Sneaking 101, Thursday

[suitably_heroic]

The first thing students would encounter upon entering the Danger Shop was a long, brick corridor. It was dark; in the distance, you could just about see the flicker of a torch, and some branching pathways: a left turn, a right, and a door to the right just in front of the split.

There was a note tacked to the wall, just illuminated enough to be readable: YOU WANT TO GO RIGHT. DON'T BE SEEN.

Well. That was clear enough, right?

Comments

Sign In!

[suitably_heroic]

Sneaking in.

Re: Sign In!

[gavegoodface]

Garik Loran

Re: Sign In!

[goforthe_optics]

Tali'Zorah

Investigate Your Environment

[suitably_heroic]

But take care. At the end of the corridor isn't just a split: the door to the right is the entrance to a guard post. You can't hear them from here, but once you round the corner, you'll notice the giant window the guard is squinting through.

There's a torch opposite the window.

To the left is a maze of tiny rooms: living quarters and a furnace room. At the end of this maze is another door back into the corridor just past the window, but there is another guard patrolling this maze.

Re: Investigate Your Environment

[goforthe_optics]

So, sneaking? Not Tali's strong point, thus her presence in this class. She took a while to evaluate her options; she might have been overthinking it.

Quite a bit. For instance, she started contemplating the idea of putting out that torch somehow, and then ended up having to stop herself halfway through mentally designing a device to do it.

Re: Investigate Your Environment

[tigerundercover]

Raven shrunk down into a snake and kept low in the shadows along the bottom of the wall. It did make some investigating, like, say, looking through any windows, very hard to do.

But it also made it incredibly difficult for the guard looking through the window to see her, either.

Re: Investigate Your Environment

[spin_kick_snap]

Hmm. The usual methods Kathy used for sneaking didn't seem available to her. The walls were too smooth and uniform for her to parkour her way down the hall and the ceiling didn't have any useful handholds for her to cling to and crawl along.

On the other hand, the walls were definitely close enough to bounce between. And the brick was thick enough to dampen the sound of her passage. Hmm...maybe. People were notoriously bad about looking up.

Re: Investigate Your Environment

[bearmaidenfair]

Vider considered her options for all of about .2 seconds. If someone was telling her she wanted to go right, she was going left. That was just obvious, if you were or had been Lokiskin.

Sneak In!

[suitably_heroic]

So you've got some choices before you.

Do you try to lockpick your way into the guard post and take out the guard? Do you find some way to quietly douse the torch so you can sneak past? Or do you chance the maze?

Or do something else?

Re: Sneak In!

[goforthe_optics]

Tali decided to take her chances with the maze, which went fine for the most part, right up until she got caught by the guard at the end of it. Sigh.

Re: Sneak In!

[tigerundercover]

Was creeping past as a snake cheating? Pfft, whatever. Raven was totally creeping past as a snake anyway.

If she got bored in later classes, she'd give a shot to doing the challenges without shapeshifting, but for the time being, she was just feeling pretty smug.

Re: Sneak In!

[spin_kick_snap]

In the end, Kathy went with the easiest method. Yanking her shirt off, she used it to snuff the torch, and as soon as it was dark, she took off down the hall at top speed.

It wasn't particularly elegant, but it got the job done. She was down the corridor before the guard in the booth even had a chance to open the door.

At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

...Atton's waiting, either for students to come sneaking in or for the NPC guards to haul them in.

"Hey," he announced, "Welcome to Sneaking 101. That was your first test. The next few weeks, we'll be working on some place a little more impressive."

He pointed to a student at random.

"You. Name, the reason why you're here, and one personal trait or skill that might work in your advantage when you're breaking into or out of some place."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[goforthe_optics]

"Bosh'tet," Tali muttered at the guard who herded her into the room, and you didn't have to see her face to know she was glaring at him as he left.

"Tali, and I think that pretty much explains why I'm here," she said. "My sneaking skills could definitely use some work."

When most of the action you saw involved walking into warehouses where people immediately started shooting at you, there wasn't much of a chance to practice being stealthy, okay?

"I'm pretty good at thinking on my feet. That's probably my biggest advantage there."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

"Still got you arrested this time," Atton mused. "What would you do differently next time?"

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[smilestopscars]

Ezra was buttoning up his shirt when he sauntered in. Because of course he'd stripped and turned into a fox the first chance he got. It'd been easy to carry his clothes past the big window right underneath it when he was as small as he was as a fox.

"Ezra Sagishi, thought this would be an easy class, and I'm a natural at breaking into and out of places."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

"Neat trick," Atton said, a shrug in his voice. "That ever give out on you?"

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[gavegoodface]

Face successfully came sneaking in. It was probably best not to ask how and why exactly he ended up covered in grease.

"Face, it sounded fun," he said cheerfully. "I'm told I'm okay at acting, which could be useful if there's people about."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

"Ohhh. You're the kid from Pantolomin," Atton said, largely because he happened to have stopped by there with Sparks a couple of weeks ago and so at least the topic of Face was more or less fresh in his memory. "So you're a fast talker? That can either work in your favor, or get your ass thrown in with the rancors, depending."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[tigerundercover]

"I'm Raven Darkholme," Raven said. "I'm here because I've had to do a lot of sneaking around in my life, and I'm always up for learning new tricks. Though being able to turn into just about anything is pretty helpful already."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

Alex had morphed the second that she had the chance to and had used her power to pretty much bypass everything and so by the time she finished, all she had to do was morph back and sneak in.

"I'm Alex Mack," she said, "and I'm here because it seemed like a skill I could always further develop and my ability to morph into a puddle of liquid works pretty well when I'm trying to break in or out of something,"

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[spin_kick_snap]

Much like Ezra, Kathy was pulling her shirt on when she walked into the room, though she didn't have anywhere near as cool as reason for taking it off in the first place.

"I'm Kathy," she said, tugging her ponytail out of her shirt collar. "I'm here because I spend a lot of time skulking around rooftops in Baltimore as a hobby and I figure any way of getting better at it will probably serve me well. My greatest asset is my speed. At a full sprint, I can run a mile in about forty seconds."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[bearmaidenfair]

Having successfully made it through the maze, Vider reported in with, "Vider Bearskin. I'm here because I'm already pretty good at this and I wanted to see if there was anything you could teach me." She did not mention that her last teacher had been Loki. A girl had to keep a few things in her back pocket. "And...I'm pretty handy with a lockpick."

Talk to the Teacher... or Soon-To-Be TA

[suitably_heroic]

Atton's there for you to talk to, of course.

OOC

[suitably_heroic]

Welcome to 'I abuse my encyclopedic knowledge of stealth games' hour. First test hails from that classic gem, 'Thief 2'!