[Open] Like a Grouchy Green Thief in the Night

[diediediediediedie]

[Staying in hiding seemed fairly prudent with that awful Rose Quartz about, but there were necessities, things to be done. She had eyed the warehouses as a fair location for a hideout, but there was still too much foot traffic there...which is to say, any at all.

But a base needs protection, and protections comes from technology. For now, motion sensors would do. She could certainly booby trap any place she found later, but hiding and running would do. It would need to be portable. And quiet. And she would need to do it with inferior human (is that what this was?) tech.

That was a snag. Another one is that the shops seemed to not want to let her have what she needed. Apparently, she needed green pieces of paper and very specific small metal discs to exchange for the components she required. This made absolutely no sense to her because the paper and the disks had no apparent use whatsoever. The first few attempts had gone poorly, with lots of screaming and accusations of an activity called "shoplifting" which was apparently criminal. Attracting that kind of attention with so many enemies around seemed...unwise. Very unwise.

However, she had determined that there was another way to obtain the objects she needed. During the night, the owners left their shops, leaving them protected by only a relatively thin layer of glass, one that couldn't stand up to even a fraction of the punishment that Gem barriers could. One that was down, it was simply a matter of taking what she needed (or thought she needed, it was so hard to tell with such primitive technology.)

She has been doing this multiple nights. Human tech apparently needed a lot of little bits, and she was learning as she went. Replacements...different sizes...different models...she simply had to adjust as she goes.

So that's where she can be found often enough: about to break a window into a store, rooting through that store, or about to fly away from same. They've started to increase security, but nobody escapes like Peridot...]

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[letteropener]

If you're doing what I think you're doing, you probably should not.

[Celestia is not intentionally sneaking up on people from the sky and harassing them out of surprise. She's just... used to being quite visible in the day. Sometimes she forgets that when she flies around at night, it's dark! And she's not a very loud flyer!]

[So yeah, flying pony totally saw Peridot's shenanigans from up high. She's pretty sure that the woman (?) is indeed gearing up to break that window...]

[defactodefector]

[It's hard not to hear the sound of glass breaking nearby as Rose walks around town. And generally, in her experience, humans don't tend to just break glass for fun. Well, they might throw glass bottles sometime, but this sounded bigger than that.

When she comes to the source of the noise, huge sword in hand, the first thing she sees is a familiar green gem crawling out of a broken window, ill-gotten goods in hand.]

Peridot! What do you think you're doing?

[batdweeb]

[The thing about stealing on a regular basis is that someone's bound to take notice when things keep going missing or getting broken. In this case, that "someone" is the Batman, and the broken something is a storefront window.]

[He's done this regularly enough at home that it's not really a problem for him to slip into the store and greet the thievish gem rooting through the stock.]

You don't look like an employee.