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?

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Re: At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

Atton rolled his eyes. "You have super speed," he said, "I asked earlier if you could use it in smaller ways, like that, and you said no. Being able to pick locks or do smaller things faster would be more useful than just plain speed - because when trying to be stealthy, there's only so many situations where running around at speeds beyond human-normal is going to be useful without drawing attention to yourself in the process. Or skimping on meticulousness. But if you could hack a security system at twice the speed, or go through a bunch of drawers at an accelerated rate, well, then we're really in business."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[spin_kick_snap]

"I said it depended," Kathy said in a small voice. She didn't like pushing back against a teacher, but then, she had used the caveat. "I don't know how to hack a security system so I don't know how fast I could do it. And I can't think faster than anyone else, so if I'm going through someone's drawers I'm limited to how quickly I notice...whatever I'm looking for."

Part of the problem was that she didn't know what it was she could do.

"If you need me to take a physical action, I can...probably?...do it at super-speed. But if it requires thought and concentration, I can only go as fast as I figure something out."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

"No, you said you couldn't do most things that depended on manual dexterity very fast," Atton retorted. "And don't give me the kicked puppy voice. I'm trying to make a realistic estimation of this particular talent of yours based on what you're saying to me right now, not judging you too short to ride at Disneyland."

... Sorry, Kathy.

"'I can't pick a lock at high speed', which you told me earlier, is something else than 'I could probably do most things if I knew how'. If you just need to know how, I can teach you. If you can't, we won't bother with that and we'll go down another hyperspace lane."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[spin_kick_snap]

No, no, it was legit, Atton.

She was blinking up at him, too surprised to comment at first.

"I--I'm not--I don't know. I was thinking about stuff like picking locks and writing by hand and stuff. I just--I'm not sure."

Re: At The End Of The Line...

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shrugged. "Then we'll go find out," he said.