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| | Alright. Sure. I'll just... sort through this. [Gesturing vaguely at the box, as he picks it back up. Yep. Okay, he's gonna. Go do that. ...and first things first dig out his charger because his phone is super dead by now] |
[And Edward is going to sort through his stuff. Clothes are all there, so those can stay in the box, that's good. There's some books that look... worn. Some of them look like puzzle books.
And... is that a set of lockpicks.]
And... is that a set of lockpicks.]
Um. Yeah. I'm... pretty good at picking locks, I guess.
| | [........okay he didn't see that coming.] ...You want to learn? Really? [that's kind of surprising] |
| | Yes, of course I do. [he shuts his laptop, then, shoving it off his lap and onto the couch so he can crawl over to the arm of the couch and peer over it at what Edward is doing in his Box of Things--especially at those lockpicks] It's a very useful skill to have and one I've been meaning to cultivate. |
| | [The box is mostly just a mess of clothes, a few (old, very worn) books, some... sudoku books. What looks like a little travel sized chess set. That... kind of looks to be it.] ...I could teach you, sure. It's not that hard with some practice. |
| | [He blinks. ...Oh, he meant. Now? Like. Like, now, now?] Ah, well. First we kind of need a lock, but. Hold on. [Edward digs through his stuff a little more. There's a small locked box. He takes it out, setting it on the coffee table. And he sets the lockpicks out, too. edward why do you just HAVE THIS] There's different lockpicks for different locks, but Gotham has a lot of old tumbler locks, so that's not much of an issue, usually. For that you want this pick... [setting aside the regular lockpick] ...and a tension wrench. [and that, too.] |
First you're going to want to take the tension wrench and try to move the lock to the side.
[Edward does so. When he turns it to the left, it doesn't budge, but to the right, it gives... a little.]
So you know right away which way the key has to turn.
[Edward does so. When he turns it to the left, it doesn't budge, but to the right, it gives... a little.]
So you know right away which way the key has to turn.
Yeah. And then you want to insert the pick and... feel it out, a little? You have to get a good feeling of the space, since you can't see inside the lock.
Then you have to carefully push the pins up inside with the pick. One of them will hold more, and that's the one you gotta push up first and then you just sort of keep going. One at a time. Carefully feeling out which one will hold next. It has to be careful, so the lock doesn't freeze.
And once they're all in place you can just... turn the lock.
Then you have to carefully push the pins up inside with the pick. One of them will hold more, and that's the one you gotta push up first and then you just sort of keep going. One at a time. Carefully feeling out which one will hold next. It has to be careful, so the lock doesn't freeze.
And once they're all in place you can just... turn the lock.
Well, if you're lucky you can just relieve the pressure of the pick and wrench and it'll reset on its own. If it doesn't, you might have to lubricate the lock, but that's not necessarily an option if you're just out and about.
[He's. Had some experience with this.]
[He's. Had some experience with this.]
It's really only helpful if it's something small you can take to unlock elsewhere, but that's not really going to be a common thing.
If it freezes, you just have to hope it resets or give up. Realistically speaking.
If it freezes, you just have to hope it resets or give up. Realistically speaking.
Sure.
[And Edward... well, it's kind of fast, actually. He works carefully, yes, but smoothly. He's done this a lot, he knows what he's doing. So it only takes a few moments for him to unlock the box.]
...It's just kind of like a puzzle, really.
[And Edward... well, it's kind of fast, actually. He works carefully, yes, but smoothly. He's done this a lot, he knows what he's doing. So it only takes a few moments for him to unlock the box.]
...It's just kind of like a puzzle, really.
| | [Edward blinks a little.] Well, I... I've had a lot of practice. |
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