday | Period 1

[charming_thief]

Today in class, the students were fortunate enough to have a fully-human, fully-clothed teacher. Sure, that teacher was one who had spent the weekend sobbing into an empty bottle of Bordeaux, but that was neither here nor there.

“Today,” said Neal, “we’re going to do a couple of workshops.”

The room was set up with three main tables, with various pieces of equipment in buckets on each one. Yes, the class was a bit small to do workshops like this, but that was what he was doing and that was that.

“I’ve set up three main stations for you all, and each one focuses on a different manual task that’s pretty much essential in this field. I’m not saying you have to be experts at it, especially if you want to move to the more white-collar stuff, but you’ve got to know the basics. So here we have lock-picking, pickpocketing, and forgery.” He pointed to each table as he spoke, then shrugged.

“Any questions?” 

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Re: Station Two: Pickpocketing

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

The bad news: Bruce had big, strong hands that would make it tough to just reach in and grab the wallet. On the other hand, he trained in multiple hidden cities in the ways of martial arts, where they taught speed and stealth.

If he needed to steal a wallet from a real person, he'd probably create innocent physical contact and use that to distract from the theft. But with bells, he just had to take his time and be careful.

Which he did. And he was. So that went easily enough.