Practical Diplomacy, Friday, February 17, 2017

[sith_happened]

Today the class was meeting in the Danger Shop, and the scenario was set up to look like a busy open air city market. "When you are acting as a diplomat, you aren't working in a vacuum," Anakin said. "There are numerous other groups who are invested in making you fail in your operation, or even just knowing what you're doing. Today we're going to have an exercise about being aware of your surroundings, dodging a tail, and tailing a target yourself."

"One would think this is an easy exercise, but it is not," Obi-Wan said mildly. "There is a veritable treasure trove of ways in which people can keep track of not just your movements, but your communications. You may also wish to consider leaving your communications devices at home."

Anakin nodded. "Even on this primitive planet--" ANAKIN, "--there are hundreds of phone apps designed to look like one thing that are really serving as recording devices. Flashlight applications, for instance."

"So do make sure to check your cell phone," Obi-Wan said. "The sim may make use of it as well."

The sim would definitely make use of it because Anakin was a cheating cheater. "Remember that your appearance can be changed--so can the way you walk, how you hold yourself, and so on and so on. Your job is to not be noticed."

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Re: Prepare to be sneaky!

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot eyed the offered hand, and then smiled a little as she took it. She pulled herself to her feet and gave a little nod, resisting the urge to giggle in glee as her hair bobbled around with the motion.

"Yes! Let's!"

Okay, the excuse to play dress-up, she was all for.

Re: Prepare to be sneaky!

[boneyard_girl]

"So, 'tights' are stretchy fabric leg coverings that come in lots of colors," Ada said, already looking for things for Peridot. "They're useful because they also cover your feet, so there's no gaps showing your skin. You wear 'em under a skirt or dress, or even shorts."

"You're also gonna want a shirt of some sort, an' maybe a hat," she continued. "I'd say try anything on, an' I'll tell you yes or no?"

Re: Prepare to be sneaky!

[era_two_triangle]

"I can do that," Peridot all but chirped, and set right to work starting to rummage through the selection. Stretchy leg coverings... shirt, hat. Layers. Oh, there was a puffy green thing that looked like a shirt if the arm-coverings were torn off, and...

She blinked and held up a pair of sneakers.

And then gasped and immediately pulled them on. She'd have to remove them to get the tights on later, but for the time being, limb enhancers.

Sort of.

Re: Prepare to be sneaky!

[boneyard_girl]

Ada, meanwhile, had slipped into a suit that fit well enough, and was something a hipster PTA parent might wear.

"You findin' stuff?" she asked, as she rummaged around for shoes. "Holler if you want help."

Re: Prepare to be sneaky!

[era_two_triangle]

"Stuff," Peridot proclaimed, grinning like a lunatic as she made her way up to Ada, clad in... well, clothes, definitely. She'd found a pair of black tights for herself, and had slipped a pair of jean shorts on overtop them. The slouch socks she was wearing with her sneakers had apparently taken one look at the eighties and decided that that particular decade wasn't eighties enough for them. The long-sleeved shirt she picked had little green alien face print on a white background (and good luck getting her to change out of that, Ada), and the whole ensemble was topped off with a green puffy vest and a ball cap. "I found plenty of stuff!"

That she had. Oh, that she had.