Appointments

[redjacketthief]

This is the mailbox of your's truely, Arsene Lupin III. I take it that you've come here because you want to talk to me or make some kind of plan. Whatever it is, I'l gladly listen, but I need your name, date, time, and the best way to get back to you. Sorry I missed you, and I'll get back to you soon, okay?


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[redjacketthief]

[that was a familiar refrain.] Don't they always? They get too eager, too greedy, and stop thinking. Of course they're gonna get something nasty!

[ever_deceptive]

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you can never afford to stop thinking. I had a client not too long before I came to Luceti that decided he wanted to make his career by taking out a government. Only problem was that he was making such a mess of his own city, working the citizens to death, that people started taking notice. He got himself assassinated. That's how it works--as soon as you get caught up in some ambition and can't manage what's going on in the present, you're done for.

[redjacketthief]

That's true. [very true.] Not thinking is dangerous in any career--and taking on an entire government? That's just stupid and asking for death. Guys like that are just embarrassing!

[ever_deceptive]

Indeed. Their only redeeming quality tends to be how much money one can make off of them. I turned quite a profit off of that one without him even getting a chance to use what I sold him~

[redjacketthief]

[There was something comfortably twisted about that sentiment, something Lupin wasn't entirely unfamiliar with. While he wasn't one to go out and turn a profit like that, he was no stranger to collateral damage. Causing it. Using it.]

Sounds a little messy for my tastes, but very effective there. You seem like an inteligent guy though--how do you manage in this place? It's not like there's cocky idiots to make a profit off of, or artifacts to [steal] locate.

[ever_deceptive]

I do tend to get rather restless here, I'm afraid. I just try to keep busy whatever way I can--I think I've gone through at least eight books this size since I arrived a few months ago. [He gestures to his reading material, chuckling lightly at himself.] I've taken up sparring with a few people as well. That, I suppose, is the one nice thing about Luceti--the great variety of people with interesting backgrounds and skills.

[redjacketthief]

[He's gonna whistle at that, impressed at his prolific studies and sympathetic with the sentiment.]

It's about all we can do here really. I've been studying myself haphazardly, and have considered taking up some proper sparring at some point. [When he's not blowing up his apartment on accident, that is...]

[ever_deceptive]

What do you like sparring with? [Perhaps they could arrange a match sometime, Yeager figures.]

[redjacketthief]

I was just talking in general--I don't normally fight for fun, but I can do okay in a barroom fight. In a place like this, a guy has to find some hobbies, right?

[ever_deceptive]

[Fighting for fun is a pretty major part of Yeager's culture, but he's already encountered some societies where it isn't, so he's not completely surprised. The mention of bar fights gives him a mental image of Lupin attacking someone with a chair that makes him laugh.] Mm-hm. Well, if you're ever interested, I could teach you some techniques with swords or knives. Firearms, too, though sparring with those tends to end up a little more dangerous than back home. [Yeah, he hasn't encountered too many people that can shield themselves here the way he can. Luceti's physics are weird.]

[redjacketthief]

[Be it a chair or a morningstar, Lupin isn't above using weapons in melee fights. It's not often that he does engage, but when he does it's usually because something went wrong--he's always willing to fight dirty in those circumstances. However, in a fair hand to hand fight, he is sorely out of his league.]

I'd worry about busting my gun if I used her for something other than what she was made for. Makes like this aren't common any more, even where I'm from. There's also sentimental value there too...

Sparring in general sounds pretty fun to try sometime. Conversation too. You're an interesting guy, Yeager.

[ever_deceptive]

Ah, I doubt you'd damage it. Pistols like that are made of materials designed to suffer some very harsh conditions indeed, even beyond their military service life. [Generally speaking, at least. He doesn't know anything specific about that model, of course, but he can tell a durable weapon when he sees one.]

Thank you. You're interesting yourself. I don't encounter too many people around here in a line of work like yours.

[redjacketthief]

I've met a fair few. Guess they're drawn to my charm. [He's only being a little egoistic there as he smiles boyishly and shrugs. Tempted as he is to press further, he understands that balance is key.

He'll need to thank Firo later--the young camorrista has good tastes!]

Joking aside...yeah, a friendly spar would be awesome sometime. I deal more with the details and sidelines than directly with the fray. Normally I wouldn't care, but, in a place like this? We've got nothing but time, and it can't hurt to learn a few new things.