Kitty is out with a purpose today, and a few days after that, too. She needs to make sure that she can shift safely in more than one place around the city, and to that end she needs to hide clothes in various locations so that she won't run around naked after returning to her human form.
The problem here is, obviously, that she has no money. But nobody can't say that she isn't resourceful. It's just different resources from the ones that the shopkeepers would like to see.
In other words, she has the ideal ability at hand to perform petty clothing thefts. She can mask her appearance, full-sensory to both man and machine.
She visits a number of higher end and lower end children's clothes and shoes retailers all over the city. Never those that will have a salescleark breathing down your neck the moment you enter, but rather those where you can shop somewhat anonymously. Her approach is simple: She enters looking the same way in which she left, claiming that she was just trying to pick out what she wants her grandmother to buy for her. At least that is what most people see.
People that have reason to assume that masks or illusions are a thing and may purposefully try to see through them might notice that this kid is performing shoplifting in plain sight, feeling perfectly secure in that nobody will notice - sometimes even chatting with a salesclerk or costumer after she's already snatched something up. Because in reality, she enters barefoot into shoes stores and only very lightly dressed, but with shoes on her feet into clothes stores. And she leaves with shoes on or, in the case of clothes stores, with a second layer of clothing (or a third, if they also sell coats, then she came in without one) over or under whatever she entered in. People who can notice that will also notice that her eyes aren't human at all, but rather resemble that of a cat very closely.
The tactic is easy - pick up a bunch of clothes, go into a fitting room, pick what she wants and put it on, and then drop off the rest of the bunch of clothes when she exits the fitting room. They always say that you should count what you take in with you, but nobody really counts, she has found. It's a bit more complicated with shoes, but trying on a number and packing them back up neatly with one empty box among the full ones works quite well.
Talk to the single child browsing shoes or clothes, or approach her about using magic to conceal that she's a little thief? She'll at least quite happily engage into conversations. Just a little darling child here, nothing to see. Dropping her story about the generous but immobile grandmother on interested people before someone can wonder, preferably.
2. Hajime
Kitty will be pointedly searching for Hajime this week. There's something that she needs to ask him, after all. At one point, she finds him, and whatever he's doing, she'll only let him finish it if it's talking to another person. If not, she'll just head over and address him directly.
"Hey."
3. NPC needed :3 ; Friday afternoon
The thickly built man will find that a little girl, clad in a thick coat and a colourful hat, is watching him. She noticed him the day before and at first did it stealthily, but today she decided to just sit down nearby and stare at him, and finally she'll hop off what she was sitting on and walk over to him.
Kitty | OPEN; closed to Hajime; closed to NPC
Kitty is out with a purpose today, and a few days after that, too. She needs to make sure that she can shift safely in more than one place around the city, and to that end she needs to hide clothes in various locations so that she won't run around naked after returning to her human form.
The problem here is, obviously, that she has no money. But nobody can't say that she isn't resourceful. It's just different resources from the ones that the shopkeepers would like to see.
In other words, she has the ideal ability at hand to perform petty clothing thefts. She can mask her appearance, full-sensory to both man and machine.
She visits a number of higher end and lower end children's clothes and shoes retailers all over the city. Never those that will have a salescleark breathing down your neck the moment you enter, but rather those where you can shop somewhat anonymously. Her approach is simple: She enters looking the same way in which she left, claiming that she was just trying to pick out what she wants her grandmother to buy for her. At least that is what most people see.
People that have reason to assume that masks or illusions are a thing and may purposefully try to see through them might notice that this kid is performing shoplifting in plain sight, feeling perfectly secure in that nobody will notice - sometimes even chatting with a salesclerk or costumer after she's already snatched something up. Because in reality, she enters barefoot into shoes stores and only very lightly dressed, but with shoes on her feet into clothes stores. And she leaves with shoes on or, in the case of clothes stores, with a second layer of clothing (or a third, if they also sell coats, then she came in without one) over or under whatever she entered in. People who can notice that will also notice that her eyes aren't human at all, but rather resemble that of a cat very closely.
The tactic is easy - pick up a bunch of clothes, go into a fitting room, pick what she wants and put it on, and then drop off the rest of the bunch of clothes when she exits the fitting room. They always say that you should count what you take in with you, but nobody really counts, she has found. It's a bit more complicated with shoes, but trying on a number and packing them back up neatly with one empty box among the full ones works quite well.
Talk to the single child browsing shoes or clothes, or approach her about using magic to conceal that she's a little thief? She'll at least quite happily engage into conversations. Just a little darling child here, nothing to see. Dropping her story about the generous but immobile grandmother on interested people before someone can wonder, preferably.
2. Hajime
Kitty will be pointedly searching for Hajime this week. There's something that she needs to ask him, after all. At one point, she finds him, and whatever he's doing, she'll only let him finish it if it's talking to another person. If not, she'll just head over and address him directly.
"Hey."
3. NPC needed :3 ; Friday afternoon
The thickly built man will find that a little girl, clad in a thick coat and a colourful hat, is watching him. She noticed him the day before and at first did it stealthily, but today she decided to just sit down nearby and stare at him, and finally she'll hop off what she was sitting on and walk over to him.
"What are you watching?"