Creative Problem Solving, Tuesday, period 3

[vdistinctive]

The Danger Shop today was programmed to look like the courtyard in front of a large, swanky mansion, with four sets of elegant French doors closed on what looked like quite the elegant gala going on inside. Eliot stood with his arms crossed next to a fountain in the middle of the courtyard, nodding to the students as they came in.

Parker was wearing a cocktail dress. That was her only apparent concession to the venue; her hair wasn’t done, she wasn’t wearing jewelry. Or make-up. Or shoes.

“Today instead of busting out? You’re busting in. Although, you know, if you want to be subtle, you can do that too.”

"Behind us is the party of the year. Full of rich, influential people, good music, and some of the finest damn fondue you're gonna get outside of southern Europe." If Eliot did say so himself. "To get in, you gotta get past one of these four people." He hit a button and a simulated doorman appeared in front of each of the french doors. Two looked just like him, only in different outfits. Two looked just like Parker.

"How you do that is up to you. You could dress up and try to look all fancy and talk your way in. You could dress down an' tell 'em you're staff and talk your way in. You could distract 'em and sneak your way in. You could try fighting 'em." He smiled. "That's usually my favorite, but not usually for gettin' in."

Parker rolled her eyes at that. “Anyway, there are security guys around. I won’t say how many. So if you do decide to start a fight, it probably won’t finish up one-on-one. Have an exit plan!” She shook a finger at them. “Remember! Only people who can’t run go to jail for assault with a deadly weapon!”

Eliot frowned. "That is not a saying." Just so the kids understood that. "Parker just made that up."

Which wasn't saying it wasn't true.

Comments

Sign in

[vdistinctive]

Ready for a party!

Re: Sign in

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy Li

Re: Sign in

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Toby Logan

Strategize

[vdistinctive]

There's a tent set up with moddable clothing options. Working together is always an option!

Re: Strategize

[spin_kick_snap]

After class with Irene, Kathy was less hesitant to pick out something short and tight than she might otherwise have been. She might not be sure that she had 'it' to flaunt, but if she needed to climb up something high to get in or out, having a skirt that wasn't going to get caught on anything was a plus.

Now she just had to work on faking the attitude to pull this dress off. Oy.

Re: Strategize

[doesnotkneel]

Edward was entirely sure he could talk his way in. It was whether he wanted to that was the question. Practicing his sneaking was also tempting, though less likely to end in success.

Decisions, decisions.

Re: Strategize

[bearmaidenfair]

Vider, after considering her options, put her hands on her hips and concluded, "I have a problem."

The problem was fairly obvious, as it was on her face and made her rather distinctive, and if anyone wanted to help her brainstorm how to get around it, she thought that would be great.

Re: Strategize

[spin_kick_snap]

"Makeup?" Kathy suggested after I double-checked to make sure there was some in the tent. "You could go one of two ways, I think. Either a lot of foundation to cover up the mark and hope it stays covered that way, or you could try to make it look like something else. Cover it in fake scar tissue, like a burn or something? People try not to look at disfigured people straight on, because it could be rude."

Re: Strategize

[flickofthewrist]

Flick was back on the island for class and then he was going back to New York. So, his thoughts were a little muddled while he tried to strategize something to work here so he could leave quick.

Re: Strategize

[princessarcasm]

Amy didn't really see herself as the cocktail dress kind of gal. Revealing her legs or her midriff wasn't really her style, and she couldn't walk in heels. She doubted she could ever fake her way into something like this by pretending she was one of the guests.

So she changed into black pants and a white button-down shirt and added a black bowtie. She was a caterer, see?

It would have worked a little bit better if she had put her hair up today, but she figured it was close enough.

Re: Strategize

[likes-ducklings.livejournal.com]

"Do you think if I carried my hair in they'd think it was some kind of delivery?" Rapunzel asked aloud, sifting through the wardrobe options.

She wasn't usually exactly sneaky. Or...fighty. Or great at talking her way out of anything.

Get in!

[vdistinctive]

Pick a doorway and try to con your way past the sim. (Sims will ping in in their own subthreads with full descriptions)

Re: Get in! - Sim the first

[vdistinctive]

A slightly blank-faced guy in a knit beanie and a t-shirt with meta for ET on it, he keeps looking suspiciously at his list and then up into the sky.

Re: Get in! - Sim the first

[notamascot]

"How much trouble am I in?" Kaylin asked the man nervously. "Am I even at the right door? Oh, I'm so dead."

She hadn't changed and was just in her slightly shabby brown tunic pants with a covering brown tunic.

Re: Get in! - Sim the second

[vdistinctive]

This one looks like a fairly plain, boring, moderately well dressed man in a pony tail and glasses, he's got his list tucked under his arm and seems to be paying more attention to Parker's cocktail dress than anything else.

Re: Get in! - Sim the second

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy had her eye on two of the sims, one of which was this guy. Rather than approaching him right away, she lingered back and kept an eye on how he interacted with other guests. Was he attracted to their teacher specifically, or would anything in a skirt do?

Re: Get in! - Sim the third

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

This person looks like she raided Bjork's closet. She's avoiding eye contact with you. And everyone else. We're also not sure what language that is she's speaking.

Re: Get in! - Sim the third

[spin_kick_snap]

This was the other sim Kathy was keeping an eye on. She didn't know if she could try twice (maybe with a costume change?), but if her plan for the first guy didn't work out, she thought she was hatching a viable plan on getting in with this...fine and upstanding party goer.

Re: Get in! - Sim the fourth

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

This person is talking very quickly on her phone, eating a donut, drinking a latte, and scanning the place for who knows what. "Yeah, I mean, we have people from the antiquities department in Cairo here... No, Illinois, not Egypt... yes, and a few people from Athens-- what, of course Greece. Seriously?"

Good luck getting her attention.

Re: Get in! - Sim the fourth

[princessarcasm]

This one looked easy enough to get by. In her makeshift catering uniform, Amy ducked her head and attempted to walk right past her.

Talk to the teachers

[vdistinctive]

See if Parker's outfit gets any weirder

Re: Talk to the teachers

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Oh, it does. Aside from the Shoeless Debutante and the Escapee From a Mob Wedding, there's an FBI agent. And a nun. Happily eating chocolate-covered strawberries.

Re: Talk to the teachers

[vdistinctive]

"You know the outfits were for the students, right?"

Re: Talk to the teachers

[vdistinctive]

Eliot's not changing clothes without an actual con. (Half the time he doesn't bother changing clothes on the actual cons.)

OOC

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