redjacketthief | 4th Turn [Action/Voice]

[Residents of Community House 5 may have noticed a flurry of activity from a furtive man in red recently, predominantly in the wee hours of the morning or in the dead of night. The sounds of haphazard bumps and thwacks may have woken them up on ocassion, and the lingering scent of gunpowder may have made them wonder what the hell was going on in that room on the sixth level of the building.

Don't worry. It's just the resident master thief, Arsene Lupin III, finally moving out of Inspector Zenigata's apartment and into his own, conducting a little mad science while in the process.

...and not everything is going as planned for him. A loud explosion bursts from room #30, breaking the peace of the wintery way. Smoke follows, billowing forth from the windows.

There's a lot of swearing in French.

More, smaller booms follow. The sound of doors slamming, bodies falling, and feet running through the corridors can be heard.

...

Sorry, Luceti. Lupin will stop trying to make smoke bombs for a while.]

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Yeah. Sorry about that. I'm just doing science here...

[A thud--something big has fallen.]

Don't worry--I have it under control. I'm a professional, you know!

...shimatta...

[The feed cuts out with more gratuitous swearing as another large something or other falls over.]

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The explodey, fun kind.

You have just narrowed the possibilities down to aeronautics, anthropology, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, computer science, engineering, food science, geology, medicine, physics, physiology, pseudoscience, and psychology.

In case you didn't notice, that's not much of a restriction.

[The torrent of words that he is more than well aware of isn't responded to immediately--the flames demand his attention. He dumps more water on them and returns, and responds with a hint of laughter in his voice.]

I still maintain: The explodey, fun kind!

In that case, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you're not a professional at all. At best, you're at the level of using My First Potassium and Water Volcano.

[...she's not far off. he was messing with saltpeter, sucrose, and antimony sulfide. The sucrose, though, was in the form of powdered sugar, which is highly flamable under the right conditions. Those conditions were, unfortunately, met.

Not that he will ever admit to this.]

Hey~! You don't know what I do! What gives you the right to say that~?!

[The master thief is reduced to whining now, indignant at the barb no matter how truthful it may be. He absolutely will not budge on this--have fun convincing him.]

For one, you have no knowledge of what field of science you are working in and likely not even a single idea.

Additionally you do not appear to have the situation under any sort of control.

Chemistry. [happy?] And I only do what I do because I'm not in a position to buy these things legally even at home. It's not my fault that finding the right supplies around here is tough!

[ Oh, illegal chemistry. This is something interesting but like hell she's going to let on that she's interested. ]

If you are indeed doing chemistry, almost any reaction can be predicted under controlled circumstances easily. Considering you are failing to predict your reactions, you either don't have the knowledge to do so or don't have the knowledge to set up properly controlled circumstances. Considering what you've shown me, I would suspect it's in fact both.

Ma cherie. [Because yes, he'll go there.] I'm not a chemist by trade, but I need the use of chemicals at times in my line of work. I just can't get them easily, is all.

Controlled settings aren't my deal, not all the time. [Pause.] Guess I got bored here, and got careless. Not that I'm complaining!

[ /ignoring that ]

Considering you called yourself a professional and stated you had everything under control, you have now just classified yourself as a hypocrite, an unskilled liar, or both.

Not that I was expecting much in the first place, but, well. Even though I'm already disappointed, you've managed to be even more disappointing. So good job with that.

[True and true. On both counts. He's not dignifying that with a proper explanation.]

I'm a professional in a different field, and a little chaos is always good in my trade.

In that case, your statement of professionalism was in no way relevant to the matter at hand, and was in fact meant to mislead anyone viewing the transmission. At least now we've confirmed you're an unskilled liar.

....Lady. Lies are my trade--and they work on most anyone else that isn't you.

Well then. I suppose it's fortunate for you that the average human is exceedingly gullible.

[the average person was indeed gullible. It was how he managed to hide in plain sight on multiple ocassions, slip into tightened security with only a 'borrowed' uniform and a badge, and direct rampaging police forces in directions that were no where near his destination.]

...It's better to say that the average person isn't as smart as you. Also, I'm playing right now, not working. There's a difference.

I certainly wouldn't hope someone is paying you for doing your... experiments. After all, I doubt you're doing anything which haven't been done before, and you're causing far too much of a mess to be working in mass-production.

No one pays me in my line of work. I pay myself. My payment for this...is having fun!

If humans could be fed with entertainment, world hunger would be much less of a problem. Unfortunately that's not how things work.

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