Stealth and Deception #5, Wednesday Morning,

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

After getting another handwaved e-mail to come to the Danger Shop, the students would have found if littered with doors. Lots and lots and lots of doors.

"Good morning class," Alfred said as they entered. "Breakfast and caffeine are over there. Get some, sit down, and we'll talk about infiltration. Now there are many types of alarms and many ways of keeping a person out of a door. But we who are exceptionally sneaky do not worry about such things as locks or alarms, do we?

"As I said before, the types of locks and alarms are limitless. And some of them require some very specialized knowledge and tools to break. Therefore, today we are only going to talk about one, the one with the most useful applications."

Alfred held up a rolled up black cloth and let it unroll, revealing a line of well kept tools.

"Today, class, we're going to talk about lockpicking."

So saying, he went into his lecture

After finishing, he took a sip of tea from a nearby cup and pointed to a table. "On that table are lockpicking sets. These aren't holographs, they're real lockpicking sets I obtained for you, and they are yours to keep.

He gestured to the doors behind him. "Have fun, class. I'll be here if you need any hands on assistance. And don't be afraid to ask."

He glanced down at his notes. "Oh, and will Miss Santos see me after class?"

_{[[The OCD, she is up, so have fun! I'll be absent for a good part of the day, so forgive me if I don't respond for a while.]]}

Comments

Sign In

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

All Collapse-y and pretty like

Re: Sign In

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi signs in.

Clandestinely.

Re: Sign In

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

Chat

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

Before, during, or after the lecture

Re: Chat

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi is terribly interested in all of this.

Near the end of the lecture, she does raise her hand.

Re: Chat

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

Alfred pointed to her. "Yes, Miss Longstocking?"

Re: Chat

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia listened to the lecture, though, again, this was all stuff she already knew.

At the end, though, she sat up a bit straighter.

"Aw, crap."

Re: Chat

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi pat her friend on the shoulder.

And refrained from singing the ever popular, "Nadia's in troooooouble!" song.

Re: Chat

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter gave her a sympathetic look, but he'd already spoken to Alfred on her behalf and that was about as good as it got.

Re: Chat

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki clung to her tea as she listened to the lecture. She hadn't been sleeping very well again, but at least she didn't forget to tie her bandages a little looser today.

Re: Chat

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip actually knew most of this already. HOwever, a little refresher never hurt anyone. Especially when it was from the master.

Lockpick

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

They're Batman-level lockpicks. So you're dealing with the really good tools.

Re: Lockpick

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi can not contain the squeels of glee.

Re: Lockpick

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana worked quite intently on her locks, showing a modicum of success at some of the easier ones. She found it terribly amusing to think that she would now have her own set of lockpicks.

Re: Lockpick

[nadiathesaint]

The first thing Nadia did was look over the set of lockpicks carefully. This was good stuff.

Then she set to work on each of the doors, unlocking the easier ones in moments, and taking the tiniest bit longer with each of the more complex locks.

Really, this was something she'd known how to do even before she was trained. Maybe she should drop this workshop?

Re: Lockpick

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras looked over the instructions and over the neat little set of lock picks. And, while learning to pick locks and getting practical experience could indeed be useful, this was also a prime time to observe experts in action.

So, Seras found herself a quiet corner and settled back to watch Nadia in action. She was somewhat distracted by Pippi's squeals of glee.

Re: Lockpick

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter's been forced to try this once or twice, so he's glad to actually get some training. The picks are a very welcome addition to his toolkit in some ways, and as he looks them over, he might be considering how to get his tailor to incorporate tiny pockets for them in his waistcoat.

Re: Lockpick

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

Briar calmly opened up all of the locks. He did stop to admire the lock-picks.

Re: Lockpick

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, lockpicking. Sakurazaki wasn't exactly the lockpicking type; it usually not necissary for type of work and it did rather go against the philosophy of her sort of work. She prefered....more brute methods of forced entry over such delicate ones. If it got to the point of breaking into a place, it was usually time to fight, anyway. Still, she does pretty well on the simpler locks, has to concentrate signficantly on the harder ones, and does experience a moment or two when she just wants to knock the shit over instead of dealing with the locks.

Re: Lockpick

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude was concentrating almost painfully hard on this lesson, his tongue poking out the side of his mouth. He was the forgetful kind of boy who was often without his keys, and all the locks in the mall (except the one on Ron's office - not surprising) were the kind to be easily jimmied with a SAK.

He was pretty sure after this lesson, Ron's office would be no longer safe.

Re: Lockpick

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

As it happens, Pip had worn his millitary coat to class and in said coat where his own lockpicks. So he had found himself one of the more complex locks and was comparing lockpicking speeds with both to judge which were better.

So far, Alfred's were winning.

Talk to Alfred

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

If you're Nadia, be afraid, be very afrad.

If you're anyone else, be happy!

Re: Talk to Alfred

[nadiathesaint]

"You wanted to see me, sir?"

Re: Talk to Alfred

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

After working with the locks, Seras came up to Alfred.

"I just wanted to thank you for that guest lecturer, Sir," she said, "It was really brilliant to be able to talk with a real police officer. And such an experienced one at that, Sir."

OOC

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

To show that I am le finished.