Ample cleavage is a blessing and a curse. Usually a curse, because men and because aerodynamics and center of gravity, which are fancy terms she doesn't know related to 'moving while trying to parkour rogue-style'. But as storage? Golden.
And shh, don't worry about this merchant. He's not here, and they're not stealing anything. Shit wares, after all. Not worth her time.
"So you slide in the bent rod and you pull it this way. Just a little bit! A little pressure. Too much, and nothing's going to move. Too little, and everything's going to slide back into place. The idea is to give it just enough pressure that what you pick stays in the right place to actually unlock the lock."
Nobody but some of the wannabe Kestrels had ever asked her specifically after her skills on lockpicking, to teach them. She's not a teacher herself, so this is kind of exciting. Mostly she'd shown people how to disarm basic traps and reset them. "Then you put the pick in. Now, you're going to feel these...kind of like switches, on top. You push them in with the pick until it clicks into the right place, which is why you need the rod to give you pressure to keep it there. The reason keys work the way they do is that every lock has a different place where the switch falls when a key gets put in. If it's the right key, the switches are in the right places, and the key turns. If it's not the right key, the switches aren't where they're supposed to be, and it doesn't budge. So you have to test every switch down the line and hope you don't screw up."
She has a look of concentration on her face now that she's done the best she can at wordy explaining. It doesn't take her long...which means she's probably done this lock before. There are a few small clicks as everything falls into place, and the rod turns, and the lock opens. (For what it's worth, she doesn't actually open the chest. Yeah definitely has picked this before if she's not curious what's in it; she already knows.)
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And shh, don't worry about this merchant. He's not here, and they're not stealing anything. Shit wares, after all. Not worth her time.
"So you slide in the bent rod and you pull it this way. Just a little bit! A little pressure. Too much, and nothing's going to move. Too little, and everything's going to slide back into place. The idea is to give it just enough pressure that what you pick stays in the right place to actually unlock the lock."
Nobody but some of the wannabe Kestrels had ever asked her specifically after her skills on lockpicking, to teach them. She's not a teacher herself, so this is kind of exciting. Mostly she'd shown people how to disarm basic traps and reset them. "Then you put the pick in. Now, you're going to feel these...kind of like switches, on top. You push them in with the pick until it clicks into the right place, which is why you need the rod to give you pressure to keep it there. The reason keys work the way they do is that every lock has a different place where the switch falls when a key gets put in. If it's the right key, the switches are in the right places, and the key turns. If it's not the right key, the switches aren't where they're supposed to be, and it doesn't budge. So you have to test every switch down the line and hope you don't screw up."
She has a look of concentration on her face now that she's done the best she can at wordy explaining. It doesn't take her long...which means she's probably done this lock before. There are a few small clicks as everything falls into place, and the rod turns, and the lock opens. (For what it's worth, she doesn't actually open the chest. Yeah definitely has picked this before if she's not curious what's in it; she already knows.)
"Harder than it looks, I promise."